The holy silence is His voice; (a'zhoor), of a delicate blue. sies (ärgo-siz), merchant ships y laden. rift, opening; cleft. aus-tere', severe in look. fret, rub against and wear away. obbing drum (6). The partridge is said to drum when it makes : by beating its breast with its wings. lain: the argosies of cloudland (1); white-sleeved row (3). at is the difference between a river and a rivulet, a brook and a et? Give other words in which the suffix let has this meaning. t out personification in stanza 1; a metaphor in stanza 1; a simile za 4. See pages 431 and 432. —A DROP OF WATER ON ITS TRAVELS. MISS BUCKLEY. SS ARABELLA B. BUCKLEY was born at Brighton, England, in 1840. Ome years she was secretary to the well-known geologist, Sir Charles e following extract is taken from her "Fairy-land of Science," an sting and instructive book, in which well-known facts and aspects of e are explained in pleasant language. ALTHOUGH We never see any water traveling from earth up into the skies, we know that it goes there, it comes down again in rain, and so it must go up sibly. But where does the heat come from which es this water invisible? Not from below, as in the of the kettle, but from above, pouring down from sun. Wherever the sun-waves touch the rivers, ds, lakes, seas, or fields of ice and snow upon our h, they carry off invisible water-vapor. . It has been calculated that in the Indian Ocean e quarters of an inch of water is carried off from the as twenty-two feet, or a depth of wa height of an ordinary room, is sil lifted up from the whole surface o year. It is true this is one of the earth, where the sun-waves are mo in our own country many feet of v in the summer-time. 3. What, then, becoines of all th follow it as it struggles upward to it in our imagination first carrying air up with it from the sea, till it heads, and above the highest mountai laden air rises, its particles, no long together, begin to separate; and, as a expenditure of heat, the air become you know at once what must happ vapor, it will form into tiny wa steam from the kettle. 4. And so, as the air rises and b vapor gathers into visible masses. in the sky, and call it clouds. Whe highest, they are about ten miles fr when they are made of heavy dro down, they sometimes come withi ground. 5. Look up at the clouds as you g that the water of which they are r drawn up invisibly through the air. cessarily here, where we live, for air over the world, and so these clouds vapor collected in the Atlantic Ocea of Mexico, or even, if the wind is f |