3. Our very hopes belied our fears,
Our fears our hopes belied,-

We thought her dying when she slept,
And sleeping when she died.

4. For when the morn came dim and sad,
And chill with early showers,
Her quiet eyelids closed-she had
Another morn than ours.

Thomas Hood.

FOR PREPARATION.-I. "Eke" is chiefly used now for add to or lengthen. It was a very common word for also in old English, and its kindred forms eac (Anglo-Saxon), auch (German), og (Danish), och (Swedish), ok (old Norse), etc., were or are still very much used for and or also.

II. Through (throo), si'-lent-ly, eye'-lids ('-).

III. The prefixes ad and ab (to and from), in and ex (in and out), have been mentioned, and the various changes which they undergo to make them agree in sound with the first letter of the root (i. e., the word to which they are prefixed). Make two lists of ten words each, illustrating the prefixes con (with) and contra (against) (e. g., con-clude shut together; col-lect = bring together; contra-dict = say against); also of de (down), super and hyper (over), sub and hypo (under), and per (through).

IV. "Wave of life heaving."

V. "Seemed to speak" (i. e., it seemed as though we spoke so low and moved about so slowly, because we had given her the half of our power to eke out her life).

LIX.—IN THE MAINE WOODS.

I. THE FORESTS.

1. What is most striking in the Maine wilderness is the continuousness of the forest, with fewer open intervals, or glades, than you had imagined. Except the few burnt lands, the narrow intervals on the rivers, the bare tops of the high mountains, and the lakes and streams, the forest is uninterrupted.

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2. It is even more grim and wild than you had anticipated a damp and intricate wilderness, in the spring everywhere wet and miry. The aspect of the country, indeed, is universally stern and savage, excepting the distant views of the forest from hills, and the lake prospects, which are mild and civilizing in a degree.

3. The lakes are something which you are unprepared for; they lie up so high, exposed to the light, and the forest is diminished to a fine fringe on their edges, with here and there a blue mountain, like amethyst jewels set around some jewel of the first water-so anterior, so superior to all the changes that are to take place on their shores, even now civil and refined, and fair as they can These are not the artificial forests of an Engever be. lish king-a royal preserve merely. Here prevail no forest laws but those of Nature. The aborigines have never been dispossessed, nor Nature disforested.

4. It is a country full of evergreen trees, of mossy silver birches and watery maples-the ground dotted with insipid, small, red berries, and strewn with damp and moss-grown rocks; a country diversified with innumer able lakes and rapid streams, peopled with trout, with salmon, shad, and pickerel, and other fishes.

5. The forest resounds at rare intervals with the note of the chickadee, the blue jay, and the woodpecker, the scream of the fishhawk and the eagle, the laugh of the loon, and the whistle of ducks along the solitary streams; at night, with the hooting of owls and howling of wolves; in summer, swarming with myriads of black flies and mosquitoes, more formidable than wolves to the white man.

6. Such is the home of the moose, the bear, the cariWho shall wolf the beaver, and the Indian.

describe the inexpressible tenderness and immortal life of the grim forest, where Nature, though it be midwinter, is ever in her spring; where the moss-grown and decaying trees are not old, but seem to enjoy a perpetual youth; and blissful, innocent Nature, like a serene infant, is too happy to make a noise, except by a few tinkling, lisping birds, and trickling rills.

II. SHOOTING RAPIDS.

7. We reached the Dam at noon. The boatmen went through one of the log sluices in the bateau, where the fall was ten feet at the bottom, and took us in below. Here was the longest rapid in our voyage, and perhaps the running this was as dangerous and arduous a task as any.

8. In shooting rapids the boatman has this problem to solve: to choose a circuitous and safe course amid a thousand sunken rocks, scattered over a long distance, at the same time that he is moving steadily on at the rate of fifteen miles an hour. Stop he can not the only question is, Where will he go? The bowman chooses the course with all his eyes about him, striking broad off with his paddle, and drawing the boat by main force into her course. The sternsman faithfully follows the bow.

9. Down the rapids we shot at a headlong rate. If we struck a rock, we were split from end to end in an instant. Now like a bait bobbing for some river monster amid the eddies, now darting to this side of the stream, now to that, gliding swift and smooth near to our destruction, or striking broad off with the paddle and drawing the boat to right or left with all our might in order to avoid a rock, we soon ran through the mile, and floated in Quakish Lake.

LX.-MARCO BOZZARIS.

1. At midnight, in his guarded tent,
The Turk lay dreaming of the hour
When Greece, her knee in suppliance bent,
Should tremble at his power.

In dreams, through camp and court he bore
The trophies of a conqueror;

In dreams, his song of triumph heard;
Then wore his monarch's signet ring;
Then pressed that monarch's throne-a king;
As wild his thoughts, and gay of wing,
As Eden's garden bird.

2. At midnight, in the forest shades,
Bozzaris ranged his Suliote band,

True as the steel of their tried blades,
Heroes in heart and hand.

There had the Persian's thousands stood,
There had the glad earth drunk their blood,
In old Platæa's day;

And now, there breathed that haunted air
The sons of sires who conquered there,
With arms to strike, and soul to dare,
As quick, as far as they.

3. An hour passed on; the Turk awoke;
That bright dream was his last;

He woke to hear his sentries shriek,

"To arms! They come-the Greek! the Greek!”
He woke to die 'mid flame and smoke,
And shout, and groan, and saber stroke,
And death shots falling thick and fast
As lightnings from the mountain cloud,
And heard, with voice as trumpet loud,