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6. But, for sufficient reasons, I will a while postpone the blow. Then will I doom thee, when no man is to be found, so lost to reason, so depraved, so like thyself, that he will not admit the sentence was deserved. While there is one man who ventures to defend thee, live!

7. But thou shalt live so beset, so hemmed in, so watched, by the vigilant guards I have placed around thee, that thou shalt not stir a foot against the Repub lic without my knowledge. There shall be eyes to detect thy slightest movement, and ears to catch thy wariest whisper. Thou shalt be seen and heard when thou dost not dream of a witness near. The darkness of night shall not cover thy treason; the walls of privacy shall not stifle its voice.

8. Baffled on all sides, thy most secret projects clear as noonday, what canst thou now devise? Proceed, plot, conspire, as thou wilt; there is nothing thou canst contrive, propose, attempt, which I shall not promptly be made aware of. Thou shalt soon be convinced that I am even more active in providing for the preservation of the State, than thou in plotting its destruction!

IX.-TURNING AWAY WRATH.

HOME'STEAD, n., an old family place.

NEIGHBOR, n., one living near.

AD'VO-CATE, n., one who maintains a cause by argument.

SPANIEL (span'yel), n., a dog used in PAR-TI'TION, n., that which separates.

field sports.

AD-JOIN'ING, a., lying near.

PASTURE, n., ground covered with LIT'ER-AL-LY, ad., according to the grass for cattle.

TRES PASSED, v. i., transgressed.

A-VAIL', n., advantage.

letter.

GAUNT, a., lean; meager.

AN'SWERED, v., replied.

Pronounce the au in gaunt like a in father; pretty, prit'ty; were, wer; heard, herd; again, a-gén'. Do not say adjine for ad-join'; destri for de-stroy'; aout for out; airnest for ear'nest (the ea like e in her).

1. "I ONCE had," said William Ladd, the advocate of peace, "a fine field of grain growing upon an out-farm,

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at some distance from the homestead. rode by I saw my neighbor Pulcifer's sheep in the lot, destroying my hopes of a harvest.

2. "These sheep were of the gaunt, long-legged kind, active as spaniels; they would spring over the highest fence, and no partition wall could keep them out. I complained to neighbor Pulcifer about them, and sent him frequent messages, but all without avail.

3. "Perhaps they would be kept out for a day or two; but the legs of the sheep were long, and my grain more tempting than the adjoining pasture. I rode by again: the sheep were still there. I became angry, and told my men to set the dogs on them; and, if that would not do, I would pay them if they would shoot the sheep.

4. "I rode away much agitated; for I was not so much of a peace man then as I am now, and I felt literally full of fight. All at once a light flashed in on me. I asked myself, 'Would it not be well for you to try in your own conduct the peace principle you are teaching to others?'

5. "I thought it all over, and settled down in my mind as to the best course to be pursued. The next day I rode over to see neighbor Pulcifer. I found him chopping wood at his door. 'Good morning, neighbor!' said I. No answer. 'Good morning!' I repeated. He gave a kind of grunt, without looking

up.

6. "I came,' continued I, 'to see about the sheep.' At this he threw down his ax, and exclaimed, in an angry manner, 'Now are n't you a pretty neighbor, to tell your men to kill my sheep? I heard of it; a rich like you, to shoot a poor man's sheep!'

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7. "I was wrong, neighbor,' said I; 'but it won't do to let your sheep eat up all that grain; so I came over to say that I would take your sheep to my home

stead pasture, and put them in with mine; and in the fall you shall take them back, and if any one is missing you may take your pick out of my whole flock.'

8. "Pulcifer looked confounded; he did not know how to take me. At last he stammered out, 'Now, 'Squire, are you in earnest?'-'Certainly I am,' I answered; it is better for me to feed your sheep in my pasture on grass, than to feed them here on grain; and I see the fence can't keep them out.'

9. "After a moment's silence, 'The sheep shall not trouble you any more,' exclaimed Pulcifer. 'I will fetter them all. But I'll let you know that when any man talks of shooting, I can shoot, too; and when a man is kind and neighborly, I can be kind and neighborly, too.' The sheep never again trespassed on my lot.

10. "Now, my friends, remember this: When nations threaten to fight, other nations will be ready, too. Love will beget love; a wish to be at peace will keep you in peace. You can overcome evil with good There is no other way."

X. THE WORTH OF FAME.

SLOTH'FUL, a., idle; lazy.

EMPTY, a., containing nothing.

MIGHT'Y, a., powerful; strong.

PILGRIM, n., a wanderer.

WISTFUL, a., full of thought.
OB-LIV'I-ON, n., forgetfulness.

Do not say pint for point; objeck for object; wile for while. Pronounce the o in nothing like short u, as in nut.

O! WHO shall lightly say that Fame

Is nothing but an empty name,

While in that sound there is a charm
The nerves to brace, the heart to warm,

As, thinking of the mighty dead,

The young from slōthful couch shall start,
And vow, with lifted hands outspread,
Like them to act a noble part!

O! who shall lightly say that Fame
Is nothing but an empty name,

When, but for those, our mighty dead, -
All ages past, a blank would be,
Sunk in oblivion's murky bed,

A desert bare, a shipless sea?
They are the distant objects seen,-
The lofty marks of what hath been.

O! who shall lightly say that Fame
Is nothing but an empty name,
When memory of the mighty dead,
To earth-worn pilgrim's wistful eye,
The brightest rays of cheering shed,
That point to immortality?

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CAR'RIAGE, n., a vehicle with two or Cov'E-NANT (kŭv’e-nant), n., a mutual

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In Ro-land', the accent is on the last syllable. Give the y sound to u in at'ti-tude. The c in the last syllable of sacrifice has the sound of z. Do not say libutty for lib'er-ty; presunce for près'ènce; acrost for a-cross.

1. DURING the reign of terror in France, Madame Roland was brought before the Convention on an absurd charge of treasonable correspondence with England. By her presence of mind, her acuteness, and her wit, she baffled and mortified her accusers.

2. But on the 31st of May, 1793, she was again

arrested, and sent to prison. As an officer was conducting her, he asked if she wished to have the windows of the carriage closed. "No," replied she; "oppressed innocence should not assume the attitude of crime and shame. I do not fear the looks of honest men, and I brave those of my enemies."

3. The cowards and ruffians who then had control of public affairs in France were afraid of the talents and the influence of this woman. They determined on her death. They gave her a trial; but it was a mere mockery of justice, a solemn farce. In her address before the Revolutionary Tribunal, on the 8th of November, 1793, she spoke as follows:

4. "Not to its own times merely does the generous mind feel that it belongs. It comprehends in its regard the whole human race, and extends its care even to posterity. It was my lot to be the friend of men proscribed and sacrificed by those who hated them for their superiority. And I must perish in my turn! I have a double claim to death at your hands.

5. "When Innocence walks to the scaffold at the command of error and of guilt, every step she takes is an advance to glory. Might I be the last victim of that furious spirit of party, by which you are impelled, with what joy would I quit this unfortunate earth, which swallows up the friends of virtue, and drinks the blood of the just!

6. "Truth! Friendship! Country!- sacred objects, sentiments dear to my heart,-accept my last sacrifice! My life was devoted to you, and you will render my death easy and glorious. Righteous Heaven! enlighten this wretched people, for whom I invoked liberty.

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7. "Liberty? Ah! that is for noble minds for weak beings who enter into a covenant with guilt, and try to varnish cowardice and selfishness with the

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