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you will observe in them a great difference in their way of doing whatever work they have to do.

15. The kind of work which we call art consists in picking different things out and copying them, or making us feel about them in such a way that we shall call the make-believe beautiful.

16. Some men and women are skilful in picking out and putting different sounds together into melodies and harmonies; and these we call musicians. Some are skilful in putting words together in time or rhyme, or both, in such ways that they make us see or feel over again something that affects us; and these, you know, are poets.

17. Others are very skilful in picking out and mixing in a beautiful make-believe certain kinds of shapes or colors; and these are painters or sculptors.

18. Then suppose you think of a sad or a joyful story,

the painter could paint part of it; the sculptor could carve part of it in stone; the musician could make music about it which you would at once know was either sad or joyful; the poet might make beautiful verses about it; and the story-teller might put it into prose in such a way that all the world who read it would be affected by it.

19. If you were to read in a book that "Art speaks a universal language," you would not understand it at all, but you will understand a little if I put it in this way. There may be a story which will make us laugh or make us cry, or both, if we know certain things about the people in it, but it will not make all persons laugh or cry if they do not know what we know. Yet a man who is skilful in the make-believe that we call Art will be able to tell that story in such a way that hundreds of thousands of people shall laugh and cry at it, though they have none of our knowledge.

20. And so it happens that men who were poets, painters, musicians, sculptors, and story-tellers have made for us beautiful poems and stories, beautiful statues, beautiful pictures, and beautiful pieces of music; and though this

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is all make-believe, it not only does us good by giving us very great pleasure, but it teaches us things about the world and each other that we never knew before.

21. That is because, as I have said, it is not mere copying, like that of the Chinese tailor, or just an image like one in a looking-glass; for the artist has put the different parts of his work together as we never saw them before, and so we have fresh thoughts and feelings about them, as if another world had been made for us out of the very world we know so well.

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REEDOM calls you! Quick! be ready,
Rouse ye in the name of God!

Onward, onward! strong and steady,-
Dash to earth the oppressor's rod.
Freedom calls, ye brave, ye brave!
Rise, and spurn the name of slave.

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Sweep your land from tyrant clean,

Haste, and scour it through and through!

Onward, onward! Freedom cries;

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XXXVIII. - THE PRACTICAL JOKER.

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HE dinner was despatched, and by seven o'clock my new friend and myself were left to commence our voyage up the river. His spirits appeared even higher than they had been before; and his witty sallies and reckless impudence kept me in a constant shiver of delight and apprehension.

2. His first victim was a very respectable, round-bodied gentleman, who was sitting squeezed into the stern-sheets of a skiff, floating most agreeably to himself down the stream, the gentle southwest breeze giving the sail of his boat a shape very similar to that of his equally well-filled white-dimity waistcoat.

3. "Hollo!" cried my friend Daly; "I say, you sir, what are you doing in that boat?"

The plump gentleman maintained a dignified silence.

4. "I say, you sir," continued the undaunted joker, "what are you doing there? You have no business in that boat, and you know it!"

A slight yaw of the skiff into the wind's eye was the only proof of the stout navigator's agitation.

5. Still Daly was inexorable, and he again called to the unhappy mariner to get out of the boat. "I tell you, my fat friend," cried he, "you have no business in that boat!”

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6. Flesh and blood could not endure this reiterated declaration. The ire of the cockney was roused. No business in this boat, sir!" cried he; "what d' ye mean?" 7. "I mean what I say," said Daly; "you have no business in it, and I'll prove it."

8. "I think, sir, you will prove no such thing," said the navigator, whose progress through the water was none of the quickest; "perhaps you don't know, sir, that this is my own pleasure-boat?"

9. "That's it," said Daly; now you have it, no man can have any business in a pleasure-boat. Good day, sir. That's all.'

Theodore Hook.

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And bards have sung them well :

I of good George Nidiver

Now the tale will tell. In Californian mountains

A hunter bold was he: Keen his eye and sure his aim As any you should see.

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1. They keep their questing way between two steep mountains. [Searching.]

2. Two grizzly bears rush at them unawares.

3. They were fierce and fell. [Bloodthirsty.]

4. One of the savage beasts pursued the shrieking child.

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