(Change the person of the nouns and pronouns in the following sentences:-) How miserable art

(Singular Number)-I, the king, am very happy. thou, O nian! Puss! come thou to me! Look at the glorious sun, how he disperses mists. Here is James; he is looking very well.

(Plural Number)-We, the regular dustmen, have called for our Christmas-box. You, the rulers of the nation, should not spend your time in trifling. Here are the beggars; they will not go away without money. Move on! you destroyers of my domestic comfort.

Lesson 16.

THE DIFFERENT IN-
FLECTIONS OF NOUNS

FOR GENDER.

P. Mention the genders of

nouns.

W. The masculine, feminine, common, and neuter genders.

P. You learned the "definitions" of these genders; we may notice the different ways in which they are formed.

Give me the feminine gender of each of these nouns-Boy, uncle, lion, poet, hero. manservant, he-goat, peacock.

Ion. The feminines are-Girl, aunt, lioness, poetess, heroine, maid-servant, she-goat, peahen.

W. The first two feminines

were formed by changing the word.

Ion. The second two were formed by adding the syllable ess; and the feminine of hero was formed by adding the syllable ine.

P. We call such a syllable a termination.

L. In the others you either placed a word before, or placed one after the masculine noun.

P. Thus, we have three ways of forming feminines. (1.) By changing the wordas, boy. girl.

(2.) By adding a termination-as, count, countess.

(3.) By prefixing or affixing another word-as,cock-sparrow, hen-sparrow; pea-cock, pea-hen. In many words you do not

be When we speak of the sun, we say he shines; and of the moon, we say she; many other neuter names are thus spoken of. In the same nouns in the feminine the following parsing exercise gender.

masculine or feminine. you are to change the gender of the nouns in each sentence. When there are masculine nouns, read the sentence with

No. 16. PARSING EXERCISE.

The bachelor bought a boar, and paid a boy to drive it to the house of his brother. The fine buck was killed by the dogs of the Earl of Norfolk. A duck, a goose, and the roc, were presented to the lass who is the Earl's niece, and to the lady who was the mistress of the hunt. A fine ewe and a hind were carried off by some slut, whom we thought to be a witch.

The abbot, and a baron, were sent as ambassadors. They were bad actors, and they failed. The count, the duke, the elector, and the governor were bridegrooms, and the conductor of the marriage ceremony was their benefactor. The peeress, the governess, the heroine, and the huntress were the brides; they all dined at the house of the landgrave, who was their host. The Jew, the mayor, his patron the marquis, and another peer would have been bridegrooms, but neither the priestess, the prophetess, the shepherdess, nor the princess would be their brides. The poet sung about the lion, his protector, but he was a bad songster. The sorceress was the tutoress of the tiger, but he was a traitor and killed his mistress. Here come the widows of the sultan and the viscount.

Our man-servant killed a cock-sparrow, a she-goat, and a she-bear. She is a female child.

MUTUAL LOVE.

CHILDREN Who in peace are living,
Kindly bent on mutual love,
Are to parents pleasure giving;

Are a savour sweet to God:

Still with love their hearts are glowing,
Still in bliss their lives are flowing.

Careful to avoid contention,

Studious, too, of friendly deeds;
Always giving due attention

To the path where virtue leads;
Every error promptly leaving;
Never parents' bosoms grieving.

Children who are thus pursuing
Paths of peace and mutual love,
God with smiles is ever viewing,
And the worthy will approve.
Such to parents are a treasure,
Life with them is always pleasure.

EXCELSIOR.

THE shades of night were falling fast,
As through an Alpine village passed
A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice,
A banner with the strange device,
Excelsior!

His brow was sad; his eye beneath
Flashed like a faulchion from its sheath,
And like a silver clarion rung

The accents of that unknown tongue,
Excelsior!

In happy homes he saw the light
Of household fires gleam warm and bright;
Above, the spectral glaciers shone,
And from his lips escaped a groan,
Excelsior!

"Try not the pass!" the old man said;
"Dark lowers the tempost overhoad,
The roaring torrent is deep and wide!"
And loud that clarion voice replied
Excelsior!

"O stay," the maiden said, "and rest
Thy weary head upon this breast!"
A tear stood in his bright blue eyo,
But still he answered, with a sigh,
Excelsior!

"Beware the pine-tree's withered branch! Beware the awful avalanche !"

This was the peasant's last good-night;
A voice replied, far up the height,

Excelsior!

At break of day, as heavenward
The pious monks of Saint Bernard
Uttered the oft-repeated prayer,
A voice cried through the startled air
Excelsior!

A traveller, by the faithful hound,
Half-buried in the snow was found,
Still grasping in his hand of ice
That banner with the strange device,
Excelsior!

There, in the twilight cold and gray,
Lifeless, but beautiful, he lay,
And from the sky, serene and far,
A voice fell, like a falling star,
Excelsior!

A JOURNAL OF INSTRUCTION FOR THE FAMILY AND THE SCHOOL.

12th Week.

MONDAY.

Moral Biography.

INDUSTRY.

THE MAN WHO MADE A POWER-LOOM (Continued).

P. I TOLD you last week that | in checks; that is too difficult Dr. Cartwright took out his to be done." second patent in the year 1787. From that time he persevered in making looms, and these surprised the public as much as the spinning-jennies had done, by the quantities of cloth they wove. In his progress Dr. Cartwright met with all kinds of difficulties, and made many more failures, but nothing disheartened him now. It is said that he had the proper spirit for an inventor, for he looked upon all difficulties with pleasure, because they gave him occasion for more triumphs. When he had brought his first loom to perfection he was visited by a manufacturer, who was much astonished at it.

Dr. Cartwright did not make any observation. I suppose he had learned to be quite sure before he opened his mouth to speak; but when the manufacturer had gone, he tried to accomplish the thing. The consequence was, that on receiving a second visit from the same person, he had the pleasure of showing him a piece of muslin, of the description mentioned, beautifully executed by his machinery. The man, it is said, was more amazed at this sight than he had been before. He declared to his friend that he must have called in some agency more than human to assist him.

After taking out his patent, Dr. Cartwright tried to establish a large factory of powerlooms at Doncaster, but he failed; he afterwards made many more attempts, and still failed; until he found that he had spent a large fortune.

One reason for his failures was that the cotton-yarn required "dressing" while being woven, and that the wages paid to the man required to dress the warp, lessened the profits gained by the loom.