Pshaw! 'twas only a nibble to look at both sides.

An old fish always looks at both sides.

As if 'twere the worm, I just move it a bit, For what is so mean, not to know when it's hit?

It must surely be more or less than a worm, Which even a fish knows, when bitten, should squirm;

It takes a brave man not to squirm.

Stay! bide well your time! blessings often delay;

For Rome, it is said, was not built in a day. Just give him a chance, and he'll find to his

cost,

That who hesitates, though an old fish, is

lost;

Oh, that fishes alone were thus lost!

I have him! as sweet as hope's morning;

that gleam

Which flashes so brightly up out of the stream;

late,

But just at the moment, the twinkling of fate; The right moment is all that makes fate.

- GEORGE HOWLAND.

To what is life compared in this poem? In each stanza where is something said about men? You may write a story of fishing.

gen' û îne

hĕş' Ĭ tātes

dé scry' (scri)

sus pr' cious (pish us)

věr' Ĭ ěst

The sea, the sea, the open sea,
The blue, the fresh, the ever free;
Without a mark, without a bound,
It runneth earth's wide regions round.

-BARRY CORNWALL.

SIR ISAAC NEWTON.

This great man was born in England in 1642. He was great because he kept his eyes and ears wide open and because he worked hard.

He studied faithfully at school and stood at the head of his class. He watched the shadows, and then put pins on houses near by so their shadows would show the time of day. He observed the motions of the moon and the planets; and this, with something he saw in his orchard, led him to a great discovery.

The discovery he made was the force which causes things to fall to the ground. Strange to say, he found that the same force which causes things to fall to the ground also causes the earth to move round the sun. This force is called gravitation.

Persons sometimes wonder why the earth does not fall into the sun. This is because God made another force which tries to carry the earth away from the sun in a straight line. The two forces pulling against each

other make the earth go round the sun nearly in a circle.

There are several interesting anecdotes of Newton. The first relates to his great discovery of gravitation. He was in the country, and one day was sitting at his door. Overlooking his garden, he saw an apple fall to the ground.

The thought occurred to him, "Why does the apple fall?" It is no answer to say, “Its weight makes it fall;" for then the question would only take a different form, and be, "What is weight?" He could find no answer satisfactory to his own mind but this: "The earth attracts everything."

But he asked himself, "Does the earth alone have this power?" He soon found that all bodies have it, and then he made known his discovery.

It is said that he was absent-minded at times. Sitting by the fire one day, he grew very hot. He rang a bell for a servant to put the fire out. "Why do you not move back?" asked the servant. "I never thought of that," replied Sir Isaac.

He did not often get angry, but tried to keep command of his temper. One day his pet dog, Diamond, turned over a candle and set fire to some papers on which he had been working out some very difficult problems. Though this meant a great loss to him, he said merely, "O, Diamond! Diamond! little do you know the mischief you have done!" Had Diamond known, he would have been very sorry.

Being a great observer and student, Sir Isaac Newton made a number of other wonderful discoveries, about which you will learn when you are older.

He died in 1727, aged eighty-four years.

[NOTE. The teacher should take these and other words from the lesson and talk to the pupils about them before the lesson is read.]