3. The school-children scattered flowers before him, and one little girl recited some verses expressing their delight at his visit.

4. The king listened attentively, praised the little girl for the manner in which she had performed her task, and then proceeded to ask the children a few questions to test their knowledge.

5. On a table was a dish of oranges intended as prizes for the winners in the various games about to be held in honor of the royal visit. The king took up one of these oranges, and asked: "Can any one tell me to which kingdom this belongs?"

"To the vegetable kingdom," replied one of the little girls.

6. Then taking a gold coin from his pocket, and holding it up, he asked: "To which kingdom does this belong?"

"To the mineral kingdom," she readily answered.

7. "And to which kingdom, then, do I belong, my child," inquired the king, expecting, of course, that she would answer, "To the animal kingdom."

8. The child blushed and hesitated. She thought it would not be respectful to tell a king that he belonged to the animal kingdom; so she puzzled her little brain for a reply.

9. At last, remembering the verse in the Bible which tells us that "God created man in his own image, in

the image of God created he him," she looked up in the king's face, and said: "To the kingdom of God."

10. The king was profoundly affected by the beauty and simplicity of her words; and, placing his hand on the child's head, said in a low, solemn voice: "God grant that I may be worthy of that kingdom."

LANGUAGE EXERCISE.

1. What phrase (1) means once? What phrase (4) means find out what they knew? What word (9) means likeness? What word (10) means touched, moved?

Give synonyms of: "remain" (1); "delight" (3); “proceeded" (4); "created" (9); "profoundly" (10).

II. Rule paper by the model, and write the analysis:

What kind of sentence (simple, complex, or compound) is paragraph 1? What kind of sentence is paragraph 4?

III. Copy with the proper marks:

The king said in a low solemn voice God grant that I worthy of that kingdom

may be

5.- Pussy Willow.

brimmed, bordered.

first'ling, earliest product.

Puss'y wil'low, an early willow
with soft buds like a cat's paw.

1. THE brook is brimmed with melting snow,
The maple sap is running,
And on the highest elm a crow

His big black wings is sunning.

A close green bud the Mayflower lies

Upon its mossy pillow;

And sweet and low the south-wind blows,
And through the brown fields calling goes,
"Come, Pussy! Pussy Willow!"

Within your close brown wrapper stir;
Come out and show your silver fur;

Come, Pussy! Pussy Willow!"

2. Soon red will bud the maple-trees,
The bluebirds will be singing,
And yellow tassels in the breeze
Be from the poplars swinging;
And rosy will the Mayflower lie
Upon its mossy pillow;

But you must come the first of all,

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'Come, Pussy!" is the south-wind's call,

"Come, Pussy! Pussy Willow!"

A fairy gift to children dear,

The downy firstling of the year,

Come, Pussy! Pussy Willow!

6.- How an Apple-Tree Grows.

eär'bon, one of the elements: it is | mi-nūte', very small.

found in charcoal.

mi'ero-seõpe, a magnifying glass.

pis'til, the part of a flower containing the seed.

1. WHEN a young seed begins to grow it starts with one little cell. This cell is a kind of round bag, or tiny bladder. It is hollow, and has in it a sort of jelly.

2. Those who study plants can with their microscopes watch just how the young seed grows. When first they observe the tiny sack, or cell, it is not larger than the point of a pin. They can see it grow larger, but even when it is full grown it is not larger than the dot over this letter i.

3. Next, they can see a very thin wall-thinner than the thinnest paper- growing inside of the little cell. This wall, or partition, grows quite across from one side to the other, making two little cells of it.

4. After this, a partition grows in each of these two cells, making four. And so the seed goes on growing, by each of the cells dividing into two or more.

5. All plants grow in this way. But each plant will grow according to its own seed. The seed of a turnip will begin to grow with one cell, and then make cell after cell, with all the cells packed pretty close together. But all these cells will grow together in such a way as to make a turnip-plant. An acorn will grow in the

same way; but all its cells will grow together in such a way as to make an oak tree.

6. Think of a large apple tree. First it began with a tiny cell in the bottom of a pistil of an apple blossom. Out of this cell grew two other cells. Then out of them grew more cells. And so they kept on until the whole seed was ripe.

7. Now here is something very curious. All those little cells in that little apple seed grew in such a way that they actually made a little apple tree inside of that little seed. There they made a minute pair of leaves, and a minute point of a root. When the tiny cells had their tiny plant completed the seed was ripe.

8. The apple fell from the tree, the seed entered the ground, and in the spring the wet in the soil below, and the heat from the sun above, burst open the seed. Then out came the little point of a root, and, not liking the light, grew downwards into the ground.

9. But while the little point of a root was doing this, the little pair of leaves, folded up in the seed, also began to grow, and, loving the light, pushed their way up where they could feel the warm sunshine.

10. There the little pair of leaves spread out. Then up between them grew the little stem. Then more leaves came out; and still the stem kept pushing up, and still more leaves kept coming.

11. Moreover, while the plant was growing above