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been at work about half an hour, when Memorus, who was perceived to have less to do than the rest, was sent out to take his place. He was about ten years old, and four years younger than Jonas. "Memorus," said the teacher, "you may go out and spell Jonas." Our hero did not think of the Yankee sense in which the master used the word spell. Indeed, Memorus had never attached but one, meaning to it whenever it was used with reference to himself. He supposed the master was granting him a ride extraordinary on his favorite hobby. So he put his spelling-book under his arm, and was out at the wood-pile with the speed of a boy rushing to play.

6. "Have you learnt your spellin'-lesson, Jonas?" was his first salutation." I have n't looked at it yit," was the reply. "I mean to cut up this plaguy great log, spellin' or no spellin', before I go in. I had as lief keep warm here choppin' wood, as freeze up there in that cold back seat."-"Well, the master sent me out to hear you spell.". "Did he? Well, put out the words, and I'll spell." Memorus being so distinguished a speller, Jonas did not doubt but that he was really sent out on this errand. So our deputy spelling-master mounted the top of the wood-pile, just in front of Jonas, to put out words to his temporary pupil, who still kept on cutting out chips.

7. "Do you know where the lesson begins, Jonas?" -"No, I don't; but I s'pose I shall find out now."— "Well, here 't is." (They both belonged to the same class.) "Spell A-bom-i-na'tion." Jonas spells: A b-o-m bom a-bom-in the mean time up goes the ax high in air -i a-bom-i-down it goes again into the woodn-a na a-bom-i-na-up it goes again-t-i-o-n tion, a-bom-i-na-tion. Chuck goes the ax again, and at the same time out flies à furious chip, and hits Memorus on the nose. At this moment the master appeared

just at the corner of the school-house, with one foot still on the threshold. "Jonas, why don't you come in? Didn't I send Memorus out to spell you?""Yes, sir; and he has been spelling me. How could

I come in, if he spelt me here?"

8. At this the master's eye caught Memorus perched up on the top stick, with his book open upon his lap, rubbing his nose, and just in the act of putting out the next word of the column. "Ac-com-mo-da'tion," pronounced Memorus, in a broken but louder voice than before; for he had caught a glimpse of the master, and he wished to let him know that he was doing his duty. This was too much for the master's gravity. He perceived the mistake, and, without saying more, wheeled back into the school-room, almost bursting with the most tumultuous laugh he ever tried to suppress. The scholars wondered at his looks, and grinned in sympathy.

9. In a few moments Jonas came in, followed by Memorus with his spelling-book, who exclaimed, “I have heard him spell clean through the whole lesson, and he did n't spell one quarter of 'em right." The master could hold in no longer. The scholars, too, perceived the blunder, and there was one simulta'neous roar from teacher and pupils; the scholars laughing twice as loud and uproariously in consequence of being permitted to laugh in school-time, and to do it with the accompaniment of the master.

10. It was some time before Memorus could be made to see where the joke lay. At last the teacher told him to look out the word spell in the dictionary. He did so, and found among the definitions under spell, when a transitive verb, the following: "to take the turn or place of." Light began to dawn on the mind of the champion. WARREN BUrton.

LXXXIII. — CATO'S SOLILOQUY.

BANE, n., poison; ruin.

SO-LIL'O-QUY, n., a talking alone or to ono's self.

| ANTI-DOTE, n., a medicine to prevent
the effects of poison.
IN'TI-MATE, v. t., to hint.

Ir must be so.-Plato, thou reasonest well.
Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire,
This longing after immortality?

Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror,
Of falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul
Back on herself, and startles at destruction?
'Tis the divinity that stirs within us,

'Tis Heaven itself, that points out a hereafter,
And intimates eternity to man.

Eternity!-thou pleasing, dreadful thought?
Through what variety of untried being,

Through what new scenes and changes must we pass !
The wide, the unbounded prospect lies before me;
But shadows, clouds and darkness, rest upon it.
Here will I hold. If there's a Power above us,-
And that there is, all Nature cries aloud

Through all her works, he must delight in virtue ;
And that which he delights in must be happy.

But when? or where? This world was made for Cæsar.
I'm weary of conjectures,

Thus am I doubly armed.

this must end them.

My death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me.

*

This in a moment brings me to my end;

But this informs me I shall never die.
The soul, secure in her existence, smiles
At the drawn dagger, and defies its point.
The stars shall fade away, the sun himself
Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years;
But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth,

Unhurt amid the war of elements,

The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.

ADDISON.

* A dagger. † Plato's treatise on the immortality of the soul.

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Avoid saying win'der for win'dow; foller for follow; wus for worse; weels for wheels; wen for when; neow for now. The th in underneath is vocal as in breathe, not aspirate as in breath. The first e in where'fōre should have the sound it has in where. Do not give the a in many (pronounced men'ny) a long sound. Give the u in ingratitude its y sound.

WHEREFORE rejoice that Cæsar comes in triumph?
What conquest brings he home?

What tributaries follow him to Rome,

To grace in captive bonds his chariot wheels?
You blocks, you stōnes, you worse than senseless things!
O you hard hearts! you cruel men of Rome!

Knew you not Pompey? Many a time and oft
Have you climbed up to walls and battlements,
To towers, and windows, yea, to chimney-tops,
Your infants in your arms, and there have sat
The live-long day with patient expectation
To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome.

And when you saw his chariot but appear,
Have you not made a universal shout,
That Tiber trembled underneath her banks,
To hear the replication of your sounds,
Made in her concave shores?

And do you now put on your best attire?
And do you now cull out a holiday?

And do you now strew flowers in his way,

That comes in triumph over Pompey's blood?.

Begone! Run to your houses, fall upon your knees,

Pray to the gods to intermit the plague

That needs must light on this ingratitude!

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LXXXV. — BARBARITY OF WAR.

EN'GINE (ĕn'jin), n., a machine.

DE-LU'SIVE, a., tending to deceive.

IM-PE'RI-OUS, a., commanding.
RE-CIP'RO-CAL, a., acting in return.

A-TROCIOUS, a., very wicked.

LAC'ER-ATE (las-), v. t., to tear.
AL-LE'VI-ATE, v. t., to lighten.
SUB-OR'DI-NATE, a., inferior.

Be careful in the pronunciation of the following words: em-bel'lish-ments (not munts), ten'der-ness, fig'ures, draw'ing-room (not droring-), en-ter-tain'ments, chiv'al-ry (shiv-), wound (woond).

1. ON every side of me I see causes at work which go to spread a most delusive coloring over war, and to remove its shocking barbarities to the background of our contemplations altogether. I see it in the history which tells me of the superb appearance of the troops, and the brilliancy of their successive charges. I see it in the poetry which lends the magic of its numbers to the narrative of blood, and transports its many admirers, as, by its images, and its figures, and its nodding plumes of chivalry, it throws its treacherous embellishments over a scene of legalized slaughter.

2. I see it in the music which represents the progress of the battle; and where, after being inspired by the trumpet-notes of preparation, the whole beauty and tenderness of a drawing-room are seen to bend over the sentimental entertainment; nor do I hear the utterance of a single sigh to interrupt the death-tones of the thickening contest, and the moans of the wounded men, as they fade away upon the ear, and sink into lifeless silence.

3. All, all, goes to prove what strange and halfsighted creatures we are. Were it not so, war could never have been seen in any other aspect than that of unmingled hatefulness; and I can look to nothing but to the progress of Christian sentiment upon earth to arrest the strong current of the popular and prevail.

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