the New-Testament.”—­Ib., p. 74.  “The little boy was bare headed.”—­Red Book, p. 36.  “The man, being a little short sighted, did not immediately know him.”—­Ib., p. 40.  “Picture frames are gilt with gold.”—­Ib., p. 44.  “The park keeper killed one of the deer.”—­Ib., p. 44.  “The fox was killed near the brick kiln.”—­Ib., p. 46.  “Here comes Esther, with her milk pail.”—­Ib., p. 50.  “The cabinet maker would not tell us.”—­Ib., p. 60.  “A fine thorn hedge extended along the edge of the hill.”—­Ib., p. 65.  “If their private interests should be ever so little affected.”—­Ib., p. 73.  “Unios are fresh water shells, vulgarly called fresh water clams.”—­Ib., p. 102.

   “Did not each poet mourn his luckless doom,
    Jostled by pedants out of elbow room.”—­Lloyd, p. 163.

LESSON III.—­MIXED.

“The captive hovers a-while upon the sad remains.”—­PRIOR:  in Johnson’s Dict., w.  Hover. “Constantia saw that the hand writing agreed with the contents of the letter.”—­ADDISON:  ib., w.  Hand.  “They have put me in a silk night-gown, and a gaudy fool’s cap.”—­ID.:  ib., w.  Nightgown.  “Have you no more manners than to rail at Hocus, that has saved that clod-pated, numskull’d ninnyhammer of yours from ruin, and all his family?”—­ARBUTHNOT:  ib., w.  Ninnyhammer.  “A noble, that is, six, shillings and eightpence, is, and usually hath been paid.”—­BACON:  ib., w.  Noble.  “The king of birds thick feather’d and with full-summed wings, fastened his talons east and west.”—­HOWELL:  ib., w.  Full-summed.  “To morrow.  This is an idiom of the same kind, supposing morrow to mean originally morning:  as, to night, to day.”—­Johnson’s Dict., 4to.  “To-day goes away and to-morrow comes.”—­Id., ib., w.  Go, No. 70.  “Young children, who are try’d in Go carts, to keep their steps from sliding.”—­PRIOR:  ib., w.  Go-cart.  “Which, followed well, would demonstrate them but goers backward.”—­SHAK.:  _ ib., w.  Goer_.  “Heaven’s golden winged herald late he saw, to a poor Galilean virgin sent.”—­CRASHAW:  ib., w.  Golden.  “My penthouse eye-brows and my shaggy beard offend your sight.”—­DRYDEN:  ib., w.  Penthouse.  “The hungry lion would fain have been dealing with good horse-flesh.”—­ L’ESTRANGE:  ib., w.  Nag.  “A broad brimmed hat ensconced each careful head.”—­Snelling’s Gift, p. 63.  “With harsh vibrations of his three stringed lute.”—­Ib., p. 42.  “They magnify a hundred fold an author’s merit.”—­Ib., p. 14.  “I’ll nail them fast to some oft opened door.”—­Ib., p. 10.  “Glossed over only with a saint-like show, still thou art bound to vice.”—­DRYDEN:  in Johnson’s Dict., w.  Gloss.  “Take of aqua-fortis two ounces, of quick-silver two drachms.”—­BACON:  ib., w.  Charge.  “This rainbow never appears but when it rains in the sun-shine.”—­NEWTON:  ib., w.  Rainbow.