thirst. Blessed consummation! Then Poverty shall pass away from the land, finding no hovel so wretched that her squalid form may shelter itself there. Then Disease, for lack of other victims, shall gnaw his own heart and die. Then Sin, if she do not die, shall lose half her strength.

13. Then there will be no war of households. The husband and the wife, drinking deep of peaceful joy, a calm bliss of temperate affections, shall pass hand in hand through life, and lie down, not reluctantly, at its protracted close.

14. Drink, then, and be refreshed! The water is as pure and cold as when it slaked the thirst of the red hunter, and flowed beneath the aged bough. Still is this fountain the source of health, peace, and happiness; and I behold with certainty and joy the approach of the period when the virtues of cold water, too little valued since our fathers' days, will be fully appreciated and recognised by all.

WHEN I WAS A TINY BOY.

cast a look be-hind, to think upon the past.

Frank-lin, Benjamin Franklin of the United States, noted

for his discoveries in elec-
tricity.

themes, exercises.
se-rene, calm.

1. Oh, when I was a tiny boy

My days and nights were full of joy;
My mates were blithe and kind!

No wonder that I sometimes sigh,
And dash the tear-drop from my eye,
To cast a look behind!

2. A hoop was an eternal round
Of pleasure. In those days I found
A top, a joyous thing;

But now those past delights I drop,
My head, alas! is all my top,

And careful thoughts the string!

3. My kite-how fast and far it flew ! Whilst I, a sort of Franklin, drew My pleasure from the sky!

'Twas papered o'er with studious themes, The tasks I wrote--my present dreams Will never soar so high.

4. No skies so blue or so serene
As then ;-no leaves look half so green
As clothed the playground tree!
All things I loved are altered so,
Nor does it ease my heart to know
That change resides in me!

5. Oh for the garb that marked the boy! The trousers made of corduroy,

Well inked with black and red;

The crownless hat ne'er deemed an ill-
It only let the sunshine still

Repose upon my head!

6. When that I was a tiny boy
My days and nights were full of joy ;
My mates were blithe and kind!
No wonder that I sometimes sigh,
And dash the tear-drop from my eye,
To cast a look behind!

BARBARA FRITCHIE.

clus-tered, crowded together.
Fre-de-rick, or Fredericks-
burg, in Virginia, U. S.
Here General Burnside was
defeated (1862) by General
Lee, in what was one of the
fiercest battles of the war.
fall, autumn.

Lee, the heroic leader of the
Southern forces in the
American civil war, which
commenced in 1861 and
continued till 1865.
forty flags, &c. The Ameri-
can flag was composed of
thirteen bars or stripes
alternately red and white,
and thirteen white stars on

raid, invasion, expedition.
bier, a carriage or frame of
wood, for bearing the dead
to the grave.
sym-bol, emblem, sign,

1. Up from the meadows, rich with corn,
Clear from the cool September morn,
The clustered spires of Frederick stand,
Green-walled by the hills of Maryland.

2. Round about them orchards sweep, Apple and peach-tree fruited deep; Fair as a garden of the Lord

To the eyes of the famished rebel horde.

3. On that pleasant morn of the early fall, When Lee marched over the mountain wall,

Over the mountains winding down,
Horse and foot, into Frederick town,

4. Forty flags with their silver stars,
Forty flags with their silver bars,
Flapped in the morning wind; the sun
Of noon looked down and saw not one.

5. Up rose old Barbara Fritchie then, Bowed with her fourscore years and ten, Bravest of all in Frederick town,

She took up the flag the men hauled down;

6. In her attic window the staff she set,
To show that one heart was loyal yet.
Up the street came the rebel tread,
Stonewall Jackson riding ahead;

7. Under his slouched hat, left and right, He glanced, the old flag met his sight.

Halt !"-the dust-brown ranks stood

fast;

"Fire!"-out blazed the rifle blast.

8. It shivered the window, pane and sash; It rent the banner with seam and gash, Quick, as it fell from the broken staff, Dame Barbara suatched the silken scarf;