have most reason to love God; for his kindness is great enough to pardon even them.

LESSON XII.

CONSONANT SOUNDS IN COMBINATION.

bd as in ebb'd, robb'd, sobb'd, embib'd.
br as in brave, break, breeze, bride.
dld as in handl'd, kindl'd, cradl'd, saddl'd.
dr as in dream, drive, drove, drown.

Attune, (not attoon,) tune, opportune, importune, opportunity, adduce, deduce, produce, delude, delusion.

Note to Teachers. Let the children pronounce the words in the above table, and then utter each of the consonant elements in the combination separately. Take, for instance, the word ebb'd. Here we have the combination bd. These must be uttered in rapid succession, until the combination can be pronounced with force, distinctness, and ease.

And honest pride the woman felt,
Though she was very poor.

To labor, she would leave her home,
For children must be fed;

And glad was she when she could buy
A shilling's worth of bread.

And this was all the children had

On any day to eat :

They drank their water, ate their bread,
But never tasted meat.

One day, when snow was falling fast,
And piercing was the air,

I thought that I would go and see
How these poor children were.

Ere long I reached their cheerless home; 'Twas searched by every breeze; — When, going in, the eldest child

I saw upon his knees.

I paused to listen to the boy :

He never raised his head,

But still went on, and said, "Give us
This day our daily bread."

I waited till the child was done,
Still listening as he prayed;

And, when he rose, I asked him why
The Lord's prayer he had said.

"Why, sir," said he, "this morning, when

My mother went away,

She wept because, she said, she had
No bread for us to-day.

"She said we children now must starve,

Our father being dead;

And then I told her not to cry,
For I could get some bread.

"Our Father,' sir, the prayer begins,
Which makes me think that he,

As we have no kind father here,
Would our kind Father be.

"And then you know the prayer, sir, too, Asks God for bread each day;

So in the corner, sir, I went;

And that's what made me pray."

I quickly left that wretched room
And went with fleeting feet,
And very soon was back again,
With food enough to eat.

"I thought God heard me," said the boy; I answered with a nod;

I could not speak; but much I thought
Of that boy's faith in God.

LESSON XIII.

CONSONANT SOUNDS IN COMBINATION.

dst as in bidst, midst, couldst, wouldst.
fr as in frame, freeze, from, frown.
ft as in lift, drift, swift, left.

fts as in drifts, lifts, gifts, sifts.

Air and exercise, (not air un exercise.) Charles and John. Land and water. Questions and answers. A peach and an apple. A dog and a horse.

Rollo's Visit to the Cliffs.

As the party rode slowly away from the beach, Rollo's mother expressed a wish to go to the cliffs. They were rocky precipices overhanging the sea, at the extremity of a point. of land about a mile from the beach, where the party had been, and thither they. directed their course.

The precipices were very high, and the swell of the sea dashed and roared against them at their foot; and yet the water looked very smooth at a little distance

Note to Teachers. One great cause of indistinct utterance arises from sinking the sound of some of the final consonants when they are followed by words beginning with a vowel. Thus the word and is frequently pronounced like the article an, or like un; and sometimes with only the sound of n; as, air an' exercise air un exercise - or air 'n' exercise. If the attention of children is early called to this subject, the defect will soon be remedied.

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from the land. Rollo wondered why there should be waves along the beach and against the rocks, when there were none out in the open sea.

"I should think, father," said he, "that it would be calmer near the shore, and more windy out upon the water."

"It is," said his father.

"Then, why are not the waves larger?"

"They are full as large."

"Why, father," said Rollo, "there are no waves at all out from the land."

"You cannot see them very well," said his father, "because we look down upon them. When we are upon a mountain, the small hills below almost disappear. Besides, the waves out in the open sea, in such a still time as this, are in the form of broad swells, but these swells are broken when they roll against the shore, and so this makes the surf."

"I mean to look over and see," said Rollo; and he walked cautiously along towards the precipice.

"O Rollo," exclaimed Mary, "do not go so near! "Why, there is no danger," said Rollo.

"Rollo ! Rollo !" exclaimed Mary again, as Rollo went nearer and nearer.

His father had turned away, just as he had finished his remarks, and so had not observed what Rollo was doing. In fact, the boy did not go near enough to the brink to be in any danger, though Mary was afraid to have him so near.

His mother, hearing Mary's call, turned to see what was the matter; and she, too, felt afraid at seeing