They sped them away beyond cape and bay,
Where the day and night are one,-

Where the hissing light in the heavens grew bright,
And flamed like a midnight sun.

There was rought below save the fields of snow,
That stretched to the icy pole;

And the Esquimaux in his strange canoe,
Was the only living soul.

Along the coast, like a giant host,

The glittering icebergs frowned,

Or they met on the main, like a battle plain,
And crashed with a fearful sound!

The seal and the bear, with a curious stare,
Looked down from the frozen heights;

And the stars in the skies, with great wild eyes,
Peered out from the Northern Lights.

The gallant Crozier, and the brave Fitz-James,

And even the stout Sir John,

Felt a doubt like a chill through their warm hearts thrill,
As they urged the good ships on.

They sped them away, beyond cape and bay,
Where even the tear-drops freeze;
But no way was found, by strait or sound,
To sail through the Northern Seas:

They sped them away, beyond cape and bay,
And they sought, but they sought in vain!
For no way was found through the ice around
To return to their homes again.

But the wild waves rose, and the waters froze,
Till they closed like a prison-wall;

And the icebergs stood, in the silent flood,
Like jailers grim and tall!

O God! O God!-it was hard to die

In that prison-house of ice!

For what was fame, or a mighty name,
When life was the fearful price?

The gallant Crozier and the brave Fitz-James,
And even the stout Sir John,

Had a secret dread, and their hopes all fled,

As the weeks and months passed on.

Then the Ice King came, with his eyes of flame,
And looked on the fated crew;

His chilling breath was as cold as death,

And it pierced their warm hearts through!

A heavy sleep that was dark and deep,

Came over their weary eyes;

And they dreamed strange dreams of the hills and streams, And the blue of their native skies.

The Christmas chimes, of the good old times

Were heard in each dying ear,

And the darling feet, and the voices sweet

Of their wives and children dear!

But it faded away-away-away!
Like a sound on a distant shore;
And deeper and deeper came the sleep,
Till they slept to wake no more!

Oh, the sailor's wife and the sailor's child-
They weep, and watch, and pray;

And the Lady Jane, she will hope in vain,
As the long years pass away!

The gallant Crozier and the brave Fitz-James,
And the good Sir John have found

An open way to a quiet bay,

And a port where all are bound!

Let the waters roar on the ice-bound shore,
That circles the frozen pole;

There is no sleep, and no grave so deep,

That can hold the human soul.

Sir John Franklin, with Captains Crozier and Fitz-James, in H. M. ships Erebus and Terror, carrying in all one hundred and thirty-eight persons, sailed on his third Arctic expedition of discovery and survey on the 24th day of May, 1845, from the Thames. Dispatches were received from him up to July 12th, 1845, but from that time the ships vanished into the mysterious solitudes of the icy north. Twenty-one expeditions were subsequently sent out for their rescue or to discover their fate, and at last, in May, 1859, a tin case containing a paper was found, dated April 25th, 1848, and signed by Captain Fitz-James, saying that Franklin had died on the 11th June, 1847, and that the ships had been abandoned on the 22nd of April, 1848. Skeletons and relics of the

crews were also found, and the death of all from cold and hunger was finally brought to light. Lady Franklin is still aliveOctober, 1873.

QUESTIONS.-Who are named in this poem? Give the names of the ships. When did they sail, and from what place? What did they see in the far north? Name the people there. How many expeditions were sent out to rescue them? What were found in 1859? How long is it since they sailed? Did any come back? What killed them? What does the day and night being one" mean? What is meant by the "hissing light"?

I LATELY heard a

story about a poor
fukeer, which I
will tell you. A
fakeer is a Hindoo
devotee, who, co-

vered with dust
and ashes, visits
the villages and
cities of India, and
is looked upon by
the natives as a
holy man. At the
time of the mu-
tiny, the fakeer

dif-fi-cul-ty
o-ver-whelmed
Eu-ro-pe-an

found a European
baby, which had

been hid by its

A Fakeer.

nurse during the

A Fakcer.

massacre; its parents having been able to escape. The poor man, with great difficulty and suffering, carried off the child, and took it with him in his wanderings. Being looked upon as a holy man, he was the better able to get protection and nourishment for his charge. He at last discovered the parents, and presented to them their lost child whom they had given up as dead. Overwhelmed with joy and gratitude, they asked the fakeer what they could do for him, at the same time offering him a large reward. "Nothing will I receive from your hands," he replied; "but if you think me worthy of any recompense, this I ask you for my sake to do: dig a well for the thirsty traveller, and call it by my name!"

QUESTIONS -What is a fakeer? What was his religion? What was he? What did he find? Did he take care of it? What reward alone would he accept? What lessons does this story teach?

Give, spell, and explain words like the following in sound but different in meaning:-main, maze, mantle, meed, mall, mown, mote, metal, mean, meet, might, muse, no, nose, nay, not, oh! ore, plum, pair, pain, place.

A GOOD DEED.

How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

WE MUST BE FREE OR DIE.

Shakspere.

WE must be free or die, who speak the tongue
That Shakspere spake; the faith and morals hold
Which Milton held.

Wordsworth.

LESSONS ON SPECIFIC SUBJECTS.

ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY.

1. "THE BUILD OF THE HUMAN BODY."

1. The human body consists of three principal parts-the head, the trunk, and the limbs. The front of the head is the face, and the round cavity in it is the skull, or vessel for the brain. The trunk is divided into the chest, or thorax; and the belly, or abdomen. There are two pairs of limbs-the upper, arms; the lower, legs. The legs and arms, again, have various parts which correspond in a general way. We have the thigh and the upper arm; the leg and the forearm; the ankle and the wrists; and the fingers and the toes, which are, as it were, the counterparts of each other.

2. The body is made up of a wonderful structure of flesh, blood, fat, &c., known by various names in the different organs they form; and all this soft matter is supported by a bony framework, ́which is called the skeleton.

3. If the body of a man were opened exactly down the centre, it would be found to divide into two halves corresponding to one another. First, in the head, is a great hollow case for holding the brain. The skull is a strong arch, consisting of a great many bones, united to each other by tooth-like edges, which fit exactly into each other, or overlap each other, so as to make the protection to the brain complete and strong. In early manhood the skull has twenty-two separate bones, but in childhood the number is much greater, and in old age much smaller.

4. The brain is a mass of soft, grey, pulpy substance, and is common to man and all the "vertebrate" animals, but is most perfectly developed in man. The brain in a man, when it is its full size, weighs about forty-nine or fifty ounces; in woman it weighs about forty-four; but it varies in different persons. The largest male brain weighs about sixty-five ounces; the smallest, about thirty-four. The largest female brain weighs about fifty-six, and the smallest about thirty-one ounces. The weight of the brain increases till about the age of forty, after which it slowly diminishes in weight, at the rate of about an ounce each ten years.

5. The skull, or brain case, is connected with the uppermost of thirty-three bones, resting one on the other in a long, flexible column, forming the backbone. The separate bones are called vertebra, and the whole are called the vertebral column. Through the whole of these runs a continuous canal or tube, which opens into the skull, and is filled with what is called the spinal cord, its own name