6. When he returned, "Honest man," said Sancho, "let me see that cane a little; I have a use for it." "With all my heart," answered the other; and with that he gave it to him. Sancho took it, and giving "There," said he, "go your

it to the other old man,

ways, and Heaven be with you, for now you are paid." "How so, my lord?" cried the old man; "do you judge this cane to be worth ten gold crowns ?" Certainly," said the governor, "or else I am the greatest dunce in the world. This said, he ordered the cane to be broken in open court, which was no sooner done than out dropped the ten crowns.

7. All the spectators were amazed, and began to look upon their governor as a second Solomon. They asked him how he could conjecture that the ten crowns were in the cane. He told them that having observed how the defendant gave it to the plaintiff to hold while he took his oath, and then swore that he had truly returned him the money into his own hands, after which he took his cane again from the plaintiff this considered, it came into his head that the money was lodged within the reed; from whence may be learned, that though sometimes those that govern are destitute of sense, yet it often pleases God to direct their judgment.

1. Provoked, inconvenience, pretended, beseech, requires, plaintiff, adversary, obeisance, reflecting, conjecture, destitute.

Could

2. Did the defendant tell the truth? What is a lie? the plaintiff have forgotten that he had been paid? Why not?

LXIX. SELECTIONS FROM "PARADISE LOST."

1. EVE'S LAMENT ON LEAVING PARADISE.

O unexpected stroke, worse than of Death!
Must I thus leave thee, Paradise? thus leave
Thee, native soil? those happy walks and shades,
Fit haunt of gods, where I had hoped to spend
Quiet, though sad, the respite of that day
That must be mortal to us both? O flowers,
That never will in other climate grow,
My early visitation, and my last

At even, which I bred up with tender hand
From the first opening bud, and gave ye names,
Who now shall rear ye to the Sun, or rank
Your tribes, and water from the ambrosial fount?

2. ADAM'S SUBMISSION.

Henceforth I learn that to obey is best,
And love with fear the only God, to walk
As in his presence, ever to observe
His providence, and on him sole depend,
Merciful over all his works, with good
Still overcoming evil, and by small
Accomplishing great things-by things deemed

weak

Subverting worldly-strong and worldly-wise
By simply meek; that suffering for Truth's sake
Is fortitude to highest victory,

And to the faithful death the gate of life-
Taught this by his example whom I now
Acknowledge my Redeemer ever blest.

3. THE DEPARTURE.

In either hand the hastening Angel caught
Our lingering parents, and to the eastern gate
Led them direct, and down the cliff as fast
To the subjected plain-then disappeared.
They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld
Of Paradise, so late their happy seat,

Waved over by that flaming brand; the gate
With dreadful faces thronged and fiery arms.
Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them

soon;

The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide. They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow,

Through Eden took their solitary way.

1. Haunt, respite, visitation, ambrosial, henceforth, providence, subverting, subjected, thronged, solitary.

2. Is this poetry? What makes it poetry? Explain "the respite of that day," "mortal to us both," "early visitation."

LXX. THE LIGHT OF STARS.

1. The night is come, but not too soon; And sinking silently,

All silently, the little moon

Drops down behind the sky.

2. There is no light in earth or heaven
But the cold gleam of stars;
And the first watch of night is given
To the red planet Mars.

3. And earnest thoughts within me rise
When I behold afar,

Suspended in the evening skies,
The shield of that red star.

4. O star of strength! I see thee stand
And smile upon my pain;

Thou beckonest with thy mailed hand,
And I am strong again.

5. The star of the unconquered will,

Serene, and resolute, and still,
And calm, and self-possessed.

6. And thou, too, whosoe'er thou art,
That readest this brief psalm,

As one by one thy hopes depart,
Be resolute and calm!

7. Oh, fear not in a world like this,
And thou shalt know ere long,
Know how sublime a thing it is
To suffer and be strong.

1. Planet, gleam, suspended, shield, beckonest, unconquered, resolute, self-possessed, sublime.

2. What phase of the moon is referred to in the first stanza? Do the stars shine with their own light? In the second stanza is Mars the morning or the evening star? What color is it? Why are shield" and "mailed hand" assigned to this star? Who was Mars? What is " a psalm"? Why " readest" instead of "read" in the sixth stanza?

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LXXI. PETER THE HERMIT AND THE CRUSADES.

1. In the dark ages there lived in the north of France a small, restless man, Peter by name, who afterward became widely known in history. He served in the army and became an officer, but for some cause, after the death of his wife, chose the life of a hermit. It was the fashion in those days to take trips to Jerusalem on foot to see the places where our Saviour had been and where He was buried. Hermits especially were interested to make this pilgrimage, and Peter went to the Holy Land.

2. When he saw that the city of Jerusalem was