have particular names for the different sizes of vessels, and also according to the manner in which they are rigged.

They call a vessel with two masts, whose sails are extended by yards, a brig, and one with three masts a ship. Most ships are made to move by the wind. Tall poles, called masts, are fixed upon the ship, and sails made of very strong coarse cloth are fastened to the poles, and the wind fills the sails and blows the ship along.

Some vessels have steam-engines, and they are moved along by steam. That is better than having only the wind to depend upon, for sometimes the wind blows the contrary way to that in which we want the ship to go, and sometimes there is no wind at all, and the ship can neither go backwards nor forwards; but steam can always make the ship the way we wish.

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A large ship with swelling sails going swiftly over the water is a fine sight. Some ships are so very large that there is room for a thousand men to live in them, and to take with them all the food and all the other things which they will want for many months.

Such ships as these often carry large cannon also. These are ships of war, and go out to battle when any enemies of our country want to do us harm.

But, besides these ships of war, there are many fine large ships which sail to other lands to fetch

from them useful things which are found there, and which we have not in our own country.

These ships bring us oranges, and lemons, and figs; and they bring us also tea, and sugar, and rice, and many other things which we want; and they take to the countries which send us these good things, iron, coal, and many other things which we have in our country. So we see that ships are very useful to everybody.

All those things brought into our country from other countries are called imports, and all the things which we send out of our country to other countries are called exports. This sending out and bringing in things to a country is called its trade

or commerce.

QUESTIONS:-1. What is the general name for any large vessel? 2. In how many ways are these vessels driven? 3. Name them. 4. Why do sailors give particular names to different kinds of boats? 5. What name do they give to a vessel with two masts? to one with three? 6. Tell how ships are made to move by the wind. 7. How are some other vessels driven? 8. Whether do you think wind or steam the better way? 9. Which is cheaper? 10. Why? 11. Which is the quicker? 12. Tell how large some ships are. 13. What do these ships often carry? 14. For what? 15. What are those ships called? 16. Have we, in this country, any of them? 17. Name one. 18. What other large ships have we? 19. What do they carry? 20. What are the things carried out of a country called? 21. What name do we give to things brought into a country from other countries?

THOU art, O God, the light and life
Of all this wondrous world we see;
Its glow by day, its smile by night,
Are but reflections caught from Thee.
Where'er we turn, Thy glories shine,
And all things fair and bright are Thine!

When night, with wings of starry gloom,
O'ershadows all the earth and skies,
Like some dark, beauteous bird, whose plume
Is sparkling with unnumbered eyes.
That sacred gloom, those fires divine,
So grand, so countless, Lord! are Thine.

When youthful spring around us breathes,
Thy Spirit warms her fragrant sigh;
And every flower the summer wreathes,
Is born beneath that kindling eye.
Where'er we turn, Thy glories shine,
And all things fair and bright are Thine.

MOORE.

QUESTIONS:-1. Who is the Light? 2. What else is He? 3. Of what is He the light and life? 4. Why called wondrous world? 5. What is the meaning of "glow by day"? 6. Of "smile by night"? 7. What is the meaning of reflections here? 8. Has this word ever any other meaning? (Casting reflections on a person's character, what does that signify?) 9. Whose are all things? 10. Why so? 11. In the second verse, night is spoken of as having something that a bird has,-what? 12. What are night's wings made of? 13. What does that mean? 14. Describe the bird to which the poet compares night? 15. In the third verse, spring is called youthful, how so? 16. What is the meaning of spring having a fragrant sigh? 17. Where'er we turn, whether we look to the sky or to the earth, what is it we must behold?

ONE lovely evening, after the toils of the day, I set out for a walk. The sun was setting, the birds were singing their evening hymn, and the sheep were slowly returning from the field to their fold. Presently I saw a man at some little distance, who appeared greatly excited. He was lifting and throwing with all his might stone after stone at some object near him. This made me approach him and ask what was the matter.

"Oh, sir," said he, "a great nasty toad," and down went another stone.

"And pray," said I, "why do you kill the poor creature? Has it done you any harm?"

"Why," said he, "they don't do no good, do they?"

My friend," said I, "even though they do no good, is that any reason why you should put it to death? Only think, if everything were to be destroyed which does no good, what would become of you and me; for, I am sure, we could give but a poor account why we should be spared, and yet we are spared from day to day. These poor animals are more harmless than we are; and not only do no hurt, but do a great deal of good, in feeding on snails and other insects, which would