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d carry through the similitude of their habits e of laborious and gainful man, I beheld numrival hives arriving on eager wing to enrich s with the ruins of their neighbors. These emselves as eagerly and cheerfully as so many on an Indiaman that has been driven on shore, ng into the cells of the broken honeycombs, g greedily on the spoil, and then winging - full freighted to their homes.

to the poor proprietors of the ruin, they seemed no heart to do anything, not even to taste the at flowed around thein, but crawled backwards rds, in vacant desolation, as I have seen a poor th his hands in his pockets, whistling vacantly ondingly about the ruins of his house that had

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is difficult to describe the bewilderment and of the bees of the bankrupt hive who had ent at the time of the catastrophe, and who om time to time with full cargoes from abroad. they wheeled about in the air in the place e fallen tree had once reared its head, astonfinding it all a vacuum. At length, as if comng their disaster, they settled down in clusa dry branch of a neighboring tree, whence med to contemplate the prostrate ruin, and forth doleful lamentations over the downfall republic.

ne who plunders wrecks.
awkward; ungainly.
(-ter), one who pursues
pation for the love of it,
or gain.

vac'u-um, an empty space.
com'mon-wealth, the whole body of
the people, or community (literally,
common or public well-being).

lim'pid, clear.

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ern to him who calls his coat a coat,
ers his boat believing it a boat,
rdoned one, our classic city's boast,
aid at Cambridge most instead of mōst,
it her brows and stamped her angry foot
r a teacher call a root a root.

more: speak clearly if you speak at all;
every word before you let it fall;
like a lecturer or dramatic star,

er hard to roll the British R;

t your accents in the proper spot;

let me beg you

"What?"

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don't say "How?" for

when you stick on conversation's burrs,
strew your pathway with those dreadful urs.

Ez-), a rustic.

elf-evident truth.

quon'dam, former.

e'dict, a king's order or decree.

e "view" (3). The poet refers to the pure sound of long u, › same as you.· -soap, road, coat, boat, most (5, 6). The s in dropping the final part of long o, giving only the first part ound sound. To avoid it, lengthen the sound. The last part of ight form of oo. -root (6). The proper sound is that of long

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BEAUTY.

HING of beauty is a joy forever:
loveliness increases; it will never
s into nothingness, but still will keep
power quiet for us, and a sleep

1 of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet
breathing.

Keats.

RUSKIN.

JOHN RUSKIN was born in London in 1819. as the foremost writer in the language on art ma much useful advice and many brilliant descriptiv

1. I TELL you earnestly, you habit of looking intensely at words. self of their meaning, syllable by sy letter. You might read all the b Museum, if you could live long e an utterly "illiterate," uneducated read ten pages of a good book, lett is to say, with real accuracy, you some measure, an educated person.

2. The entire difference between education (as regards the merely int consists in this accuracy. A wellmay not know many languages, m speak any but his own, may have re but whatever language he knows, h whatever word he pronounces, he pro

3. An ordinarily clever and sensil able to make his way ashore at most only to speak a sentence to be know person: so also the accent, or turn single sentence, will at once mark a

4. Let the accent of words be wat let their meaning be watched more few words, well chosen and distingu work that a thousand cannot, when ing, equivocally, in the function of a

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LBORNE Lyons was an accomplished scholar, who had a select 's, at Haverford, near Philadelphia. He died in 1868.

ather all our Saxon bards, let harps and hearts be strung,

ebrate the triumphs of our own good Saxon tongue;

ronger far than hosts that march with battleflags unfurled,

s with Freedom, Thought, and Truth, to rouse and rule the world.

Albion learns its household lays on every surf-worn shore,

Scotland hears its echoing far as Orkney's breakers roar;

Jura's crags and Mona's hills it floats on every gale,

varms with eloquence and song the homes of Innisfail.

any a wide and swarming deck it scales the rough wave's crest,

ng its peerless heritage, the fresh and fruitful West.

mbs New England's rocky steeps, as victor mounts a throne;

ra knows and greets the voice still mightier than its own,

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