here, my boy, and leave off crying. I found the letter, and carried it myself to the depot in time for the cars. I can forgive your folly, since it has not ended in a base lie; but remember one thing; I shall not forgive you, if, hereafter, you associate with this bad boy!

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70. (To Thomas.) Begone, sir! I am glad to see shame on your face. Had my boy taken your advice, he, too, would have been at this moment a detected and despised liar; but he is holding up his head, and his heart is light in his bosom. You are the very boy, Thomas, whom I was requested to take into my employment; but I will have nothing to do with you. Never come near my son again!

1 RHINOCEROS. A large, powerful, thick-skinned animal, found in the hotter parts of Asia and Africa.

ACQUAINTED. On friendly terms,
familiar.

4 PRECIOUS. Of great value, - used
here, in irony, for worthless.
Join as a friend or
companion, keep compan

2 LEOPARD. A large, fierce, spotted
animal, of the cat kind, found in 5 AssOCIATE.
Africa and India.

BEAR ye one another's burdens;
Bear, ye strong, with weakness,
Youth with age, and age with youth;
Bear ye all in meekness.
Bear ye one another's burdens;
Joyful hearts with sadness,
Anxious ones with cheerful hope,

Mourning ones with gladness.

1. RING out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light;
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.

2. Ring out the old, ring in the new;

Ring, happy bells, across the snow;
The year is going; let him go;
Ring out the false; ring in the true.

3. Ring out the grief, that saps' the mind,
For those that here we see no more;
Ring out the feud' of rich and poor;
Ring in redress3 to all mankind.

4. Ring out a slowly dying cause,

And ancient forms of party strife; Ring in the nobler modes of life, With sweeter manners, purer laws.

5. Ring out the want, the care, the sin,
The faithless coldness of the times;

Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes,
But ring the fuller minstrel' in.

6. Ring out false pride in place and blood,
The civic slander and the spite;

Ring in the love of truth and right;
Ring in the common love of good.

7. Ring out old shapes of foul disease;

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Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;

Ring out the thousand wars of old,
Ring in the thousand years of peace.

8. Ring in the valiant' man and free,

The larger heart, the kindlier hand;
Ring out the darkness of the land,
Ring in the Christ that is to be.

1 SAPS. Destroys or ruins slowly or secretly, undermines.

2 FEUD. Contention, quarrel.

lived by the arts of music and poetry, and who sang to the harp his own or others' verses

REDRESS. Amendment, reform, sat-5 CIVIC. Relating to a city. isfaction for wrong.

a poet.

6 LUST. A violent, inordinate desire.

4 MINSTREL. In olden times, one who 7 VALIANT. Strong and brave, heroic.

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1. THE August day had been one of intense' heat. Myriads of insects were chirping their brief life away in the trees and meadows. The silver shield of

the moon had risen in the east, and was pouring its wondrous light over the valley, and hills, and river. Through the broad street of the quiet New England village were seen groups of young people, who seemed to be enjoying the beauty of the night.

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2. With such attractions out of doors for all who love God's fair book of nature, strange that any should prefer to stay within walls. And yet, on this very evening, Helen Herbert, the young village schoolmistress, sat in her own room, wrapped in sombre thoughts. She had declined going with young friends on her favorite walk by the river's bank, and they had left her to spend the evening alone. What is the cause of that anxious, troubled face? Let us read her thoughts and

see.

3. "My patience' is at last all gone. It is useless to bear with him longer, and to-morrow he shall leave the school."

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4. The subject of these thoughts, and the cause of the young teacher's anxiety, was one of her pupils, boy, whose parents were ignorant and unprincipled. For a whole year she had borne with him patiently, through many faults, hoping for better things; but on this day he had shown so sullen' a temper, that now the resolved to have patience no longer.

5. Unwilling to give herself longer to painful thoughts, the young teacher lighted a candle, took a small volume from her book-case, and began to read. It was no amusing story, no exciting novel, but a book of serious thought, which a friend had sent. What power lay in its leaves to soothe and calm! Why did the anxious brow assume an expression" of rest and peace ?

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6. This was the story which she read for the first time, though it was many centuries old, of

Abraham and the Fire Worshipper.

7. "Abraham sat in his tent door at the eventide. And he lifted up his eyes, and lo! an old man stood before him, who leaned heavily on his staff, faint and weary.

8. "Then Abraham arose and bowed himself to the ground, and said, 'My lord, pass not by. Tarry with thy servant this night, I pray thee.'

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9. "And Abraham brought him into the tent, and fetched water for his feet, and set food before him, and stood by while he did eat. But soon the countenance of the patriarch "3 was changed, for the stranger called not on the name of the Lord, but when he had eaten and was filled, he bowed himself three times to the fire that burned in the hearth.

10. "Then was Abraham wroth," and drove the old man forth into the darkness and storm; nor would his soul have pity, but he sat within the tent.

11. "Then came the voice of the Lord to him, saying, ‘Abraham, where is he who came to thy tent at eventide?' And Abraham answered, 'Lord, I drove him forth, because he called not on thy name.' But the Lord answered, Behold, he was thy brother! Couldst thou not have patience with him one night? Lo, I have borne patiently with him these hundred years.""

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12. Beautiful tradition 15 of the East! Full of wisdom for us all, it bore that summer's evening a priceless 16 lesson to the young teacher's heart. She closed the book, and for a long time sat looking forth into