37. Mark. O Timboo! 38. Tim. At least, if you would not have torn her to pieces, you would have refused to obey her. You would have lain down in a corner and gone to sleep, and you would not have done any thing to please her. 39. Mark. Why, Timboo, what makes you think I should have acted so? 40. Tim. Because that is the way you have acted towards your mother. She has been feeding, and taking care of you, and watching over you, and doing every thing to make you happy, now for eight years. 41. Mark. I am nine years old, almost. 42. Tim. Well, for nine years. And now, when an opportunity occurs for you to do some little good in return, such as going to carry a letter, you run off and hide. I don't believe that any one of those tigers that I saw, if he had been in your place, would have acted in such a way. [Mark hangs his head and looks ashamed.] 43. Fan. I think you ought to be ashamed of yourself, Mark. 44. Mark. I am ashamed of myself. I did not do right. I did not think. 45. Tim. That is just the difference between you and the tigers. They did think. When they saw the girl coming into their dens, all dressed in white, they said to themselves, "Ah, here comes the young lady that has given us so many good suppers! We will treat her well. Now we will do whatever she asks of us." 46. Fan. That is the way they ought to treat ner for taking such good care of them. 47. Tim. Yes, but a boy, when he sees his mother, 66 never says, Ah, here is the kind mother that has taken care of me, and has done so many things for me all the years of my life, and I will do whatever she asks of me!" Instead of that, if he imagines there is any thing that he can do for her, and that she is going to ask him to do it, he runs off and hides. 48. Mark. Well, Timboo, I'll promise that I will never do such a thing-again. And now, if you will just tell me what my punishment shall be, I'll take it. 49. Tim. I should think you would feel better for some punishment. 50. Mark. I think I should. 51. Tim. But the best thing for you to do, to make you forget this iniquity, is for you to watch for opportunities every day, for a month to come, to do some kindness or other to your mother. 52. Mark. Well, I will. 53. Tim. There is very little that you can do. The opportunities are very rare, but when they do happen, don't be more ungrateful than a tiger, and go away and hide. And now your box is mended. I am almost afraid to mend a box, or do any thing for you, for fear that you should bite me for it, or do some more ungrateful thing.. 54. Mark. O Timboo, you are too bad. And now, Fanny, I think I had better go and tell mother that I am very sorry that I was not willing to carry her letter, and went away and hid; and that I never will do such a thing again. 55. Fan. I would, Mark. mother that, if I were you. FAIR. A public meeting for traffic and the display of articles. FEROCIOUS. Savage, fierce. I would go and tell It will comfort her. 3 DIRECTED. Ordered, bade. 4 REFUSED. Declined, rejected, denied 5 INIQUITY. Wickedness. · * 2. I long to see the Northern Lights 3. I long to see those icebergs' vast, 4. There shall we see the fierce white bear, And the spouting whales that to and fro 5. We'll pass the shores of solemn pine, * The Northern Lights are a kind of light which is sometimes seen at night in the sky. This light assumes all shapes, but is usually in streams, and exhibits various colors, from a white to a blood-red, and in the far north is very splendid. It is also called Aurora borealis or polar lights. 4 6. And there in wastes of the silent sky, We shall see far off to his lonely rock 7. We've visited the northern clime, 1 ICEBERG. A mass of floating ice of feet long, chiefly found in the polai seas, having a hairy skin, legs like fins, and a head like a dog. SEAL. An animal from three to six 4 WASTE. A desolate or wild place. LXVIII.-SUPPOSED SPEECH OF AN INDIAN CHIEF. 1. "WHITE man, there is eternal' war between me and thee! I quit not the land of my fathers but with my life. In those woods, where I bent my youthful bow, I will still hunt the deer; over yonder waters I will still glide in my bark canoe; by those dashing waterfalls I will still lay up my winter's store of food; on these fertile' meadows I will still plant my corn. 2. "Stranger, the land is mine. I gave not my consent, when, as thou sayest, these broad regions were purchased, for a few baubles, of my fathers. They could sell what was theirs; they could sell no more. How could my fathers sell that which the Great Spirit sent me to the world to live upon? They knew not what they did. 3. "The stranger came, a timid suppliant, and asked to lie down on the red man's bear-skin, and warm himself at the red man's fire, and have a little piece of land, to raise corn for his women and children; and now he is become strong, and mighty, and bold, and spreads out his parchment' over the whole, and says, It is mine. 4. "Stranger, there is not room for us both. The Great Spirit has not made us to live together. There is poison in the white man's cup; the white man's dog barks at the red man's heels. 5. "If I should leave the land of my fathers, whither shall I fly? Shall I go to the south, and dwell among the graves of the Pequots? Shall I wander to the west?-the fierce Mohawk, the man-eater, is my foe. 6. "Shall I fly to the east? the great water is before me. No, stranger; here I have lived, and here will I die; and if here thou abidest, there is eternal war between me and thee. 7. "Thou hast taught me thy arts of destruction; for that alone I thank thee. And now take heed to thy steps: the red man is thy foe. When thou goest forth by day, my bullet shall whistle past thee; when thou liest down at night, my knife is at thy throat. 8. "The noonday sun shall not discover thy enemy, and the darkness of midnight shall not protect thy rest. Thou shalt plant in terror," and I will reap in blood; thou shalt sow the earth with corn, and I will strew it with ashes; thou shalt go forth with the sickle, and I will follow after with the scalping-knife; thou shalt |