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self? He was almost ready to freeze, notwithstanding all the efforts he made to keep warm.

6. The lesson derived from this little incident is very obvious. We are all travelers to a distant country. At every step of our journey we find other travelers, who need our friendly aid. Nay, God has brought them around our path in great numbers, and far as the eye can reach, we see their dense and gloomy rank.

7. Now, there are two ways of meeting these objects of Christian sympathy and brotherly regard. We can go forward with the stern purpose of a selfish and unloving spirit, saying, in reply to every appeal which is addressed to our feelings, "Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled;" or we can say, with the warm-hearted traveler, "I cannot see this man perish, I must hasten to his relief."

8. And the rule which we adopt for our guidance in such will determine the question, whether or not we are to be happy. The man who lives only for himself, cannot be happy

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EXERCISE IV.

Falling Inflection.

RULE 4. Indirect questions, or those which cannot be answered by yes or no, generally require the falling inflection, and the answers the same.

EXAMPLES.

1. Who first discovered Amèrica? Christopher Columbus. 2. Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

3. Where was the first Còngress held? At Philadelphia.

4. Who knocks? One from Lord Stanley.

5. Who were those went by? Queen Hecuba and Hèlen.

QUESTIONS. What is the rule for indirect questions? Read the examples, and tell why they have the falling inflection.

6. And whither go they?

Up to the western tower.
Under the canopy.

7. Where dwèllest thou?

8. Who may thàt be, I pray you? Thomas Cromwell. 9. Where is Achilles? Within his tènt.

10. What must I do?

11. Well, what then?

spoken.

Return to the tribunes.

What then? Repent what you have

12. Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this world?

THE RECIPE SIX THOUSAND YEARS OLD.

Mr. W. Let us this morning consider a subject of great importance. Thomas.

Mr. W.

as the last.

What is it to be about?

About the reason why this coffee is not the same

Thomas. It was made just in the same manner.

Mr. W. It is a singular thing, Thomas, that, with all our care and attention, no two cups of coffee are ever precisely alike.

Thomas. How do you account for that?

Mr. W. In no other way than that every product of man is necessarily impèrfect. But I have a bottle of fluid here, made from a recipe six thousand years old; and, although millions and millions of hogsheads are made daily, it never varies in its taste or qualities.

Thomas. How strange that we should never have heard of this fluid!

Amelia. Do let us see it.

Ella. And taste; I wonder how it looks.

Mr. W.

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[Holding up a bottle.. Well, here it is.

Thomas. Why, there is no cork in the bottle.

Mr. W. It needs none.

QUESTIONS. What is the first question in this piece? What inflection does it have? What is the answer to this question? What inflection does it have? Point out the other indirect question that is marked, and its answer. What other indirect question in the piece? What is the instruction contained in this lesson?

Thomas. [Turning the bottle upside down.] Why, father, your fluid has all run out.

Mr. W. That cannot be ; for it is one of its peculiar prop erties, that it cannot be poured out of this bottle. It may be turned out by putting another fluid in, but it will not pour out. Esther. But there is nothing in it, — indeed, there is not. Mr. W. Indeed, Miss, it is full, quite full.

Ella. Oh! father, why do you talk such nonsense?
Mr. W.

Nonsense! forsooth; I never talked better sense.

Whoever

The fluid in this bottle is the true elixir of life. uses it in its pure state, has neither ache nor pain. It puts new life into the sickly boy, reddens his cheek, and makes him sleep; and it is a certain remedy against drowning, if boys only carry enough of it into the water with them. Can you not see it now?

Thomas. You certainly are laughing at us, father.

Mr. W. This fluid was made so perfect, six thousand years ago, that the recipe has never been altered. The three ingredients of which it is composed

Thomas. Three ingredients composing nothing!

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Mr. W. Wait, my son. I repeat it, the three ingredients of which it is composed, were mixed by the maker of it in such proportions, as made it agree with every constitution. It is equally pleasant to the old and young, to the rich and poor. Your little brother, Albert, is very fond of it; and, judging by the quantity you have all been taking since you have stood here, you all seem to relish it.

All together. How tiresome you are, father! We cannot drink nothing. Do look at the bottle now!

Mr. W. I see; it is full of this precious fluid, 'more precious to all who use it than gold, or food, or raiment. Thomas, fill this bottle with water.

Thomas. Quite full?

Mr. W. Yes, quite full. There now, you have poured out and spilled all this precious fluid, and have left nothing but water in the bottle!

Thomas. We have driven nothing out of the bottle but the atmospheric air.

Mr. W. Ay! and that is my precious fluid, -my elixir of life!

Thomas. Oh! I understand you now; it is the air we breathe which was in the bottle. Air is used by everybody, and would save a drowning man's life. How stupid I must

have been, not to see it before!

Mr. W. Is it not astonishing, my children, that this aerial and elastic fluid should be composed of three gases, or airs, which, from the beginning of time to the present moment, have been mixed in the same proportions, in the plains of Quito, in the crowded city,-in the desolate wilds of the pathless desert?

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In all places, the proportion is the same. How puny compared with his Maker! He cannot make two cups of coffee alike; while his Maker, from the remotest era, has mixed these three gases in so exact proportions that no difference can be detected!

EXERCISE V.

RULE 5. Language of authority, denunciation, and exclamation, the emphatic succession of particulars, and emphatic repetition, generally require the falling inflection.

NOTE. When the sense is complete, whether at the close or any other part of the sentence, the falling inflection should also be employed,

EXAMPLES

Authority.

1. Redeem my pennon !-charge agàin ›
2. To àrms! the foemen storm the wall.

QUESTIONS. What is the rule for language of authority, &c.? What is the note under this rule? Read the examples, and tell why they have the falling inflection.

3. Speak, ye who best can tell, ye sons of light.

4. Avàunt! and quit my sight! Let the earth hide thee!

Denunciation.

1. He bursts the bands of fear, and madly cries,

Detested wrètch!

2. Audacious ràiler! thou provokest my wrath Beyond forbearance.

3. Woe unto you, scrìbes and Pharisees, hypocrites!

Exclamation.

1. Alàs! I have ruined my friend.

2. O joyful dày! I would not take a knighthood for my fortune. 3. Mysterious round! what skill, what fòrce divine,

Deep felt, in these appear!

4. O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

Emphatic Succession of Particulars.

1. Friendship is one of the fairest productions of the human sòil, the cordial of life, the lenitive of our sorrows, the multiplier of our jóys, and the source equally of animation and repose.

Emphatic Repetition.

1. Oh! it will break my heart! it will break my heart! 2. Còme, còme, retùrn, —retùrn, thou wandering lord.

3. Dòwn, down, cried Mar,

your lances down!

4. O, treachery! Fly, good Fleance, fly, FLY, FLY!

When the sense is complete.

1. I hate vain thoughts; but thy law do I lòve.

2. My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy judgments.

FRANK AND THE BOAT.

E. MILFORD.

1. As Mr. Merrill went into the house, he hung the key of the boat upon a nail in the back entry, and said to Frank, "Now remember, my son, that you must never take down that

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