Over Egypt's sands, over Alpine snows, On the snowy cliffs, where mountain streams He led again, in his dying dreams, Again Marengo's field was won, Made pale at his cannons' rattle. He died at the close of that darksome day, In the rocky land they placed his clay, "And left him alone with his glory.”—M‘Lellan. St. Helena-a small rocky island, far out in the South Atlantic, belonging to Britain. It is chiefly noted as the place of Napoleon's exile from 1816 to his death in 1821. A few fond mourners.-Some of Napoleon's generals followed him, Austrian, Russian, Prussian.-Napoleon defeated the Austrians at Maren'go (in Italy) in 1800; the Russians and Austrians at Austerlitz (in Moravia) in 1805, and the Prussians at Jena (in Germany) in 1806. Haughty Spain. -Napoleon's attempt to place his brother Joseph on the throne of Spain led to the Peninsular war, in which his armies were defeated in many battles by the English, and, at last, in 1813, driven across the Pyrenees into France. Egypt's sands.-In 1798, Napoleon, then a general in the French army, was sent to take possession of Egypt, and gained a victory over the Mamelukes, as the Egyptian soldiers were called, at the Pyramids, near Cairo. Pronounce and distinguish-soldier, solder;rout, route; fond, found; glacier, glazier; beard, bard; clefts, cliff's; cannon, canon. DICTATION. The soldier returned victorious. Tell the tinsmith to solder this broken pan. The rout of the Austrians was complete. What route do you intend to take? Have you found the fruit of which you are so fond? Many glaciers are seen from the Alpine heights. The glazier will remove the broken pane of glass. The bard had a long, flowing beard. There are many deep clefts among the cliffs. The noise of the cannon was deafening. Canon-law is the law of the Church. A-lert', watch. An'-i-mat-ed, lively. Bre'ed, race. Ca-re'er, course. LIII.-WILD HORSES. Cu-ri-os-i-ty, desire to see or know. Dis-cov'-er, find out, ascertain. Distin'-guished, perceived clearly. Do-ma'ins, pasture-grounds. Em'-i-nence, rising-ground. Floŭ'r-ished, waved. Frol'-ic-some, full of gaiety. Ho-ri'-zon, the line where earth and sky seem to meet. In-flated, distended. Pa'-tri-arch, head, chief. parts, symmetry. HERDS of horses are found wild on the vast plains of Northern Asia, in Africa, and also in Mexico and South America. In their native domains, when not startled or hunted, they are playful and frolicsome; now scouring the plain in groups for mere amusement; now suddenly stopping in their wild career; and now off again, straight as an arrow or wheeling in circles, making the ground shake under their thundering hoofs. It is impossible to conceive a more animated picture than a troop of these splendid animals at play. The wild horses of Northern Asia are very easily startled. The point of a spear seen at a great distance on the horizon, is enough to put them on the alert, and make them suspicious of danger. When a herd is resting or asleep, one of the more powerful steeds keeps watch, and if any strange object attracts his attention, he utters a shrill neigh, and the whole troop taking the alarm start to their feet and fly off with the swiftness of the wind. Lord Byron has described such a scene in the following lines:— 66 They stop, they start, they snuff the air, Of white upon his shaggy hide― They snort, they foam, they swerve aside, By instinct, from a human eye." The appearance of the wild horse of the American prairies is thus described by a recent traveller in Texas: "After riding through beds of sunflowers miles in extent, we saw a creature in motion at a great distance, and instantly started in pursuit. Fifteen minutes' riding brought us near enough to discover by its fleetness, that it could not be a buffalo, yet it was too large for an antelope or deer. On we went, and soon distinguished the erect head, flowing mane, and beautiful proportions of the wild horse of the prairie. "He saw us, and sped away with an arrowy fleetness till he gained a distant eminence, when he turned to gaze at us; and, allowing us to approach within four hundred yards, he bounded away again with a graceful velocity delightful to behold. We paused, for to pursue with a view to capture him was clearly out of the question. "When he discovered that we were not following him, he also paused, and now seemed to be inspired with curiosity equal to our own; for, after making a slight turn, he came nearer, until we could observe the inquiring expression of his clear bright eye, and the quick curl of his inflated nostrils. We had no hope of catching him, but our curiosity led us to approach him slowly. "We had not advanced far when he moved away, and circling round approached on the other side. He was a beautiful animal-a sorrel, with jet black mane and tail. As he moved we could see the muscles quiver in his glossy limbs; and when, half playfully and half in fright, he tossed his flowing mane in the air, and flourished his long silky tail, our admiration knew no bounds, and we longed-hopelessly, vexatiously longed -to possess him. "We might have shot him where we stood; but, had we been starving, we could scarcely have done it. He was free, and we loved him for the very possession of that freedom which we longed to take from him; but we would not kill him. We fired a rifle over his head; he heard the shot and the whiz of the ball, and away he went, disappearing in the next hollow, showing himself again as he crossed the distant ridges, still seeming smaller, until he faded away to a speck on the far horizon's verge." Lord Byron, a celebrated English poet, was born in London, in 1788, and died in Greece in 1824. His greatest work is "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage;" but many of his shorter poems are greatly admired. Texas, one of the United States of America, lies north-east of Mexico. It was formerly subject to Spain, but was admitted into the American Union in 1845. The Buffalo, or Bison—a large animal of the ox kind, found on the prairies of America. It has a large and heavy head, with short, tapering horns. Its head and shoulders are covered with shaggy hair, which give it a very fierce appearance. QUESTIONS. Where are wild horses found? What is their disposition? How do they amuse themselves? What sort of a picture do they present at such times? What will startle a herd of these animals? How do they guard against a sudden attack? How does the horse on the watch alarm its comrades? What does the herd do when alarmed? Who has described such a scene? Who was Lord Byron? Who has described the wild horse of Texas? Where is Texas? What are prairies? What did the travellers see at a distance? How did they know it was not a buffalo? What did they soon distinguish? By what feeling did the horse seem to be inspired? What did it do? Describe the appearance of the animal. What might the travellers have, done to it? Why did they not shoot it? What became of the horse at last? Spell adjectives formed by adding ous to danger, disaster, wonder, monster, clamour, rigour, vigour, humour, odour, rancour. DICTATION. The shrill neigh of the steed was heard by the whole herd. The scene was quite new to my friend. Had he never seen so deep a |