And think I hear the tender tone,
And call, but no reply;

And so I've done these four long years,

Within a lonely home;

Yet every dream of hope is vain:
Why don't my father come? *

Father, dear father, are you sick
Upon a stranger shore? †
Grandmother says it must be so:
O, write to us once more,
And let your little daughter come
To smooth your restless bed,
And hold the cordial to your lips,
And press your aching head.

Alas! I fear me he is dead:
Who will my trouble share,
Or tell me where his form is laid,
And let me travel there?
By mother's tomb I love to sit,
Where the green branches wave:
Good people, help an orphan child
To find her father's grave.

* Sentences commencing with an interrogative pronoun or adverb, generally close with the falling inflection.

Sentences that do not begin with a pronoun or adverb, generally close with the rising inflection.

LESSON IX.

TABLE OF CONSONANT ELEMENTS.

r as in war, burr, fur, sir.
s as in sin, since, hiss, miss.
t as in take, town, hat, mat.

v as in vain, vine, live, love.

Follow, (not foller,) hollow, bellow, mellow, meadow, window, widow, tobacco, potato, memento.

The Pitfall, or the Advantage of always telling the Truth.

I WILL tell you of a pitfall dug for a little boy by one of his play-fellows. The little boy's name was Edwin, and the boy who wished to entrap hun was called Theodore.

Edwin was a great favorite with the master, because he always came with his tasks ready prepared, and did nothing to give offence by word or deed. But Theodore was a very different lad, for he often missed his tasks, and took every opportunity to deceive his teachers.

Theodore, observing the good opinion Edwin had obtained, wickedly determined to get him into some trouble, if it were possible; "For," said he to himself, "I am tired of always hearing him praised, and hate to see him obtain rewards and gifts, when I

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never get any." He ought to have considered that he would have received rewards had he deserved them; but he was not wise enough to think of that.

But he was cunning enough to think of something else. Now, there was a hot-house belonging to the garden at the school in which these little boys lived, and Theodore had more than once treated himself to some of the rich purple grapes, which grew inside, by climbing up, or crawling, rather, over the frames that held the glass, and putting his hand through a broken pane.

In doing this, one day, he found that a part of the sash had, by his oft-repeated weight, and from its being somewhat rotten, partly given way. Indeed, at was so much broken, that, in descending, the boy became quite assured he should never be able to lean on it again for his unlawful purpose.

"And now," said he, "if I can get young Edwin up, it will be fine fun to see him fall through, and I shall revenge myself on him for carrying off the prize last year." So he went to Edwin, who was very unsuspecting, (as most innocent boys are,*) and said to him, "I wish, my dear Edwin, you would climb up the greenhouse for me, and get my ball, which has lodged on the top." "I will go and see," said Edwin. So

* “In reading a sentence where the parenthesis is inserted, the tone of voice ought to be interrupted, as it were, by something unforeseen: and, after a pause, the parenthesis should be pronounced in a lower tone of voice, at the end of which, after another pause, the higher tone of voice, which was interrupted, should be resumed, that the connection between the former and latter part of the interrupted sentence may be restored." WALKER.

Edwin went with Theodore to the greenhouse, and, after looking, said, "I do not see the ball; I think you must be mistaken); there is no ball on the greenhouse."

"Not see it?" said Theodore ; "then you must be blind, for it is just by the hole in the glass through which the vine has thrust itself: do you not see it ? " *

"No," said Edwin.

"Well, then, just get up, and you will soon see it, and can get it down for me."

"But why do you not get it yourself? You are larger than I am," said Edwin.

"Why, that is the very reason," replied Theodore ; "because I am (heavier) than you, and I might fall through."

"So you might," said Edwin; "I will get it for you."

So up climbed Edwin, pleased to serve his schoolfellow; but before he had got half way to the top of the frame, crack went the timber, smash went the glass, and down came Edwin, among broken glass, flower-pots, vine-leaves, and rotten wood.

Theodore ran away the moment he heard the crash, and walked quietly into the dining-room, took up a book, as if nothing had happened, and appeared to be very busy. But presently the outcries of Edwin were heard; several of his school-fellows ran to see

*The direct question, or that which admits the answer of yes or no, has the rising inflection, and the answer has the falling; as, Do you not sie it? No, said Edwin.

what was the matter, and with them Master Theodore followed.

"I would lay any thing," said Theodore, "that Master Edwin has been at the grapes, and has broken the glass." "Likely enough!" said the other boys, who had more than once had a taste of them; for they who do evil (themselves are always the first to suspect others.

When they reached the scene of the disaster, they found poor Edwin in a (woful) plight; he was very much cut by the glass, and bruised by the fall, and of course cried bitterly.)

"It is easy enough to tell who stole the grapes now," said one of the scholars,

"I should think it was," said Theodore, in a whisper; "for see, he has a large bunch hanging to his button."

This was indeed true; for, in his fall, one of the buttons of Edwin's jacket had hooked a bunch of grapes, which hung suspended from his clothing.

Several boys now ran and Caught) hold of Edwin, shouting, "Here is the thief! hold him tight! do not let him go;" and presently every boy in the school stood around the supposed culprit.

"Will he not catch it?" said one. "I had rather not be in his skin," said another. "Who would have thought such a smooth-faced fellow had been so in(corrigible?" "This is master's favorite," said a fourth.

* Whenever an emphatic word or phrase occurs, it should be followed by a pause dependent in length upon the force of the emphasis. This is called the emphatic pause.