wind as to keep her sails touching. The pilot silently proceeded to the wheel, and with his own hands he undertook the steerage of the ship. At length the ship reached a point where she appeared to be rushing directly into the jaws of destruction, when suddenly her course was changed, and her head receded rapidly from the wind. At the same instant the voice of the pilot was heard shouting-" Square away the yards! -in mainsail." A general burst from the crew echoed, "Square away the yards!" and quick as thought the frigate was seen gliding along the channel before the wind. The eye had hardly time to dwell on the foam, which seemed like clouds driving in the heavens, and directly the gallant vessel issued from her perils, and rose and fell on the heavy waves of the open sea. COOPER. CLASS AND HOME WORK. Learn the spellings at the top of the page; and write sentences containing these words. The greenhouse is my summer seat; Two goldfinches, whose sprightly song The open windows seem'd t' invite So settling on his cage, by play, Nor would he quit that chosen stand O ye, who never taste the joys courtier hermit Suffolk description temptation Once on a time (so runs the fable) Consider, mice, like men, must die, May yield, you know, to strong temptation. He stuffs and swills, and stuffs again. A crust of bread, and liberty."-POPE. THE BABOON. intrusion indistinctly patriarch ravine venerable consumptive fancied solitary instinctively hoarse human acquainted "Suddenly," he says, "I heard a hoarse cough, and, on turning, saw indistinctly in the fog a queer little old man standing near and looking at me. I instinctively cocked my gun, as the idea of bushmen and poisoned arrows flashed across my mind. The old man instantly dropped on his hands, giving another hoarse cough that evidently told a tale of consumptive lungs; he snatched up something beside him, which seemed to leap on his shoulders, and then he scampered off up the ravine on all fours. Before half this performance was completed I had discovered my mistake; the little old man turned into a baboon, with an infant ditto, which had come down to drink. The 'old man's' cough was answered by a dozen others, at present hidden in the fogs; soon, however, Uprose the sun, the mists were curled Back from the solitary world Which lay around;' and I obtained a view of the range of mountains, gilded by the morning sun. "A large party of the old gentleman's family were sitting up the ravine, and were evidently holding a debate as to the cause of my intrusion. I watched them through my glass, and was much amused at their odd and almost human movements. Some of the old ladies had their olive branches in their laps, and appeared to be doing their hair,' while a patriarchal-looking old fellow paced backwards and forwards with a fussy sort of look. He was evidently sentinel, and seemed to think himself of importance. |