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at they desired him to let them go; with that he gly upon them, and, rushing to them, had doubtle an end of them himself, but that he fell into is fits, and lost for a time the use of his hands. ore he withdrew, and left them.

ell, towards evening the giant goes down into geon again, to see if his prisoners had taken his

but when he came there, he found them alive, ly, alive was all; for now, what for want of nd water, and by reason of the wounds they when he beat them, they could do little but But, I say, he found them alive; at which he a grievous rage, and told them that, seeing they obeyed his counsel, it should be worse with them they had never been born.

ow when night came, the giant's wife asked him prisoners had taken his counsel; to which he reThey are sturdy rogues; they choose rather to hardships than to make away with themselves." said she, "take them into the castle yard to, and show them the bones and skulls of those ou hast already dispatched, and make them believe eek comes to an end thou wilt tear them in pieces, hast done their fellows before them."

o, when the morning was come, the giant goes to gain, and takes them into the castle yard, and them as his wife had bidden him. "These," said ere pilgrims as you are; they trespassed on my s as you have done, and I tore them in pieces; within ten days I will do for you. Go, get you to your den again." And with that he beat all the way thither. They lay therefore all day urday in a lamentable case.

a little before it was day, Christian, as broke out in this passionate speech: " I to lie in a dungeon when I may liberty! I have a key in my bosom that will, I am persuaded, open any l Castle." Then said Hopeful, "That 's brother; pluck it out of thy bosom an

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11. Then Christian pulled it out of began to try at the dungeon door, wh turned the key, gave back, and the doo Christian and Hopeful both came out. the outer door that leads into the castle this key opened that door also. After the iron gate, for that must be opened lock went desperately hard, yet the kej

12. Then they thrust open the gate escape with speed; but that gate, as i such a creaking that it waked Giant hastily rising to pursue his prisoners, to fail; for his fits took him again, so by no means go after them. Then they came to the king's highway again, and

Explain: trespassed on me (2); falls to rating them In paragraph 8 what words mean "to kill"? what w word "before"?

Write a brief account of the chief things told in this les

The Pilgrim's Progress is a kind of writing called an tion of one thing under the image of another). "T progress of the Christian is represented in detail by the in search of a distant country, which he reaches after difficulties." A fable is a short allegory,

IX.-LINES ON A SKELETON.

nuscript of this poem was found near a skeleton in the London of Surgeons, about 1820. The author has never been found, ard of fifty guineas was offered for his discovery."

HOLD this ruin! 'T was a skull
ce of ethereal spirit full.

is narrow cell was life's retreat;
is space was thought's mysterious seat.
hat beauteous visions filled this spot!
hat dreams of pleasure long forgot!
or hope, nor joy, nor love, nor fear,
Es left one trace of record here.

neath this moldering canopy

ce shone the bright and busy eye; t start not at that dismal void: social love that eye employed,

with no lawless fire it gleamed,

t through the dews of kindness beamed, at eye shall be forever bright

hen stars and suns have lost their light.

ithin this silent cavern hung

e ready, swift, and tuneful tongue; falsehood's honey it disdained,

nd when it could not praise was chained, bold in virtue's cause it spoke,

et gentle concord never broke,

at silent tongue shall plead for thee

hen death unveils eternity!

To hew the rock, or wear the
Can nothing now avail to the
But if the page of truth they
And comfort to the mourner
These hands a richer meed sh
Than all that wait on wealth

5. Avails it whether bare or sho These feet the paths of duty If from the bowers of ease th To seek affliction's humble be If grandeur's guilty bribe the And home to virtue's lap ret These feet with angels' wings And tread the palace of the s

page of truth (4), the Bibl

TRUE GROWTH.

It is not growing like a tr In bulk, doth make man be Or standing long an oak, three To fall a log at last, dry, bald, A lily of a day

Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die th

It was the plant and flower In small proportions we just bea And in short measures life may

THE PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF

GREECE.

HILLARD.

E STILLMAN HILLARD was born in Machias, Maine, September nd died, January 21, 1879, at Longwood, in the suburbs of Boston. aduating at Harvard College (1828) he engaged in the practice of d became a distinguished member of the bar in Boston.

an eloquent speaker and a polished writer. All his public disd other writings show the results of high culture and a refined "Six Months in Italy" is an interesting and instructive book of

IE peninsula of Greece is remarkable, among ntries of Europe, for those peculiarities which ish Europe itself from the other quarters of be, for the number of its natural divisions, extent of seacoast compared with its surface. not so large as Portugal, its extent of seacoast er than that of Italy, and twice as great as that ce. Peloponnesus is so embayed and indented sea that it has been aptly likened to the human retched out, with the fingers apart.

us the voice of the sea was ever sounding in 3 of the Greek, and from every mountain height waters were seen sparkling in the clear distance. tially contributed to the formation of that bold, and enterprising spirit which characterized the The murmur of its waves is constantly heard literature of Greece, as in that of England. he poetry of Homer is full of ocean influences. hor must have been familiar with the sea in all ds, and from childhood "laid his hand upon its like that strong swimmer of our own age, from

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