Part 45 (1/2)

But the Moon she knew nothing about the affair; For, high in the sky, With her one white eye, Motionless, miles above the air, She had never heard the great Wind blare.

_George MacDonald._

DOWN (7th stanza), a tract of sandy, hilly land near the sea.

GLIMMER, fainter.

GLUM, dark, gloomy.

What is a suffix? What does the suffix _less_ mean? Define _cloudless, matchless, motionless._

What cla.s.s of people does Mr. Wind remind you of?

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mi' ter can'on car' di nal dis course'

di' a logue cour'te ous ly

ST. PHILIP NERI AND THE YOUTH.

St. Philip Neri, as old readings say, Met a young stranger in Rome's streets one day, And being ever courteously inclined To give young folks a sober turn of mind, He fell into discourse with him, and thus The dialogue they held comes down to us.

_Saint_.--Tell me what brings you, gentle youth, to Rome?

_Youth_.--To make myself a scholar, sir, I come.

_St_.--And when you are one, what do you intend?

_Y_.--To be a priest, I hope, sir, in the end.

_St_.--Suppose it so; what have you next in view?

_Y_.--That I may get to be a canon too.

_St_.--Well; and what then?

_Y_.-- Why then, for aught I know, I may be made a bishop.

_St_.-- Be it so,-- What next?

_Y_.-- Why, cardinal's a high degree; And yet my lot it possibly may be.