(Mr. C. repeats.) DAY. "In the barn the tenant cock, Swiftly from the mountain's brow NOON. "Fervid on the glittering flood Not a dew-drop's left the rose. By the brook the shepherd dines, Now the flock forsakes the glade, By the ivy'd abbey wall. Echo in her airy round Not a leaf has leave to stir; Languid is the landscape round, Now the bill-the hedge-is green, Now the warbler's throat's in tune! EVENING. "O'er the heath the heifer strays Free (the furrow'd task is done) Now the village windows blaze, Now he hides behind the hill, Trudging as the ploughmen go, Now the hermit owlet peeps As the trout in speckled pride Tripping through the silken grass Mark the blithe and rosy lass Linnets with unnumber'd notes, Clara had several brothers, but Maurice, the youngest of them, was the only one educated under the paternal roof. From the habitual arrangement of the hours devoted to study, it frequently happened that his sisters and young companions were engaged with their pursuits at the very time that he was at leisure for recreation; and although he would often devote that period to drawing, or reading, or whatever seemed calculated to enlarge his store of useful knowledge, he would also occasionally employ it in such relaxations as required ingenuity and invention. One of his most favourite amusements, however, was that of assuming to himself the name of some distinguished general or of some illustrious hero, and, with a stick in his hand, marching up and down the shrubbery walk declaiming at the same time in the most energetic manner, and with an air of dignified gravity maintaining the character of the hero or warrior whose name he bore. Sometimes he was Cyrus immortalizing himself by heroic actions and great achievements; sometimes Hannibal, crossing the Alps, and urging his troops to the defeat of the Romans; at others he was Xerxes crossing the Hellespont with his ten hundred thousand men, or a North American warrior with his helmet of rushes and his arrows of willow. Once he stationed himself among some rock-work upon the side of an eminence in his father's garden, in order, as he said, to personify Homer, who it is reported used to seat himself in the hollow of a rock, (at a few miles' distance from |