"It was when I was a young man. My father had a large farm, and on one part of it there were hills and many large trees. "We called that part of the farm the 'Big Woods,' and there were many wild deer there. "One day, I told some young men who lived near us, to bring their horses and dogs, and we would go on a deer hunt. "The next day they all came. There were five of us on horses and we had eleven dogs. "The dogs were foxhounds, and could run very fast. "We rode over to the 'Big Woods,' and sent the dogs in to find some deer. "The dogs knew very well what we were after, for they had been deer hunting before. "They started into the woods and we rode after them. 66 In a little while we heard them bark, and knew that they had found some deer. 66 Our horses, too, seemed to know why the dogs were barking, and started to run after them as fast as they could go. 66 We tried to hold them back, because we were afraid that some of us would get hurt while they were running under the trees. "But on they went, and soon we were near the dogs. "We could not see the deer, but knew which way to go by the barking of the dogs. "We rode on in this way for about two miles, when we came to the open fields." LANGUAGE LESSON. Let pupils make complete oral statements in answering these questions. Who told Frank about the deer hunt? Where on the farm did the deer live? How did the men hunt the deer? How many horses did they have? Deer. A deer can run very fast. Hound. A hound is a kind of dog. Let pupils write something about a horse and a cow, using the statements given above as models. Let pupils copy the following words, and add such letters as will make them mean more than one. girl wren duck dog bird cent string race tree sivan hound box Let pupils write on their slates the names of ten objects which they can see in the schoolroom. 66 THE DEER HUNT-Continued. As there were no trees in the fields, and the fences were low, we could now see the deer and the dogs running after them. 66 'We then made our horses go faster, and away away we went fields, fences, and hills. over "The deer and the dogs jumped over the fences, and of course we had to make our horses jump over after them. 66 One of the young men was |