There were queer little striped horses, with three or four hoofs on each foot, and no bigger than a Newfoundland dog, but as smart as ever you saw. There were great hairy elephants with teeth like sticks of 175 Wood. There were hogs with noses so long that they could sit on their hind legs and root. And there were many still stranger creatures which no man ever saw alive. But still Favosites lay in the ground and waited.

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And the long, long summer passed by, and the 180 autumn and the Indian summer. At last the winter came, and it snowed and snowed, and it was so cold that the snow did not go off till the Fourth of July. Then it snowed and snowed till the snow did not go off at all. And then it became so cold that it snowed all the time, till the snow covered the animals, and then the trees, and then the mountains. Then it would thaw a little, and streams of water would run over the snow. Then it would freeze again, and the snow would pack into solid ice. So it went on 190 Snowing and thawing and freezing, till nothing but snowbanks could be seen in Wisconsin, and most of Indiana was fit only for a skating rink. And the plants and animals which could get away, all went south to live, and the others died and were frozen into the snow.

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So it went on for a great many years. I dare not tell you how long, for you might not believe me. Then the spring came, the south wind blew, and the snow began to thaw. Then the ice came sliding down from the mountains and hills, and from the north

toward the south. It went on, tearing up rocks, little and big, from the size of a chip to the size of a house, crushing forests as you would crush an eggshell, and wiping out rivers as you would wipe out a chalk mark. So it came pushing, grinding, thundering 205 along, not very fast, you understand, but with tremendous force, like a plow drawn by a million oxen, for a thousand feet of ice is very heavy. And the ice plow scraped over Oconto, and little Favosites was torn from the place where he had lain so long; 210 but by good fortune he happened to fall into a crevice of the ice where he was not much crowded, else he would have been ground to powder and I should not have had this story to tell. And the ice melted as it slid along, and it made great torrents of water, 215 which, as they swept onward, covered the land with. clay and pebbles. At last the ice came to a great swamp overgrown with tamarack and balsam. It melted here; and all the rocks and stones and dirt it had carried,-little Favosites and all,-were dumped into 220 one great heap.

It was a very long time after, and man had been created, and America had been discovered, and the War of the Revolution and the War of the Rebellion had all been fought to the end, and a great many 225 things had happened, when one day a farmer living near Grand Chûte, in Outagamie County, Wisconsin, was plowing up his clover field to sow to winter wheat. He picked up in the furrow a curious little bit of "petrified honeycomb," a good deal worn and dirty, 230

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but still showing plainly the honey cells and the beebread. Then he put it into his pocket and carried it home, and gave it to his boy Charley to take to the teacher and hear what he had to say about it. And this is what he said.

From "Science Sketches.“

GLOSSARY. Quartz; turbid; Pictured Rocks; Medusa; Favosites;
Holger Danske; Frederic Barbarossa; Jim Smiley's frog;
Bowie knives; tamarack; balsam.

It would be well to locate the following on your map:
I. Escanaba (ěs’kả nổ’ba). 2. Eau Claire (o′ klâr). 3. Mar
quette (mär kět'). 4. Ozarks (o'zärks). 5. Oconto (o kon'tō).
6. Nahant (na hant'). 7. Menomonee (mě nŏm'o nē). 8. San-
gamon (san'ga mon). 9. Grand Chûte (shoot). io. Outagamie
(Āo tả găm).

STUDY. The first sentence is built so as to impress you with the immense time that had elapsed. Notice its length and how the addition of clause after clause puts you out of breath. Describe the little jellyfish, and explain how it got its name. Follow the story of Favosites: (1) the earliest stages; (2) his enemies; (3) he settles in life; (4) family history; (5) the freshet and Favosites; (6) the passage of geologic ages (the first fishes, the long summer, coal in the making, animals, the age of glaciers. how Favosites fared); (7) and all human history; (8) Favosites is found. Did you ever see a piece of "petrified honeycomb "?

ABOU BEN ADHEM

LEIGH HUNT

Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!)
Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace,
And saw, within the moonlight in his room,

Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom,
An angel writing in a book of gold:-

Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold,
And to the presence in the room he said,

"What writest thou?"-The vision rais'd its head,
And with a look made of all sweet accord,

Answer'd, "The names of those who love the Lord."
"And is mine one?" said Abou. "Nay, not so,"
Replied the angel. Abou spoke more low,
But cheerly still; and said, "I pray thee then,
Write me as one that loves his fellow-men."

The angel wrote, and vanish'd. The next night It came again with a great wakening light, And show'd the names whom love of God had bless'd And lo! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest.

GLOSSARY. Abou ben Adhem; accord.

STUDY. What did Ben Adhem see in his room? Why was he bold enough to ask the question he did? What second question did he ask? What revelation was made when the angel came again the next night? How do you explain the high place given to Ben Adhem?

VALDEMAR THE HAPPY

MARGARET E. SANGSTER

Favored in love, and first in war
Ever had been King Valdemar.

Bards had written heroic lays,

Minstrels had sung in Valdemar's praise.

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