man in the navy.

During his six years' service at sea, he acquired the nautical experience of which he was to make such good use in his novels. His first work, "Precaution," appeared in 1821, and was unsuccessful; but in the following year he published "The Spy," which at once established his reputation as a novelist. His principal works are: "The Pioneers," "The Pilot," "The Last of the Mohicans," and "The Red Rover."

Notes.- · Boxhauling is the act of going from one tack to another, by bracing the yards aback.

Language. —A large number of complex words have been taken from the Latin. Greek, and other languages. Many of these do not appear in their separate parts in English, and their meaning must be obtained by seeking out their parts in the language from which they are derived. Words like emit, prefer, etc., do not appear in their separate parts, yet their meaning is easily found out.

Illustrations.-. -Emit is composed of the stem mit (Latin mittere, to send) and the prefix e (Latin e or ex, from or out): the word therefore means to send out. Prefer, stem fer (Latin ferre, to place or bear), prefix pre (Latin pre, before): the meaning of prefer, therefore, is to place before, consider better.

Be sure of your curb and rein;

For I scorn the power of your puny hands,

As the tempest scorns a chain!

How I laughed as I lay concealed from sight,
For many a countless hour,

At the childish boast of human might,

And the pride of human power!

When I saw an army upon the land,

A navy upon the seas,
Creeping along, a snail-like band,

Or waiting the wayward breeze;
When I marked the peasant fairly reel
With the toil which he faintly bore,
As he feebly turned the tardy wheel,
Or tugged at the weary oar;

When I measured the panting courser's speed, The flight of the courier dove,

As they bore the law a king decreed,

Or the lines of impatient love

I could not but think how the world would feel,

As these were outstripped afar,

When I should be bound to the rushing keel, Or chained to the flying car!

Ha, ha, ha! they found me out at last,

They invited me forth at length,

And I rushed to my throne with a thunder-blast,
And laughed in my iron strength!

O, then ye saw a wondrous change
On the earth and ocear. wide,
Where now my fiery armies range,
Nor wait for wind and tide!

Hurra! hurra! the waters o'er;

The mountain's steep decline;
Time-space-have yielded to my power,
The world-the world is mine!

The rivers the sun hath earliest blest,

Or those where his beams decline; The giant streams of the queenly west, And the orient floods divine.

The ocean pales where'er I sweep

To hear my strength rejoice,
And the monsters of the briny deep
Cower, trembling at my voice.

I carry the wealth and the lord of earth,
The thoughts of his god-like mind;

The wind lags after my flying forth,
The lightning is left behind.

In the darksome depths of the fathomless mine

My tireless arm doth play,

Where the rocks ne'er saw the sun's decline,
Or the dawn of the glorious day.
I bring earth's glittering jewels up
From the hidden cave below,
And I make the fountain's granite cup
With a crystal gush o'erflow.

I blow the bellows, I forge the steel,
In all the shops of trade;

I hammer the ore and turn the wheel

Where my arms of strength are made. I manage the furnace, the mill, the mint, I carry, I spin, I weave;

And all my doings I put into print

On every Saturday eve.

I've no muscles to weary, no breast to decay,
No bones to be "laid on the shelf,"

And soon I intend you may "go and play,"
While I manage this world myself.

But harness me down with your iron bands,
Be sure of your curb and rein:

For I scorn the strength of your puny hands, As the tempest scorns a chain!

Notes. Capt. George W. Cutter, the author of this poem, is known also as the writer of Buena Vista," and "The Song of the Lightning."

A courier-dove, or carrier-pigeon, is a variety of the domestic pigeon used to convey letters from place to place.

Orient floods means the seas or oceans in the eastern hemisphere.

The last two lines of the eighth stanza refer to the printing of weekly newspapers.

Elocution. —The tone of voice, rate, and force for the rendering of this lesson should be in keeping with the lively and boastful utterances attributed to steam.

Language. If "flying-car" means a railway car, what figure is used?

Name the figure

To what do "curb and rein" properly refer? contained in the words as employed in the lesson.

Explain the meaning of "Giant streams of the queenly west," and of "Fiery armies."

In third stanza, the use of "keel" for boat is an example of what figure?

What figure is used in relation to steam throughout the poem?

62. THE FIRST SHIP OF PETER THE GREAT.

ǎs'tro labe, an instrument for

observing the position of the stars. sex'tant, an instrument of reflection for measuring angular distances between objects, especially

at sea.

suburb, region just outside a

city.

de fi'cient, wanting; imperfect.

N

fôr ti fi ea'tion, the art of erect-
ing fortresses.

es tātes', possessions.
ealked (kawkt), filled the seams
of.

ex tôrt'ed, forced.

ǎn ni vĕr' sa ry, yearly celebration of a day or event.

in june'tions, orders.

Peter the Great, of Russia, while a youth, had heard somewhere, that in foreign countries people had an instrument by which distance could be measured without moving from the spot.

When Prince Jacob Dolgoruki was about to start on his mission to France, and came to take his leave, Peter told him of this wonderful instrument, and