clothesman utters as he goes along the streets.

9. Lucy was never tired of talking to it; and, when it said anything very funny, she would give it a lump of sugar or a piece of nice biscuit.

EXERCISES.-1. Pronounce and write:

2. Mention or write down the names of six things mentioned in the lesson.

3. Tell which of the words in section 7 are nouns, and which verbs.

I heard her gay laugh as she spoke; And caught, as she passed the window, A gleam of her pretty red cloak.

2. She's here with her hands full of snowdrops

And crocuses yellow and white,

For dear little Dick, who's been coughing And crying so sadly all night.

3. And there, on her arm, is her basket;

Up-stairs I must after her go,

For I'm sure-and I needn't ask it

She is come to see Dicky, you know.

4. Yes, there she is setting before him.
Some neatly cut slices of ham;
Some eggs, and some bright sugar-candy,
And very nice black-currant jam.

5. She bids me go down for a tea-spoon,
As over him smiling she stands,
And dear little Dicky is laughing,
And clapping his white little hands.

6. Whenever he sees little Maggy,

It makes him feel happy and gay; She carries such sunshine around her, Even on a dull winter day.

1. Coal is the name of a kind of black

The

stone which we burn and make our fires with. This stone was once wood. wood lay a long long time deep in the earth, and in time it slowly became stone.

2. Coal, then, is made from trees which once upon a time grew tall and strong in the hot beams of the sun. They lived, and died, and fell, and sank in the moist earth; and now we call this black thing that at one time was wood by the name of coal.

3. Men go down into deep deep pits

C

5. In coal-pits there are little railroads; and along these lines small horses draw the cars that are filled with coal. Some of these horses live all their lives in the pit, and die there. Some of them have never seen the light of the sun, but live and do their work in the dark.

6. The men employed in the pits have small lamps in front of their caps, which give them light to work by. In some parts of the mine, the passages are so small, that the men have to lie on their backs to cut out the lumps of coal with their picks.

It makes bright

7. Coal is of great use. fires; and these make our rooms warm. It cooks our food; it boils the water to make our tea; and from coal we make the gas which lights up our houses and our shops, and the streets at night.

EXERCISES.1. Pronounce and write :

2. Mention or write down the names of six things used in a coal-mine.

3. Tell which of the words in section 2 are nouns, and which

* A horse used for work on the high-road.