now the Northern Lights begin to burn,first, like sunbeams playing in the waters. e sea. Then a soft crimson glow tinges the There is a blush on the cheek of night. The e and go, and change from crimson to gold, to crimson. The snow is stained with rosy ofold, from the zenith, east and west, flames word; and a broad band passes athwart the ike a summer sunset. Soft, purple clouds ing over the sky, and through their vapory winking stars shine white as silver. th such pomp as this is Merry Christmas n, though only a single star heralded the stmas. In memory of that day, the Swedish lance on straw; and the peasant girls throw the timbered roof of the hall, and for every sticks in a crack shall a groomsinan come to ding. Merry Christmas indeed!

ad now the glad, leafy midsummer, full of and the song of nightingales, is come! The not set till ten o'clock, and the children are in the streets an hour later. The windows = are all open, and you may sit and read till without a candle.

how beautiful is the summer night, which ight, but a sunless, yet unclouded day deupon earth with dews, and shadows, and g coolness! How beautiful the long, mild which, like a silver clasp, unites to-day with ! How beautiful the silent hour, when MornEvening thus sit together, hand in hand, bee starless sky of midnight!

om the church tower in the public square the

blast in his horn for each stroke of t four times, to the four corners of th sonorous voice, he chants:

"Ho! watchman, ho!

Twelve is the clock!

God keep our town

From fire and brand

And hostile hand!

Twelve is the clock!"

From his swallow's nest in the belfry sun all night long; and, farther north, at his door in the warm midnight, and with a common burning-glass.

a name.

pa-tri-arch/al, like the customs of pri-me'val, fir the patriarchs, or heads of families, in-i'tial (-ish' in ancient times. ru/ral (roo'-), relating to the country. grooms/man, heirloom, any personal property bridegroom handed down to the heir. so-no/rous, cle

Dalecar/lian (6). Dalecarlia (dä-le-kär'le-å), the of Sweden situated on the river Dal. Gethsem garden in the suburbs of Jerusalem, oftentimes resor (See Matt. xxvi. 36.) — armorial bearings (8), figur as a badge of honor; coats of arms. They were d shields, and coats of leaders and noblemen. - India season of warm, pleasant weather, late in autumn.

Explain "days wane apace" (10). Point out a be graph 14. What other figure of speech can you point

LXXV.-CARCASSONNE.

OM GUSTAVE NADAUD, BY MRS. J. SHERWOOD.

old I am! I'm eighty years! worked both hard and long; patient as my life has been, dearest sight I have not seen, Imost seems a wrong,

ream I had when life was new.

ey say it is as gay all times
holidays at home!

e gentles ride in gay attire,
d in the sun each gilded spire
Dots up like those of Rome !
e bishop the procession leads,
e generals curb their prancing steeds!
as! I know not Carcassonne !
as! I saw not Carcassonne !

He says, "O, guard the weak
And most the traitor in the
Against ambition's snare!"
Perhaps in autumn I can fin
Two sunny days with gentle
I then could go to Carcasson
I still could go to Carcasson

5. My God and Father! pardon
If this, my wish, offends!
One sees some hope more hig
In age, as in his infancy,
To which his heart ascends!
My wife, my son, have seen.
My grandson went to Perpign
But I have not seen Carcasso
But I have not seen Carcasso

6. Thus sighed a peasant bent w
Half dreaming in his chair;
I said, "My friend, come go
To-morrow then thine eyes sha
Those streets that seem so fai
That night there came for pas
The church bell's low and sole
He never saw gay Carcassonne

Who has not known a Carcass

Carcassonne (kär'kås-sõn′), Narbonne (när-b (per'pe-nyünh'), are cities in the south of France. táv′ nȧ-do'). -- passing soul (6), the soul departing

G to the great art-critic, Mr. Ruskin, the following is the best the language of a storm and shipwreck. It is taken from erfield."

N'T you think that a very remarkable sky?" he coachman in the first stage out of London. remember to have seen one like it." -not equal to it," he replied. "That's wind, e'll be mischief done at sea, I expect, before

as a murky confusion-here and there blotted lor like the color of smoke from damp fuelclouds tossed up into most remarkable heaps, greater heights in the clouds than there were How them to the bottom of the deepest hollows th, — through which the wild moon seemed to eadlong, as if she had lost her way and were

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re had been a wind all day, and it was rising an extraordinary great sound. In another ad much increased, and the sky was more over

the night advanced, the clouds closing in and verspreading the whole sky, it came on to blow ■d harder, until our horses could scarcely face Many times the leaders turned about, or a dead stop; and we were often in serious apn that the coach would be blown over.

last we got into Yarmouth. I put up at the