11. "O Jupiter," said the supplicant, "I sailed from Tyre to Rome, in a ship which thou seest on fire, loaded with all the merchandise acquired by my previous toils. As I lay here at anchor off the port of Syracuse, whither business called me, a sailor, made by thee, thirsted after wine, stole it from my store, and, in intoxication, set my ship and goods on fire; and I am now plunged into the blue waves to die by water, to escape the severer pain of being consumed by fire. Why, if thou art just, should the innocent thus suffer for the guilty?” 12. "Thou complainest, then," said Jupiter, "of my socialh law? Since this law displeaseth thee, I restore thee to thy ship, and suspend it as to thee." The merchant, in a moment, saw his ship entire; the blazing embers restored to vigorous planks; himself and all his crew sound in limb, and gay in mind, upon her deck. Joyous and grateful, he addressed thanksgiving to the god, and called to his crew to weigh the anchor, set the sails, and turn the helm for Rome. But no sailor heard him speak, and no movement followed his words. 13. Astonished at their indolence and sloth, he cried, in a yet louder voice, and inquired why none obeyed his call. But no answer was given. He saw the crew move and speak; act and converse; but they seemed not to observe him. He entreated, remonstrated, and upbraided; but no reply was given. All seemed unconscious of his presence. Unconscious of his presence! The awful thought rushed into his mind, that the social law was suspended as to him.

14. He now saw, in all its horror, the import of the words of Jupiter, which before he had not fully comprehended. Terrified, he seized a rope, and set a sail. Every physical law was entire, and obeyed his will. The sail filled, and strained forward from the mast. He ran to the helm, it obeyed his muscles, and the ship moved as he directed it. But its course down, and stopped its progress in

was short, the anchor was

the sea.

15. He lowered the sail, seized a handspike, and attempted to weigh, but in vain. The strength of ten men was required to raise so ponderous an anchor. Again he called to his crew, but the social law was suspended as to him; he was absolved thenceforth from all suffering, caused by misconduct of others, but he was cut off from every enjoyment and advantage from their assistance.

16. In despair he seized the boat, rowed it into the port of

Syracuse, and proceeded straight to his commercial correspondent there, to beg his aid in delivering him from the indolence of his crew. He saw his friend, addressed him, and told him all his labors to leave the anchorage, but his friend seemed quite unconscious of his presence. He did not even look upon him, but proceeded in business of his own, with which he seemed entirely occupied.

17. The merchant, wearied with fatigue, and almost frantic with alarm, hurried to a tavern on the quay, where he used to dine, and entering, called for wine, to recruit his exhausted strength. But the servants seemed unconscious of his presence—no movement was made ; and he remained, as it were, in a vast solitude, amidst large companies of merchants, servants, and assistants, who all bustled in active gayety, each fulfilling his duty in his own department.

18. The merchant now comprehended allp the horrors of his situation, and called aloud to Jupiter. "O Jupiter, death in the blue waves, or even by consuming flame, were better than the life thou hast assigned me. Lets me die, for my cup of miserye is full beyond endurance. Restore me the enjoyments of thy sociale law, and I hail its pains as blessings."

19. But, said Jupiter, "If I restore to thee my social law, thy ship will be consumed, thou and thy crew will escape in thy boat, but thou shalt be a very beggar, and, in thy poverty, thou wilt upbraid me for dealing thus unjustly by thee."

20. "O bountiful Jupiter," replied the merchant, "I never knew till now what enjoyments I owed to thy social law, how rich it renders me, even when all else is gone; and how poor I should be, with all the world for a possession, if denied its blessings. True, I shall be poor, but my nerves, muscles, senses, propensities," sentiments, and intellect, will be left me? now I see that employment of these is the only pleasure of existence; poverty will not cut me off from exercising these powers in obedience to thy laws, but will rather add new excitements to my doing so."

21. "Under thy social law, will not the sweet voice of friendship cheer me in poverty, the ecstatic burst of adoration of thee lift my soul to heaven; will not the aid of kindred and of my fellow-men soothe the remainder of my days? and, besides, now that I see thy designs, I shall avoid employing my fellowmen in situations unsuitable to their talents, and thereby escape the penalties of infringing thy social law."

22. "Most merciful Jupiter, restore to me the benefit of all thy laws, and I accept the penaltiese attached to their infringement." His request was granted; ever after he made Jupiter's laws and the nature of man his study; he obeyed them, became moderately rich, and found himself happier than he had ever been in his days of selfishness and ignorance.

23. Jupiter was assailed by many other prayers from unfortunate sufferers under infringement of his laws; but, instead of hearing each in endless succession, he assembled his petitioners, and introduced to them the slater, the husbandman, the young heir, and the merchant, and requested them to narrate their knowledge and experience of the natural laws; and he intimated, that if, after listening to their account, any petitioner was not satisfied with his condition, he would suspend for him the particular law which caused him discontent. But no application followed. Jupiters saw his creatures employ themselves with real earnestness to study and observe his institutions, and ever after, they offered up to him only gratitude and adoration for his infinite goodness and wisdom.

a Sound of the vowel? b§ 47. c § 43. 8. d§ 45. e § 11. 7. ƒ § 11. 4. g 14 3. h § 44. 11. i Difference between there and their. j § 44. k Between air and are. § 43. 5. § 43. 11. m § 12. 2. n Why not tys? o What figure of speech? p§ 43. 12. r § 43. 12. s § 44. 15. t 44. 17. u§ 44. 4. v § 44. 12. w Why a comma? x The two sounds of ea? y§ 44. 14. 1 The silent letter? 2 Difference between I and eye? 3 § 14. 1. 4 § 44. 11. 8 § 26. 3. 9 § 19. 1.

References on the second part.- -a Sound of gh? b§ 44. 13. c § 26. 3. f See W. D. e Why not tys? g § 44. 11. h § 44. 5. k § 11. 4. 7§ 12. 2. o § 14. 1. p Why not al? s § 14. 6. R 2. t § 43. 3. n § 11. 2. I, What figure of speech?

His

No. 1. What happened to the slater? Of what did he complain to Jupiter? What did Jupiter ask him? reply? What did Jupiter say he would do? How did the slater feel? Mention his sad plight? What does Jupiter now say? The slater's reply? How did he ever after feel? Who next attracted Jupiter's attention? His reply to Jupiter's question? Jupiter's answer? The farmer's reply? Let the teacher go through in a similar manner. What is the design of this allegory? What is an allegory?

No. 2. Misfortune, imperfect, content, beneficent, backward, countless, wonderful, transmitted, attracted, grievously, healthful, gladly, affection, refresh, corporeal, committed, transgression, accordance, benevolence, consti tute, bounteous, increase, suppliant, consume, vigorous, discontent, infinite. No. 4. Con'tent and content', at'tribute and attrib'ute, convers'e and con'verse, perfect and perfect', torment' and torʼment, min'ute and minu'te. No. 6. The first verse is left without any punctuation. Punctuate it. No. 8, § 3. 10. 11. 1. 2. 3. 4.

No. 10. Analyze the last sentence in the lesson. Be careful to mention all the modifiers.

No. 12. The first verse, and all other important words.

Tell the different meanings of top, sound, pound, stick, table, tone, vice, yard, can, even, bed, blow, board, commit, charge, deal, court. Mention the various parts of a house, pump, school-house.

LESSON XVIII.

A VAINGLORIOUS MILITARY CHIEF.

1. GENERAL VAN POFFENBURGH's fortress being finisheda it would have done any man's heart good to behold into what a magnitude he immediately swellede he would stride in and out a dozen times a day surveying it in front and in rear on this side and on that.

2. Then would he dress himself in full regimentals, and strut backwards and forwards, for hours together, on the top. of his little rampart, like a vainglorious cock-pigeon vaporing on the top of his coop."

3. In a word, unless my readers have noticed, with curious eye, the petty commander of one of our little snivelling military posts, swelling with all the vanity of new regimentals, and the pomposity derived from commanding a handful of tatterdemalions, I despair of giving them any adequate idea of the prodigious dignity of Generald Van Poffenburgh.

4. It is recorded in the delectable romance of Pierced Forest, that a young knight being dubbed by King Alexander,d did incontinently gallop into an adjoining forest, and belabor the trees with such might and main, that the whole court was convinced, that he was the most potent and courageous gentleman on the face of the earth.

5. In like manner, the great Van Poffenburgh would ease off his vaporous spleen. At such times, when he found his martial spirit waxing hot within, he would prudently sally forth into the fields, and, lugging out his trusty sabre,e would lay about him most lustily, decapitating cabbages by platoons; hewing down whole phalanxes of sun-flowers, which he termed gigantic Swedes;d and if, peradventure, he espied a colony of honest pumpkins quietly basking themselves in the sun, "Ah, caitiff Yankees," would he roar, "have I caught ye at last?"

6. So saying, with one sweep of his sword, he would cleave the unhappy vegetables from their chin to their waistbands;b by which warlike havoc, his choler being in some sort allayed, he would return to his garrison with a full conviction, that he was a very miracle of military prowess.

7. The next ambition of General Van Poffenburgh was to be thought a strict disciplinarian. Well knowing that discipline is the soul of all military enterprise, he enforced it with the most rigorous precision; obliging every man to turn out his toes and hold up his head on parade, and prescribing the breadth of their ruffles to all such as had any shirts to their backs.

8. Having one day encountered the history of Absalom and his melancholy end, the general, in an evil hour, issued orders for cropping the hair of both officers and men, throughout the garrison.

9. Now it came to pass, that among his officers was one Kildermeester, a sturdy veteran, who had cherished, through the course of a long life, a rugged mop of hair, not a little resembling the shag of a Newfoundland dog, terminating with an immoderate queue,s like the handle of a frying-pan, and queued so tightly to his head, that his eyes and mouth generally stood ajar, and his eyebrows were drawn up to the top of his forehead.

10. It may naturally be supposed, that the possessor of so goodly an appendage would resist with abhorrence an order condemning it to the shears. On hearing the general orders, he discharged a tempest of veteran, soldier-like wrath,-declared he would break any man's head who attempted to meddle with his queue, made it stiffer than ever, and whisked it about the garrison as fiercely as the tail of a crocodile. The eel-skin queue of old Kildermeester became instantly an affair of the utmost importance.

11. The Commander-in-chief was too enlightened an officer not to perceive, that the discipline of the garrison, the subordination and good order of the armies of the Nuew-Nederlandts, the consequent safety of the whole province, and ultimately the dignity and prosperity of their High Mightinesses, the Lords States-General, above all, the dignity of the great General Van Poffenburgh, all imperiously demanded the docking of that stubborn queue.

12. He therefore determined that old Kildermeesterd should