the shore, which have been drifted* by the waves from some other country; and these they gather, and build their huts with them.

When they cannot get wood, they use the pure white snow. It is frozen so hard that it keeps firm all through the winter. Sometimes, when the hut becomes very warm with the lamps, and the people, and the dogs, the walls begin to drip* a little; but a piece of fresh snow rubbed over the place soon mends it.

The windows of these huts are not made of glass, but of ice.

hut, it is as warm

He warms it with

Though there is no fire in the as the Esquimaux can bear it. his lamp; which is nothing but a vessel like a saucer, full of oil. A great many little wicks float on the oil, and he lights them all. The burning wicks make the room warm. A cooking-pot hangs over the lamp; but he often eats his meat raw.

He has no chairs or tables, for he does not know how to make them; but there is a raised ledge all round the hut, covered with warm skins. This is his seat during the day, and his bed at night. under the skins there is nothing but snow.

But

When the warm weather comes, the Esquimaux is glad to get away from the snow hut. Its walls begin to melt, and he gets wet as he lies in bed, and often catches cold. He is therefore very glad to escape* from it to his tent, which forms his summer residence.*

QUESTIONS. --How do the Esquimaux sometimes get wood to build with? What do they use when they cannot get wood? How long does one of these houses last? How do they mend the walls when they (350)

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get out of repair? What are the windows made of? How is the house warmed? What kind of bed does it contain? Where do the Esquimaux live in summer?

THE CHILD'S FIRST GRIEF.

Droop-ing, hanging downward.
Glade, an open space in a wood.
In vain, without success.

"OH! call my brother

Thou'lt, thou wilt.
Vine, the grape tree.
Wan-der-ings, walks; rambles.

back to me!

I cannot play alone;

The summer comes with flower and bee--
Where is my brother gone?

The flowers run wild, the flowers we sowed
Around our garden tree;

Our vine* is drooping* with its load-
Oh! call him back to me !"-

"He would not hear thy voice, fair child!
He may not come to thee:

The face that once like summer smiled,
On Earth no more thou'lt* see.
A rose's brief bright life of joy,
Such unto him was given;
So-thou must play alone, my boy!

Thy brother is in Heaven."

"And has he left his birds and flowers?
And must I call in* vain?

And through the long, long summer hours,
Will he not come again?

And by the brook and in the glade*
Are all our wanderings* o'er?
Oh! while my brother with me played,
Would I had loved him more!"

MRS. HEMANS.

QUESTIONS. The child did not know that his brother was ? He wanted his mother to - ? But his mother told him that his was ? The child then was sorry that he had not was alive.

PRONOUNCE in syllables:

--? when he

Has-tened, went quickly.

Com-pli-ment, act of respect; favour. Mince, meat chopped very small.

Ap-pe-tite, wish for food.

Con-sist-ed, was made up.

Gen-er-ous, noble; liberal.

Re-tired', went off.

Rey-nard, a name given to the fox.

A FOX asked a stork to dinner, with the naughty purpose of playing a trick on his guest.

The stork came at the hour fixed, with a good appetite for her meal. But little pleased was she on finding that it consisted of mince,* served up in a dish so shallow that she could scarcely, with her long slender bill, pick up enough to satisfy a sparrow! The fox lapped up the food readily enough, only stopping a moment to say, "I hope, madam, that you like your feast? Don't you think that my

mince is first-rate ?"

The stork made no reply, but retired,* hungry and much displeased, from the almost untasted meal.

A few days afterwards the stork returned the compliment* by asking the fox to dinner.

Reynard hastened to the place of meeting, where Great was the the stork had made ready her meal. disgust of the fox to behold the food served up in a

long-necked jar, which let in the stork's slender bill, but into which he could not thrust even his pointed nose!

"I hope, sir, that you like your feast?" said the stork, who was not generous enough to return good for evil, and who wished to give Reynard a lesson. And as the hungry fox looked sadly up into her face, she added, "Those who cannot take a joke in

good part should never make one. Never do to others, what you would not like them to do to yourself."

QUESTIONS.-Why did the fox ask the stork to dinner? What did he put before her? What sort of dish was it in? What did the fox ask the stork while he was eating? How did the stork return the compliment? What is the picture about? Those who cannot -? a

joke should never -? one.

PRONOUNCE in syllables:

As-sumed', taken to himself.
Crest, the ornament for the top of a
helmet.

Ni-ger, a great river in Africa. Pad-dles, broad, short oars, used in pushing boats forward. Prey, what is hunted; booty. Re-lates', tells as a story. Fu-ri-ous-ly, with great anger. Scorn-eth, thinks little of; despises. Mim-ics, does the same things as; Zig-zag, with short turns; from side to side.

Dis-guised', hidden by a false dress; concealed.

imitates.

THE humming-bird is the smallest, and the ostrich. the largest of birds. There are humming-birds no larger than bees, while the ostrich is often ten feet in height, from the crown of the head to the ground.

The home of the ostrich is in the sandy deserts of Africa and Arabia. Among the Arabs, it is called the camel bird, from the form of its neck and body.