es in a midsummer swarm.
There were dames with their kerchiefs tied over their caps,
To see if their poultry were free from mishaps;
The turkeys they gobbled, the geese screamed aloud,
And the hens crept to roost in a terrified crowd;
There was raising of ladders, and logs laying on,
Where the thatch from the roof threatened soon to be gone.

But the wind had passed on, and had met in a lane
With a school-boy, who panted and struggled in vain;
For it tossed him, and whirled him, then passed, and he stood
With his hat in a pool, and his shoe in the mud.

Then away went the wind in its holiday glee,
And now it was far on the billowy sea;
And the lordly ships felt its powerful blow,
And the little boats darted to and fro.

But, lo! it was night, and it sunk to rest
On the sea-birds' rock in the gleaming west,
Laughing to think, in its frolicsome fun,
How little of mischief it really had done.

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Directions for Reading.--Let some pupil in the class state the manner
in which the lesson should be read.

Point out four lines that should be read more quietly than the rest of
the lesson.

Vary the reading by having parts of lesson read as a concert exercise.

What effect has the repetition of the word _now_, in the second and
third lines?

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Language Lesson.--Let pupils write six sentences, each containing one
of the following words, used in such a manner as to show its proper
meaning: _right, write; reed, read; tied, tide_.

Let pupils make out an _analysis_ of the lesson, and use it in
giving the story in their own words.

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LESSON XLI.

veg e ta'tion, _every thing that grows out of the ground_.

meth'od, _way; manner_.

ta'per ing, _growing smaller toward the end_.

men'tioned, _spoken of_.

struct'ure, _arrangement of parts; a building of any kind_.

marsh'y, _wet_.

swamp, _low ground filled with water_.

sprung, _started; begun_.

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SOMETHING ABOUT PLANTS.

The name plant belongs in a general way to all vegetation, from the
tiniest spear of grass or creeping flower one sees on the rocks by the
brook-side, to the largest and tallest of forest trees.

Plants are divided into numerous groups of families, and the study of
the many species belonging to each family, is ver