His bus'i-ness was spoiled by this sad blun'der; and the man for whom the pa'per was drawn up, and who had not known e-nough to de-tect the bad grammar, lost his mon'ey.

Speak the truth!

Never do a thing by stealth.
Not to gain a na'tion's wealth,
Not for fame and not for health,
Let a false hood stain thy youth;
Cling to truth!

Speak the truth!

Speak it boldly; never fear!
Speak it so that all may hear:
In the end it shall ap-pear,
Truth is best in age and youth:
Speak the truth!

1. HERE is a likeness of the man who dis-cov'ered this fair land where we live. His name is Chris'topher Co-lum'bus. He was born in the city of Gen'o-a,' in Italy, about the year 1446.

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2. Less than four hundred years ago, the land of A-mer'i-ca was not known to the white people of this world. There were Indians who dwelt in it, but they were few in numbers, and lived in a wild state.

3. Columbus thought there must be another great land far to the west of Europe. I have already told you (page 78), that people in his day did not be

lieve that this earth was round; but he believed that it was round.

4. Ile thought that by sailing west he should discover some new land. But he was a poor man, and did not himself have the money to fit out a ship, in which to sail and find out if he were right in his belief.

5. He then tried to per-suade the people in his na'tive city to fit out a ship for him; but they thought his scheme was a foolish one, and they said they could not waste their money on it.

6. Columbus went to Spain, and tried to make the king and queen of that land give him the aid he want'ed. But for a long while they put him off: no one would believe that he was right in his thought of finding a new land.

7. He was a brave and sin-cere man, and though laughed at and badly treated, still he per-se-vered. At length Queen Is-a-bel ́la con-sent'ed to fit out a ship for him: and in the year 1492, on Friday, the third of August, he set sail.

8. He had great trouble in making his crew consent to per-se-vere. They had not been at sea many days, when they grew a-larmed, and wished to put back to Spain. But Columbus begged them to keep on.

9. At length, when they had been at sea sixty-nine days, the land, afterwards called America, was dis'covered. On the twelfth of Oc-to'ber, 1492, Columbus landed on one of the West India Islands, and kissed the earth.

10. You may im-agʻine what were the wonder and

joy of the people of Europe when they heard of this, lis-cover-y. Nothing like it in the world's his'to-ry had been known.

11. But Columbus was un-justly de-prived of the honor of giving his name to the land he had found. It was called America, from a man named A-měr'i-go, who visited the country seven years after Columbus had dis-covered it.

12. A-mer'i-go wrote a book about the country; and then some one made a map, and wrote the name "America," on the land de-scribed by A-mer'i-go. And in this way people fell into the habit of calling the new land America, instead of Columbia.

13. It is now too late to re-dress the in-justice. But the fame of Columbus is not lessened by it. His name will be one of the first with which the children of our land will be made familiar. His story will be one of the first which they will wish to read.

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1. You know George and Frank. Of course you do; everybody does. They are near neighbors to us all. I never go out of doors without seeing one or the other of them, and mostly both; for they are gen-er-ally together.

2. If any mis'chief is done, George or Frank does it. If the cows get out of the meadow, it was either George or Frank who left the gate open. If your fa'vor-ite birds' nest is taken, you may be certain that it was by one or the other of them.

3. You thought that nobody knew that the black hen was setting in the net'tle-bed, back of the barn, on a dozen eggs, which she had slyly laid; but George and Frank knew the black hen's secret from the very first, long before you did.

4. You can keep nothing from their knowledge; they are prowl'ing about before you are out of bed in a morn'ing; and they have eyes that are as sharp as needles, and can pierce into any hole and corner, let it be as small and as dark as it may.

5. George and Frank have ac-quaint'ance with every horse and cow, and with every pig and dog, in the village. They have fre-quent'ed the blacksmith's shop, and the sawpit, and the wheel'wright's, and the car'pen-ter's, and the shoe'mak-er's shops, ever since they could walk alone.

6. They know how horses' and men's shoes are made, how boards are sawed and planed, how cartwheels are made; and, when they grow older, will be able to work at any of these trades without serving much ap-pren'tice-ship.

7. Nothing passes by them un-ob-served. They often go down to the lock on the ca-nal' to see the boats pass, rising or sinking with the water, according as the boats may be going up or down the canal.

8. They stand by the railroad-side to see the train go by; and are as much in'ter-est-ed about the construction of a powerful lo-co-mo'tive, as about their grandfather's old clock, which has a window on each side of its head, through which they have watched the movements of its works many a time.