as soon as darkness overtakes them, they precipitate themselves, breathless and exhausted, upon the nearest forests. Their legions accumulate in such numbers upon the trees that the great branches yield beneath their weight, and all the invaders rest from their fatigue and are composed to sleep.

17. Among fishes the migration of the herring has attained great celebrity. The northern

two columns. One of these advances towards Iceland and skirts the shores of America, great numbers entering Chesapeake Bay and ascending the Susquehannah River in Pennsylvania; the other takes the opposite direction along the broken shores of Norway, whilst the mass spreads out on the coasts of Great Britain and France, bearing food to Europe and giving an impulse to maritime commerce. The Batavian government at one time employed 2000 vessels and 400,000 men in the herring trade. It was a proverb: "Amsterdam is built upon herringheads." A prodigious quantity of these fish is taken every year for the use of Europe alone. Nearly 600,000 tons are caught off Norway in a single season. Off the coast of Scotland about 600,000,000 of these fishes are caught annually.

ir re sist'i ble

mi gra'tions

dev'as ta tion

măm’moth

trăv'ers ing

Spell and use in sentences:

phǎl'anx
fa tigue'
en vi'rons

ŏb'sti nate

quad'ru ped

Topical Review.

flō til'la zěph'yr lĕm'mings prod'i gies

pro dig'ious

What causes animals to migrate? What did Dr. Livingstone observe? What is observable in animals that migrate?-wild-geese?-the Bombyx?-eels?-the buffalo? -squirrels ?-lemmings?—birds?—swallows?— pigeons ?— herrings?

XXXII. TO A WATER-FOWL.

I.

Whither, midst falling dew,

While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way?

II.

Vainly the fowler's eye

Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly limned upon the crimson sky,

Thy figure floats along.

III.

Seek'st thou the plashy brink

Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide,
Or where the rocking billows rise and sink
On the chafed ocean-side?

IV.

There is a Power whose care

Teaches thy way along that pathless coast-
The desert and illimitable air-

Lone wandering, but not lost.

V.

All day thy wings have fanned,

At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere,
Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land,
Though the dark night is near.

VI.

And soon that toil shall end;

Soon shalt thou find a summer home, and rest, And scream among thy fellows; reeds shall bend, Soon, o'er thy sheltered nest.

VII.

Thou'rt gone, the abyss of heaven

Hath swallowed up thy form; yet, on my heart
Deeply hath sunk the lesson thou hast given,
And shall not soon depart.

VIII.

He who, from zone to zone,

Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight,
In the long way that I must tread alone,
Will lead my steps aright.

WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT (1794-1878).

Who wrote this poem? What is a water-fowl? Mem

orize this poem.

Dictation.

It was a wondrous thing! How fleet
'Twas on those little silver feet.
With what a pretty skipping grace
It oft would challenge me the race;
And when it had left me far away,
'Twould stay, and run again, and stay;
For it was nimbler much than hinds,
And trod as if on the four winds.

ANDREW MARVEL (1620-1678).

XXXIII. PERSEVERANCE.

"Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose
That you resolved to effect."-SHAKSPEARE.

1. A weak spirit will be crushed by the same misfortunes which would rouse a strong one to exertion. The same storm which fixes more firmly the giant oak, roots up the tender sapling. Stroke after stroke fells that

"Unwedgeable and gnarled oak"

effort after effort overcomes a gnarled, ungracious fortune.

2. Bonaparte once said, "I have no idea of a merchant's acquiring a fortune as a general wins a battle-at a single blow." This This way of acquiring a fortune has been ruinous to very many young merchants. They covet Aladdin's lamp; with one smart rub they would summon the genii, and obtain countless treasures.

3. Disappointed in their sanguine expectations, and perhaps utterly ruined and bankrupt, instead of beginning again in a moderate way, with experience for their guide, they have either entirely forsaken mercantile affairs, or struck another "blow" so violent that the rebound has crushed them to the earth.