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WANTED, AN HONEST BOY.

of it, boys, will you answer this description? Can you apply for this situation? Are you sure that you will be wanted? You may be smart and active, but more than that is needed. You must be honest too. Are Are you very clever when you like to work? More than that is needed. You must be industrious too-that is, you must attend to your duties at all times. You must not work by fits and starts. You must be steady.

You may apply for a good situation. Will your friends, teachers, and acquaintances testify that you possess these good qualities? If you have them not yet, begin at once to acquire them. Oh! how would you feel if, on applying for a good situation, you were told you could not get it because you had not learned to be honest, industrious, and steady. Nothing else will make up for lack of these qualities. Be honest, industrious, steady; then will your "calling and election" for place or profit be made sure.-Cruet Stand.

DICTATION.

Separate the following words into syllables, and accent them: -Newspapers, services, respected, honoured, apprentice, journeyman, contractor, minister, magistrate, acquaintances, neighbour, qualities.

QUESTIONS.

What advertisement is often seen in | What will pious people want him for? newspapers and shop-windows? What What will the general public want him does this convey to every boy? What for? What more is needed besides will an honest, industrious, steady boy being smart and active? What more always be? How will he be spoken oi? is needed besides being very clever? What will he always have? What will What is meant by being industrious? the merchant want him for? What If you have not the good qualities will the master mechanic want him named what must you do? If you are for? What will clients want him for? honest, industrious, and steady, what What will patients want him for? will happen.

Throw not shades of anxious thought
O'er the glowing flowers;

We are come with sunshine fraught-
Question not the hours.

Mrs. Hemans.

R. III.

THE bushes swayed rapidly just ahead, and presently before us stood a large male gorilla. He had

gone through the jungle on all fours, but when he saw our party he stood erect, and looked us boldly in the face. He stood about a dozen yards from us.

Nearly six feet high, with large body, huge chest, great thick arms, large deep gray eyes, and a fierce expression of face-which seemed to me like some nightmare vision-thus stood before us this king of the African forest.

He was not afraid of us. He stood there, and beat his breast with his huge fists till it resounded like a drum. This was his mode of offering defiance.

The roar of the gorilla is the most singular and awful noise heard in these African woods. It begins with a sharp bark like an angry dog, then glides into a deep bass roar which closely resembles the roll of distant thunder along the sky. So deep is it, that it seems to proceed less from the mouth and throat than from the deep chest and vast paunch.

His eyes began to flash fiercer fire as he stood motionless on the defensive, and the crest of short hair which stands on his forehead began to twitch. up and down, while his powerful fangs were shown as he sent forth a thunderous roar. And now he reminded me of a being of that hideous order, halfman, half-beast, which we find in the pictures of old artists who have attempted to paint the inhabitants of the infernal regions. He advanced a few steps, then stopped to utter that dreadful roar again—advanced again, and finally stopped at a distance of about six yards from us. And here, just as he began another of his roars, beating his breast in rage, we fired and killed him.

With a groan which had something terribly human in it, and yet was full of brutishness, he fell forward on his face. The body shook for a

few minutes, the limbs moved about in a struggling way, and then all was quiet-death had done its work, and I had leisure to examine the huge body.-Du Chaillu.

"Nightmare vision," a frightful dream brought on by a stoppage of the circulation of the blood near the heart.

DICTATION.

Write out from a dictionary six words which end in tion, sion, tious, cious, nce, use.

LET others seek for empty joys

At ball or concert, rout or play,
Whilst far from fashion's idle noise,
Her gilded domes and trappings gay,
I while the winter eve away;

"Twixt book and lute the hour divide,
And marvel how I e'er could stray
From thee, my own fireside.

My own fireside! these simple words
Can bid the sweetest dreams arise ;