LI.

A COMPANY, AND ITS FIRST PROFESSIONS.

"All is not gold that glitters."

"COMMERCE! I envy not thy gains,

Thy hard-earn'd wealth, thy golden pains!
The dangers which thy vot'ries run,
Or to undo or be undone;

Whose hungry maws are daily bent
On the fine feast of cent. per cent. ;
Whose virtue, talents, knowledge, health,
Are all combin'd in that word-Wealth!"

1. What a magistrate is.
2. An amphibious animal.
3. A country of Africa.

4. A particular wind.
5. A boy's plaything.
6. A sour, acid fruit.

7. Trade.

8. Wealthy.

9. A Greek island.

10. Name of a raisin in India.

LII.

A POET, AND ONE OF HIS WORKS.

"No tear relieved the burden of her heart; Stunned with the heavy woe, she felt like one Half-wakened from a midnight dream of blood. But sometimes, when the boy

Would wet her hand with tears,

And, looking up to her fixed countenance,
Sob out the name of Mother, then did she
Utter a feeble groan.

At length, collecting, Zeinab turned her eyes

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To Heaven, exclaiming, Praised be the Lord!

He gave, He takes away!

The Lord our God is good!'

1. A short song.

2. To be too powerful.

3. A small island in the Mediterranean.

4. The track of a hunter.

5. A shout of joy.

6. To bury.

7. A town of Africa.

LIII.

AN INSTITUTION.

""Tis sweet to behold, when the billows are sleeping, Some gay-colour'd bark moving gracefully by; No damp on her deck but the eventide's weeping, No breath in her sails but the summer wind's

sigh.

But who would not turn, with a fonder emotion,

To gaze on the Life-boat, though rugged and worn; Which often hath wafted o'er hills of the Ocean,

The lost light of hope to the seaman forlorn? Oh, grant that of those who in life's sunny slumbers, Around us like summer barks idly have play'd; When storms are abroad, we may find in the number, One friend like the Life-boat to come to our aid."

1. Belonging to the nation.

2. The ancient name of Buckinghamshire. 3. A grassy clod.

4. Imperceptible.

5. A sphere.

6. A Papal envoy.

7. The wife of Perseus.

8. Useful for saving life.

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LIV.

"TASTEFUL illumination of the night,

Bright scattered, twinkling star of spangled earth! Hail to the nameless coloured dark and light,

The witching nurse of thy illumined birth.

In thy still hour how dearly I delight

To rest my weary bones, from labour free! In lone spots, out of hearing, out of sight,

To sigh day's smothered pains; and pause on thee, Bedecking dangling brier and ivied tree,

Or diamonds tipping on the grassy spear; Thy pale-faced glimmering light I love to see, Gilding and glistering in the dewdrop near. Oh still hour's mate! my easing heart sobs free, While tiny bents low bend with many an added tear."

1. Endowed with great power.

2. A noted Jesuit.

3. A Hebrew measure.

4. A literary production.
5. A celebrated architect.
6. Simple mineral metal.
7. A kind of illustrated riddle.

8. The geometry of motion.

LV.

TWO STATESMEN.

"SUCH men are raised to station and command, When Providence means mercy to a land.

He speaks, and they appear; to Him they owe Skill to direct, and strength to strike the blow, To manage with address, to seize with power The crisis of a dark decisive hour!"

1. A disagreeable insect.

2. A short-lived fever.

3. What the statesmen were.

4. A village in Kent.

5. Passionate hatred.

6. A Grecian commander in the time of

Priam.

7. An elegant group.

8. A violent wind.

9. A beautiful river of America.

10. A town in Warwickshire, noted for its ribbons.

LVI.

THE SECOND SWALLOWED THE FIRST.

1. A town in Durham, birthplace of the Venerable Bede.

2. An African fowl.

3. A river celebrated for its falls.

4. An ornament of architecture.

5. A piece of land, about 100 acres.

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