le brown-winged birds!
Teach me the happy magic
Hidden in those soft words,
Which always, in shine or shadow,
So lovingly you repeat,
Over and over and over,
"Sweetest, sweet, sweet, O sweet!"

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Language Lesson.--Let pupils express, in their own language, the words
given below in dark type.

Their eyes are like _living gems_.

Which you always repeat _in shine or shadow_.

What kind of birds are described in the lesson?

Why did they gather straws, stems, lint, feathers, and grasses?

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LESSON XXI.

mes'sage, _word; notice_.

mer'chan dise, _things traded; goods_.

guid'ance _leading; directing_.

halt, _stop_.

de cid'ed, _made up their minds_.

re trac'ing, _going back over_.

ho ri'zon, _line where the earth and sky seem to meet_.

en camped', _set up tents_.

sole, _only_.

gushed, _flowed rapidly; poured_.

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ALI, THE BOY CAMEL-DRIVER

PART I.

Hassan was a camel-driver who dwelt at Gaza. It was his business to go
with caravans, backwards and forwards, across the desert to Suez, to
take care of the camels. He had a wife and one young son, called Ali.

Hassan had been, absent for many weeks, when his wife received from him
a message, brought by another camel-driver, who had returned with a
caravan from Suez.

It said: "Send the boy with the camel to Suez with the next caravan. I
have some merchandise to bring home, and I will stop at Suez till he
comes."

Ali's mother was pained at the thought of sending her young son away to
such a distance for the first time; but she said to herself that Ali
was now quite old enough to be helping his father, and she at once set
about doing what was required for his journey.

Ali got out the trappings for the camel, and looked to the water-bottles
to see that they did not leak. His mother did all that was needed to
make him quite ready to join the next caravan that started.

Ali was delighted to think that he was to go to his father, and that at
last the day was come when, he too was to be a camel-driver, and to take
a journey with the dear old camel which he was so fond of.

He had long wanted to ride on its back across the desert, and to lie
down by its side to rest at night. He had no fear.

The camel, of which Ali was so fond, had been bought by his father with
the sa