Part 3

The two most famous volcanoes of Europe are Sodom and Gomorrah.

Terra del Fuego means Land of the Furies.

The Straits of Magellan separates North and South America.

Hindoostan flows through the Ganges and empties into the Mediterranean Sea.

No northwest passage has ever been discovered around the Cape of Good Hope.

One of the chief exports of England is live meat which grows in great quantities.

Ireland is called the Emigrant Isle because it is so beautiful and green.

Gibraltar is an island built on a rock. It has 15,000 inhabitants.

The Straight of Mabel Manden seperates the Rock of Gibralter from the ocean.

The width of the different zones Europe lies in depend upon the surrounding country.

The north tempered zone is the best one.

The frigide zone is the most hottest.

Latitude is a thing by which we can tell where a country is on the globe, like Africa.

Latitude are supposed lines which pass horizontally around the globe and longitude are supposed lines which pass perpendicularly in the same way from one circle to another.

The imports of a country are the things that are paid for. The exports are the things that are not.

Pine apples grow on pine trees.

Climate lasts all the time and weather only a few days.

V. Original.

_A Letter._

I was in Cony island. I was in the musium. I saw a bear. I saw a gypsy. I saw a niger man.

We go fishing every mourning. We get a big basket full and do other lots of refreshing things.

I expect to go to the country this summer with my mothers and farthers.

I have had a lovely time the last three weaks. I chop wood and bild fires and go errents and have got two fire crackers saved up for the forth of July.

I write a few lines to letter you know I am a getin on. I went to a excurseon yesterday and I went in barefoot and gethered shels.

_A Bird Story._

The little spring has built her nest in the oke tree. Every mourning the mother bird gets up early to find food for her nesterling sense the April came. One day it rained and the little burds sat and looked at the rain as it flowed beneath their feet.

_About the Birds._

The little birds are in there houses and rain began to power and when the rain began to stop the little flyed out and the little birds sat up a tree of a bransh and then they churp and some birds come to have a nice time when the grass is green as green pante.

_On Man._

Man is an animal that stands up. He is not very big and he has to work for a living.

_On Fashion._

Sensible people wear sensible fashions and insensible people insensible fashions.

_A Rainy Afternoon._

It rained hard so I could not go owdoors, so I went out in the shed and sod some wood.

_On the Cow._

The cow she eats the grass. Wen she eats enought she will lie down in the shade. She is generally chewing. This chewing is called cud. The sheep has no upper Teeth. It there for belongs to the Cow’s Family. The cry of a cow is called Low. Her youn of a Cow is called a calf. The Cow gives us milk. Butter and cheese are made out of bread. The flesh of the Cow is called beef and the Calf veil. We make from their skin shoes. The name of the Cow is called Soldt lether. The name of the calf is called calf-skin.

_On Laughter._

Laughter is something I know everybody can do. Some people laugh until the tears come from their eyes and then they have a crying spell and then when that is over they have a laughing spell. When people cry it will make them look very peculiar so most of people very seldom cry. It is the laughing they generally do.

_On Occupation._

I think if I should become a shoe manufacturer I should succeed as it is a very profitable occupation and shoes are necessary to all classes and consequently a large trade is a general thing.

_On Umbrellas._

The matereal at the top of an umbrella is placed on a skeleton of whales which meet all together in one place. They do be covered with silk, alpaca and Satan.

_On Indians._

Indians go out naked in the summer an they take ahold of their scalp locks and cut off the other side of their heads. They wear it on their sides. Indians food consists of corn and food. They use smoking instead of tanning. They paint their skind in the color of animals.

_George Washington._

George Washington was the first president of the United States born in Virginia in the year. When George was a little boy he would never tell a lie. Because he thought it was not nice. It tis not nice nether. He studied all kinds of things to be a president.

_Abraham Lincoln._

Abraham Lincoln was born in Wales in 1599. His father was a wool-comer, but Abraham did not like that trade. One day Abraham was standing on the railroad and a man by the name of Guitue came behind and shot him. Then he got put in jail for it. But it was not nice of him because he shot him on the railroad.

_On Reading._

Reading makes us intelligent; and learn about things we would otherwise hear nothing.

It is pleasant to recapitulate stories to persons who probably have not had the opportunity of reading them and it therefore passes many a dreary hour away and makes many a person renew his happiness by hoping for such a favorable end as some characters as are described in the book.

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If we did not have the capacity of reading we might wait all our lives and never secure the desired information, but if instead of waiting for some one to tell us we take the book or paper or whatever it might happen to be and read it for ourselves we will be much better satisfied and also have the consolation of knowing we discovered it for ourselves and did not have to wait for other people to come and furnish us with the desired information.

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In reading there is a large amount of knowledge attained for it enlarged the mind while reading and continues until we pass away.

When we read we come across words that when we hear them spoken of we are entirely ignorant of them.

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The untutored mind is often surprisingly expanded in reading for only a short while a little every day. Then when we hear certain subjects spoken of we do not wonder what it all means.

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Reading the talents of others helps us to compose something that may help us in future life. Without reading we should not know any thing about our forefathers or how we came to be civilized. What would we know about religion if we did not read our Bible and find out how religion originated?

_On Girls._

Girls are very stuckup and dignefied in their maner and behaveyour. They think more of dress than any thing and like to play with dowls and rags. They cry if they see a cow in afar distance and are afraid of guns. They stay at home all the time and go to Church every Sunday. They are al-ways sick. They are al-ways funy and making fun of boys hands and they say how dirty. They cant play marbels. I pity them poor things. They make fun of boys and then turn round and love them. I dont beleave they ever kiled a cat or any thing. They look out every nite and say oh ant the moon lovely. Thir is one thing I have not told and that is they always now their lessons bettern boys.

_On Timidity of Women._

Timidity is a disease very prevelent among our American women. It is thought by them to be an ornament to their charms.

How many young women faint by the sudden appearance of a rat from its hideing place. Oh! they do declare it’s impossible to live where these dreadful creatures make their homes they ask Ma cant she and wont she please to try to secure some remedy so they can be destroyed. You will see the young ladies leap up over stones and steps of great height so as to escape the barks of the dog, if they are walking with a friend of the male kind they will cling to the masculine arm and beseach him to walk so that she might loose sight of that horrible creature known as a dog.

I do think their cases of timidity that cannot be governed such as cases of intemperance fighting and death. We dont want to see any man come along the street destitute of reasoning and come reeling suddenly by you. Also the expectation of death when we see a loved sister going away from a cherished circle.

It cannot be endured, but I have no objections for these cases but the preceding ones are ridiculous and I beseach you to reject it remembering you shall have to undergo greater trials than those related.

_On Poverty._

How many persons possess it! They are persons whose poverty cannot be endured they had enjoyed preceding years in wealth and by some mishap in the family they became poor and how can they endeavor to forget that time when their happiness could not be expressed but now their troubles shall be discovered.

Poverty is a case that cannot be hidden it must be let known so that the possessors may obtain condolence in some way. Places for poor persons are not of much importance for the care of them is not worth mentioning.

Some poor persons with a great deal of poverty would rather walk from house to house in search of some nourishment than inhabit those institutions but what a number of times they are driven from the door with the contemptuousness of the rich how many slang words are said to them.

If our comfortable friends should remember those persons casting away food raiment and apparel they would be less cases of poverty and when sickness overtakes such persons lend a helping hand their consciences would less smite them.

_On Politeness._

Politeness is to say and do the kindest way. I think it is easier for girls to be polite than for boys, but I am not sure as I have never been a girl. Politeness is used in all parts of the United States.

_On the Play of Hamlet._

Hamlet was a young man very nervous. He was always dressed in black because his uncle had killed his father by shooting him in his ear. He could not go to the theatre because his father was dead so he had the actors come to his house and play in the front parlor and he learned them to say the words because he thought he knew best how to say them. And then he thought he’d kill the king but he didn’t. Hamlet liked Ophelia. He thought she was a very nice girl but he didn’t marry her because she was going to be a nunnery. Hamlet went to England but he did not like it very much so he came home. Then he jumped into Ophelia’s grave and fought a duel with her brother. Then he died.

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Hamlet was exceedingly sensitiveness. He denunciated his mother because she entered the matrimonial condition and showed her two photographs which he said one was Hesperus and one a satire. He made her experience great regret. He was engaged to Orphelia but had to neglect her as he was obliged to give his attentions to revenging his father’s death. His uncle was the murderer of his father, Hamlet’s father. He had a very mournful existence and was a great philosopher.

VI. Analytical.

“A balance of power”—making the poker stand up straight in your hand.

“Weeping birch”—the kind of stick that makes you weep.

“Eating cares”—troubles because you are tired of eating.

“Spoiler’s hand”—your father’s hand because he spoils you.

“The balm of childhood”—what makes children stop there crying.

“He issued a papal bull”—the news written on the board outside the office.

“I would that my tongue could utter”—means its to much trouble to write out his ideas.

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Tell me not in mournful numbers, “Life is but an empty dream!” For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. _Psalm of Life._ HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW.

The way we pass a lifetime is to us but as if we were asleep and we do not remember all that happens but the happy moments. When we are dead then we see what we have done in a different way.

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Don’t say life is only an empty dream. If our souls stop living and go to sleep it cannot be so for we would die. The last thing we are to attain to I think is the grave.

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Your the same as dead when your asleep and things that are making you pleasant now will one day make you sorry.

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Do not tell me that life is a dream, because when I sleep things will not be like I think they are.

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This means that you know without being told in rymes, that life and soul shall die away and be nothing.

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Don’t tell me in sorrowful verses life is only an illusion, the soul is wicked that slumbers, and things are very deceitful.

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The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight; But they while their companions slept Were toiling upwards in the night. _The Ladder of St. Augustine._ H. W. LONGFELLOW.

Great men have not made flights very suddenly. They have slept with their companions while they were toiling to keep the heights they had attained.

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The heights that great men have kept out of reach were not attained by means of sudden flight. While their companions were sleeping they were up at all hours of the toiling night.

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In the lexicon of Youth, which fate reserves for a bright manhood, there’s no such word as Fail.

_Richelieu._ EDWARD BULWER LYTTON.

In the early days of youth which destiny waits for a better chance, there is no such word as fail.

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The lexicon of youth which is fated for a bright manhood, should never fail.

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The sentence means, in the beginning of youth the fate that is kept for a bright manhood must not be a failure.

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There was no such word as fail when I was a boy, but now I am a man.

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If you study while you are young your knowledge will be preserved and you can not fail.

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The word fail never appears in the natural teachings of youth and is kept for bright manhood.

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In a youth’s translation which is kept back until a riper age, there is no such word which says fail.

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The youth who is in his lexicon and about to spring into a bright manhood, the word fail he knows not.

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To fail is impossible for youth in the lexicon which is reserved for it.

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Alone, but with unbated zeal, The horseman plied with scourge and steel; For jaded now and spent with toil, Embossed with foam and dark with soil, While every gasp with sobs he drew, The laboring stag strained full in view. _The Lady of the Lake._ SIR WALTER SCOTT.

The man who rode on the horse performed the whip and an instrument made of steel alone with strong ardor not diminishing, for, being tired from the time passed with hard labor overworked with anger and ignorant with weariness, while every breath for labor he drew with cries full of sorrow, the young deer made imperfect who worked hard filtered in sight.

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To him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language. For his gayer hours She has a smile and eloquence of beauty, And she steals into his darker musings With a mild and gentle sympathy that steals Away their sharpness ere he is aware. _Thanatopsis._ WM. CULLEN BRYANT.

The man who loves his nature he holds connections with his form in a visible manner; he speaks a different language for his lively hours. Nature has a glad voice and smile and beauty. He goes into his darker musings with a mild and healing sympathy and not with a sorrowful feeling that steals away their sharpness before he is aware of it.

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To him she speaks the love of nature and of various languages, and she smiles with healing sympathy and steals away his gayer hours and eloquence of beauty that steals away their sharpness before he knows of it.

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Two angels guide The path of man, both aged and yet young, As angels are, ripening through endless years. On one he leans: some call her Memory, And some, Tradition; and her voice is sweet With deep mysterious accords: the other, Floating above, holds down a lamp which streams A light divine and searching on the earth, Compelling eyes and footsteps. Memory yields, Yet clings with loving cheek, and shines anew Reflecting all the rays of that bright lamp Our angel Reason holds. We had not walked But for Tradition; we walk evermore To higher paths, by brightening Reason’s lamp. _The Spanish Gypsy._ GEORGE ELIOT.

Was it not for Tradition we would not travel this far. We are still walking to brighter steps by shining our brains. What little intellect we have, if it was well shined, it might do a great deal.

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Man is guided by two spirits, evil and good, and if the evil spirit (before he was a good one) had been a good one, man would not have been created.

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Man’s path guides two angels. One is old and one is young. Ones names Memory and one is Tradition. One floats round and hunts for things on the earth. Memory clings to the cheek and shines the lamp that Reason holds. Tradition helps us to walk and we brighten up Reason’s lamp.

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Two great Powers or Forces guide men and women in this world whether they be young or old, and these powers are still growing through numbers of years.

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We lean on Mearcy and Tradition. But whatere it may be, the sound is sweet with vast mysterious accords. Then Power or Mearcy glares above us, and there looks down upon us with extreme splendor.

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Memory still shines reflecting that light our senses tell us of, or that is within our brains, if we have any. And I suppose we are all gifted with a little.

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Had an angel never committed sin, we never would have been created and guarded by a heavenly spirit.

VII. Historical.

(_American._)

Christopher Columbus went to sea untill he was 14 years of age. He dreamed there was a place named America and after much adversity he finally discovered it.

Christopher Columbus was called the Father of his Country.

Queen Isabella of Spain sold her watch and chain and other millinery so that Columbus could discover America.

Columbus set sale in three small ships called Nina, Pinter and Santa Anna.

The first land Columbus discovered was Gibraltar.

Columbus was the first white man who discovered America.

Columbus knew the earth was round because he balanced an egg on the table.

Columbus perished in sight of land.

The West Indians was the first discovered by Christies Columbies.

The west Indaines was discovered in 1692 by Chrissor Columbius.

The Crusaders were the first to settle America.

The American colonies were settled by Dutch navegators who founded them.

The first English settlements were made in the Gulf of Mexico.

Slaves were introduced to this country by Spain and Portugese people.

Kink Louis decleared ware against Kink William who commanded the English Fources. A party of French and Indains came to Sketiney and the Indains tomahorks was frozen. It was a very bobloody war. For Fourty years the war was but it did not last longe. The war ended in 1776 because Kink Phillip discovered the dead. It was called his war because he was the cheaf mouver of it.

Virginia was named from Queen Virgin who was called Elizabeth.

The Indians were the first Americans and they settled over a vast expanse of the county.

Salem witch craft was a son of Massasoit.

The Indian wars were very desecrating to the country.

The Indians pursued their warfare by hiding in bushes and then scalping them.

Captain John Smith has been styled the father of his country. His life was saved by his daughter Pochahantas.

The Puritans found an insane asylum in the wilds of America.

They were called Puritans because they were more quiet than the Episcopalians.

Miles Standish discovered Plymouth and it was named in his honor.

Roger Williams called the settlement Rhode Island in honor of God’s merciful Providence shown to him.

William Penn was born in Boston in 1607. He was the first white man who founded Pennsylvania. He founded Pennsylvania because his name was William Penn.

William Penn discovered Philadelphia and laid out its streets.

The Stamp Act was to make everybody stamp all materials so they should be null and void.

Benedict Arnold was greatly regretted by the Americans as well as by the English.

Benjamin Franklin is the finest Example of a selfmad man that American History affords. He commenced life as a tallow chandelier boy and step by step became a Great Genius.

George Washington was born in 1492.

At White Plains Gen. Washington murdered several hundred men.

Gen. Washington is famous for the Washington Monument.

Washington wrote the Declareation of Independence in 1492.

George Washington inherited consumption in the army.

Washington died in Spain almost brokenhearted. His remains were taken to the cathedral in Havanna.

The Mexican war was the war of Texas with the United States.

Gen. Scott fought bravely at the battle of Wingfield.

When the Wig party was in power there was striks all over the laborers.

Slavery was caused by the admission of Missouri into the Union.

The Missouri Compromise compelled slaves to enter all the different states and territories.

Gorilla warfare was war where men rode on gorillas.

The Border Ruffians were founded to prevent all emigrants into Kansas and they sacrificed considerable lives.

John Brown was a very good insane man who tried to get slaves into Virginia. He captured all the inhabitants, but was finally conquered and condemned to his death.

The confederasy was formed by the fugitive slaves.

(_English._)

England was named by the Angels.

The Celts were driven out of England into Whales.

Julius Caesar invaded England 400 years B. C. The English condition was in a rude state. They joined in games such as cock fighting.

The Brittains were the Saxons who entered England in 1492 under Julius Caesar.

The Britains came from Brittany. They were a brave and warlike people and lived by fishing and manufactures.

The Britains conquered Julius Caesar and drove him ignominiously from his dominions.

The Britons founded the Druids. They ust to hold religious services out of doors.

The Druids were supposed to be Roman Catholicks.

The Crusaders were fanatics who fought in tournaments.

The Habeas Corpus Act said that a body whether alive or dead could be produced in court.

Alfred the Great reigned 872 years. He was distinguished for letting some buckwheat cakes burn and the lady scolded him.

Rufus was named William on account of his red hair. He established the curfew fire bell.

William the Conqueror was the first of the Mormons.

Edward the black Prince was famous for founding chivalry.

Chivalry is a fight on horseback between two horsemen in an open plain.

A night errant is a man who goes around in the night in search of adventures.

The Middle Ages come in between antiquity and posterity.

The War of the Roses was between the white and the red.

Henry Eight was famous for being a great widower having lost several wives.

Lady Jane Grey studied Greek and Latin and was beheaded after a few days.

Queen Mary married the Dolphin.

Elizabeth was called the Virgin queen because of her many accomplishments and she had a great many fine dresses.

The unfortunate Charles First was executed and after he was beheaded he held it up exclaiming Behold the head of a trater!

Cromwell was only a parallel with Bonaparte.

Queen Victoria was the 4th son of George Third the Duke of Kent.

John Bright is noted for an incurable disease.

Lord James Gordon Bennett instigated the Gordon Riots.