LESSON LXXXI.

AD-JUST', to arrange, put in order.
AR-REST', to seize and fix.
BALM'Y, having the qualities of balm,
soothing, soft.

CHAR AC-TER, literally, a cut or mark,
the impress or stamp on 'coins and
seals: hence, the qualities stamped or
impressed on a person.
DA-GUERRE I-AN, (pronounced da-ger'-
re-an,) relating to Daguerre, who in-
vented the process of making daguerre-
otypes; daguerreian room, a room in
which daguerreotypes are made.
E-JAC U-LATE, (Latin ejaculor, to throw
out,) to throw out or utter short, sud-
den expressions.

LIST LESS-LY, without thought, care-
lessly.

MEAN, wanting dignity or rank.

MO-MENT'OUS, important, weighty.
SO-LIL'O-QUY, (Latin solus, alone, and
loquor, to speak,) a talking to one's
self.

SUB'URBS, (Latin sub, under, near, and
urbs, a city,) the out-part of a city,
TAN'TA-LIZE, (from Tantalus, a king of
Phrygia, who was represented in an.
cient mythology as tormented with
hunger and thirst, whilst standing up to
his chin in water, with a tree hanging
over him, loaded with the most deli-
cious fruits; but whenever he stooped
to drink, the water shrank from his lips,
and when he reached forth his hand
for the fruit the branches receded
from his grasp,) to torment by present-
ing some pleasure which cannot be
enjoyed, to tease.

PRONUNCIATION.-As-sum'ing 16 and 19, and 29, un-re-strained' 1, tru'ant la, u'su-al 3e, par-tic'u-lar 3e, to'ward 266, ad-dress' If, ad-ver'tise-ment 26g, fel'low 6, viv'id-ly 1, sub'se-quent-ly 1b, ar-rest'cd If, ex-ist'ence 28, e-jac'u-la-ting 16.

"NO IDLERS NOR LOUNGERS ABOUT US"

1. THE morning was bright and beautiful, one of the first soft, balmy days in spring. The snows had melted away; the distant forests were losing their purple hue and assuming a faint green tinge, and the air came stealing along so soft and wooing that it seemed to invite every one to throw aside all care and toil, and roam over field and forest, just to enjoy the very luxury of existence.

2. So thought Henry Jerome, as he sat down under a budding tree, on his way to school.

3. His home was in the suburbs of a large city; but the schoolhouse to which he daily wended his way was in a busy street of the crowded town; and Henry, though much attached to his school, longed to escape from rattling pavements and brick walls to wander unrestrained in the inviting fields. In plain terms, he was strongly tempted to play truant.

4. "What is the use," said he to himself, "of shutting myself up in that old prison-house this warm, beautiful day? I cannot study; I do not feel like it. But, then, if my lessons are not learned, there Mr. Grover will fix his eye on me and say, as usual, Jerome, I require a perfect lesson. Remember, you are forming a character.'

will be a great ado.

5. "Then I shall have to stay in till I know every word in that old musty book. I do believe Mr. Grover is always crosser and more particular on pleasant days.

6. "Forming a character! I know what I should like to form. a boat after the model of that one floating down the river. What a lucky thought! I have a capital hook-and-line in my pocket, and I will go a-fishing. But what shall I tell my father and Mr. Grover?

7. "Perhaps my father will give me an excuse to take to-morrow. I can tell him I did not feel like going to school to-day. And really I am not well; my head feels dull, and I am so tired I do not believe I could stay in school all day. It is not right to expose one's health, and I think I will stay out of school and go fishing.'

8. Just as Henry came to this wise conclusion a sudden gust of wind blew a piece of paper toward him. "What is this?" said he, picking it up lazily, his duty to his health requiring him to make no exertion. It was only a piece of a daily newspaper, covered with "Rewards" and "Wants."

9. He read on for a time listlessly.

$10

REWARD.-Lost, in Clinton Street, on the 16th, a small Diamond Breast-pin. The finder will receive the above reward, and the thanks of the owner, by returning it to 138 West street.

"Now, if I could only find that breast-pin, I could make ten dollars very easily.

10. "But let me see. Lost on the 16th, and this is the 28th. There is no chance for me."

WRC Address ARTIST, at this Office.

ANTED.-A number of smart, intelligent Lads in a Daguerreian

W who understands something of book-keeping. None but steady,

ANTED.—In a Publishing-House, an active and industrious Lad,

energetic, and intelligent lads need apply, for I want no idlers nor loungers about me. É. B. WILLIAMS, 84 Ward St.

11. "Well, that is a curious advertisement! 'I want no idlers nor loungers about me.' I fancy I should hardly suit the gentleman, if he were to catch me here and know how terribly I am tempted to go to the river and lounge. It is a little singular that all people want active, intelligent, and industrious persons in their employ. None seem to want idlers or loungers, though they do not all express themselves so frankly. Well, I do not blame people."

12. "Get up, you lazy follow-what are you stopping for?" shouted a voice close by. Henry started, thinking himself the object addressed, but it was only a milk-man speaking to his horse. So powerful, however, was the effect upon his mind that he resolved to give up the fishing-plan and go to school.

13. He hurried along, feeling he had no time to lose, if he wished to arrive in season. While he was still at some distance from school the slow, heavy chimes of a neighboring clock began to peal

the momentous hour of nine. The hour of school had arrived. 14. "It is of no use," he said; and then the thought, "I want no idlers nor loungers about me," came vividly before him. He ran at the top of his speed, and, panting with exertion, reached his place just in time.

15. "Seest thou a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men," commenced the teacher in his morning reading.

"That is for me," thought Henry.

16. Whether his resolution failed him during the day we will not say; but he smiled when he read the copy in his writing-book,—

Idleness is the parent of sin and ignorance;

and never did the motto over the door,—

"PERSEVERANCE CONQUERS ALL THINGS,"

appear so distinct as on that day.

17. The letters seemed to stare at him, and, whenever he turned a longing glance toward the open window through which the tempting, tantalizing breeze was playing, they expanded till they hid every thing from his view.

18. The bees never buzzed half so busily. An ant ran up and down the ceiling as if bewitched; and in a half-hidden corner a grim spider was most diligently employed in repairing his broken web. "No idlers nor loungers about me,'" said Henry. “Well, I do not like to set myself up as an oddity."

19. It is not a hard thing to form good habits, at least so Henry Jerome found it. His very great regard for his duty to health ceased to interfere with his attending school; and in a short time punctuality became pleasant to him.

20. After leaving school, some three or four years subsequently, he was seeking employment, when he met with the very advertisement that had formerly arrested his attention. He called immediately, and applied for the situation.

21. "What testimony to your ability and punctual habits can you bring?" asked Mr. Williams, a kind but eccentric man. "These, sir," replied Henry, laying several papers before him.

He

22. The gentleman adjusted his spectacles, and read at first with apparent indifference; but soon his interest seemed to increase. glanced at Henry occasionally, ejaculating, "Ah!" "Indeed!" "Possible!"

23. "These papers," said he at length, "inform me that for the last four years you have been absent from school but three days, and on those days you were kept away by illness; that you have never been tardy in attendance; that your lessons during that time have

all been good; that your character is excellent, and you are especially prompt, diligent, and energetic.

24. "I am acquainted with Mr. Grover, and I know he would not give you these certificates unless you deserve them. I would rather have such a recommendation than references to all the influential men in the Union."

25. In five years from that time the advertisement again appeared:

WANTUR. An actione but energetic, steady, and industrious per

ANTED.-An active and intelligent Lad, who understands something sons need apply, as we want no idlers nor loungers about us. WILLIAMS, JEROME, & CO.

PRONUNCIATION.-Be-dight' 1, glit'ter-ing 36, trel'lis 1, and 29, gosʼsips 1, willow 6, fa'vor-ite 5a, list'ened 21, mu'sic 16, ban'ish 1.

THE OLD FARM-GATE.

1. WHERE, where is the gate that served to divide
The elm-shaded lane from the dusty road-side?
I like not this barrier gayly bedight,

With its glittering latch and its trellis of white.

It is seemly, I own

- yet, oh! dearer by far
Was the red-rusted hinge and the weather-warped bar.
Here are fashion and form of a modernized date,
But I'd rather look on the old farm-gate.

2. It was here that the urchins would gather to play,
In the shadows of twilight, or mild sunny day;
For the stream running nigh and the hillocks of sand
Were temptations no dirt-loving rogue could withstand.
But to swing on the gate-rails, to clamber and ride,
Was the utmost of pleasure, of glory, and pride,
And the car of the victor or carriage of state
Never carried such hearts as the old farm-gate.

3. It was here where the miller's son paced to and fro,
When the moon was above and the glow-worms below;
Now pensively leaning, now twirling his stick,

While the moments grew long and his heart-throbs grew quick.
Why, why did he linger so restlessly there,

With church-going vestment and sprucely combed hair?
He loved, oh! he loved, and had promised to wait
For the one he adored, at the old farm-gate.

4. It was over that gate I taught Rover to bound
With the strength of a steed and the grace of a hound;
The beagle might hunt, and the spaniel might swim,
But none could leap over that postern like him.
When Dobbin was saddled for a mirth-making trip,
And the quickly-pulled willow-branch served for a whip,
Spite of lugging and tugging he would stand for his freight,
While I climbed on his back from the old farm-gate.

5. It is well to pass portals where pleasure and fame
May come winging our moments and gilding our name;
But the joy that I felt, and the freshness of mind,

When
away on some sport the old gate slammed behind!
I have listened to music, but none that could speak
In such tones to my heart as the teeth-setting creak
That broke on my ear when the night had worn late,
And the dear ones came home through the old farm-gate.

6. Oh! fair is the barrier that now holds its place,
But it darkens a picture my soul longed to trace.

I sigh to behold the rough staple and hasp,

And the rails that my growing hand scarcely could clasp.
Oh! how strangely the warm spirit grudges to part
With the commonest relic once linked to the heart!
And the brightest of fortune, the kindliest fate,
Would not banish my love for the old farm-gate.

ELIZA COOK.

LESSON LXXXIII.

VOCAL GYMNASTICS.

REFER TO CAUTIONS 14 AND 15.-Especially notice the list of words in which th is sounded as in thin in the singular, and as in this in the plural.

(1.) He came with me. (2.) Thou canst not flee thither. (3.) That is beneath contempt. (4) For one straight path, there are many crooked paths. (5.) The use of a mouth is not to make mouths with. (6.) The youths tried to beat the moths out of the cloths. (7.) A lath is a thin narrow strip of wood. (8.) Laths are used in plastering ceilings. (9.) Put back thy sword in its sheath. (10.) The soldiers drew their swords, and threw away the sheaths.