Spirit" (3); "poison in the white man's cup" (5); "the great water"

(6).

II. Write the analysis:

noun

safety

stranger

darkness

In King Philip's speech notice the use of the singular pro"between me and thee" (2); "thou abidest" (6). Point out other examples. Is this form more expressive than the ordinary pronoun you?

III. In these sentences change to the direct order; thus, —

I will quit the lands of my fathers only in death:"Only in death will I quit the lands of my fathers."

"In those woods where I bent my youthful bow I will still hunt the deer."

"Over yonder water I will still glide unrestrained in my bark canoe."

By those dashing waterfalls I will still lay up my winter's store of food."

"On these fertile meadows I will still plant my corn."

1. WHEN the summer harvest was gathered in,

And the sheaf of the gleaner grew white and thin,
And the plowshare was in its furrow left,

Where the stubble land had been lately cleft,

An Indian hunter, with unstrung bow,

Looked down where the valley lay stretched below.

2. He was a stranger there, and all that day
Had been out on the hills, a perilous way,
But the foot of the deer was far and fleet,
And the wolf kept aloof from the hunter's feet.
And bitter feelings passed o'er him then,

As he stood by the populous haunts of men.

3. The winds of Autumn came over the woods
As the sun stole out from their solitudes;
The moss was white on the maple's trunk,
And dead from its arms the pale vine shrunk,
And ripened the mellow fruit hung, and red
Were the tree's withered leaves around it shed.

4. The foot of the reaper moved slow on the lawn,
And the sickle cut down the yellow corn;
The mower sang loud by the meadow-side,
Where the mists of evening were spreading wide,
And the voice of the herdsman came up the lea,
And the dance went round by the greenwood tree.

5. Then the hunter turned away from that scene, Where the home of his fathers once had been, And heard by the distant and measured stroke That the woodman hewed down the giant oak, And burning thoughts flashed over his mind Of the white man's faith and love unkind.

6. The moon of harvest grew high and bright,
As her golden horn pierced the cloud of white;
A footstep was heard in the rustling brake
Where the beech overshadowed the misty lake,
And a mourning voice, and a plunge from shore,
And the hunter was seen on the hills no more.

7. When years had passed on, by that still lakeside
The fisher looked down through the silver tide,
And there, on the smooth, yellow sand displayed,
A skeleton wasted and white was laid,

And 't was seen, as the waters moved deep and slow,
That the hand was still grasping a hunter's bow.

LANGUAGE EXERCISE.

I. What three expressions (1) show that it was in the fall of the year that the Indian made his visit? What expression (2) denotes that the deer were hard to overtake?

Explain "the gleaner (1); "populous haunts of men" (2); “moon of harvest” (6).

Give a synonym of: "fleet" (2); "scene" (5); "mourning" (6); "grasping" (7).

II. In this poem four nouns are formed by adding the suffix er to verbs: select these nouns and define each.

III. Change to the prose order : —

"The plowshare was in its furrow left."
"Dead from its arms the pale vine shrunk."
"Ripened the mellow fruit hung."

39.-On Kindness to Animals.

frăn'tie, mad, furious.

PART I.

hu-māne', disposed to treat people or animals with kindness.

măg'is-trāte, a public officer. pro-mõte', to help, to encourage. re-buked', reproved, chided.

1. THERE is a beautiful story that tells of a king, in one of the old cities of Italy, who caused a bell to be hung in a tower in one of the public squares, and commanded that any one who had been wronged should ring the bell, when a judge would come to see that the person had his rights. This bell the king called the "Bell of Justice."

2. In the course of time the lower end of the bellrope rotted away, and a wild vine was tied to it to lengthen it. One day an old and starving horse that had been turned out by its owner to die wandered into the town, and in trying to eat the vine rang the bell.

3. The magistrate coming to see who had rung found the poor old horse tugging at the wild vine. Sending for the owner he rebuked him sharply for his hardness of heart.

"What!" said he; "this faithful creature has toiled all its life for you, it has worn itself out in your service, and now when it is old you turn it out to starve? No; it shall not be! The poor beast has rung the bell of justice, and justice it shall have. I

command you to give it proper food and shelter as long as it lives!"

4. Until about fifty years ago there were no laws in any country to protect from great cruelty the dumb creatures that toil for us. Wicked and unmerciful men used to beat their horses and work them beyond their strength, and give them too little food; so that their lives were made very wretched.

5. Other animals, also, were ill treated. Cats were pelted to death. Dogs had kettles tied to their tails, and were goaded to madness by howling crowds. Oxen were driven till they became frantic. Birds' nests were robbed. In fact, people do not seem to have thought that the lower animals had any claim on our mercy.

6. But about half a century ago good people in England determined that there should be laws to protect these dumb creatures from abuse. They asked Parliament that such laws should be passed, and then they formed a society to see that animals had the benefit of those laws.

7. In our own country humane persons, seeing what had been done in England, began also to form societies of the same kind. Almost every city in the United States now has a society "for the prevention of cruelty to animals." These watchful guardians of the rights of animals employ agents to find out all cases of ill-treatment or neglect, and to see that the offenders are brought to justice.