85.-The Two Anchors.

a-vȧst', a sailor's word, meaning | a-hoy', a sailor's word used in stop, cease. hailing or calling.

1. It was a gallant sailor-man

Had just come home from sea,
And, as I passed him in the town,
He sang "Ahoy!" to me.

I stopped, and saw I knew the man,
Had known him from a boy;
And so I answered, sailor-like,
"Avast!" to his "Ahoy!"

I made a song for him one day,
His ship was then in sight,-
"The little anchor on the left,

The great one on the right.”

2. I gave his hand a hearty grip.
"So you are back again?
They say you have been pirating
Upon the Spanish Main;

Or was it some rich Indiaman

You robbed of all her pearls?

Of course you have been breaking hearts
Of poor Kanaka girls!"

"Wherever I have been," he said,

"I kept my ship in sight,

'The little anchor on the left,

The great one on the right.""

3. "I heard last night that you were in: I walked the wharves to-day,

But saw no ship that looked like yours.
Where does the good ship lay?

I want to go on board of her."
"And so you shall," said he;
"But there are many things to do

When one comes home from sea.
You know the song you made for me?
I sing it morn and night,

'The little anchor on the left,

The great one on the right.""

4. "But how's your wife and little one?" "Come home with me," he said.

"Go on, go on: I follow you."

I followed where he led.

He had a pleasant little house;

The door was open wide,

And at the door the dearest face,

A dearer one inside.

He hugged his wife and child; he sang,-
His spirits were so light,-

"The little anchor on the left,

The great one on the right."

5. 'Twas supper-time, and we sat down,The sailor's wife and child,

And he and I: he looked at them,

And looked at me, and smiled.
"I think of this when I am tossed
Upon the stormy foam,

And, though a thousand leagues away,
Am anchored here at home."
Then, giving each a kiss, he said,
"I see, in dreams at night,
This little anchor on my left,
This great one on my right."

LANGUAGE EXERCISE.

I. What word (1) means called out? Explain the two sailor terms in the first stanza.

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"Spanish Main" (2) is here used for the sea, although it properly means the main land. Some rich Indiamen" (2); that is, a vessel trading to India, and freighted with a rich cargo. "Kanaka girls" (2); that is, the girls of the Sandwich

Islands.

The verb "lay" (3) is used to rhyme with "to-day"; but what is the proper form?

II. Write the analysis:

hearty

stormy

pleasant

What pronoun is understood as the subject of the verb "had come" (1)? Point out other examples of the omission of the pronoun subject.

By the "great anchor" is, of course, meant the sailor's wife: what is the "little anchor"? Why do these names suggest a very pleasant picture?

86.- Lafayette.

PART I.

Au-vergne, pron. ō-vērn'.
e-lūd'ed, escaped by craft.
e-ques'tri-an (statue), a statue
in which the figure is represented
on horseback.

měm'o-ra-ble, worthy to be remembered.

pōs-til'ion, one who rides one of the horses in a post-chaise. proj'eet, plan, design.

1. STANDING among the trees in the little park named Union Square, in the city of New York, is

a bronze statue representing a tall young man in the close-fitting uniform of an American general of the time of the Revolution. With his right hand he clasps a sword to his breast; his left

is stretched out toward a noble equestrian statue of Washington, which

stands hard by.

2. This is the statue of a gallant young Frenchman who devoted his sword and his fortune to the cause of American liberty, and whose memory is kept green in the name of many a street and city and county in the land which he helped to make free. It is the statue of Lafayette.

3. We call him simply Lafayette; in the Revolutionary days the people endearingly spoke of him as "the young marquis;" but his full name was Marie Jean Paul Roche Yves Gilbert Motier, Marquis de Lafayette.

4. He was born in the province of Auvergne, France, in 1757, his family being one of the most ancient and renowned in the French nobility. His father, who was an officer in the French army, was killed in battle in Germany a little before his son's birth; his mother died soon afterwards, and the infant orphan was left heir to a vast fortune.

5. As the custom was in those days, he entered the army while scarcely in his teens, and while still at college near Paris. As was also the custom, he was married very young: he was but sixteen when he espoused a daughter of another noble house, herself being only thirteen years of age. Children though they were, the union proved to be a loving and happy

one.

6. Though born in and living amidst the most aristocratic society in the world, Lafayette was an ardent