PART II.

LESSON 1.

"I love it, I love it; and who shall dare
To chide me for loving that old arm-chair?
I've treasured it long as a sainted prize,

I've bedewed it with tears, and embalmed it with sighs; 'Tis bound by a thousand bands to my heart;

Not a tie will break, not a link will start.
Would ye learn the spell? a mother sat there,
And a sacred thing is that old arm-chair."

[In this form of lessons the pupil may be required to give one or more synonymes of each word, or may, at the option of the teacher, continue to construct sentences as in Part I.]

[This form of lessons contains words that are pronounced alike, but differ in spelling and meaning.]

of ships of the line,

brigs, and schooners. A is a small fish.

as an article of food. A
of bread. A

tortoises, and

LESSON 6.

The silky white fur which forms the ornament of many a royal robe is the skin of the ermine-a nimble and saucy member of the weasel tribe. In the summer this animal is of a reddish-brown color, but no sooner does the reign of winter begin than it attires itself in purest snowy white, with the exception of the tip of its tail, which is jet black.

LESSON 12.

Tennyson, the English poet, makes a brook sing in this

way:

"I chatter over stony ways,

In little sharps and trebles;
I bubble into eddying bays,
I babble on the pebbles.

"I steal by lawns and grassy plots,
I slide by hazel covers;
I move the sweet forget-me-nots,
That grow for happy lovers.

“And out again I curve and flow
To join the brimming river,

For men may come and men may go,
But I go on forever."