The Goat, going abroad to feed, shut up her young Kid at home, charging him to bolt the door fast, and open it to nobody, till she herself should return. The wolf, who lay lurking just by, heard this charge given, and, soon after, came and knocked at the door, counterfeited the voice of the goat, and desired to be admitted. The kid, looking out at a window, and finding the cheat, bid him go about his business; for, however he might imitate a goat's voice, yet he appeared too much like a wolf to be trusted.

More misfortunes are occasioned by carelessness than by mistake; 'tis much easier to fall into a trap, than to get out of it. Young persons should attend to the instruction of their parents and teachers, that they may avoid the many surrounding dangers, and tread the paths of virtue and of peace.

A couple of Sharpers went into a Butcher's Shop to buy some meat; and, while the butcher was busied with other customers, one of them stole a piece of beef and gave it to his fellow, who put it under his coat.

The butcher presently missed the meat, and charged them with the theft.

But he that stole it, swore that he had none of it; and he that had it, swore likewise he did not take it away.

To whom the butcher replied, the thief to me is unknown, though I believe it to be one of you; but He by whom you have both sworn, can tell, and will reward you accordingly.

God Almighty is privy to all our actions; and though we may for a while deceive men, yet we cannot escape His all-seeing eye, who will reward or punish us according as we deserve.

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Words ending in tion and sion are generally pronounced shun. tious, scious, cious, like shus | zier, sier, ............like zhur science, tience, like shense ion, preceded by lorn like yun tial, cial,. ...like shal cient, tient, .........like shent at, ale, all, ask | th is acute or sharp, in think, thin mět,devout,me this grave or flat, in this, that give, wine G is hard, in get, geese, go, give hot, võte, lōse G is soft, in giant, ginger hut, push, cube S is hard, in sin, sun, so, sit, sense truly, try Sis soft, as z, in rose, raise, &c.

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The four SEASONS are, spring, summer, autumn, winter; which are the four quarters of the year.

The four CARDINAL VIRTUES :-prudence, temperance, justice, and fortitude.

The four CARDINAL POINTS OF THE COMPASS :—the east, west, north, and south.

The five Natural SENSES:-hearing, feeling, seeing, tasting, and smelling.

POWERS, in Mechanics, are any thing applied to an engine, therewith to move any weight, and are the six faculties of that art; viz. balance, lever, the wheel, wedge, screw, and pully.

METALS are six in number:-gold, silver, copper, tin, iron, and lead; of which gold is the heaviest, lead the second in weight, next silver, then copper, and iron is the lightest, except tin.

SEMI-METALS are metallic fossils, heavy, opaque, of a bright glittering surface, not malleable under the hammer; as, quicksilver, antimony, cobalt, the arsenics, bismuth, zinc, with its ore calamine: to these may be added, the semi-metallic recrements tutty and pampholyx.

The CARDINAL POINTS OF THE ZODIAC are, Aries, Libra, Cancer, and w Capricorn.

The twelve SIGNS of the ZODIAC are, Y Aries, Ŏ Taurus, II Gemini, Cancer, Leo, my Virgo, Libra, m Scorpio, Sagittarius, v Capricornus, Aquarius, and Pisces. These were first called Signs by the ancient astronomers, as being marks to distinguish whereabout the sun is throughout his yearly course.

The seven WONDERS of the World:-1, the Pyramids of Egypt; 2, the Mausoleum or tomb built for Mausolus, king' of Caria, by Artemisia his queen; 3, the Temple of Diana, at Ephesus; 4, the Walls and hanging Gardens of the city of Babylon; 5, the vast Brazen Image of the Sun, at Rhodes, which stood with one foot on one island and the other on another, so high that a ship with its masts and sails up might pass between its legs, called the Colossus; 6, the rich Statue of Jupiter Olympius; 7, the Pharus, or Watch-tower, built by Ptolemy Philadelphus, king of Egypt.

The twelve CALENDAR MONTHS are, January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December; during which period the earth performs its annual revolution round the sun, changing the seasons as its situation towards the sun is varied in its course.

A CONCISE GRAMMAR.

Or Rules for speaking and writing the English Language correctly.

1. ORTHOGRAPHY is the art of spelling, of combining letters into syllables, and syllables into words.

2. ETYMOLOGY teaches the descent or derivation of words.

3. SYNTAX teaches the construction of words.

4. PROSODY teaches the sound and quantity of syllables, and the measures of verse.

There are ten kinds of words, or PARTS OF SPEECH : ARTICLE, NOUN, ADJECTIVE, PRONOUN, VERB, PARTICIPLE, ADVERB, CONJUNCTION, PREPOSITION, and INTERJECTION.

An ARTICLE is a word set before a Noun, to fix its signification-as, a man, the man; a horse, the horse. The Articles are, a, an, and the.

A NOUN or SUBSTANTIVE is the name of whatever may be seen, felt, heard, or understood:-as, Richard, book, York, truth, paper, thunder, air, goodness.

Nouns have Two NUMBERS: the SINGULAR, which speaks of only one as a pear, an apple; and the PLURAL, which speaks of more than one, as pears, apples. The PLURAL is generally formed by adding s or es to the Singular; as, noun, nouns; verb, verbs; box, boxes; fish, fishes; key, keys; buffalo, buffaloes.

But there are few variations:-some words ending in y make their Plural by changing the y into ies, as, cherry, cherries; some words in f or fe, make ves, as, loaf, loaves; life, lives; some words in on make a in the Plural, as, phænomenon, phænomena; in us make i, as, magus, magi: some words have en, or ren, for their Plural, as, man, men ; child, children; ox, oxen; some change their spelling, as, die, dice; foot, feet: goose, geese; mouse, mice: penny, pence; tooth, teeth: some have no Plural, as, gold, pitch, pride: some have no Singular, as, riches, ashes, bellows, scissors; and some are the same in both numbers, as, sheep, deer, swine.

There are Two GENDERS; the MASCULINE, which denotes the he-kind, as, man, prince, boy, drake; and the FEMININE, which denotes the femalekind, as, woman, princess, girl, duck. Nouns, signifying things without life, are properly NEUTER, or of no Gender; as, pen, table, house, garden

There are THREE CASES:-the NOMINATIVE, which is put before the Verb; the GENITIVE, or POSSESSIVE CASE, which is known by adding s with an apostrophe ('s) to the Nominative, as, John, John's ; and the Accusative, or OBJECTIVE CASE, which follows the Verb, and expresses the object

An ADJECTIVE is added to a Substantive, to express its quality; as, a fair child, a lovely morning, a sweet flower, a low bow, a high wall.

Adjectives have generally THREE DEGREES OF COMPARISON :-the POSITIVE, which expresses the quality of a person, place, or thing, as, fair, lovely, sweet, low, high the COMPARATIVE, which increases or lessens, the state of the Positive, and is frequently formed by adding