Part 71 (1/2)

Hurra! for the Red Island, With the white cross on its crown!

Hurra! for Meccatina, And its mountains bare and brown!

Where the caribou's tall antlers O'er the dwarf-wood freely toss, And the footsteps of the Mickmack Have no sound upon the moss.

There we'll drop our lines, and gather Old ocean's treasures in, Where'er the mottled mackerel Turns up a steel-dark fin.

The sea's our field of harvest, Its scaly tribes our grain; We'll reap the teeming waters As at home they reap the plain.

Though the mist upon our jackets In the bitter air congeals, And our lines wind stiff and slowly From off the frozen reels; Though the fog be dark around us, And the storm blow high and loud, We will whistle down the wild wind, And laugh beneath the cloud!

Hurra!--Hurra!--the west wind Comes freshening down the bay, The rising sails are filling-- Give way, my lads, give way!

Leave the coward landsman clinging To the dull earth like a weed-- The stars of heaven shall guide us, The breath of heaven shall speed!

Directions for Reading.--Let some pupil in the cla.s.s state in what manner the lesson should be read.

Language Lesson.--Change the verbs throughout the sixth stanza so as to represent past action.

Give the time indicated in the following sentences.

I _am thinking_ about it. I _am going_ to-morrow.

As _verb-forms_ do not always determine the _time of an action_, we must call an action _past, present_, or _future_, in accordance with the meaning indicated by the verb.

LESSON LXIX.

op er a'tions, _ways of working; deeds_.

e vap'o rat ed, _has the moisture taken from it_.

au'ger, _a tool used in boring holes_.

shan'ty, _a hut; a poor dwelling_.

e nor'mous, _of very large size_.

su per in tend'ing, _directing; taking care of_.

an nounce', _give first notice of; make known_.