XXVIII.

TWO COUNTRIES.

"THE largest heaps of treasured wealth,
Cannot restore declining health;
They cannot bribe the sun to stay
And mitigate his burning ray."

1. A particular kind of letter.

2. Formerly a large city, now only a small village.

3. A statesman, present day.

4. An overflow of water.

5. The quarter of the globe where the

countries are situated.

XXIX.

A PATRIOT, AND HIS COUNTRY.

1. An old castle, which gives the

name to a romance.

2. A town of Silesia.

3. The wisest of men.

4. A thin slice.

5. One of the titles of Juno.

6. A river of Switzerland.

7. An eminent astronomer.

XXX.

A CONVERT.

"OH, why are the loud harps of seraphs resounding, Sweet music of joy through the bright realms

above?

And the choir of the ransom'd in transport responding

New anthems of praise to the God of their love?

"Oh, marvel no more why, with angels consenting, The saints to their Lord songs of rapture

They gaze from their thrones on a sinner repenting, And wake to fresh transports of wonder and praise."

1. Relates to colours or music.

2. A small bone.

3. A French dance.

4. A texture woven with meshes.

5. A town of Austria.

6. A lazy body.

7. A small trading town of European

Turkey.

8. The top of a buckler.

9. A planet.

XXXI.

A GRECIAN PHILOSOPHER.-A SPARTAN
LAWGIVER.

there, built on the solid base

Of equal life, so well a temper'd state;
Where mix'd each government, in such just poise;
Each power so checking, and supporting, each,
That firm for ages, and unmov'd, it stood,
The fort of Greece! without one giddy hour,
One shock of faction, or of party-rage.

For, drain'd the springs of wealth, corruption there
Lay wither'd at the root."

1. Refined.

2. A dwarf.

3. Real.

4. A town of Genoa.

5. An insurer.

6. Noisy play.

7. A city of Hindostan.

8. The god of sleep.

XXXII.

"JOHN TROTT was desired by two witty peers To tell them the reason why asses had ears; 'An't please you,' quoth John, 'I'm not given to letters,

Nor dare I pretend to know more than my betters;

Howe'er, from this time, I shall ne'er see your graces,

As I hope to be saved! without thinking on

asses.

1. A phosphorescent light.

2. A village in Scotland, where the first church, north of the Tay, was established by Boniface.

3. The capital of Phœnicia.

4. A student in the law.

5. Some Americans.

XXXIII.

FINE FEATHERS MAKE FINE BIRDS.

1. A person connected with a law-suit.
2. An incidental digression in a poem.
3. A flowering shrub.

4. A fight.

5. A town of Hesse Darmstadt.
6. The first Christian emperor.

7. A beautiful small bird.

8. A celebrated Queen of Assyria.

XXXIV.

A KING-ONE OF HIS HUNTING-SEATS.

"WHAT Vails the vain knight-errant's brand?-
O, Douglas, for thy leading wand!
Fierce Randolph, for thy speed!
O, for one hour of Wallace wight,
Or well-skilled Bruce, to rule the fight,
And cry, 'Saint Andrew and our right!'
Another sight had seen that morn,
From fate's dark book a leaf been torn,
And Flodden had been Bannock-bourne !"

1. An article of dress in the olden time. 2. Help to astronomy.

3. A cape on the frozen ocean.

4. A priest.

5. Regret for past actions.

6. An upper garment.

7. A martial goddess.

8. The distinctive name of an English

king.

9. A small denomination of numbers.

10. A military designation.

11. One of the Muses.