account of his family, he is a welcome guest at every house, and keeps up a good correspondence among all the gentlemen about him. He carries a tulip-root in his pocket from one to another, or exchanges a puppy between a couple of friends that live perhaps in the opposite sides of the county. Will is a particular favorite of all the young heirs, whom he frequently obliges with a net that he has weaved, or a setting dog that he has made himself. He now and then presents a pair of garters of his own knitting to their mothers or sisters; and raises a great deal of mirth among them by inquiring as often as he meets them, how they wear? These gentleman-like manufactures and obliging little humours make Will the darling of the country.-Addison: The Spectator.

Class discussion.

1. What are the "gentleman-like manufactures" and "obliging little humors" that make Will Wimble the "darling of the country"? 2. Find other expressions in the paragraph that here mean the same as "the darling of the country". 3. What excuse had this man for being without regular employment? 4. Why would "An Idle Man" not be a good title for the paragraph? 5. In what ways did he make himself welcome, and by these ways to what classes of people? 6. How does the writer of the extract make use of illustration or example?

Subjects for written composition.

Choose one:-1. A welcome guest at our house. 2. The most popular boy (or girl) of our crowd. 3. An obliging fellow. 4. An agreeable companion. 5. A useful man (or woman, boy or girl). 6. The pet of the neighborhood. 7. A boy who makes himself a bore. 8. The man in our neighborhood who makes suggestions. 9. The most unselfish member of my family. 10. The unlucky member of my family. 11. The characters opposite.

Subjects for oral composition.

1. Read the poem aloud. 2. Describe what the poet saw as he stood "tip-toe upon a little hill". 3. Describe what you can see from the hill in your town. 4. Describe the scene given in the picture opposite p. 157.

I STOOD TIP-TOE.

I stood tip-toe upon a little hill,

The air was cooling, and so very still,

That the sweet buds which with a modest pride

Pull droopingly, in slanting curve aside,

Their scantly leaved, and finely tapering stems,
Had not yet lost those starry diadems

Caught from the early sobbing of the morn.

The clouds were pure and white as flocks new shorn,
And fresh from the clear brook; sweetly they slept
On the blue fields of heaven, and then there crept

A little noiseless noise among the leaves,

Born of the very sigh that silence heaves:
For not the faintest motion could be seen
Of all the shades that slanted o'er the green.
There was wide wand'ring for the greediest eye,
To peer about upon variety;

Far round the horizon's crystal air to skim,
And trace the dwindled edgings of its brim;

To picture out the quaint, and curious bending
Of a fresh woodland alley, never ending;

Or by the bowery clefts, and leafy shelves,

Guess where the jaunty streams refresh themselves.

I gazed awhile, and felt as light and free

As though the fanning wings of Mercury

Had played upon my heels: I was light-hearted,
And many pleasures to my vision started;
So I straightway began to pluck a posy
Of luxuries bright, milky, soft, and rosy.

-John Keats.

LESSON VIII

I. Correct Use of Words in the Expression of Ideas.

1. Correctness in the use of words is a most necessary requirement for the expression of ideas. In order to use words correctly we should know the correct meaning of the words and the correct place in which to use them. A word which might be wholly correct in one place might be wholly incorrect in another place. For example, we may say an elegant lady, but we may not say an elegant book. Why? Irving may say, "This sequestered glen has long been known by the name of Sleepy Hollow," but we may not say, "The librarian hunted long for a sequestered book". Why?

2. Sometimes an incorrect use of words leads to actual vulgarity. For example, if we say "The teacher was mad," we ought to mean that the teacher's intellect was diseased. If we say "She is an awful girl”, we are using a word that should be used in connection only with things that fill us with awe.

3. While we are learning to write we shall have to be consciously careful to use words correctly.

To help us, we may notice how cultured and educated people use words. We should never hear them say that they "adore peaches and cream".

We may notice how the best authors use words in their writings. We never read there that "this is a nice day" though we might read the expression, "In the nice ear of nature which song was the best?"