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SECT. LIII.-RIGHT WAY AND WRONG WAY.

"THE Turks differ from the Franks," says Dr. Walsh "in their most trifling habits. from him; The barber pushes his razo ours draws it to him: the carpenter, on the contrary, drew the saw to him, for all the teeth were set in ours pushes it from him, for all the teeth are set out: the mason sat while he laid the stones; ours always stands 2 the scribe wrote on his hand, from right to left; ours always writes on a desk, and from left to right: the most ridiculous difference consisted in the manner of building a house we begin at the bottom and finish at the top: the house we now saw was a frame of wood, which the Turks began at the top; and the upper rooms were finished and inhabited, while all below was like a lantern.'

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APPLICATION.-There are two ways of doing a thing: a 4 right way and a wrong way. Now the right way is always the easier and the more agreeable; while the wrong way is 5 always difficult and troublesome. Besides, when a thing is done wrong, it has to be done over again. 6 do not know how to do any thing in the best manner, they When children should inquire of their parents, teachers, or friends; and when they are told, they should remember and attend to 7 what has been said. Many a mother has said to her little girl, Your work is all wrong; do you not see how ill it 8 looks? Go and pull it all out again." And many a little boy 9 has had his sum rubbed out from his slate because he did not mind what was said; or, taking the wrong turning, and going down the wrong street, has not been able to find out the person to whom he was sent, and has had to go again, for his negligence and thoughtlessness.

DEFINITIONS, &c.--Turks-inhabitants of Turkey: Where is Turkey? Franks-Frenchmen literally; but by it are meant all Christians of

SECT. LIV. THE OLD SCHOOL.

WHAT do you mean by the old school, father?" asked Joseph, looking up from the amusing and instructive pation of putting together a dissected map. "I have heard you say that such a person belongs to the old ol, and wondered what it could be. Is it a school for people ?"

he father smiled. "Not exactly that, my son, but the pol in which old people were taught, when they were ng."

But was that any different from the schools we have ?" the boy inquired. "Do tell me, father, all about it; I suppose you went to it?" And Joseph left continents, ins and islands, in one confused heap, to draw his little ol beside his father.

'No'; I was not educated in the old school'; still I can you something about it.”

'Were there desks and books and slates and maps, father? I were the boys taught in classes as they are at the school o to ?"

You wholly mistake my meaning, my boy," Mr. Darwin de answer: "the word school, though literally meaning lace for education, is often used in another sense. Thus, speak of the school of experience, and the school of afflicn, because these circumstances produce a change in the nd, similar to that which is accomplished in a child by ucation. When we say, therefore, that an individual has en brought up in the old school, we mean that he received d still retains the ideas of the age in which he formerly ed: ideas which, though once common to all men, like the othes worn at the same time, are now old-fashioned, and id aside for others of a different and newer pattern.

LE PITIONS, &c.--Define amusing, instructive, occupation, disse map, (a map cut into pieces, and to be put together as it was before be cut,) old, auctly, continents, oceans, islands, confused, heap, educat desks, slates, classes, mistake, meaning, circumstances, (things,) simil (like,) accomplished, (effected, produced,) individual, (person,) retai (holds,) ideas, (opins,) age, (time,) pattern.

SECT LV.-WHEN TO THINK BEFORE SPEAKING OR ACTING

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THINK, boys, in all your pursuits; and endeavor to preva on others to think also.

2 It is said, that a father once told his hasty son to tirin three times before he spoke once. The father was standing

3 with his back so near the fire that the tail of his coat was caught by the blaze; on seeing which the son said, "Father, 4 I think!"'—“That is right," said the father, "but what is the 5 subject of your thoughts?"-" O, I think," repeated the son. 6"Very good!" the father added"; "but now tell me what 7 it is you are thinking of." "Why," rejoined the son, "I think, father, that the tail of your coat is on fire." 8 young rogue!" cried the father, turning round in a passion, and finding his coat skirt half burnt away, "you young rogue, why did you not tell me at once that my coat was on 9 fire?" "And so I should," replied the son, "but you told me always to think three times before I spoke once."

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Now my boys, when I tell you to think, I do not mean 10 that you should spend that time in thinking, which ought to be employed in acting; if the case require thought, never act without it; but many cases require prompt and immediate action. If a child is in danger of being run over by a carriage, if another is in the act of drowning, a third near 11 to the brink of a precipice, or if an accident occur, like that of the gentleman's coat on fire, he who would be of any service must stretch forth his hand immediately, and act 12 with decision. Such cases, however, do not often occur: in the main, we should think both before we speak and before 13 we act. He who thinks wisely, is the most likely to act wisely; for actions proceed from thoughts. If the fool would 14 think, he would be a fool no longer: if the wise thought 15 more, they would be wiser than they are. Thinking aright

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NITIONS, &c.—Pursuits-what is pursued, generally to obtain a Give the meaning of think, prevail, hasty, spoke, caught, blaze, rejoined, rogue. What is the difference between rejoined and : any? What is to be supplied after the word should, in sentence make out the sense? What do we learn from this section?

sect. lvi.—SIR WALTER Raleigh's death.

No man ever died a violent death in a more becoming man- than Sir Walter Raleigh. As the morning was cold, the eriff offered to delay the execution a little, to give him e to warm himself. This he refused: saying, that his er and ague would come on, in about a quarter of an ur; (for he appears to have had, at this time, the ague fever';) and if he should not be dead before it came on, enemies would see him shiver, and would say he tremed for fear.

After praying on the scaffold most fervently, he rose, sped his hands, and said, "Now I am going to God!" hen all was nearly ready, he begged the executioner to ow him the axe. It was at first refused; but upon his gent request, he was permitted to see it. He examined it, d made some remarks on the keenness of its edge, &c. aving done this, and once more concluded a silent prayer, rose, examined the block, and laid himself down to it, in proper manner, to see that it was so arranged as to fit

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When he saw that all was right, he once more rose, and ld the sheriff he was ready: only insisting that the execuoner should not strike the blow till he had first given the gnal; and that then he should strike fearlessly.

He now proceeded to lay himself down on the block to eceive the fatal stroke. On being requested to place Limelf so that his face should be toward the east, he replied, So that the heart be right, it is no matter which way the ead lies." Memorable words! and we wish they might nk deep into the hearts of our readers.

After he had placed himself, he seemed to be, for a time, ngaged in prayer; but presently he gave the signal. The -xecutioner delayed a few moments"; nobody knew why";

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upon which Sir Walter cried out, "What dost thou fear 15 Strike: strike!" 16 The executioner then, with two strok 17 of the axe, finished the work assigned him. Sir Walter die in the 66th year of his age.

DEFINITIONS, &c.-Sir Walter Raleigh, a nobleman of England wh lived somewha: more than two hundred years ago. What is a violen death? by a sheriff? by an execution? What is the difference betwee shiver and tremble? What is a scaffold? a signal? What are memorabl words?

SECT. LVII.-FIRST PRINTING IN NEW ENGLAND

1 THE first printing press in New England, was established at Cambridge, in March, 1639, by one Day: the proprietor's name was Glover; who died on his passage to America. 2 The first thing printed was the Freeman's oath; the second an Almanac; and the third a version of the Psalms. No 3 press was set up in Connecticut until the year 1709; when printing was begun at New London, by one Short. The first 4 code of Connecticut laws was revised by the general court held at Hartford, in October, 1672, and printed by Samuel 5 Green, at Cambridge in Massachusetts, in 1675. The first Gazette published in New England, was the News Letter, printed in Boston in 1704. The first newspaper in Con6 necticut, was the Connecticut Gazette, begun at New Haven by James Parker, in January, 1755, but discontinued in 1787 the printer removing to New York.

DEFINITIONS, &c.-Define printing, New England, established, Cambridge, March, proprietor, passage, Almanac, version, Psalms, Connecticut, code, laws, revised, court, Hartford, October, Massachusetts, Gazette, (this name comes from an Italian piece of money; which was the price of t,) published, January, discentinued, removing, New York.

SECT. LVIII.-THE WASTEFUL AND WICKED SON.

Ar last, this wasteful and wicked son, having spent all his property in riotous living, having no money, nor means of 1 getting any, having sunk to the shame and misery of keeping swine, and of eating their food, came to himself, and began to think of his happy home, and of his folly in leaving it. He thought again and again what he should do. Would 9 his father receive him? would his brother, if he still remained

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