build the ship which makes him lord of the ocean, and to his dwelling to warm his hearth and cheer his home. I live not to myself." On yonder mountain-side comes down the silver brook, in the distance resembling a ribbon of silver, running and leaping as it dashes joyously and fearlessly down. Go, ask the leaper what it is doing. "I was born," says the brook, “high up the mountain; but there I could do no good; and so I am hurrying down, running where I can, and leaping where I must, but hastening down to water the sweet valley, where the thirsty cattle may drink, where the lark may sing on my margin, where I may drive the mill for the accommodation of man, and then widen into the great river, and bear up his steamboats and shipping, and finally plunge into the ocean, to rise again in vapour, and perhaps come back again, in the clouds, to my own native mountain, and live my short life over again. Not a drop of water comes down my channel, in whose bright face you may not read, 'None of us liveth to himself."" TODD. QUESTIONS:-1. What is a frail stem? 2. In what way is the rose useful to others? 3. What is a highway? 4. What are panting flocks? 5. In what way has the aged tree been of service to others? 6. Why is the brook said to resemble a ribbon of silver? 7. In what way has the brook been of service to others? 8. What is meant by living to oneself? LESSON V. The Young Captives. be-reaved', deprived of his cor'-o-net, a small crown, or children. chaplet. cap'-tured, taken prisoners, in-hab'-it, to dwell in. seized. con-clu'-sion, opinion. con-sent'-ed, agreed. set'-tle-ment, colony. tan'-gled, matted. thick'-et, a close wood. MANY years ago, during the early settlements in New England, the children were wont to gather large quantities of nuts, which grew in great abundance in the forests that surrounded their little farms. In one of these nut-gatherings, a little boy and girl, the one eight and the other four years of age, whose mother was dead, became separated from their companions. On their way home, they came across some wild grapes, and were busily engaged in gathering them, till the last rays of the setting sun were fading away; when suddenly they were seized by two Indians, who soon bore them far beyond the bounds of the settlement. Great was the alarm in the colony when these children did not return. Every spot was searched where it was thought possible they might have lost their way. But when, at length, their little basket was found, overturned in a tangled thicket, the seekers came to the conclusion that they must have been captured by the Indians. warlike measures It was decided that before any were adopted, the father should go peacefully to the Indian king, and demand his children. At the earliest dawn of morning he departed with his companions. On approaching a circle of native dwellings, in the midst of which was a tent, they saw a man of lofty form, with a coronet of feathers upon his brow, and surrounded by warriors. Saluting him as the monarch, the bereaved father, bowing down, thus addressed him : "King of the red men, thou seest a father in pursuit of his lost children. He has heard that your people will not harm the stranger in distress. So he trusts himself fearlessly among you. The ocean wave brought us to this New World. We are a peaceful race, pure from the blood of all men. Of my own kindred, none inhabit this wilderness, save two little buds from a broken, buried stem. "Last night, sorrow entered into my soul, because I found them not. Knowest thou, O king, if thy people have taken my children? Knowest thou where they have concealed them? Cause them, I pray thee, to be restored to my arms. So shall the Great Spirit bless thy own tender plants, and lift up thy heart when it weigheth heavily on thy bosom." The Indian monarch, fixing on him a piercing glance, said: “Knowest thou me? Look in my eyes! Look! Answer me! Are they the eyes of a stranger?" The bereaved father replied that he had no recollection of having ever before seen his countenance. The Indian replied: "Thus it is with the white man. He is dimeyed. He looketh on the garments more than on the soul. Where your plows turn up the earth, oft have I stood watching your toil. There was no coronet on my brow. But I was king. you knew it not. And "I looked upon your people. I saw neither pride nor violence. I went an enemy, but returned a friend. Yet, again, I went where thy brethren have reared their dwellings. Yes; I entered thy house. And thou knowest not this brow? I could tell thine at midnight, if but a single star trembled through the clouds. My ear would know thy voice, though the storm was abroad with all its thunders. I have said that I was king. Yet I came to thee hungry, and thou gavest me bread. My head was wet with the tempest. Thou badest me lie down on thy couch, and thy son, for whom thou mournest, covered me. "I was sad in spirit, and thy little daughter, whom thou seekest with tears, sat on my knee. She smiled when I told her how the beaver buildeth his house in the forest. My heart was comforted, for I saw that she did not hate Indians. "Turn not on me such a terrible eye. I am no stealer of babes. I have reproved the people who took thy children, and have sheltered them for thee. Take them, and return unto thy people." He waved his hand to an attendant, and, in a moment, the two children were in the arms of their father. New England. The name given to six of the North American States. They were so called, by the early settlers, after England, from which many of them were driven by persecution in the times of the Stewarts. The Great Spirit.-The Indians of North America believed in the existence of a Great Spirit, who made and ruled over all. QUESTIONS.-1. By whom were these children carried away? 2. Who went in search of them? 3. What did he say to the king of the tribe? 4. What reply did the Indian monarch make? 5. What is New England? 6. By whom, and why, was it so named? 7. Who was the Great Spirit? 8. What is meant by New World? hol'-lowed, dug. mar'-tial, worn in war. ram'-part, the fortified walls of a town. stead'-fast-ly, earnestly. up-braid', cast reproach upon. NOT a drum was heard, not a funeral note, |