Meanwhile the procession was fast forming in the city, but the sun had been four hours up before it began to move. Every trade, every business, every occupation of life was represented. There were saddlers and gun5 smiths, stone cutters, tanners, brewers, merchants, doctors, shipwrights, and stocking makers.

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The cordwainers sent a miniature shop. The rope makers marched each with a bunch of hemp and a piece of in his hand. The Manufacturers' Society delighted 10 the crowd with the spectacle of a huge wagon drawn by ten horses and neatly covered with cotton cloth of their own make. On the wagon were a lace loom, a printing mill, a carding and a spinning jenny of eighty spindles.

Compared with the cunningly and exquisitely wrought 15 machines now to be found in the mills and factories of New England, they would seem rude and ill-formed. But they were among the newest inventions of the age, and were looked on by our ancestors as marvels of mechanical ingenuity. There, too, were represented in succession 20 Independence, the French Alliance, the Definitive Treaty the Convention of the States, and the Federal Roof,-a huge dome supported by thirteen Corinthian columns.

But the cheering was never so loud as when the Federal ship Union came in sight. She had, it was whispered 25 among the crowd, been built in four days. Her bottom was the barge of the ship Alliance, and was the same that had once belonged to the Serapis, and had been taken in

the memorable fight by Paul Jones. She mounted twenty guns, and had upon her deck four small boys, who performed all the duties of a crew, set sail, took a pilot on board, trimmed the sheets to suit the breeze, threw out

the lead, cast anchor at Union Green, and sent off 5 dispatches to the President of the United States.

When the end of the procession had passed Union Green, Wilson gave the address. Hopkinson wrote the ode, which, printed in English and German, was scattered among the people and sent off on the wings of carrier 10 pigeons to the ten ratifying states. That night the

streets of the city were bright with bonfires and noisy with the shouts of revelers.

But the rejoicings did not end with the day. For months afterward the newspapers gave unmistakable evi5 dence of the pleasure with which the great mass of the people contemplated the new plan. The word "Federal" became more popular than ever. It was given by town committees as names to streets in numberless towns, and was used as a catchword by tradesmen and shopkeepers. 10 In the shipping news appeared notices that the sloop Anarchy, when last heard from, was ashore on Union Rocks; that the scow Old Confederation-Imbecility, master had gone to sea; and that on the same day the stanch ship Federal Constitution, with Public Credit, 15 Commercial Prosperity, and National Energy on board, had reached her haven in safety.

Abridged.

Federal: those who upheld the constitution were known as Federalists. Others among the patriotic leaders were afraid of centralizing the power shoeof the new government. —cordwainers: workers in cordovan leather; the Definitive Treaty : makers.-jenny: a machine used in manufactories. a treaty between Great Britain and the United States, signed at Paris, September 3, 1783. The Revolution was virtually ended in 1781.- Corinthian : a form of Greek architecture having much ornament. the "Alliance": an American frigate, commanded by a Frenchman during the battle with the "Serapis." Instead of aiding Paul Jones, the "Alliance" fired indiscriminately. When the battle was over Jones took command of her and returned to France. - the "Serapis": a British frigate, captured off the English coast in 1779, by Paul Jones. - the lead: used to take soundings. trimmed the sheets: adjusted the ropes. - Wilson: James Wilson of Pennsylvania, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. - Hopkinson: an American author and patriot. His son, years later, wrote "Hail Columbia."

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CAROLINA

HENRY TIMROD

Through lands which look one sea of billowy gold
Broad rivers wind their devious ways;

A hundred isles in their embraces fold
A hundred luminous bays;

And through yon purple haze

Vast mountains lift their plumèd peaks cloud-crowned;
And, save where up their sides the plowman creeps,
An unhewn forest girds them grandly round,

In whose dark shades a future navy sleeps!

Ye Stars, which, though unseen, yet with me gaze
Upon this loveliest fragment of the earth!
Thou Sun, that kindlest all thy gentlest rays
Above it, as to light a favorite hearth!
Ye Clouds, that in your temples in the west
See nothing brighter than its humblest flowers!
And you, ye Winds, that on the ocean's breast
Are kissed to coolness ere ye reach its bowers!
Bear witness with me in my song of praise,
And tell the world that, since the world began,
No fairer land hath fired a poet's lays,
Or given a home to man!

From "The Cotton Boll."

CLOUDS

WILSON FLAGG

WILSON FLAGG (1805–1884) was an American author whose books are mainly studies of New England country life.

NOTE. - This selection is taken from "Halcyon Days."

It is not difficult to understand that if the sun rose 5 clearly into the blue heavens without any changes except from darkness to light, through all the degrees of twilight, the charms of the morning would be greatly diminished. But Nature, that all hearts might be enamored of the morn, has wreathed her temples with dappled crimson, 10 and animated her countenance with those milder glories that so well become the fair daughter of the dawn and the gentle mother of dews.

In ancient fable, Aurora is a beautiful nymph who blushes when she first enters into the presence of Day, 15 and the clouds are the fabric with which she veils her

features at his approach. But a young person of sensibility needs no such allegory to inspire him with a sense of the incomparable beauty and grandeur of the orient at break of day. It is associated with some of the happiest 20 moments of his life; and the exhilarated feelings with which we look upon the dayspring in the east are probably one cause of the tonic and healthful influence of early rising.