ERRORS. 1. ochud for orchard; medder for meadow; atract f cataract; covud for covered. 2. treasur for treasure; plea<ur for pleasure; ahdent for ardent. 3. rigret for regret. QUESTIONS. What is an abbreviation? Give the meaning of B.; Bart.; bbl.; B.C.; B.D.; B.L.; C. or cent.; Capt.; C. C. P.; C. or chap.: Chron.; Co.; Col.; Com.; Con.; Conn. or Ct.; Const. RULE. Both Poetry and Prose that relate to religious subjects, should be read more slowly, distinctly, and seriously, than what relates to other subjects. 'I AM THE WAY, AND THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE.' 1. THOU art the Way,-and he who sighs, Amid this starless waste of wo, To find a path-way to the skies, A light from heaven's eternal glow, An ark, a resting place in God. 2. Thou art the Truth-whose steady day The pure, the everlasting Ray, The Lamp that shines even in the tomb : The Light that out of darkness springs, 8. Thou art the Life-the blessed Well, Which those who drink, shall ever dwell Our Lamp by night, our Light by day : ERRORS. 1. sainse for saints; ctern'l for eternal. 2. blinely for blindly; evullasting for everlasting. 3. thust for thir QUESTIONS. What is the Rule? Should this piece of poetry be read slowly, distinctly, and seriously? 1. What pause is after Way, in the first line? 2. What pause is after tomb? What word rhymes with tomb? What rhymes with springs? 3 What rhymes with given? Does that make a perfect rnyme? 'SEEK YE THE LORD.' 1. SEEK ye the Lord: to Him draw nigh, He listens to each humble cry: His presence, truth and love impart, 2. Seek ye the Lord-He gives thee power He bids each stormy trial cease, And soothes the sorrowing heart to peace. 3. Seek ye the Lord at every age, From childhood's dawn to life's last stage: Give Him thy heart;-thy youthful da 4. So shall His love support thee still, Shall shield thee safe from every ill; ERRORS. 1. dror or drawr for draw; impaht for impart. 2. stawmy for stormy. 3. frum for from; mawnin for morning. 4 shel for shall; thawny for thorny. QUESTIONS. When each line of a Hymn has eight syllables, it is Long Metre. when the first line and third line of a verse have eight syllables, and the other two lines have six syllables in each, it is Common Metre; when the third line of a verse has eight syllables, and each of the other lines has six syllables, it is Short Metre. There are several other kinds of verses; and they are generally called Particular Metre. In what Metre are the two Hymns in this Lesson? In what Metre is the Hymn that begins, 'How doth the little busy bee?' RULE. In many words the letter h is omitted where it should be sounded distinctly; and great caution must be used to avoid this fault. Examples--harm, heel, head, home, hot, horse, who, are pronounced improperly arm, eel, ead, ome, ot, orse, oo. FOREST TREES. 1. THOSE persons who have seen only the trees which grow in New England and in the other States that border the Atlantic Ocean, would be greatly surprised if they should travel through the Mississippi Valley. The full-grown trees of the Eastern States will measure from a foot and a half to three feet in diameter. It is quite uncommon to find any, except the elm, that grow much larger; and only a few elms are so much as four feet in diameter, except very near the ground. 2. The forest trees of the Eastern States are not commonly more than seventy feet in height. A few rise to eighty or ninety feet, and some pines a little more than a hundred. Generally, however, large pine trees are not more than eightyfive feet high, and large maples and oaks are not more than seventy. 3. In the Western States it is not uncommon to see the oak, the lime, the poplar, the cotton wood, and several other kinds, growing as high as one hundred and twenty feet, and four feet in diameter. Sometimes the oak is more than five feet in diameter, the poplar eight feet, and the cotton wood nine. The sycamore also grows very large, but is not so tall as many other trees. If you were to live for a year or two where these forests grow, and then return to New England, all the trees would seem like shrubs. 4. In the Oregon country, which lies in the western part of the United States, on the shores of the Pacific Ocean, the trees are even much larger than those of the Western States. Lewis and Clarke, who travelled in that country, have given us a very interesting accoum of it; and others who have visited it, agree with them ás to the size and beauty of the trees. 5. They say that one kind of the pine in that coun try, is commonly twentyseven feet in circumference, and two hundred and thirty feet high. They measured one that was fortytwo feet in circumference, and not less than three hundred feet in height. The diameter of a tree is about one third as great as its circum ference; so you can tell what was the diameter of this tree. 6. The cotton wood, the fir, the spruce, and several other kinds, are frequently eight feet in diameter, and sometimes more than twelve feet; and their height is from one hundred to two hundred feet. Lewis and Clarke measured a spruce that had fallen down, and found it to be three hundred and eighteen feet in length. 7. Almost every tree that grows in the Eastern States, grows also in Oregon, and is very much larger and taller. The black alder, for example, is seldom more than six inches in diameter on the coast of the Atlantic; but in Oregon it is three or four feet in diameter, and is sixty or seventy feet high. 8. In general, the wood is harder in the Oregon country, than in the Eastern States; and it makes stronger timber for ships, houses, and all other purposes. The climate is so mild in that region, that when it is settled, one large tree may supply fuel enough to last a family more than a year. ERRORS. 1. oo for who; av for have; wich for which. 2. underd for hundred; igh for high. 3. were for where; srubs for |