I love it; and I love the furniture, which my parents gave me. But it must all be sold.

Charles. Why, where shall we live?

Mother. In a small house at the south end, where your nurse used to live. But I shed more tears at first about you and Ellen. We cannot afford to educate you as we intended.

Charles. And there I was complaining this very morning about having to study!

Mother. Your thoughtless words made my heart ache, Charles.

Charles. If I have to get my living, why cannot I be a lawyer?

Mother. Your father cannot send you to college: your studies must all be directed towards preparing you to enter a counting-room as soon as possible. Your father's mercantile friends respect him for striving to pay all his debts, and they will help you. But, Charles, you will find it necessary to give your most earnest attention to your new pursuits.

Charles. That I will, mother. I will find out how cousin Richard manages his mind. Attention! yes, indeed I will. I shall think of nothing now but what I ought. I shall never waste my time again.

Mother. You promise confidently, Charles; and, in truth, I shall shed fewer tears, if I find this change in our situation may benefit my beloved son's character. It was too plain that the expectation of a fortune from your fat er was injuring you. Wipe your eyes, Charles, and go to school; and I think you will find that study-real study-will make

difficult things soon become easy; and there will be a pleasure in it you have never known, while holding your book indolently, with a wandering mind.

John Gilpin's spouse said to her dear,
"Though wedded we have been
These twice ten tedious years, yet we
No holyday have seen.

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Let the class utter them in concert, thus: words are placed opposite the letters mere

ly to denote their sounds. This is a useful exercise, and should be often repeated.

"To-morrow is our wedding-day,
And we will then repair
Unto the Bell at Edmonton,
All in a chaise and pair.

"My sister and my sister's child, Myself and children three,

Will fill the chaise; so you must ride On horseback after we."

He soon replied, "I do admire,
Of womankind, but one,

And you are she, my dearest dear;
Therefore it shall be done.

"I am a linen-draper bold,

As all the world doth know, And my good friend, the calender, Will lend his horse to go."

Quoth Mrs. Gilpin, "That's well said;
And, for that wine is dear,

We will be furnished with our own,
Which is both bright and clear.”

John Gilpin kissed his loving wife;
O'erjoyed was he to find,

That, though on pleasure she was bent.
She had a frugal mind.

The morning came; the chaise was brought,

But yet was not allowed

To drive up to the door, lest all
Should say that she was proud.

So three doors off the chaise was stayed,
Where they did all get in,-

Six precious souls, and all agog

To dash through thick and thin!

Smack went the whip, round went the wheels; Were never folks so glad;

The stones did rattle underneath,

As if Cheapside were mad.

John Gilpin, at his horse's side,
Seized fast the flowing mane;
And up he got, in haste to ride,
But soon came down again;-

For saddle-tree scarce reached had he,
His journey to begin,

When, turning round his head, he saw
Three customers come in.

So down he came; for loss of time,
Although it grieved him sore,

Yet loss of pence, full well he knew,
Would trouble him much more.

"Twas long before the customers

Were suited to their mind,

When Betty, screaming, came down stairs"The wine is left behind!"

"Good lack!" quoth he; "yet bring it me, My leathern belt likewise,

In which I bear my trusty sword,
When I do exercise."

Now Mrs. Gilpin, careful soul,
Had two stone bottles found,
To hold the liquor that she loved,
And keep it safe and sound.

Each bottle had a curling ear,
Through which the belt he drew,
And hung a bottle on each side,
To make his balance true.

Then, over all, that he might be
Equipped from top to toe,

His long red cloak, well brushed and neat,
He manfully did throw.