life. It rattled noisily through the best streets, took the worst corners sharpest, went cutting in everywhere, making everything get out of its way; and spun along the open country road, blowing a lively defiance out of its key bugle as its last glad parting legacy.

5. It was a charming evening, mild and bright. And, even with the weight upon his mind which arose out of the immensity and uncertainty of London, Tom could not resist the captivating sense of rapid motion through the pleasant air.

6. The four grays skimmed along as if they liked it quite as well as Tom did; the bugle was in as high spirits as the grays; the coachman chimed in sometimes with his voice; the wheels hummed cheerfully in unison; the brasswork on the harness was an orchestra of little bells; and thus, as they went clinking, jingling, rattling smoothly on, the whole concern, from the buckles of the leaders' coupling reins to the handle of the hind boot, was one great instrument of music.

7. Yoho! past hedges, gates, and trees; past cottages and barns, and people going home from work.

Yoho! past donkey chaises drawn aside into the ditch, and empty carts with rampant horses held by struggling carters close to the five-barred gate until the coach had passed the narrow turning in the road.

8. Yoho! by churches dropped down by themselves in quiet nooks, with rustic burial grounds about them, where the graves are green, and daisies sleep-for it is evening — on the bosoms of the dead.

Yoho! past streams, in which the cattle cool their feet, and where the rushes grow; past farms, and rick yards; past last year's stacks, cut slice by slice away, and showing in the waning light like ruined gables, old and brown.

9. Yoho! among the gathering shades; making of no account the deep reflections of the trees, but scampering on through light and darkness all the same as if the light of London, fifty miles away, were quite enough to travel by, and some to spare.

10. Yoho! see the bright moon! high up before we know it; making the earth reflect the objects on its breast like water. Hedges, trees, low cottages, church steeples, blighted stumps, and flourishing young slips have all grown vain upon the sudden, and mean to contemplate their own fair images till morning. The poplars yonder rustle, that their quivering leaves may see themselves upon the ground. Not so the oak: trembling does not become him; and he watches himself in his stout old burly steadfastness, without the motion of a twig.

11. Yoho! Yoho! through ditch and brake, upon the plowed land and the smooth, along the steep hillside and steeper wall, as if it were a phantom hunter. Clouds too! And a mist upon the hollow! Not a dull fog that hides it, but a light, airy, gauze-like mist, which in our eyes of modest admiration gives a new charm to the beauties it is spread before.

12. Yoho! Why, now we travel like the moon her

self. Hiding this minute in a grove of trees; next minute in a patch of vapor; emerging now upon our broad, clear course; withdrawing now, but always dashing on,— our journey is a counterpart of hers. Yoho! A match against the moon. Yoho! Yoho!

13. The beauty of the night is hardly felt, when day comes leaping up. Yoho! past market gardens, rows of houses, villas, crescents, terraces, and squares; past wagons, coaches, carts; past early workmen, late stragglers, drunken men, and sober carriers of loads; past brick and mortar in its every shape; and in among the rattling pavements, where a jaunty seat upon a coach is not so easy to preserve.

14. Yoho! down countless turnings, and through countless mazy ways, until an old innyard is gained, and Tom Pinch, getting down quite stunned and giddy, is in London.

LANGUAGE STUDY.

I. Write the analysis of: event (venire); motion (movere); elect (legere); conversation (vertere); resist (sistere); captivate (capere). Write the analysis of: noisily; slowly; defiance; uncertainty; immensity; cheerfully; steadfastness; straggler; countless.

II. Divide the long loose sentence (6) into its component parts, pointing out its members, clauses, and phrases. Write the principal parts of: write; lead; skim; chime; become.

III. Is the first sentence a period, or a loose sentence? the second sentence? Point out a metaphor in paragraph 3. Point out a personification in paragraph 4. Point out a simile in paragraph 10.

58.-The Stranger on the Sill.

eǎl'a-mus, sweet flag.

im-pärt', yield, bestow.

lāve, dip and bathe.

| rèv ́er-ençe, respect and honor.

1. Between broad fields of wheat and corn
Is the lowly home where I was born:
The peach tree leans against the wall,
And the woodbine wanders over all;
There is the shady doorway still,

But a stranger's foot has crossed the sill.

2. There is the barn; and, as of yore,

I can smell the hay from the open door,
And see the busy swallows throng,
And hear the peewee's mournful song.
But the stranger comes: O, painful proof!-
His sheaves are piled to the heated roof.

3. There is the orchard, the very trees
Where my childhood knew long hours of ease,
And watched the shadowy moments run
Till my life imbibed more shade than sun;
The swing from the bough still sweeps the air,
But the stranger's children are swinging there.

4. There bubbles the shady spring below, With its bulrush brook where the hazels grow; "Twas there I found the calamus root,