LESSON V.

BARLEY and oats are sowed early in the spring: in three or four months, the crop is grown, so as to be ready for harvest.

Wheat and rye are sometimes called winter-grain, because they are sown in the fall, or autumn, and remain in the field during the cold frosts of winter. About the middle of summer, in this climate, the crops are ripe, and are then ready to be cut and gathered into barns, or stacks.

The flesh of sheep is called mutton; that of a calf, is called veal; and that of deer, venison. Beef is the flesh of animals of the cow-kind.`

We should never sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, nor treat even the meanest worm or insect with wanton cruelty.

To do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with God, contains the substance of morality and religion.

Solomon said, Fear God,and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

LESSON VI.

A FLUID is a body or substance, composed of very small particles, which flow, or are easily moved and mix one with another; such as water, air, and other things.

Common air is about nine hundred times lighter than

water.

We must learn to observe and reflect, and remember things, in order to gain useful knowledge.

LESSON V. Spell barley; ready; wheat; autumn; field; rye; venison; substance; animals; wanton; commandments; oats; climate; morality; insect; cruelty; amusements. Give the definition of amusements; animals; cruelty; mercy; harvest; climate.

LESSON VI. Spell fluid; easily; knowledge; parchment; solid; surface. Define surface. How many times lighter is common air

A solid body or substance, is that which is firm, hard, and con.pact; as wood, stones, metals.

The earth on which we live is called a solid body, when taken as a whole; yet it is composed of solid and fluid parts; such as rocks, earth, and water.

Parchment is made of the skins of sheep or goats. After the wool or hair is taken off, the skins are soaked in limewater. They are then pared or scraped very thin, and the surface or outside is rubbed smooth with pumice-stone, so as to prepare them for being written upon with pen and ink.

He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty man; and he that ruleth his own spirit is greater than he that taketh a city.

LESSON VII.

A GLOBE is a solid body, which is round like a ball; having every part of its surface equally distant from a point in the middle, called a centre.

The surface of any thing is the outside of it, or that part which is visible to the sight or touch.

The earth is a globe; the sun, moon, and planets, are all globes, or solid round bodies.

The diameter or axis of a globe, is a line passing through the middle of it, from one side to the opposite side of it.

The diameter of the earth is computed to be about eight thousand miles; and its circumference, or a line that would reach all round it, is about twenty-five thousand miles.

Yet this vast ball of earth turns round on its axis every twenty-four hours, which makes one day.

than water. Spell metals; written; mighty; greater; compact. Define compact.

LESSON VII. Spell surface. What is a surface? Spell centre. Define it. Spell visible. What is the meaning of visible? Spell diameter; axis; opposite; circumference. Define them. How many miles is the diameter of the earth? Its circumference? Spell knowledge, entreated, &c.

The knowledge of natural things may expand the mind; but heavenly wisdom is pure, peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and of good fruits.

King David says, "Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright, for the end of that man is peace."

LESSON VIII.

TWILIGHT is that portion of time which passes between day-break and sun-rise; or, between sun-set and dark. In the evening, it is sometimes called dusk.

The earth has a two-fold motion: it turns round on its own axis every day, from west to east; and it moves round the sun in three hundred and sixty-five days and a quarter, which makes a year.

Although the sun is ninety-five millions of miles from the earth, yet its light passes through that vast distance, in about eight minutes.

Hence, the velocity of the rays, or particles of light, is found to be about eleven millions seven hundred thousand miles in a minute.

Who can contemplate the amazing swiftness of light, without reverence towards that Almighty power and goodness, who in the beginning of creation said, Let there be light; and there was light.

Then appeared the sea, and the dry land; the mountains and hills were formed; and the streams and rivers flowed. The sun, moon, and stars appeared in the sky. Herbs, plants, flowers, and trees grew out of the ground. Birds,

LESSON VIII. Spell twilight. What is twilight? Spell portion ; between; evening; motion; axis. Define axis. Spell millions; minutes; velocity. What is the definition of velocity? How long does it take light to come from the sun to the earth? Spell contemplate. Define it. Spell amazing; reverence; beginning; swiftness; appeared; herbs; insects; image; obedience; mountains hereafter.

beasts, fishes, and insects, were formed by the wisdom and power of the great Creator. At last, man was made in the image of God; as the noblest part of his works in this lower world. He was made to glorify his Maker, by living in obedience to his holy will and law, that he might be happy nere and hereafter.

LESSON IX.

By observing the faults of others, prudent persons learn to avoid them, and also to correct their own.

When it is light, we call it day; and when it is dark, we say it is night: but it takes day and night together to make a solar day; or the time during which the earth turns once round on its axis.

So we say, twenty-four hours make one day; that is, a solar day begins at midnight, and is reckoned from that time till the next midnight, twenty-four hours.

In almanacs, the twelve hours from midnight to noon, are called morning; and from noon till midnight, the twelve hours are called afternoon, or evening.

Metals may be defined as simple, heavy, shining bodies of matter, that become melted by heat, and that harden with cold. Metals, in an impure or imperfect state,—that is, when mixed with earth and other things, are called ores. A mine is a place, mostly in the bowels of the earth, where ores are found.

A century contains one hundred years. Thus, we reckon eighteen centuries from the birth of Christ, and are now in the nineteenth-1844.

Clocks and watches to measure time, were not invented

LESSON IX. Spell observing; axis; midnight; hours; almanacs; metals; bodies; imperfect; century. How many years make a century? Spell hours. How many minutes in an hour? Spell eighteen, watches; measure; invented. Define invented. Spell period; value mortal; surely; human.

till about the thirteenth century. Before that period, the hour-glass and sun-dial were used to measure, or tell the time of day.

Time, once passed, never returns.

While we have it, we

ought to value and make a proper use of it; since the moment that is lost, is lost for ever.

All mortal men that live,

Must surely die;

But how or when, is hid

From human eye.

LESSON X.

A WIGWAM is the house, or dwelling-place of an Indian. It is often made of posts, stakes, or slabs, set in the ground and covered with bark, with a hole in the middle of the roof to let out the smoke.

Pine-apples do not grow on pine trees; but are so called, because they are, in shape, like the cones that contain the seeds of the pine tree. Pine-apples grow on a single stem, which rises in the middle of a tuft of green leaves near the root of the plant. They are cultivated in the West Indies, and are esteemed for the richness of their flavour.

A factory is properly a house or place where traders reside, or where they meet to transact business. A manufactory is a building or place where things are made or formed by art and labour: such as cotton goods, broad-cloths, iron-ware, porcelain, glass, &c.

It is about four hundred years since printing was invented. Before that time, books were very scarce and very dear; because they were all written by hand, they were therefore

LESSON X. Spell wigwam. What is a wigwam? Spell dwelling; Indian; pine-apple; cultivated. Define cultivated. Spell esteemed; flavour. Define flavour. Spell factory; transact; business. What is a factory? Spell manufactory; building; broadcloth; porcelain.