3. Select from the lesson all the adjectives which end in y, en, ous, and ed; and arrange them in columns.

4. Make nouns out of the following adjectives and verbs: Good; gallant; pass; mix; dark; great; lead; attach; allow; long; bite; wander; bare; busy.

5. Explain the following phrases and sentences: (1) The waters which girdle our little island. (2) The brown pastures are alive with cawing rooks. (3) They are not to be descried by prying eyes.

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6. Write a short composition on NOVEMBER from the following heads (1) November weather and fogs. (2) How and when trees lose their leaves. (3) The beauties of November. (4) The farmer's work.

SIGHTS AND SOUNDS OF NOVEMBER.

Knaps, bites.

Swain, countryman.

Wight, person.
Dismay, disaster.

Doubling light, twilight (= two Shroud, wrappings.

lights).

Success'ion, one after another.

1. The landscape sleeps in mist from morn till

noon;

And if the sun looks through, 'tis with a face
Beamless and pale and round, as if the moon,
When done the journey of her nightly race,
Had found him sleeping, and supplied his
place.

For days the shepherds in the fields may be, Nor mark a patch of sky- blindfold they trace

The plains, that seem without a bush or tree, Whistling aloud, by guess, to flocks they cannot

see.

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2. The timid hare seems half its fears to lose,
Crouching and sleeping 'neath its grassy lair,
And scarcely startles, though the shepherd goes
Close by its home, and dogs are barking there:
The wild colt only turns around to stare
At passer-by, then knaps his hide again;
And moody crows beside the road forbear
To fly, though pelted by the passing swain;
Thus day seems turned to night, and tries to
wake in vain.

8. The owlet leaves her hiding-place at noon,
And flaps her gray wings in the doubling light;
The hoarse jay screams to see her out so soon,
And small birds chirp and startle with affright.
Much doth it scare the superstitious wight,
Who dreams of sorry luck and sore dismay;
While cow-boys think the day a dream of
night,

And oft grow fearful on their lonely way.

4. Yet but awhile the slumbering weather flings Its murky prison round- then winds wake loud;

With sudden stir the startled forest sings Winter's returning song-cloud races cloud, And the horizon throws away its shroud, Sweeping a stretching circle from the eye; Storms upon storms in quick succession crowd, And o'er the sameness of the purple sky

Heaven paints, with hurried hand, wild hues of

every dye.

Clare.

THE COUNTRY IN NOVEMBER.

Harbinger, forerunner.

Quaint'ly, oddly.

Russ'et, reddish.

Obstruct', stop up.

Define', limit and mark.
Array', dress.

The mellow year is hasting to its close,
The little birds have almost sung their last,
Their small notes twitter in the dreary blast-
That shrill-piped harbinger of early snows;
The patient beauty of the scentless rose,
Oft with the morn's hoar crystal quaintly glassed,
Hangs, a pale mourner for the summer past,
And makes a little summer

In the chill sunbeam of the

where it grows.

faint brief day

The dusky waters shudder as they shine;
The russet leaves obstruct the straggling way
Of oozy brooks, which no deep banks define;
And the gaunt woods, in ragged, scant array,
Wrap their old limbs with sombre ivy twine.
H. Coleridge.

Con'vent, a house inhabited by

persons who have left the
world to live a life of prayer
and serious thought.

Pass, a narrow passage between
hills.

Monk, one who lives in a convent

or monastery.

Benight'ed, overtaken by darkness.
Sagac'ity, quick thinking, wisdom.
Res'cue, to save.

Benumbed', deadened, without
feeling.

Delicacy, fineness, exactness.
Exer'tion, effort, attempt.
Recognise', to know again.
Feat'ures, the different parts of
the face.

Courier, a letter and message
carrier.

Overwhelmed', crushed by something heavy or strong. Avalanche, a snow-slip, or a mass of snow and ice sliding down from a mountain to the valley below.

1. The convent of the Great St Bernard is situated

near the top of the mountain known by that name, near one of the most dangerous passes of the Alps, between Switzerland and Italy. In these regions the traveller is often overtaken by the most severe weather. After a day of cloudless beauty, a storm sometimes comes on suddenly, making the roads impassable.

2. The hospitable monks, though far from rich, open their doors to every stranger that presents himself. To be cold, to be weary, to be benighted, are sufficient claims to comfortable shelter, a cheering meal, and their pleasant conversation. 3. But their attention to the distressed does not end here. They devote themselves to the dangerous task of searching for those unhappy persons who may have been overtaken by the sudden storm, and would perish but for their kindly aid. These brave men are assisted in their truly Christian work by a breed of noble dogs, whose sagacity has often enabled them to rescue the traveller from death.

4. Benumbed with cold, weary in the search for a lost track, stupefied by the intense frost, the unhappy man sinks upon the ground, and the snowdrift covers him from sight. It is then that the keen scent and the perfect training of these admirable dogs are called into action. 5. Though the perishing man may lie many feet beneath the snow, the delicacy of smell with which they can trace him gives a chance of escape. They scratch away the snow with their feet; they set up a continued hoarse and solemn bark, which