FIRS Ex. 1. YOUNG AM IRST we have our A, B, C's, t we learn to read, and after piece. This is what I am going began to go to school I was a sm now, and did n't know half as muc you all that my teacher has been me, and very patient with my fault Some boys don't like to study the "O, never mind about our lessons, le I don't believe in that. My idea is work, and when it is time to play, boys who laugh at me for saying th me. If I did like some of them, I thing about my lessons, and shou trouble about it as often as they do. look out for themselves, and we sh get along when it comes their turn I hope next time to do better, bu little, I have tried to say it well. your kind approbation I shall feel motives press upon us for lofty efforts! lliant prospects invite our enthusiasm! nings at once demand our vigilance and fidence! latest, and if we fail probably the last, f-government by the people. We have rcumstances of the grandest and most re. We are as a nation in the vigor rowth has never been checked by the anny. Our constitutions have never by the vices or luxuries of the Old we are, we have been from the beginardy, intelligent, accustomed to self-govrespect. lls between us and any formidable foe. territory we have the choice of many ny means of independence. The gov The press is free. Religion is free. es, or may reach, every home. What success could be presented? What uate to accomplish the sublime end? essary than for the people to preserve elves have created? Can it be that by herself? that she is to be added to epublics the inscription of whose ruin out are not." Forbid it, my countryHeaven! true. He was captain and part own can merchant liner. On a certain vo summer weather, he had for cabin tiful young lady and ten more or gentlemen. Light winds or dead voyage was slow. They had mad when the ten young gentlemen we with the beautiful young lady. T to her, and bloodshed among the riva pending the young lady's decision. the beautiful young lady confided i tain, who gave her discreet advice. affections are disengaged, take that o whom you like the best, and settle t the beautiful young lady made rep because I like them all equally we was a man of resource, hit upon dient; said he, "To-morrow mornin nounced, do you plunge boldly over I will be alongside in a boat to resc one of the ten who rushes to your res afterwards have him." The beautif approved, and did accordingly. But nine out of the ten more or less bea men plunged in after her; and the shed tears, looking over the side were all picked up and restored, d The beautiful young lady, upon seei am I to do? See what a plight they are in. How can I possibly choose, because every one of them is equally wet?" Then said my friend the captain, acting under a sudden inspiration, "Take the dry one." I am sorry to say that she did so, and they lived happy ever afterwards. IT T is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life and splendor and joy. O, what a revolution! What a heart I must have to contemplate without emotion that elevation and that fall! Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. The glory of Europe is extinguished forever. Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone. *This extract is from a celebrated essay by the great English orator and statesman, Edmund Burke, and relates to the execution of Marie Antoinette. The scholar will often see and hear references to the famous sayings to be found in the extract concerning the "age of chivalry" and the "cheap defence of nations." Ex. 5. — THE IMPORTATION OF I BELIEVE that God made man i of one blood. Wherever there God's heritage, I recognize him as a brotherhood of humanity, and I wil him. I will stand by his rights at sacrifice. Whether a man comes fr rope, or the isles of the seas, whate or his religion or his faith, if he c States I would throw over him the of law. These people of China are labor contracts for long terms of yea porters make fortunes. They have country, and their labor is antagoniz of the free people of the United Sta out before us, and we ought to corre of the baleful effects of the system Peru, of the West India Islands, an I want to break up this modern slav extirpate it, and then let the China in the world, come here as individu open to all. A great many have that we would rather had stayed many bad people have come here, b many good people. All countries ha up this great nation. If Chinamen |