.Regularly, rêg'u-lår-lè. Change it into a noun. Why was the looking glass in danger of becoming vain? What instruction can you gain from this ? -Regards, respects, compliments, attentions, considers. Notions, ideas, fancies, musings, thoughts, opinions. Change vanity into an adjective. Which is the de rivative? -Check, hinder, repulse, hindrance, stop. Goods, articles of merchandize, things for sale. Change humble into a noun ending in ty. Destinations, anticipated uses. Disposed of, sold, taken from the owner's hands. -Mortification, chagrin, vexation, gangrene. Without, wiTH-out'. Of what is the word compounded? Agreed, concluded, bargained. Change agree into a noun. Upon my arriving at, when I came to, on reaching. -Case, instance, example, condition, covering, box, variation of nouns. Flat. What double meaning has this word ? -Longitude, length, position in regard to length, distance from a meridian. Latitude, breadth, position in regard to breadth, distance from the equator. -Angle, corner, inclination. See Angle in the App. Old-fashioned. What is the derivation of this phrase? Fair-time, country market, stated meeting of buyers and sellers. Christmas, from Christ, anniversary of our Savior's birth. Countenance, koůn'tè-nânse. -Grate, enclosure made with bars, the range of bars within which fires are made. -Circle, social company, round figure, to surround. country cousins assembled round it. At those times I always got a little notice from the young folks; but those festivities over, and I was condemned to another half year of loneliness. How familiar to my recollection at this hour, is that large, old fashioned parlor! I can remember, as well as if I had seen them but yesterday, the noble flowers on the crimson damask chair covers and window curtains; and those curiously carved tables and chairs. I could describe every one of the stories on the Dutch tiles that surrounded the grate; the rich china ornaments on the wide mantle-piece; and the pattern of the paper hangings, which consisted alternately of a parrot, a poppy, and a shepherdess,―a parrot, a poppy and a shepherdess. The room being a little used, the window shutters were rarely opened; but there were three holes cut in each, in the shape of a heart, through, which, day after day, and year after year, I used to watch the long, dim, dusty, sunbeams streaming across the dark parlor. I should mention, however, that I seldom missed a short visit from my master and mistress on a Sunday morning, when they came down stairs ready dressed for church. I can remember how my mistress used to trot in upon her high-heeled shoes, unfold a leaf of one of the shutters, then come and stand straight before me; then turn half round to the right then to the left; never failing to see if the corner of her well starched handkerchief was pinned exactly in the middle. I think I can see her now, in her favorite dove colored lustring (which she wore every Sunday in every summer for seven years at least,) and her long full ruffles and worked apron. Then followed my good master, who, though his visit was somewhat shorter, never failed to come and settle his Sunday wig before me. LESSON VIII. The same, continued. Time rolled away; and my master and mistress, with all that appertained to them, insensibly suffered t Folks, people, an old word nearly obsolete. Crimson, red color somewhat darkened with blue. Carved tables, wrought into various figures, various Dutch, in the manner of the Dutch, a people of Europe. China, a country in Eastern Asia, celebrated for teas, Paper hangings, paper suspended round the walls of rooms, window curtains. Parrot, small bird, which can imitate the sounds of the human voice. Poppy, a garden plant. Shepherdess, feminine of shepherd, woman who takes care of sheep. Spell window-shutters, mantle-piece, through. -Missed, lost, failed of, not recognized. Sunbeams. Of what is this word compounded? Ready dressed, all ready, wholly apparelled. Church, house of worship, sanctuary, society of worshippers. -.Straight, upright, directly, exactly. Spell handkerchief, favorite, colored, mistress. Dove-colored. From what is the phrase derived ? -.Ruffles, article of dress, plaited linen, to put in dis- -Worked, labored, embroidered, did business, fermented. -Settle, establish, arrange, put on properly, seat, bench. Time rolled away, time passed away. Whence the allusion? Appertained to, belonged to, connected with. Insensibly, imperceptibly, by slow degrees, gradually. from its influence. When I first knew them, they were a young, blooming couple as you would wish to see ; but I gradually perceived an alteration. My mistress began to stoop a little; and my master got a cough, which troubled him more or less to the end of his days. At first, and for many years, my mistress' foot upon the stairs was light and nimble; and she would come in as blithe and as brisk as a lark; but at last, it was a slow, heavy step; and even my master's began to totter. And, in these respects, every thing else kept pace with them: the crimson damask that I remembered so fresh and bright, was now faded and worn; the dark polished mahogany, was, in some places, worm-eaten; the parrot's gay plumage on the walls grew dull; and I myself, though long unconscious of it, partook of the universal decay. The dissipated taste I acquired, upon my first introduction to society, had long since subsided; and the quiet, sombre life I led, gave me a grave meditative turn. The change which I witnessed in all these things around me, caused me to reflect much on their vanity; and when, upon the occasions before mentioned, I used to see the gay, blossoming faces of the young, saluting me with so much complacency, I would fain have had admonished them of the alteration they must soon undergo; and have told them how certainly their bloom must fade away as a flower. But, alas! you know, Sir, looking-glasses can only reflect. After I remained in this condition, to the best of my knowledge, about five and forty years, I suddenly missed my old master; he came to visit me no more; and by the change in my mistress' apparel, I guessed what happened. Five years more passed away; and then I saw no more of her! In a short time after this, several rude strangers entered my room; the long, rusty screw, which had held me up so many years, was drawn out; and I together with all the goods and chattels in the house, were put up to auction in that very apartment which I had so long peaceably occupied. I felt a great deal hurt at the very contemptuous terms in which I was spoken of, by some of the bidders; for, as I said, I was not aware that I had become as old fashioned as my poor old master and mistress. At last I was knocked Blooming, fair, ruddy, freshly appearing. Whence What alterations did its master and mistress undergo? Blithe, bliтне, gay, airy, tripping, light. Lark, bird, which is out early in the day, and rises high. What alteration in the footsteps of its master and mistress? What did it betoken? Kept pace, kept up, went on together. What change took place in the crimson damask? Plumage, feathers. What is the derivation of plumage? Subsided, grown less, left me. The allusion is from Sombre, lonely, melancholy, lone, dark. Change grave into a noun-into an adverb. tation. -Turn, move out of course, habit, inclination, way. -Faces, countenances, visages, meets in front, looks in the face. Fain, joyfully, gladly, with pleasure. ~Why is the bloom of youth compared to a flower? What became of its master? Where had he gone ? How many years, before the looking-glass lost its What took place next? What became of the looking-glass next? Auction, a manner of sale, in which the price of a A great deal hurt, very bad, quite unpleasantly. Knocked down, thrown over, laid prostrate, sold, bid- |