16. "Girl number twenty unable to define a horse!" said Mr. Gradgrind. "Girl number twenty possessed of no facts in reference to one of the commonest of animals! Some boy's definition of a horse. Bitzer, yours."

17. The square finger, moving here and there, lighted suddenly on Bitzer, perhaps because he chanced to sit in the same ray of sunlight which irradiated Sissy.

18. "Bitzer," said Thomas Gradgrind, "your definition of a horse."

19. "Quadruped, graminivorous. Forty teeth, namely twenty-four grinders, four eyeteeth, and twelve incisive. Sheds coat in the spring; in marshy countries, sheds hoofs, too. Hoofs hard, but requiring to be shod with iron. Age known by marks in the mouth."

20. "Now, girl number twenty," said Mr. Gradgrind, "you know what a horse is."

21. She courtesied again, and would have blushed deeper, if she could have blushed deeper than she had blushed all this time.

1. Reasoning, principles, inclined, plane, realities, proceeds, parcel, nonsensical, muzzle, courtesying, explained, objectionable, describe, veterinary, definition, reference, irradiated, quadruped, graminivorous, incisive, calculations, farrier.

2. Who is speaking in the first paragraph? What is meant

by "reasoning animals"? "swept with their eyes"? "little vessels"? Correct "don't he." Are two and two always four? Can you "define a horse"? What does ped mean in "quadruped"? How many teeth has man?

LVI. GRADGRIND'S IDEA OF EDUCATION.

PART II.

1. The third gentleman now stepped forth. A mighty man at cutting and drying, he was; a government officer, always in training, always with a system to force down the general throat, always to be heard of at the bar of his little public office. 2. "Very well," said this well," said this gentleman, briskly smiling and folding his arms. "That's a horse.

Now, let me ask you, girls and boys, would you paper a room with representations of horses?"

3. After a pause, one half of the children cried in chorus, "Yes, sir." Upon which the other half, seeing in the gentleman's face that "yes" was wrong, cried out in a chorus, "No, sir"-as the custom is in these examinations.

4. "Of course not. Why wouldn't you?” 5. A pause. One One corpulent, slow boy, with a wheezy manner of breathing, ventured to answer, "Because I wouldn't paper a room at all; I would paint it."

6. "You must paper it," said the gentleman, rather warmly.

7. "Yes, you must paper it," said Thomas Gradgrind, "whether you like it or not. Don't tell us you wouldn't paper it. What do you mean, boy?" 8. "I'll explain to you, then," said the gentleman, after a dismal pause, "why you "why you wouldn't paper a room with representations of horses. Do you ever see horses walking up and down the sides of rooms in reality-in fact? Do you?"

9. "Yes, sir," from one half. "No, sir," from the other.

10. "Of course, no," said the gentleman, with an indignant look at the wrong half. "Why, then, you are not to see anywhere what you don't see in fact; you are not to have anywhere what you don't have in fact. What is called Taste is only another name for Fact. This is a new principle, a discovery, a great discovery," said the gentleman. "Now, I'll try you again. Suppose you were going to carpet a room. Would you use a carpet having a representation of flowers upon it?"

11. There being a general conviction by this time that "No, sir," was always the right answer to this gentleman, the chorus of "No" was very strong. Only a few feeble stragglers said "Yes;" among them, Sissy Jupe.

12. "Girl number twenty," said the gentleman,

smiling in the calm strength of knowledge. Sissy blushed and stood up.

13. "So you would carpet your room with representations of flowers, would you?" said the gentleman. "Why would you?"

14. "If you please, sir, I am very fond of flowers," returned the girl.

15. "And that is why you would put tables and chairs upon them, and have people walking over them with heavy boots?"

16. "It wouldn't hurt them, sir. They wouldn't crush and wither, if you please, sir. They would be the pictures of what was very pretty and pleasant, and I would fancy-"

17. "Ay, ay, ay! but you mustn't fancy," cried the gentleman, quite elated by coming so happily to this point. "That's it. You are never to fancy."

18. "You are not, Cecilia Jupe," Thomas Gradgrind solemnly repeated, "to do anything of that kind."

19. "You are to be in all things regulated and governed," said the gentleman, "by fact. You must discard the word 'fancy' altogether. You have nothing to do with it. You don't walk upon flowers in fact; you cannot be allowed to walk upon flowers in carpets. You never meet with quadrupeds going up and down the walls; you must not have quadrupeds represented upon walls. You

must use," said the gentleman, "for all these purposes, combinations and modifications (in primary colors) of mathematical figures which are susceptible of proof and demonstration. This is the new discovery. This is Fact. This is Taste."

1. System, representations, corpulent, wheezy, indignant, conviction, stragglers, combinations, modifications, susceptible.

2. In what point did the two questioners agree? Do you suppose that there ever was a time when "all things were so regulated by fact" as to forbid flowers on carpets or horses on paper? Did you ever hear of the Eastlake patterns? If the rule of harmony and taste is violated by flowers on a carpet, is it equally violated by flowers in a picture? Why?

LVII. WAR SONG.

1. Wheel the wild dance

While lightnings glance,

And thunders rattle loud,

And call the brave

To bloody grave,

To sleep without a shroud.

2. Our airy feet,

So light and fleet,

They do not bend the rye

That sinks its head when whirlwinds rave,

And swells again in eddying wave,

As each wild gust blows by;