Grim. Cousin Mary, the patience with which I have listened to your cutting remarks, will prove to you, I hope, that, notwithstanding my angry retorts, I am convinced there is much truth in what you have said of me. I have a favor to ask. Send away your carriage; stay a week longer, -a month, a year, if you will. will. Hold the lash over this ugly temper of mine, and I give you my word that I will set about the cure of it in earnest. Cousin. You should have begun earlier,—in youth, when the temper is pliable, and strong impressions can work great changes. But we will not despair. I will tarry with you a while, just to see if you are serious in your wish for a reformation, and to help you bring it about. Grim. Thank you. We hear of reformed drunkards, and reformed thieves; and why may not a petulant temper be reformed, by a system of total abstinence from all harsh, unkind moods and expressions? Come, we will try. QUESTIONS.-1. At what was Mr. Grim offended? 2. What did Cousin Mary say would be fortunate for him? 3. What blunder had Mr. Grim made? 4. How did he often behave at the table? 5. What does Dr. Johnson say of such men? 6. What did Cousin Mary finally say to him? 7. Of what was he convinced? 8. What did he resolve to do? LESSON CXVI. SAC' RI FICE, religious offering EN DURE', suffer; tolerate. 116 WA' VER ED, hesitated. IM PARTIAL, just; free from bias. GHEE, kind of butter used in India. THE BRAHMIN AND THE ROGUES.* AN EASTERN FABLE. VERSIFIED BY J. N. MCELLIGOTT. 1. A BRAHMIN went out, the legends say, To buy him a sheep a certain day; Went straight about (Moved, I ween, by the very Old Nick,) 2. So one of them met him with the cry :--- As ever was seen by mortal eyes.” 3. "Where is your sheep?" replied the Brahmin; With that the wag Opened a bag, And out he drew To públic view An ugly, dirty, horrible dog! Blind as a bat, and lame as a frog; *The fable, here thrown into verse, is related in English prose by MacauLay, who says.- Thus, or nearly thus, if we remember rightly, runs the story of the Sanscrit Eson." With a broken leg, climbing a log, Or limping slowly over a bog. 4. "Wretch !" said the Brahmin indignant, "who Shamelessly utterest things untrue, And dost without a scruple endure 5. "Cur!" said the fellow with steady tone; A sheep (see here, what a splendid fleece!) For sacrifice, As neither gods nor men can despise, Rogue the second, as if amazed, What's your price' ?" 7. The Brahmin, seeing this singular thing, 8. "Cur?" with disdain, the new-comer said; Why, man, you're surely out of your head!" As this occurred, Came rogue the third, To whom, as being a witness new, 9. "Well," said the Brahmin, "the gods this day Have surely taken my senses away!" 10. Then begging the rogue That carried the dog, To pardon him for doubting his word, He, with a readiness most absurd, Purchased the creature with rice and ghee, Which went, of course, to the worthless three, Thus taken in, Offered it up, Which so offended the gods, that they MORAL. Look out for the arts of the puffing tribe,- Or any thing else the pocket to fill; Singing Simplicity fast asleep, And making her dream a dog's a sheep. QUESTIONS.-1. What trick did the three rogues play off on the Brahmin ? 2 In what way did they do this? 3. What moral is taught in this fable? LESSON CXVII. E LAS TIC I TY, returning vigor. ES TRANG' E$, alienates. [alms. 1. 117 IM PER TI NENCE, that which is not SUS PI' CIOUS, distrustful. LIVING WITHIN OUR MEANS. S. W. PARTRIDGE Oh, beware of debt! It crushes out the manhood of a man, Robs his bright eye of boldness, cheats his limbs |