Part 18 (2/2)

Tulliver, with the tears in her eyes

Maggie see to a chorus of reproach and derision Her first flush ca it out, supported by the recent appearance of the pudding and custard

He whispered: ”Oh, ie, I told you you'd catch it” He ie felt convinced that Tonominy

Her feeble power of defiance left her in an instant, her heart swelled, and, getting up from her chair, she ran to her father, hid her face on his shoulder, and burst out into loud sobbing ”Co his ar: father'll take your part”

Delicious words of tenderness! Maggie never forgot any of these moments when her father ”took her part”; she kept the years after, when every one else said that her father had done very ill by his children

GEORGE ELIOT: ”The Mill on the Floss”

(Adapted)

THE CORN SONG

Heap high the farolden corn!

No richer gift has Autumn poured Frolean The apple froreen, The cluster froed vales bestow, To cheer us when the storh vales of grass and hs their furrows eful April played

We dropped the seed o'er hill and plain, Beneath the sun of May, And frightened froh the long, bright days of June Its leaves grew green and fair, And waved in hot midsummer's noon Its soft and yellow hair

And noith autumn's moon-lit eves, Its harvest-time has come, We pluck away the frosted leaves, And bear the treasure hoift Apollo showered of old, Fair hands the broken grain shall sift, And knead its old

Let vapid idlers loll in silk Around their costly board; Give us the bowl of samp and milk, By homespun beauty poured!

Where'er the wide old kitchen hearth Sends up its smoky curls, Who will not thank the kindly earth, And bless our farirls!

WHITTIER

SPORTS IN NORMAN ENGLAND

After dinner all the youth of the city go into the field of the suburbs, and address theame of football The scholars of each school have their peculiar ball; and the particular trades have, most of them, theirs The elders of the city, the fathers of the parties, and the rich and wealthy, come to the field on horseback, in order to behold the exercises of the youth, and in appearance are the to be revived at the sight of so ility, and in a participation of the diversion of their festive sons

At Easter the diversion is prosecuted on the water; a target is strongly fastened to a trunk or ster standing upright in the stern of a boat, made to move as fast as the oars and current can carry it, is to strike the target with his lance; and if, in hitting it, he breaks his lance and keeps his place in the boat, he gains his point and triumphs; but if it happens the lance is not shi+vered by the force of the blow, he is, of course, tuoes his vessel without him