when it is light?"
From years to come, he seemed care to borrow,
He tried so hard to catch to-morrow.

"You can not catch it, my little Ted;
Enjoy to-day," the mother said;
"Some wait for to-morrow through many a year--
It always is coming, but never is here."

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Directions for Reading.--In reading poetry, pupils should notice the
emphatic words, and give them proper force.

Example.

"_Mother_,"--O word that makes the home!--

"_Tell_ me, when will _to-morrow_ come?"

The two dashes in the first line of the preceding example are used
instead of a parenthesis, and have the same value.

When there is no pause at the end of a line (see first line, third
stanza), it should be closely joined in reading to the line which
follows it, thus making the two lines read as one.

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LESSON V.

ap'pe tite, _wish for food_.

a muse'ment, _play; enjoyment_.

gaunt, _lean; hungry looking_.

spe'cies, _kind_.

oc curred', _took place; happened_.

en cour'age ment, _hope given by another's words or actions_.

di rec'tion, _way; course_.

dusk'y, _very dark; almost black_.

sin'gu lar, _unusual; strange_.

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AN ADVENTURE WITH DUSKY WOLVES.

PART I.

"During the summer and winter, we had several adventures in the
trapping and killing of wild animals. One of them was of such a
singular and dangerous kind, that you may feel interested in hearing
it.

"It occurred in the dead of winter, when there was snow upon the ground.
The lake was frozen over, and the ice was as smooth as glass. We spent
much of our time in skating about over its surface, as the exercise
gave us health and a good appetite.

"Even Cudjo, our colored servant, had taken a fancy for this amusement,
and was a very good skater. Frank was fonder of it than the rest of us,
and was, in fact, the best skater among us.

"One day, however, neither Cudjo nor I had gone out, but only Frank and
Harry. The rest of us were busy at some carpenter work within doors.

"We could hear the merry laugh of the boys, and the ring of their skates
as they glided over the smooth ice. All at once, a cry reached our
ears, which we knew meant the presence of some danger.

"'O Robert!' cried my wife, 'they have broken through the ice!'

"We all dropped what we held in our hands, and rushed to the door.