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but it was too late; they were ruined because their agent, in remitting the money, had been behind time.

A condemned man was led out for execution. He had taken human life, but under circumstances of the greatest provocation; and public sympathy was active in his behalf. Thousands had signed petitions for a reprieve; a favorable answer had been expected the night before, and though it had not come, even the sheriff felt confident that it would yet arrive. Thus the morning passed without the appearance of the messenger. The last moment was up.

The prisoner took his place on the drop, the cap was drawn over his eyes, the bolt was drawn, and a lifeless body hung suspended in the air. Just at that moment a horseman came into sight, galloping down hill, his steed covered with foam. He carried a packet in his right hand, which he waved frantically to the crowd. He was the express rider with the reprieve; but he came too late. A comparatively innocent man had died an ignominious death, because a watch had been five minutes too slow, making its bearer arrive behind time.

It is continually so in life. The best laid plans, the most important affairs, the fortunes of individuals, the weal of nations, honor, happiness, life itself, are daily sacrificed because somebody is "behind time." There are men who always fail in whatever they undertake, simply because they are "behind time. There are others who put off reformation year by year, till death seizes them, and they perish unrepentant, because forever "behind time."

Five minutes, in a crisis, are worth years. It is but a little period, yet it has often saved a fortune, or redeemed a people. If there is one virtue that should be cultivated more than another, it is punctuality; if there is one error that should be avoided, it is being "behind time."

-Freeman Hunt

Aachen, ä'-kěn

PRONUNCIATION OF NAMES

Abyssinia, ǎb'-i-sin'-Ĭ-å

Acadie, ä-kä-dē

Acla, ǎk'-lä

Adayes, ä-da'-yes
Ægean, e-je-ǎn

Ali Cogia, ä'-lē kō-je-a
Andreas Garabito,

än-dras gä-rä-bï'-tō

Angelus, ǎn'-je-lus
Anseis, ăn-se-is

Assisi, äs-sē ́-zē

Atchafalaya, ǎch-à-fà-lï'-å Audubon, ô'-doo-bon Avernus, ä-věĕr'-nus

Bacchantes, bǎk-kǎn'-tēz
Barmecide, bär'-mē-sid
Beau Séjour, bō sā-zhōor
Benedicite, běn'-ē-dis'-i-tē
Benedict Bellefontaine

běn'-e-dict belle-fon-täine'

Bevagno, bā-vän'-yä

Blancandrin, blän-kǎn'-driú

Blomidon, blŏm'-Ĭ-dùn

Bruges, broo'-jěz

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LIBRARY LIST FOR THE GRADE

(Get the books listed under Pleasure Reading first)

Aldrich's Story of a Bad Boy

Amicis' Heart of a Boy

Baldwin's Four Great Americans

Baldwin's Story of the Golden Age

Baldwin's Story of Roland

Baldwin's Story of Siegfried

Barbour's For the Honor of the School

Barbour's The Half Back

Beebe's Four American Naval Heroes

Boyesen's Boyhood in Norway

Burroughs' Birds and Bees

Burroughs' Squirrels and Other Fur Bearers
Burton's Four American Patriots
Catherwood's Heroes of the Middle Ages
Church's Stories of the Old World

Clark's Boy Life in the United States Navy

Clemens' Huckleberry Finn.

Clemens' The Prince and the Pauper

Cochrane's Four Hundred Animal Stories

Coffin's Old Times in the Colonies

Custer's Boots and Saddles

Daskam's The Madness of Philip

Dodge's Donald and Dorothy

Drysdale's The Young Reporter

Du Chaillu's Stories of the Gorilla Country

Ellis' The Young Scout

Goss's In the Navy

Greene's Burnham Breaker

Hall's Adrift in the Ice Fields

Hawthorne's Biographical Stories

Hawthorne's Grandfather's Chair

Hegan's Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch

Hill's Fighting a Fire

Hocking's Her Benny

Holland's Arthur Bonnicastle

Ingersoll's Wild Neighbors

Johnston's The Little Colonel

Johnston's The World's Discoverers

Johnston's Two Little Knights of Kentucky

King's Cadet Days

Kipling's Captains Courageous

Lanier's The Boy's King Arthur

Long's Following the Deer

Long's Ways of Wood Folk

Mabie's Heroes Every Child Should Know

Martineau's The Peasant and the Prince

Martin's Emmy Lou

Miller's True Bear Stories

Miller's True Bird Stories

Mitchell's About Old Story Tellers

Page's In Ole Virginia

Scott's Quentin Durward

Seton's Biography of a Grizzly

Seton's Trail of the Sand Hill Stag
Smith's The Evolution of Dodd
Stanley's How I Found Livingstone

Stockton's Fanciful Tales

Stoddard's Little Smoke

Stoddard's The Boy Lincoln

Taylor's Boys of Other Countries

Thaxter's Stories and Poems for Children

Trowbridge's His One Fault

Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days

Warner's A-Hunting the Deer

Warner's Being a Boy

Waterman's The Girl Wanted

Wiggin's Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

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