7. season due; your proper season. He is plucking laurel and myrtle in the summer time, instead of in the autumn or winter. Mr. King was drowned in the month of August. 8. Lycidas; a name chosen by Milton in imitation of ancient classical poetry. He represents himself as a shepherd who had been accustomed to feed his flocks with his friend.

9. peer; equal.

11. build the lofty rhyme; construct or compose noble songs. 13. welter; to roll, wallow.

14. meed; reward, gift, tribute.

15. Sisters, etc.; the nine Muses, daughters of Jupiter; the goddesses who presided over song. The sacred well means the fountains of the Muses, Aganippe and Hippocrene, which issued from Mount Helicon.

18. coy; bashful, reserved, shy.

20. urn; grave. The ashes of the dead were anciently deposited in urns.

21. he; i.e., the poet inspired by the Muse.

25. high lawns, the meadows on the slopes of the hills.

27. afield; to the field.

28. gray-fly; the trumpet-fly.

29. batten; to fatten, feed.

32. ditties; songs.

33. temper'd, etc.; accompanied and regulated by the rude pipes made of reeds or oat stems.

34. Satyrs, Fauns; rural beings described by the poets as covered with hair and having the hinder parts of a goat.

40. gadding; roving, rambling, growing luxuriantly.
42. copse; coppice, wood of small trees and brushwood.
45. canker; the canker-worm.

46. taint-worm; poisonous worm.

weanling; newly weaned.

48. white-thorn; hawthorn.

52. steep; the mountains of North Wales.

54. Mona; Anglesea.

55. Deva; the River Dee, celebrated in stories of wizards, etc.

57. Supply the ellipsis thus :-"Had ye been there (it would have been useless)—for what could that have done?” 58. the Muse; Calliope, mother of Orpheus a celebrated musician, who moved stones and trees by the sounds of his harp. He was torn in pieces by the Thracian women during their revels, and his head was thrown into the Hebrus, a river in Thrace.

64. boots; profits.

66. meditate, etc.; study the poetic art.

68. to sport, etc. ; to devote oneself to pleasure.

70. clear; illustrious, renowned. (Lat., clarus). The prose order is; "that doth raise the clear spirit," etc.

71. last infirmity; a desire for fame is a weakness which noble spirits are most prone to.

73. guerdon; reward. The prose order is; "But when we hope to find the fair guerdon."

75. Fury; Destiny, who cuts the thread of life.

77. Phœbus; Apollo, the god of song.

79. foil; that by which anything is set off, and its beauty increased by contrast.

82. Jove; Jupiter, the supreme deity of the ancients.

85. Arethusa; a fountain in Sicily, the haunt of woodnymphs.

86. Mincius; a river in north Italy, now the Mincio.

90. Neptune; the god of the sea. "Who came to hold an investigation on behalf of Neptune."

91. felon; malignant, malicious.

96. Hippotades; Eolus, son of Hippotas, god of the winds. 99. Panope; a sea nymph. The ship was lost in a calm sea.

COMPOSITION.

The pupil teacher at the end of the third year should consult the remarks on Composition and Notes of Lessons contained in the previous volumes of this Course. The following are specimens of exercises set for the third year at previous examinations :

(1) Write from memory the substance of the passage read to you by the Inspector :—

"A pair of fly-catchers built their nest lately in a corner of my bedroom window. The nest was sheltered from the rays of the forenoon and noontide sun by a projection of a part of the house; but when he came round to three or four o'clock in the afternoon on a clear day, his warm beams shone right against the corner where the nest was placed, to the great distress of the poor little nestlings. One warm afternoon the young ones were panting with open bills from the great heat. Judge my surprise and pleasure to see one of the old birds, the female, probably, seated on the sunward side of the nest, stretching over her young with wings a little extended, to shield and protect them, and apparently, from her open mouth, suffering as much or more than themselves. Here she would continue till the sun got lower."

(2) Write a specimen letter to your teacher during the holidays.

(3) Write a letter describing to a friend your daily work as a pupil teacher.

(4) Write notes of a lesson on Earthquakes.

(5) Write notes of a lesson on the shape of the Earth.

(6) Composition will be judged by the answers to the questions on History.

(7) Write notes of a lesson on Coal.

(8) Write notes of a lesson on Idleness.

(9) Write from memory the substance of the passage read to you by the Inspector :

"

Alexander, during his 'campaign in India, bore his full share of hardships. He always walked on foot with his troops, and gave them examples of fortitude. On one occasion some soldiers, who had been sent to search for water, found a little in the bed of a dried torrent, and brought it in a helmet to the king. Alexander was parched and faint with thirst, but he could not bring himself to indulge in a luxury which others were not to share, and whilst many were gazing on him, longing, doubtless, that they could be in his place, he took the helmet from the soldier, and poured the contents on the ground. This noble act of self-denial served to enhance yet further the love and veneration felt for him by his soldiers."

(10) Write from memory the passage read to you by the Inspector :

"Bohemond, Prince of Antioch, was besieged by the Greek army of the Emperor of Constantinople, and desiring to go in search of reinforcements, hit upon this device for passing through the besiegers. He caused it to be reported that he was dead; and having procured a coffin bored with holes that would enable him to breathe, he ordered his attendants to request leave of the Emperor of Constantinople to carry their dead master to be buried in Europe. Leave being given, he was carried in this manner till he got beyond the reach of his enemies. He then got out of his coffin, and sent a message back to the Emperor of Constantinople, to say, 'that the Prince of Antioch was alive, and as much his enemy as ever.

(11) Write a letter describing the county in which your school is situated.

(12) Write a letter describing the town in or near which your school is situated.

(13) Write notes of a lesson on the railways of England.

(14) Write from memory the substance of the passage read to you by the Inspector :

"King Edward's Death.-When Edward, the son of Edgar, was King of the English, he was always good and kind to his stepmother and to her son Ethelred, his brother. But his stepmother hated him, for that she had wished her son Ethelred to be king; but the wise men had chosen Edward, his brother, before him, so his stepmother ever sought how she might slay King Edward. Now, one day King Edward was hunting hard by Corfe, where his stepmother and Ethelred, her son, dwelt. And the king was

weary and thirsty; so he turned away alone from his hunting and said, 'Now will I go and rest myself at Corfe, with my stepmother and Ethelred, my brother.' So King Edward rode to the gate of the house, and his stepmother came out to meet him, and kissed him. And he said, 'Give me to drink, for I am thirsty.' And his stepmother commanded, and they brought him a cup, and he drank eagerly. But, while he drank, his stepmother made a sign to her servant, and he stabbed the king with a dagger; and, when the king felt the wound, he set spurs to his horse and tried to join his comrades who were hunting. But he slipped from his horse, and his leg caught in the stirrup; so he was dragged along till he died, and the track of his blood showed whither he had gone. And his stepmother bade that he should be buried at Wareham, but not in holy ground, nor with any royal pomp. But a light from heaven shone over his grave, and wonders were wrought there."

NOTES OF LESSONS.

I. Write out full notes of a lesson on Steam.

(1) Ask the children what happens when we place a vessel of water on the fire. Get out from them that something resembling smoke rises from the surface of the water. What is it? If the water remain long enough on the fire the former at length boils, steam continues to rise from the vessel, and the water becomes less and less, till at length it has all boiled away. The water in the vessel has disappeared; what has become of it? Nothing has left the vessel but steam; we may infer then that the water has been converted into steam, and that the steam is only water in another form. Give the term vapour.

(2) Show that though steam and smoke resemble each other in appearance they are quite different things. If we hold a cold plate over smoke rising from a fire, what happens? The plate soon gets covered with black stuff, called soot. So if the chimney smokes, the smoke soon covers the room with soot. If we hold a cold plate over steam, what happens? The steam is changed into water, collects on the surface of the plate in small globules, and begins to fall in drops if the plate be held long enough. Smoke and steam are therefore two distinct substances.