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drums beat. "To arms, to arms!" was the cry. And now was to be tested the true character of Boston. All its sons came forth, excited almost to madness: many were absolutely distracted by the sight of the dead bodies and of the blood, which ran plentifully in the street and was imprinted in all directions by the foot-tracks on the snow. "Our hearts," says Warren, "beat to arms, almost resolved by one stroke to avenge the death of our slaughtered brethren." But they stood self-possessed and irresistible, demanding justice according to the law.

1. Interference, molested, brandishing, persuaded, worsted, haughtily, dispersing, deliberately, distracted, slaughtered, irresistible.

2. What are "barracks"? Why did the boy call a soldier a lobster? What is meant by "primed his musket”? “had been worsted"? "with bayonets fixed"? "the drums beat 'to arms' "?

LV. GRADGRIND'S IDEA OF EDUCATION.

PART I.

Teach these

1. "Now what I want is Facts. boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts; nothing else will

ever be of any service to them. This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up these children. Stick to Facts, sir. In this life we want nothing but Facts, sir! nothing but Facts."

2. The speaker, and the schoolmaster, and the third grown person present all backed a little and swept with their eyes the inclined plane of little vessels then and there arranged in order, ready to have gallons of facts poured into them until they were full to the brim.

man of realities. A man A man who proand two are four, not to be talked into Thomas Gradgrind, scales, and the multi

3. Thomas Gradgrind, sir! A A man of facts and calculations. ceeds upon the principle that two and nothing over, and who is allowing for anything over. sir! with a rule and a pair of plication table always in his pocket, sir, ready to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you exactly what it comes to.

4. It is a mere question of figures, a case of simple arithmetic. You might hope to get some other nonsensical belief into the head of George Gradgrind, or Augustus Gradgrind, or John Gradgrind, or Joseph Gradgrind, but into the head of Thomas Gradgrind, no, sir! Indeed, he seemed a kind of cannon loaded to the muzzle with facts.

5. "Girl number twenty," said Mr. Gradgrind,

squarely pointing with his square forefinger. "I don't know that girl. Who is that girl?"

6. "Sissy Jupe, sir," explained number twenty, blushing, standing up, and courtesying.

7. "Sissy is not a name," said Mr. Gradgrind. "Don't call yourself Sissy. Call yourself Cecilia."

8. "Father calls me Sissy, sir," returned the young girl in a trembling voice, and with another courtesy.

9. "Then he has no business to do it," said Mr. Gradgrind. "Tell him he mustn't. Cecilia Jupe. Let me see. What is your father?"

10. "He belongs to the horse-riding, if you please, sir." Mr. Gradgrind frowned, and waved off the objectionable calling with his hand.

11. "We don't want to know anything about that, here. You mustn't tell us about that, here. Your father breaks horses, don't he?"

12. "If you please, sir, when they can get any to break, they do break horses in the ring, sir.”

13. “You mustn't tell us about the ring, here. Very well, then. Describe your father as a horsebreaker. He doctors horses, I dare say?"

14. "Oh yes, sir."

15. "Very well, then; he is a veterinary surgeon, a farrier and horse-breaker. Give me your definition of a horse." Sissy Jupe was thrown into the greatest alarm by this demand.

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. but requiring to be shod with iron. by marks in the mouth."

Hoofs hard,

Age known

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 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 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."

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