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ing on his horse, drove as fast as he could to the next inn, which it took about half an hour to reach.

3. Although anxious to be at home, the clergyman was not satisfied with leaving the poor soldier in the care of the people at the inn. He stayed for an hour, directing and helping them to do all that was possible in order to bring the man to conscious life again. And at length their endeavors were successful. Gradually the half-frozen wayfarer recovered his senses and the use of his limbs.

4. Then the clergyman set off homeward, having first rewarded the people of the inn, and also given them money to pay for a good meal for the soldier. As soon as the latter was refreshed, and felt able to go, he insisted on doing so, although the people did all they could to persuade him not to venture out again that night. But he said that he was carrying important letters, and must not delay any longer than was necessary.

5. So, taking his gun, he proceeded on his way, which he found would very soon bring him to the village where lived the clergyman to whom he owed his life. On reaching the place, though it was now very late at night, he could not forbear going to the clergyman's house, that he might, if possible, see and thank the good old man for what he had done.

6. As the honest soldier went up to the house, he saw that, though it was so late, there were still lights in it; and, as he came nearer, he heard loud voices and great confusion within. He ran to the door, but it was fastened. Without waiting to knock, he went to the window close by, and, looking in, saw the clergyman surrounded by four armed robbers. They had just tied his hands and feet, and were threatening to murder him if he would not tell them where his money was to be found.

7. The soldier instantly forced his way in, and fired his gun at one of the robbers, wounding him severely. The others attacked the new comer, but he disabled one with his bayonet, and the other two, becoming alarmed, rushed out of the house, leaving the clergyman, as may be supposed, overpowered by astonishment and gratitude at his sudden deliverance. And then his still deeper and happier feelings may be imagined when he found that the poor man, whose life he had saved only a few hours before, had now been made the means of preserving his own!

XIV. - THE TEACHER'S VOCATION.

PHRASE (frāze), n., a form of speech. | VO-CA'TION, n., calling; trade.
SCOURGE (skurj), n., a torturing whip.
MARTIAL, a., pertaining to war.
SPECIES, n., a sort; class; kind.
BRILLIANT, a., shining; splendid.
BE-QUEATH', v. t., to give by will.

MED'I-TATE, v., to muse; think.
EP'I-TAPH (ep'e-taf), n., an inscrip-
tion on a tombstone.

IN-DOM'I-TA-BLE, a., not to be suh
dued.

Do not say re-nyown for re-nown'; appint for ap-point'. See Exercises on the Elementary Sounds, paragraphs 15 and 16. The mark over the second e in blessed is a diæresis, and indicates that there is a separation from the preceding syllable in the sound of the vowel, thus: bless'ed. Sound the h in hum'ble. Pronounce Brougher, -Broom.

1. THERE is nothing which the ad'versaries of improvement are more wont to make themselves merry with, than what is termed the "march of intellect; " and here I will confess that I think, as far as the phrase goes, they are in the right. It is a very absurd, because a very incorrect, expression. It is little calculated to describe the operation in question.

2. It does not picture an image at all resembling the proceeding of the true friends of mankind. It much more resembles the progress of the enemy to all improvement. The conqueror moves in a march. He stalks onward with the "pride, pomp, and circum

stance" of war; banners flying, shouts rending the air, guns thundering, and martial music pealing, to drown the shrieks of the wounded and the lamenta tions for the slain.

3. Not thus the schoolmaster in his peaceful voca tion! He meditates and purposes in secret the plans which are to bless mankind; he slowly gathers round him those who are to further their execution; he quietly though firmly advances in his humble path, laboring steadily but calmly till he has opened to the light all the recesses of ignorance, and torn up by the roots all the weeds of vice.

4. His is a progress not to be compared with any thing like a march; but it leads to a far more brilliant triumph, and to laurels more imperishable than the destroyer of his species, the scourge of the world,

ever won.

5. Such men-men deserving the glorious title of Teachers of Mankind—I have found, laboring conscientiously, though, perhaps, obscurely, in their blessëd vocation, wherever I have gone. I have found them among the daring, the ambitious, the ardent, the indom'itably active French.

6. I have found them among the persevering, resolute, industrious Swiss; I have found them among the laborious, the warm-hearted, the enthusiastic Germans; I have found them among the high-minded Italians; and in our own country, Heaven be thanked, their numbers every where abound, and are every day increasing.

7. Their calling is high and holy; their fame is the prosperity of nations; their renown will fill the earth in after ages, in proportion as it sounds not far off in their own times.

8. Each one of these great teachers of the world, possessing his soul in peace, performs his appointed

course, awaits in patience the fulfillment of the promises, and, resting from his labors, bequeaths his memory to the generation whom his works have blessed, and sleeps under the humble but not inglorious epitaph, commemorating "one in whom mankind lost a friend, and no man got rid of an enemy.”

LORD BROUGHAM.

XV. - THE SIMPLETON AND THE ROGUES.

MOSQUE (mŏsk), n., a Mohammedan | CON-CEIT', n., self-flattering opinion. place of worship. DIA-MOND, n., the most precious stone.

CA'LIF, n., a title of the successors of STRAT ́A-GEM, n., an artifice in war; Mohammed.

PEAS'ANT (pěz'ant), n., a rustic.
CRUP'PER (krup'per or kroop'er), n.,
a strap to secure a saddle.
CAS'SOCK, n., a coat or frock.
TUR'BAN, n., a Turkish head-dress.

a trick for victory.

CON-CERT'ED, v. t., planned together.
PEN'SIVE-LY, ad., thoughtfully.
PRE-CIP-I-TA'TION, n., rash haste.
AU-THEN'TIC, a., true; to be relied on.
SHREWD'NESS, n., sly cunning.

Give the y sound of alphabetic u to ew in new; also to u in future, figured, venture, duped, &c. Avoid saying foller, feller, for follow, &c. The th in with has the vocal sound it has in breathe.

1. THERE once lived, on the banks of the river Ti gris, in Asia, a peasant, whose name was Malek. He was distinguished for nothing except the very high opinion which he had of his own wisdom and shrewdness. How far he was right in this conceit may be judged from an adventure in which he figured, and of which I will give you an authentic account.

2. Malek was the owner of a goat and a mule; and, learning that he could get a good price for them in Bagdad, he mounted the mule, and took his way to the great city, followed by the goat, around whose neck was tied a bell.

3. "I shall sell these animals," said Malek to himself, "for thirty pieces of silver; and with that amount I can purchase a new turban and a rich robe of wool, which I will tie with a sash of purple silk. The young

damsels will then smile more favorably upon me, and I shall be the finest man at the Mosque."

4. Whilst he was thus reveling in the anticipation of his future conquests, three artful rogues concerted a stratagem for robbing him of all his possessions. As he was riding slowly along, one of the rascals slipped off the bell from the neck of the goat, and fastening it, without being perceived, to the crupper of the mule's saddle, led away the smaller beast.

5. Malek, hearing the bell, and supposing that the goat was near behind, continued to muse, without suspecting his loss. Happening, however, a short while afterward, to look round, he found with dismay that the animal which formed so large a part of his riches was gone; and he inquired with the utmost anxiety after his goat of every traveler he met.

6. The second rogue now accosted him, and said, "I have just seen, in yonder field, a man in great haste dragging along with him a goat." Malek dismounted with precipitation, and requesting the obliging stran ger to hold his mule, that he might lose no time in overtaking the thief, instantly began the pursuit; but he soon returned from a fruitless search, only to find that neither his mule nor the obliging stranger, who had volunteered the information about the goat-stealer, was any where to be seen.

7. As Malek walked pensively onward, overwhelmed with shame, anger, and disappointment, his attention was roused by the loud lamentations of a poor man seated by the side of a well. "Good! Here is a

brother in affliction!" thought Malek; and, turning out of his way to sympathize with him, he recounted his own misfortunes, and then inquired the reason of that violent sorrow with which his new friend seemed to be agitated.

8. "Alas!" said the poor man, in most piteous

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