THIRTEENTH LESSON

PART 1. DRILL

1. Physical Culture, Deep Breathing, and Voice Exercise. Review the exercises of Lesson Thirteen of the first term, page 57.

2. Articulation. Repeat distinctly and rapidly:

3. Pronunciation. Drill in words for the sounds of 0, as in accord and not (see page 220).

PART 2. EXPRESSION

INTEREST

If you show that you yourself are interested in what you are reading aloud, you will the more easily arouse the interest of your hearers. Cultivate your ability to concentrate on the particular passage you are interpreting, and persistently exclude from your mind all other thoughts. It is one of the pleasures of the listener quietly to watch the operation of the reader's mind, and he is quick to detect even the slightest tendency of the reader to wander away

from his subject. This power of concentration can be rapidly developed by patient and regular practise in keeping the mind fixt upon the subject you are reading, and leading it gently back to that subject again and again as often as it strays away. The habit of fixing the mind on one theme at a time, and the ability to keep it there at will, constitute one of the most valuable faculties in any walk in life. The reading lesson offers you an exceptional opportunity to develop concentration in a very high degree.

EXAMPLES FOR PRACTISE

1. Tell me, thou Star, whose wings of light
Speed thee in thy fiery flight,
In what cavern of the night
Will thy pinions close now?

Gods! can a Roman senate long debate,
Which of the two to choose-slavery or death?
No! let us rise at once, gird on our swords,
And, at the head of our remaining troops,
Attack the foe; break through the thick array
Of his thronged legions, and charge home upon him.
Perhaps some arm, more lucky than the rest,

May reach his heart, and free the world from bondage.

Rise, fathers, rise! 'tis Rome demands your help;
Rise, and avenge her slaughtered citizens,

Or share their fate! The slain of half her senate
Enrich the fields of Thessaly, while we
Sit here deliberating in cold debates,

If we should sacrifice our lives to honor,
Or wear them out in servitude and chains.

Rouse up, for shame! Our brothers of Pharsalia Point at their wounds, and .cry aloud, "To battle!" "Cato." JOSEPH ADDISON.

3. "Bring forth," cries the monarch, "the vessels of gold
Which my father tore down from the temples of old;
Bring forth, and we'll drink, while the trumpets are blown,
To the gods of bright silver, of gold, and of stone;
Bring forth!'' and before him the vessels all shine,
And he bows unto Baal, and he drinks the dark wine;
While the trumpets bray, and the cymbals ring,
"Praise, praise to Belshazzar, Belshazzar the king!"

Now what cometh-look, look! without menace or call? Who writes with the lightning's bright hand on the wall? What pierceth the king like the point of a dart? What drives the bold blood from his cheek to his heart? "Chaldeans! Magicians! the letters expound!" They are read—and Belshazzar is dead on the ground! Hark! The Persian is come on a conqueror's wing; And a Mede's on the throne of Belshazzar the king! "Belshazzar."

B. W. PROCTER.

4. Three fishers went sailing out into the west-
Out into the west as the sun went down;
Each thought of the woman who loved him the best,
And the children stood watching them out of the town:
For men must work, and women must weep;

And there's little to earn and many to keep,

Tho the harbor bar be moaning.

Three wives sat up in the lighthouse tower

And trimmed the lamps as the sun went down;

And they looked at the squall, and they looked at the shower,
And the rack it came rolling up, ragged and brown.
But men must work, and women must weep,

Tho storms be sudden and waters deep,

And the harbor bar be moaning.

Three corpses lay out on the shining sands

In the morning gleam as the tide went down,
And the women are watching and wringing their hands
For those who will never come back to the town:
For men must work, and women must weep-
And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep-
And good-by to the bar and its moaning.
"The Fishers."

CHARLES KINGSLEY.

FOURTEENTH LESSON

PART 1. DRILL

1. Physical Culture, Deep Breathing, and Voice Exercise. Review the exercises of Lesson Fourteen of the first

3.

Pronunciation. Drill in words for the sounds of o,

as in canoe and woman (see page 221).