In this manner, I went through Market Street to Fourth Street, and passed the house of Mr. Read, the father of my future wife. She was standing at the door, observed me, and thought, with reason, that I made a very singular and grotesque appearance.

I then turned the corner, and went through Chestnut Street, eating my roll all the way; and, having made this round, I found myself again on Market Street Wharf, near the boat in which I arrived. I stepped into it to take a draught of the river water; and, finding myself satisfied with my first roll, I gave the other two to a woman and her child who had come down with us in the boat, and was waiting to continue her journey.

Thus refreshed, I regained the street, which was now full of well-dressed people, all going the same way : I joined them, and was thus led to a large Quakers' meeting-house near the market-place. I sat down with the rest, and, after looking around me for some time, hearing nothing said, and being drowsy from my last night's labor and want of rest, I fell into a sound sleep.

In this state I continued till the assembly dispersed,. when one of the congregation had the goodness to wake me. This was consequently the first house I entered, or in which I slept, at Philadelphia.

LESSON XIX.

CONSONANT SOUNDS IN COMBINATION.

rk as in bark, dark, hark, lark.
rld as in curl'd, furl'd, hurl'd, world.
rm as in charm, farm, harm, alarm.
rmd as in arm'd, charm'd, harm'd, alarm'd.

The Cataract of Lodore.

How does the water come down at Lodore?
Here it comes sparkling,

And there it lies darkling;
Here smoking and frothing

Its tumult and wrath in,
It hastens along, conflicting strong;

Now striking and raging,

As if a war waging

Its caverns and rocks among.

Rising and leaping,

Sinking and creeping,

Swelling and flinging,

Showering and springing,

Eddying and whisking,

Sporting and frisking,

Note to Teachers. - Words ending in ing are frequently mispronounced; as mornin for morning, soundin for sounding, &c. The above lesson is inserted with a view to correct this error.

Turning and twisting
Around and around;
Collecting, disjecting
With endless rebound;
Smiting and fighting,

A sight to delight in,

Confounding, astounding,

Dizzying and deafening the ear with its sound; Receding and speeding,

And shocking and rocking,
And darting and parting,
And threading and spreading,
And whizzing and hissing,
And dripping and skipping,
And whitening and brightening,
And quivering and shivering,
And chilling and spilling,

And shining and twining,

And rattling and battling,
And shaking and quaking,
And pouring and roaring,
And waving and raving,
And tossing and crossing,
And flowing and growing,
And running and stunning,
And hurrying and skurrying,

And glittering and flittering,

And gathering and feathering,

And dinning and spinning,

And foaming and roaming,
And dropping and hopping,

And working and jerking,
And juggling and struggling,
And heaving and cleaving,

And thundering and floundering,
And falling and brawling and sprawling,
And driving and riving and striving,
And sprinkling and twinkling and wrinkling,
And sounding and bounding and rounding,
And bubbling and troubling and doubling,
Dividing and gliding and sliding,

And grumbling and rumbling and tumbling, And clattering and battering and shattering, And gleaming and streaming and steaming and beaming,

And rushing and flushing and brushing and gushing, And flapping and wrapping and clapping and slapping, And curling and whirling and purling and twirling, Retreating and beating and meeting and sheeting, Delaying and straying and playing and spraying, Advancing and prancing and glancing and dancing Recoiling, turmoiling and toiling and boiling,

And thumping and flumping and bumping and jumping,

And dashing and flashing and splashing and clashing;
And so never ending, but always descending,
Sounds and motions forever and ever are blending,
All at once, and all o'er, with a mighty uproar,—
And this way the water comes down at Lodore.

LESSON XX.

CONSONANT SOUNDS IN COMBINATION.

rmz as in forms, storms, warms, harms.
rn as in born, horn, morn, warn.
rnd as in earn'd, learn'd, scorn'd, warn'd.
rnz as in burns, churns, learns, turns.

Lovely art thou, O Peace! and lovely are thy children, and lovely are the prints of thy footsteps, in the green valleys.

Blue wreaths of smoke ascend through the trees, and betray the half-hidden cottage: the eye contemplates well-thatched ricks, and barns bursting with plenty; the peasant laughs at the approach of winter.

Attention and Industry rewarded.

A RICH husbandman had two sons, the one exactly a year older than the other. The very day the second was born, he set, in the entrance of his orchard, two young apple-trees, of equal size, which

Note to Teachers. The sentences following the table are to be read solely with reference to correct articulation. Words which may be correctly pronounced when placed in a list or column, and considered separately, are frequently mispronounced when they occur in sentences. The letters most liable to an indistinct or perverted utterance are Italicized.