nday, March 5, 1770.

5. Cornhill is the name of a street in Boston.

7. Lobster was the epithet applied to a British soldier by the Americans
on account of his red coat.

8. Henry Knox (b. 1750, d. 1806) was then a bookseller in Boston. He
afterwards became one of the American generals.

8. Ropewalk. The active trouble resulting in the massacre arose from a
soldier's being thrashed the Friday before at Gray's ropewalk, where he
had challenged one of the workmen to fight; other soldiers joined in the
affray from time to time, but were always worsted.

13. Warren. This was Joseph Warren (b. 1741, d. 1775), the American
patriot, killed shortly after at Bunker Hill.

Thomas Hutchinson was at this time lieutenant governor of Massachusetts.
Although born in Boston, he sided with the British government in the
troubles before the Revolution, and sailed for England in 1774.

LXXVI. DEATH OF THE BEAUTIFUL.

Eliza Lee Fallen (b. 1787, d. 1859) was born in Boston, Mass. Her maiden
name was Cabott. In 1828, she married Charles Follen, Professor of the
German language and its literature in Harvard University. Her principal
works are "Sketches of Married Life," "The Skeptic," "Twilight Stories,"
and "Little Songs." For several years Mrs. Follen was editor of the
"Children's Friend."

1. The young, the lovely, pass away,
Ne'er to be seen again;
Earth's fairest flowers too soon decay,
Its blasted trees remain.

2. Full oft, we see the brightest thing
That lifts its head on high,
Smile in the light, then droop its wing,
And fade away and die.

3. And kindly is the lesson given;
Then dry the falling tear:
They came to raise our hearts to Heaven;
They go to call us there.

LXXVII. SNOW FALLING.

John James Piatt (b. 1835,--) was born in Dearborn County, Ind., and is
of French descent. He began to write verses at the age of fourteen, and
has been connected editorially with several papers. Several editions of
his poems have been issued from time to time, each edition usually
containing some additional poems. Of these volumes we may mention: "Poems
in Sunshine and Firelight," "Western Windows," "The Lost Farm," and "Poems
of House and Home."

1. The wonderful snow is falling
Over river and woodland and wold;
The trees bear spectral blossom
In the moonshine blurr'd and cold.

2. There's a beautiful garden in Heaven;
And these are the banished flowers,