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No. 143.-CXLIII.

IN THE FOLLOWING WORDS, ch HAS THE SOUND OF sh, AND IN MANY OF THEM I HAS THE SOUND OF e LONG.

IN THE FOLLOWING WORDS, THE VOWEL a IN THE DIGRAPH ea, HAS NO SOUND, AND e IS EITHER SHORT, OR PRONOUNCED LIKE e IN term; THUS, bread, tread, earth, dearth, ARE PRONOUNCED brěd, trěd, erth, dêrth.

BÄR, LÅST, GÂRE, FALL, WHAT; HÊR, PREY, THÊRE; GET; BĨRD, MARÏNE; LINK;

No. 145.-CXLV.

IN THE FOLLOWING, g IS SILENT.

P. stands for past tense; PPR. for participle of the present tense.

IN THE FOLLOWING, THE SOUND OF g IS RESUMED.

WORDS IN WHICH e, i, AND O, BEFORE n, ARE MUTE. THOSE WITH V ANNEXED, ARE OR MAY BE USED AS VERBS, ADMITTING ed FOR THE PAST TIME, AND ing FOR THE PARTICIPLE.

This dog is the mastiff. He is active, strong, and used as a watchdog. He has a large head and pendent ears. He is not very apt to bite; but he will sometimes take down a man and hold him down. Three mastiffs once had a combat with a lion, and the lion was compelled to save himself by flight.

The stag is the male of the red deer.

He is a mild and

harmless animal, bearing a noble attire of horns, which are shed and renewed every year. His form is light and elegant, and he runs with great rapidity. The female is called a hind; and the fawn or young deer, when his horns appear, is called a pricket or brocket.

The squirrel is a beautiful little animal. The gray and black squirrels live in the forest and make a nest of leaves and sticks on the high branches. It is amusing to see the nimble squirrel spring from branch to branch, or run up and down the stem of a tree, and dart behind it to escape from sight. Little ground squirrels burrow in the earth. They subsist on nuts, which they hold in their paws, using them as little boys use their hands.

OF THE BOY THAT STOLE APPLES.

An old man found a rude boy upon one of his trees stealing apples, and desired him to come down; but the young saucebox told him plainly he would not. "Won't you?" said

the old man, "then I will fetch you down;" so he pulled up some turf or grass and threw at him; but this only made the youngster laugh, to think the old man should pretend to beat him down from the tree with grass only.

"Well, well," said the old man, "if neither words nor grass will do, I must try what virtue there is in stones; so the old man pelted him heartily with stones, which soon made the young chap hasten down from the tree and beg the old man's pardon.

MORAL.

If good words and gentle means will not reclaim the wicked, they must be dealt with in a more severe manner.

THE COUNTRY MAID AND HER MILK PAIL.

When men suffer their imagination to amuse them with the prospect of distant and uncertain improvements of their condition, they frequently sustain real losses, by their inattention to those affairs in which they are immediately concerned.

A country maid was walking very deliberately with a pail of milk upon her head, when she fell into the following train of reflections "The money for which I shall sell this milk, will enable me to increase my stock of eggs to three hundred. These eggs, allowing for what may prove addle, and what may be destroyed by vermin, will produce at least two hundred and fifty chickens. The chickens will be fit to carry to market about Christmas, when poultry always bears a good