when it cleared, there stood our brave Jack-dripping, bruised, and bleeding from a cut on the head.

But his little favorite was safe in his arms, and as he came back with her, such a cheer went up from all who were on deck, as the old ship had not heard for many a day.

"Let's send round the hat for him," said one of the passengers.

And the hat was sent around, so successfully that Jack got enough money to give his poor old mother a happy Christmas, and still have something left over for himself and Jumbo, who was his mother's pet ever after.

Directions for Reading.-Should this lesson be read with the same tone of voice as Lessons V and VI?

In the first paragraph, do not say pier rin for pier in; dir' tand for dirt and.

Point out two other places in the lesson where mistakes similar to those just given might occur.

Language Lesson.-Syllabify, accent, and mark the sounds of letters in the following words: cargo, officer, blanket, passengers, instantly, bleeding.

Work her passage, means to pay her fare by making herself useful.

Make out an analysis in six parts for this lesson, and use it in telling the story in your own words.

"Little lad, slow wandering across the sands so yellow,

Leading safe a lassie small-O tell me, little

fellow,

Whither go you, loitering in the summer

weather,

Chattering like sweet-voiced birds on a bough together?"

"I am Robert, if you please, and this is Rose, my sister,

Youngest of us all"-he bent his curly head and kissed her,

"Every day we come and wait here till the

sun is setting,

Watching for our father's ship, for mother dear is fretting.

"Long ago he sailed away, out of sight and hearing,

Straight across the bay he went, into sunset steering.

Every day we look for him, and hope for

his returning,

Every night my mother keeps the candle for him burning.

"Summer goes, and winter

spring returns, but never

comes, and

Father's step comes to the gate. O! is he gone forever?

The great grand ship that bore him off, think you some tempest wrecked her?" Tears shone in little Rose's eyes, upturned to her protector.

Eagerly the bonny boy went on: “O, sir, look yonder!

In the offing see the sails that east and westward wander;

Every hour they come and go, the misty

distance thronging,

While we watch and see them fade, with

sorrow and with longing."

"Little Robert, little Rose!" The stranger's eyes were glistening,

At his bronzed and bearded face, upgazed the children, listening;

Robert brave, and little Rose, as bright as any blossom.

"Father, father!

Is it you?" The still

air rings with rapture;

All the vanished joy of years the waiting ones recapture!

Finds he welcome wild and sweet, the low

thatched cottage reaching,

But the ship that into sunset steered, upon the rocks lies bleaching.

Directions for Reading.-Read the conversational parts of this poem like conversation in prose.

Point out the emphatic words in the first line of the last stanza.

Language Lesson.-Into sunset steering, means sailing westward. The misty distance thronging, means gathering together in the distance.

The still air rings with rapture, means that the air becomes full of joyful shouts.

All the vanished joys of years the waiting ones recapture, means that the children regain the happiness lost during their father's absence.

There is, in the appearance of the lion,

something both noble and imposing.

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