Stamped with all his hoofs together,
Listened with one foot uplifted,
Leaped as if to meet the arrow;
Ah! the singing, fatal arrow,
Like a wasp it buzzed, and stung him.

Dead he lay there in the forest,
By the ford across the river;
Beat his timid heart no longer;
But the heart of Hiawatha
Throbbed and shouted and exulted,
As he bore the red deer homeward.


DEFINITIONS:--Sinews, tendons. Tresses, long, flowing hair.
Ghosts, spirits. Lodges, huts, dwellings. Wigwam, an Indian hut
or dwelling. Antlers, the horns of the deer. Palpitated,
fluttered, trembled. Fatal, causing death.



AT RUGBY SCHOOL.

BY THOMAS HUGHES.

The little schoolboys went quietly to their own beds, and began
undressing and talking to one another in whispers: while the
elder, amongst whom was Tom, sat chatting about on one another's
beds, with their jackets and waistcoats off.