All night from reeling taffrail
The Three Bells sent her cheer.

And when the dreary watches

Of storm and darkness passed,
Just as the wreck lurched under,
All souls were saved at last.

Sail on, Three Bells, forever,
In grateful memory sail!
Ring on, Three Bells of rescue,
Above the wave and gale!

Type of the Love eternal,

Repeat the Master's cry,

As tossing through our darkness

The lights of God draw nigh!

JOHN G. WHITTIER.

Spell and pronounce : — leak, pealed, raked, tossing, reeling, wreck, lurched, rescue, type, captain, Glasgow, splintering, hearten, The Three Bells, signal-gun, and pusillanimous.

CHEERFULNESS TAUGHT BY REASON.
A SONNET.

"I think we are too ready with complaint

In this fair world of God's. Had we no hope,
Indeed, beyond the zenith and the slope

Of yon gray blank of sky, we might grow faint
To muse upon eternity's constraint

Round our aspirant souls. But since the scope
Must widen early, is it well to droop
For a few days consumed in loss and taint?
O pusillanimous heart, be comforted,-
And, like a cheerful traveler, take the road,
Singing beside the hedge. What if the bread
Be bitter in thine inn, and thou unshod

To meet the flints?-At least, it may be said,
'Because the way is short, I thank Thee, God!"

MRS. BROWNING.

Questions. - What is this stanza? How many lines in it? Describe the rhyming of the lines.

LESSON LXXVI.

au'di bly, so as to be heard.
bĭv ouac' (wăk), an encamp-

ment, without tents.

ef fùl'ġençe, great brightness. hăm’mock, a suringing bed. dolphin, a large fish.

mo not'o noŭs, same in tone. per' fo rāt ed, full of holes. strā'tȧ, layers; regions. zenith, a point in the heavens

directly overhead.

re sound'ed, re-echoed.

MIDDAY AND MIDNIGHT.

We passed the night as usual in the open air, on a sandy flat, on the bank of the Apuré, skirted by the impenetrable forest. We had some difficulty in finding dry wood to kindle the fires with which it is here customary to surround the bivouac, as a safeguard against the attacks of the jaguar.

The air was bland and soft, and the moon shone brightly. Several crocodiles approached the bank. I have observed that fire attracts these creatures as it does our crabs and many other aquatic animals.

The oars of our boats were fixed upright in the ground to support our hammocks. Deep stillness prevailed, only broken at intervals by the blowing of the fresh-water dolphins, which followed each other in long tracks.

After eleven o'clock, such a noise began in the neighboring forest, that, for the remainder of the night, all sleep was impossible. The wild cries of animals rang through the woods. Among the many voices which resounded together, the Indians could only recognize those which, after short pauses, were heard singly.

There was the monotonous, plaintive cry of the howling monkeys, the whining, flute-like notes of

the smaller monkeys, the grunting murmur of the striped nocturnal ape, the fitful roar of the great tiger, the maneless American lion, the peccary, the sloth, and a host of parrots and other birds.

Whenever the tigers approached the edge of the forest, our dog, which before had barked incessantly, came howling to seek protection under the hammocks. Sometimes the cry of the tiger resounded from the branches of a tree, and was then always accompanied by the plaintive, piping tones of the apes, which were endeavoring to escape from the unwonted pursuit.

If one asked the Indians why such a continuous noise is heard on certain nights, they answer, with a smile, that the animals are rejoicing in the beautiful moonlight, and celebrating the return of the full moon. To Humboldt, the scene appeared rather to be owing to a long-continued and graduallyincreasing conflict among the animals.

Thus, for instance, the jaguar will pursue the peccaries and the tapirs, which, densely crowded together, burst through the barrier of tree-like shrubs which opposes their flight. Terrified at the confusion, the monkeys on the tops of the trees join their cries with those of the larger animals. This arouses the tribes of birds which build their nests in communities, and suddenly the whole animal world is in a state of commotion.

Nor is it by any means always the festival of moonlight that disturbs the stillness of the forest. We observed that the voices were loudest during violent storms of rain, or when the thunder echoed and the lightning flashed through the depths of the woods.

A singular contrast to the scenes here described

is presented by the stillness which often reigns within the tropics at the noontide of a day unusually sultry:

"Not a breath of air moved the dust-like sand. The sun stood in the zenith, and the effulgence of light poured upon the river, which, owing to a gentle ripple of the waters, was brilliantly reflected, gave additional distinctness to the red haze which veiled the distance.

"The larger animals, at such times, take refuge in the deep recesses of the forest, the birds nestle beneath the foliage of the trees, or in the clefts of the rocks. If, however, in this apparent stillness of nature, we listen closely for the faintest tones, we detect a dull, muffled sound, a buzzing and humming of insects close to the earth, in the lower strata of the atmosphere.

"Everything proclaims a world of active forces. In every shrub, in the cracked bark of trees, in the perforated ground inhabited by ants, wasps, and bees, life is everywhere audibly manifest."

HUMBOLDT.

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"Fires with which it is here to surround the "I have that fire attracts these creatures." "Deep by the blowing of the fresh-water dolphins." "Our dogs which had barked "which were

only

to escape from the unwonted pursuit."

"Gave

Apuré is a tributary of the Orinoco, in South America.

"One by one thy duties wait thee;

Let thy whole strength go to each;

Let no future dreams elate thee,

Learn thou first what these can teach."
A. A. PROCTOR.

NORTHMEN AND NORMANS IN ENGLAND AND IRELAND.

It would be an interesting work to trace out the causes and the course of civilization, in the case of particular nations compared one with another. Some nations have been civilized by conquering; others by being conquered.

The moral and social advancement of Spain, Gaul, and South Britain under the Roman yoke is an instance of the latter process; but more commonly the victorious people has been the pupil, not the teacher, and has voluntarily placed itself at the feet of those whom it began by treading under its own.

This appears from the nature of the case: the more favored countries of the earth are the natural seats of civilization; and these are the very objects of the cupidity of Northern or Eastern races, who are at once more warlike and less refined.

Accordingly, the rude warrior quits his icebound crags, his desolate steppes, or his burning sands, for the sunny hills or the well-watered meadows of the temperate zone; and when he has made good his footing in his new abode, what was the incentive of his conquest becomes the instrument of his education.