Rollo so near. She called him to come away; but he told her that he was not near enough to fall.

"But I prefer that you should come away," said. his mother; and she looked very anxious and uneasy, and began to hurry along towards him.

"You see that large island off to the right," said Rollo's father, directing her attention in the right quarter.

"Yes, I see it- - Rollo ! ""

"Well, that is George's Island. There is a rock lying just about south of it."

"Yes," said Rollo's mother, "I believe I see it; " beckoning, at the same time, to Rollo.

Her mind was evidently occupied with watching Rollo. She looked first at the rock and island, where Mr. Holiday was pointing, and then back at Rollo, until at length Mr. Holiday, perceiving that her mind was disturbed by Rollo's motions, said to him,

"Rollo, keep outside of us."

Outside, father!" said Rollo; "how do you mean?"

'Why, farther back from the brink than we are." So Rollo walked reluctantly back till he was about the same distance from the brink with his father, and then began to take up some little stones, and throw them over.

His father and mother went on talking, though Rollo's stones disturbed them a little. At length Rollo came and stood near his father, to hear what he was saying about a large ship which was just coming into view behind the island.

As he stood there, he kept pressing forward to get as near the brink as he could, without actually going before his father and mother. She instinctively put out her hand to hold him back, and was evidently so uneasy that Mr. Holiday looked to see what was the matter. Rollo had pressed forward so as to be a very little in advance of his father, though it was only very little indeed.

"Rollo," said his father, "go and sit in the carr all until we come."

Rollo looked up surprised, and was just going to ask why he should go, when he perceived that he was in advance of his parents, and that he had consequently disobeyed his father's orders. He went away rather sullenly.

"I was not more than an inch in advance of where they were," said he to himself; "and, besides, it was far enough from the brink. I do not see why I need be sent away."

However, he knew that he must obey, and lie went and took his seat in the carryall. It was turned away from the sea, and he had nothing before him but the inland prospect.

"What dismal-looking rocks and hills!" said he

to himself.

They had appeared wild and picturesque when he first came in view of them, but now they had a very gloomy expression. He who is dissatisfied with himself, is generally dissatisfied with all around him

LESSON XIV.

CONSONANT SOUNDS IN COMBINATION.

kts as in acts, facts, directs, suspects.
ldz as in fields, yields, holds, folds.
lf as in myself, himself, wolf, gulf.
Im as in elm, helm, realm, film.

I spoke of the man, (not o' the man,) who told me of the boys. The want of men is occasioned by the want of money. Children climb the mound of the rampart. The top of the house.

Rollo's Visit to the Cliffs, concluded.

ROLLO waited till he was tired, and some time longer. At length his father and mother appeared, and Rollo jumped out, and asked his father if he might ride in the wagon, and drive the girls again

"No," replied his father; "I have made another arrangement. Jonas," he continued, "you may get into the wagon, and drive on alone."

Rollo's father then helped Mrs. Holiday and Mary, into the back seat, while he put Lucy and Rollo onbefore, and he took a seat between them. When they had rode on a little way, he said,

Note to Teachers. The sound of f, when final, is liable to be suppressed when a consonant begins the succeeding word, and particularly the th; as, I spoke o' the man, for I spoke of the man.

"I was very sorry to have to send you away Rollo."

"Why, father, I was not more than an inch before you."

"That is true," said his father.

"And I do not think I was in any danger."

"I do not think you were myself," said his father.

"Then why did you send me back?"

"For two reasons. First, you disobeyed me." "But I do not think I came before you more than an inch."

"Nor I," said his father; "very likely it was not more than half an inch."

"And was that enough to do any harm ?”

"It was enough to constitute disobedience. I told you to keep back, outside of us, and, by coming up even as near as we were, you showed a disposition not to obey."

"But I forgot," said Rollo; "I did not observe that. I was so near."

"But when I give you a direction like that, it is your duty to observe."

Rollo was silent. After a short pause, he added, "Well, father, you said there were two reasons why you sent me away."

"Yes; the other was, that you were spoiling all the pleasure of the party. You kept Mary and mother continually uneasy and anxious.”

"But I do not think I went into any danger."

"Perhaps not; that is not what I charge you with.

I did not send you away for going into danger, but for making other persons anxious and uneasy."

"But, father, if there was not ahy danger, why need they be uneasy?"

"Do you suppose that persons are never made uneasy and anxious except by actual danger?"

"Why, I do not know, sir."

"If you observe persons carefully, you will see that they are."

"Then they must be unreasonable," said Rollo. "Not altogether," said his father. "If you were lying down upon the ground, and I were to come up to you with an axe, and make believe cut your head off, it would make you very uneasy, though there would be really no danger."

"But this is very different," said Rollo, "That would have been as if I had made believe push mother off."

"That would have been more like it, I confess. But I only meant to show you that it does not require real danger to make any one uneasy and anxious. When we see persons in situations which strongly suggest the idea of danger to our minds, it makes us uneasy, though we may know that there is no actual danger in the case.

"Thus it is painful to most persons to see a carpenter upon a lofty spire, or to go very near a precipice, or see any body else go, even when there is a strong railing; and so in all other cases.

"Therefore our rule ought always to be, when we are in company with others, not only not to go into