d Harry.

"No?" said the captain. "Pray, what is coal but a kind of stone; and is
not butter, grease; and wheat, seeds; and leather, skins; and silk, the
web of a kind of caterpillar; and may we not as well call a cat an
animal of the tiger kind, as a tiger an animal of the cat kind?"

"So, if you will remember what I have been describing, you will find
that all the other wonderful things that I have told you of, are well
known among ourselves."

"I have told you the story to show that a foreigner might easily
represent every thing among us as equally strange and wonderful, as we
could with respect to his country."

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Directions for Reading.--Point out breathing-places in the last
paragraph.

Name the _emphatic words_ in the last paragraph.

Pronounce carefully the following words: _vegetable, foreigner, beasts,
products, across, again, also, apron_.

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Language Lesson.--Let pupils express the meaning of what is given below
in dark type, using a single word for each example.

Houses built of _earth hardened by fire_.

The walls have _holes to let in the light_.

They were covered with _a sort of transparent stone_.

They drink _water in which dry leaves have been steeped_.

Many wore cloth woven from _a sort of wool grown in pods_.

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LESSON XXIV.

lin'net, _a kind of bird_.

com pare', _be equal; have similar appearance_.

wor'ried, _troubled; anxious_.

hum'ble, _meek; lowly_.

mis'chiev ous, _full of mischief; troublesome_.

grub, _dig up by the roots_.

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THE ILL-NATURED BRIER

Little Miss Brier came out of the ground,
She put out her thorns, and scratched ev'ry thing 'round.
"I'll just try," said she,
"How bad I can be;
At pricking and scratching, there are few can match me."

Little Miss Brier was handsome and bright,
Her leaves were dark green, and her flowers pure white;
But all who came nigh her
Were so worried by her,
They'd go out of their way to keep clear of the Brier.

Little Miss Brier was looking one day
At her neighbor, the Violet, over the way;
"I wonder," said she,
"That no one pets me,
While all seem so glad little Violet to see."

A sober old Linnet, w