1. Transposed, genius, automatons, voluptuous, antipodes, attribute, intellectual, philosophy, hexaped, dwindled, aggregation, Archimedes, queueless, queried, counterfeit, enormous, pathetic.

2. What machinery is meant by "iron intellects"? Is a bale of cotton made into cloth as here stated? What "attribute of divinity" is meant here? A hexaped has how many feet? Can you give any other words in which ped means foot? How great is the velocity of the wind? What is meant by “tuning my anvil"? Who was Tubal Cain ?

XXVIII. WHY I LEFT THE ANVIL.

PART II.

1. Ezekiel's eyes grew luminous with a new idea, and, pushing his ink-roller proudly across the metallic page of the newspaper, he replied, "Thoughts work and walk in things that make tracks; and we take these tracks, and stamp them on paper, or on iron, wood, stone, or what not. This is the way we print thoughts. Don't you understand?"

2. The pressman let go the lever and looked interrogatively at Ezekiel, beginning at the patch on his stringless brogans, and following up with his eye to the top of the boy's brown paper buff cap. Ezekiel comprehended the felicity of his illustration, and, wiping his hands on his tow apron, gradually assumed an attitude of earnest exposition. I gave him an encouraging wink, and so he went on.

3. "Thoughts make tracks," he continued impressively, as if evolving a new phase of the idea by repeating it slowly. Seeing we assented to this proposition inquiringly, he stepped to the typecase, with his eye fixed admonishingly upon us. "Thoughts make tracks,” he repeated, arranging in his left hand a score or two of metal slips, "and with these letters we can take the exact impression of every thought that ever went out of the heart of a human man; and we can print it, too," giving the inked form a blow of triumph with his fist; "we can print it, too, give us paper and ink enough, till the great round earth is blanketed around with a coverlid of thoughts as much like the pattern as two peas."

4. Ezekiel seemed to grow an inch at every word, and the brawny pressman looked first at him, and then at the press, with evident astonishment. "Talk about the mind's living for ever!" exclaimed the boy, pointing patronizingly to the ground, as if mind were lying there incapable of immortality until the printer reached it a helping hand; "why, the world is brimful of live, bright, industrious thoughts, which would have been dead, as dead as a stone, if it hadn't been for boys like me who have run the ink-rollers.

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'Immortality, indeed! why, people's minds wouldn't be immortal if 'twasn't for the printers

at any rate in this planetary burying-ground. We are the chaps who manufacture immortality for dead men," he subjoined, slapping the pressman "he graciously on the shoulder.

6. "Give us one good healthy mind," resumed Ezekiel, "to think for us, and we will furnish a dozen worlds as big as this with thoughts to order. Give us such a man, and we will insure his life; we will keep him alive for ever among the living. He can't die, any way you can fix it, when once we have touched him with these bits of inky pewter. He shall not die nor sleep. We will keep his mind at work on all the minds that live on the earth, and all the minds that shall come to live here, as long as the world stands."

7. "Ezekiel," I asked, in a subdued tone of reverence, "will you print my thoughts, too?" Yes, that I will," he replied, "if you will think some of the right kind." "Yes, that we will," echoed the pressman. And I went home and thought, and Ezekiel has printed my "thoughttracks" ever since.

1. Luminous, interrogatively, felicity, comprehended, exposition, evolving, proposition, inquiringly, admonishingly, patronizingly, planetary, subjoined, subdued.

2. What was Ezekiel's " new idea"? What is meant by "metallic page"? "an attitude of earnest exposition"? "evolv

ing a new phase"? "assented-inquiringly"? "planetary burying-ground"? What is the source of thought? How does printing keep a man alive?

XXIX. THE WEAKEST THING.

1. Which is the weakest thing of all
Mine heart can ponder?
The sun, a little cloud can pall
With darkness yonder?

2. The cloud, a little wind can move
Where'er it listeth?

The wind, a little leaf above,
Though sere, resisteth?

3. What time that yellow leaf was green,
My days were gladder;

But now, whatever spring may mean,
I must grow sadder.

4. Ah me! a leaf with sighs can wring
My lips asunder-

Then is mine heart the weakest thing
Itself can ponder.

5. Yet, Heart, when sun and cloud are pined,
And drop together,

And at a blast which is not wind

The forests wither,

6. Thou from the darkening, deathly curse

To glory breakest,—
The Strongest of the Universe
Guarding the weakest!

1. Ponder, listeth, asunder, wither, universe.

2. Mention the steps by which the poet tries to prove that the heart is the weakest thing. Because the cloud can veil the sun, is it the greater? Does not the sun still shine? Does this mean physically "the weakest thing"? Who is the "Strongest of the Universe"? What is the "blast which is not wind"?

XXX. THE QUARREL OF SQUIRE BULL AND HIS SON.

1. John Bull was a choleric old fellow, who held a good manor in the middle of a great mill pond, which, by reason of its being quite surrounded by water, was generally called Bullock Island. Bull was an ingenious man, an exceedingly good blacksmith, a dextrous cutler, and a notable weaver, and was in fact a sort of jack-of-all-trades, and good at each. In addition to these, he was a hearty good fellow, and passably honest as times go.

2. But what tarnished all these qualities was a quarrelsome, overbearing disposition, which was always getting him into some scrape or other. The truth is, he never heard of a quarrel going on