Definitions.—­Can’ni-bals, human beings that eat human flesh.  Reg’i-ment, a body of troops, consisting usually of ten companies.  Ag-gress’ors, those who first commence hostilities.  Ven’i-son (pro. ven’i-zn, or ven’zn), the flesh of deer.  Ex-cess’es, misdeeds, evil acts.  Con-demn’est (pro. kon-dem’est), censure, blame.

Notes.—­Charles II. was king of England from A.D. 1660 to 1685.  William Penn (b. 1644, d. 1718) was a noted Englishman who belonged to the sect of Friends.  He came to America in 1682, and founded the province which is now the state of Pennsylvania.  He purchased the lands from the Indians, who were so impressed with the justice and good will of Penn and his associates, that the Quaker dress often served as a sure protection when other settlers were trembling for their lives.

XXIV.  WHAT I LIVE FOR.

1.  I live for those who love me,
     Whose hearts are kind and true;
   For the heaven that smiles above me,
     And awaits my spirit, too;
   For all human ties that bind me,
   For the task my God assigned me,
   For the bright hopes left behind me,
     And the good that I can do.

2.  I live to learn their story,
     Who suffered for my sake;
   To emulate their glory,
     And follow in their wake;
   Bards, patriots, martyrs, sages,
   The noble of all ages,
   Whose deeds crown History’s pages,
     And Time’s great volume make.

3.  I live to hail that season,
     By gifted minds foretold,
   When man shall live by reason,
     And not alone by gold;
   When man to man united,
   And every wrong thing righted,
   The whole world shall be lighted
     As Eden was of old.

4.  I live for those who love me,
     For those who know me true;
   For the heaven that smiles above me,
     And awaits my spirit, too;
   For the cause that needs assistance,
   For the wrongs that need resistance,
   For the future in the distance,
     And the good that I can do.

Definitions.—­l.  As-signed’ (pro. as-sind’), allotted, marked out. 2.  Em’-u-late, to strive to equal or excel, to rival.  Wake, the track left by a vessel in the water, hence, figuratively, in the train of.  Bard, a poet.  Mar’tyr, one who sacrifices what is of great value to him for the sake of principle.  Sage, a wise man. 3.  Hail, to salute.

XXV.  THE RIGHTEOUS NEVER FORSAKEN.

1.  It was Saturday night, and the widow of the Pine Cottage sat by her blazing fagots, with her five tattered children at her side, endeavoring by listening to the artlessness of their prattle to dissipate the heavy gloom that pressed upon her mind.  For a year, her own feeble hand had provided for her helpless family, for she had no supporter:  she thought of no friend in all the wide, unfriendly world around.