Part 15 (2/2)

”Here,” continued Moses, ”we met another man, very well dressed, who desired to borroenty pounds upon these, saying that he wanted money and would dispose of theentleman, who pretended to be my friend, whispered ood an offer pass I sent for Mr Flah, and they talked him up as finely as they did ross between us”

Goldsmith: ”The Vicar of Wakefield”

THE MAPLE

Oh, tenderly deepen the woodland glooms, And merrily sway the beeches; Breathe delicately theblooh till they reach the sky, Pale catkins the yellow birch launches, But the tree I love all the greenwood above Is theof the hawthorn in spring, Or the late-leaved linden in summer; There's a word e new-coloith the tint of the rose When pale are the spring-tiions, And its towers of flaions

And a greener shade there never was made Than its summer canopy sifted, And many a day, as beneath it I lay, Has my ain, Leading over a fresh, green hill, Where a maple stood just clear of the wood-- And oh! to be near it still!

Charles G D Roberts

THE GREENWOOD TREE

Under the greenwood tree Who loves to lie with me, And tune his merry note Unto the sweet bird's throat, Come hither, come hither, coh weather

Who doth a the food he eats, And pleased hat he gets, Come hither, come hither, coh weather

Shakespeare

Believe me, thrift of time will repay you in after life with a usury of profit beyond your uine dreams, and the waste of it will make you dwindle, alike in intellectual and s

Gladstone

LAKE SUPERIOR

Before turning our steps ard from this inland ocean, Lake Superior, it will be well to pause a moment on its shore and look out over its boso at, for the world possesses not its equal

Four hundred English th, one hundred and fifty miles in breadth, six hundred feet above Atlantic level, nine hundred feet in depth; one vast spring of purest crystal water, so cold that during summer months its waters are like ice itself, and so clear that hundreds of feet below the surface the rocks stand out as distinctly as though seen through plate-glass Follow in fancy the outpourings of this wonderful basin; seek its future course in Huron, Erie, and Ontario--in that wild leap froh the world Seek it farther still--in the quiet loveliness of the Thousand Isles, in the whirl and sweep of the Cedar Rapids, in the silent rush of the great current under the rocks at the foot of Quebec

Ay, and even farther away still--dohere the lone Laurentian Hills coinnings they cradled along the shores of Lake Superior There, close to the sounding billows of the Atlantic, two thousand miles frouard the great gate by which the St Lawrence seeks the sea

There are rivers whose currents, running red with the silt and mud of their soft alluvial shores, carry far into the ocean the record of their h its many lakes and various na pure from the fountain-head of Lake Superior Great cities stud its shores; but they are powerless to dim the transparency of its waters Steam-shi+ps cover the broad bosoe not the beauty of the water, no more than the fleets of the worldat a reat lakes of North A into Lakes Superior, Michigan, or Huron, fro these lakes on the south is altogether carried off by the valley of the Mississippi It follows that this valley of the Mississippi is at a much lower level than the surface of the lakes These lakes, containing an area of some seventy-three thousand square h over the level of the great Mississippi valley, froht elevation and extent

Major W F Butler: ”The Great Lone Land”