secret and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.

5. Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!

No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye can not serve God and mammon.

6. Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: and yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

7. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to-day is, and to-morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?

Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? . . . For your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

Matthew, Chapter VI.

FOR PREPARATION.-I. Who was Solomon? People of what religion meet in synagogues? "Mammon "--what is meant?

II. Hyp'-o-crites, syn'-a-gogueş (-gogz), älms (ämz), pray'-est, ei'-ther, rai'-ment, sōw, reap, ov'-en (ŭv'n), heav'-en (hěv'n), děbts (děts), treas'-ureş (trězh'urz).

III. What meaning is given by e in men ?-capital F in Father ?—est in doest?-ine in thine ?-ee in thee?-y in thy?-th in seeth?―ne in done? -ily in daily ?-r in your?-ies in lilies?

IV. Repetitions, hallowed, forgive, trespasses, reward, verily, secret, "eye be single," else, despise, arrayed, temptation, deliver, fast, disfigure, anoint, moth, rust, corrupt, morrow, sufficient.

V. What do moths attack? What things rust? What is the original meaning of the word cubit, and what does it signify when used as a measure of length?

LXXI. THE FIGHT OF PASO DEL MAR.

1. Gusty and raw was the morning;
A fog hung over the seas,
And its gray skirts, rolling inland,
Were torn by the mountain trees.
No sound was heard but the dashing
Of waves on the sandy bar,

When Pablo of San Diego

Rode down to the Paso del Mar.

2. The pescador, out in his shallop,

Gathering his harvest so wide,
Sees the dim bulk of the headland

Loom over the waste of the tide ;
He sees, like a white thread, the pathway
Wind round on the terrible wall,
Where the faint, moving speck of the rider
Seems hovering close to its fall!

3. Stout Pablo of San Diego

Rode down from the hills behind;
With the bells on his gray mule tinkling,
He sang through the fog and wind.
Under his thick, misted eyebrows
Twinkled his eye like a star,
And fiercer he sang as the sea winds
Drove cold on the Paso del Mar.

4. Now Bernal, the herdsman of Corral, Had traveled the shore since dawn, Leaving the ranches behind him:

Good reason had he to be gone!
The blood was still red on his dagger,
The fury was hot in his brain,

And the chill, driving scud of the breakers
Beat thick on his forehead in vain.

5. With his blanket wrapped gloomily round him, He mounted the dizzying road,

And the chasms and steeps of the headland
Were slippery and wet as he trode.

Wild swept the wind of the ocean,

Rolling the fog from afar,

When near him a mule bell came tinkling,
Midway on the Paso del Mar.

6. "Back!" shouted Bernal full fiercely,

And "Back!" shouted Pablo in wrath,
As his mule halted, startled and shrinking,
On the perilous line of the path.
The roar of devouring surges

Came up from the breakers' hoarse war;
And "Back, or you perish!" cried Bernal;
"I turn not on Paso del Mar!"

7. The gray mule stood firm as the headland; He clutched at the jingling rein,

When Pablo rose up in his saddle

And smote till he dropped it again.
A wild oath of passion swore Bernal,
And brandished his dagger still red;
While fiercely stout Pablo leaned forward,
And fought o'er his trusty mule's head.
8. They fought till the black wall below them
Shone red through the misty blast.
Stout Pablo then struck, leaning farther,
The broad breast of Bernal at last;
And, frenzied with pain, the swart herdsman
Closed round him with terrible clasp,
And jerked him, despite of his struggles,
Down from the mule in his grasp.

9. They grappled with desperate madness
On the slippery edge of the wall;
They swayed on the brink, and together
Reeled out to the rush of the fall!
A cry of the wildest death anguish
Rang faint through the mist afar,
And the riderless mule went homeward
From the fight of the Paso del Mar!

Bayard Taylor.

FOR PREPARATION.-I. Find San Diego (de-ā'go) (in California). "Pä'so del Mar" (Spanish, Pass of the Sea); "pěs-ca-dōr'" (fisherman); “ranches " (rude huts of herdsmen, called “ranchos" by the Mexicans).

II. Pa'-blo, moun'-tain (-tin), shǎl'-lop, těr'-ri-ble, hov'-er-ing, twin'-kled (-kld), före'-head (för'ed), díz'-zy-ing, de-vour'-ing, grăp'pled (-pld), slip'-per-y.

III. What is denoted by er in fiercer?-ther in farther? (Ther, ter, der, and similar forms, occur often in English and Latin, to denote that the word expresses something that stands in contrast to something else, or depends on it, as father is related to child, or under to over; e. g., father, mother, brother, sister, under, sunder, further, hither, yonder; Latin: mater, pater, frater, contra, intra, etc. The syllable er is not so ancient a termination to denote comparison as ter and its kindred forms.)

IV. Gusty, shallop, loom, "misted eyebrows," "scud of the breakers," swayed, "death anguish," swart.

V. The figure of speech by which the fog has its gray skirts torn by the trees, is called what? (Personification.) Why are the fisherman's gainings called so wide a harvest?

LXXII. ROBERT BRUCE AND THE SPIDER.

1. It was about the time when King Robert Bruce was in his greatest difficulties, that an incident took place which, although it rests only on tradition in families of the name of Bruce, is rendered probable by the manners of the time. After receiving the last unpleasing intelligence from Scotland, Bruce was one morning lying on his wretched bed, and deliberating with himself whether he had not better resign all thoughts of again attempting to make good his right to the Scottish crown, and, dismissing his followers, transport himself and his brothers to the Holy Land, and spend the rest of his life in fighting against the Saracens.

2. But then, on the other hand, he thought it would be both criminal and cowardly to give up his attempts to