fore they reached the village where Eliza was resting with her child. About three-quarters of an hour after she had laid her child to sleep in the village tavern, her pursuer came riding into the same place. Eliza was standing at the window when her quick eye caught a glimpse of the dreaded object. A thousand lives seemed to be concentrated in that one moment to Eliza. Her room opened by a sidedoor to the river. She caught up her child, and sprang down the steps towards it. The trader espied her just as she was disappearing down the bank; and throwing himself from his horse, he was after her like a hound after a deer.

3. In that dizzy moment her feet scarce seemed to her to touch the ground, and in a few seconds she reached the water's edge. Right on behind came her pursuer. Nerved with strength such as God gives only to the desperate, with one wild cry and flying leap she vaulted sheer over the turbid current by the shore, on to the raft of ice beyond. It was a desperate leap-impossible to anything but madness and despair; even the slave-hunter, as he came down the bank, instinctively cried out and lifted up his hands as she did it.

4. The huge green fragment of ice on which she alighted pitched and creaked as her weight came on it, but she stayed there not a moment. With wild cries and desperate energy she leaped to another, and still another cake,-stumbling, leaping, slipping, springing upwards again! Her shoes were gone, her stockings cut from her feet, while blood marked every step; but she saw nothing, felt

nothing, till dimly, as in a dream, she saw herself on the other side, and a man helping her up the bank.

5. "You're a brave girl now, whoever ye are!" said the man.

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Eliza recognized the voice and face of a who owned a farm not far from her old home. Oh save me-save me-do hide me!" said Eliza. "My child-this boy-he'd sold him! There is his master," said she, pointing to the Kentucky shore. "Oh, you've got a little boy!"

"So I have," said the man, as he roughly but

kindly drew her up the steep bank.

"I say

you're a right brave girl. I like pluck when I see it."

6. When they had gained the top of the bank the man paused.

"I'd be glad to do something for you," said he, "but then there's nowhere I could take you. The best I can do is to tell you to go up there," said he, pointing to a large white house which stood by itself off the main street of the village. "Go there; they're kind folks. There's no kind o' danger but they'll help you—they're up to all that sort o' thing."

7. "The Lord bless you," said Eliza earnestly. "And oh, surely, sir, you won't tell any one!"

"Go along, girl! What do you take a fellow for? In course not," said the man. "Come now, go along like a brave, sensible girl, as you are. You've earned your liberty, and you shall have it, for me."

The woman folded her child to her bosom, and walked firmly and swiftly away. The man stood and looked after her.

8. Eliza made her desperate flight across the river just in the dusk of twilight. The gray mist of evening, rising slowly from the river, enveloped her as she disappeared up the bank; and the swollen current and floundering masses of ice presented a hopeless barrier between her and her pursuer. Haley therefore slowly and discontentedly returned to the little tavern, to ponder further what was to be done.

Questions:-1. Who was fast approaching? How was he delayed? 2. How long had Eliza been in the village when Haley arrived? What did she do when she saw him? 3. How did she cross the river? 4. In what state did she reach the other side? 5. What did the man who helped her up the other side say? 6. Where did he tell her to go? 7. What did he say that she had earned? 8. What did Haley do?

Summary:-After some delay, Haley, attended by two of Mr. Shelby's negroes, started in pursuit of Eliza. Her child had been asleep only about three-quarters of an hour when her pursuers rode into the village. She saw them pass the window of thé room, and seizing her boy in her arms she ran for the river. Haley sprang from his horse and followed her. With one desperate leap Eliza reached the nearest piece of ice; and then on to the next, and the next, and so she crossed the river. A man whom she knew helped her up the other side, and telling her that she had earned her liberty, he directed her where to go for help. Exercises: 1. Parse and analyze: Haley sprang from his horse and followed

her.

2. Use as Nouns and Verbs-sleep, ground, cry, leap, despair.

3. Make Sentences containing-eruption, irruption; ewe, yew, you; ewer, your.

4. Write in your own words all you can remember of Eliza's escape from slavery.

THE BURIAL OF MOSES.

1. By Nebo's lonely mountain,
On this side Jordan's wave,
In a vale in the land of Moab,
There lies a lonely grave:
And no man knows that sepulchre,
And no man saw it e'er;

For the angels of God upturned the sod,
And laid the dead man there.

2. That was the grandest funeral That ever passed on earth; But no man heard the trampling,

Or saw the train

go forth-Noiselessly as the daylight

Comes back when night is done,

And the crimson streak on ocean's cheek
Grows into the great sun.

3. Noiselessly as the Spring time
Her crown of verdure weaves,
And all the trees on all the hills
Open their thousand leaves;

So without sound of music,

Or voice of them that wept,

Silently down from the mountain's crown
The great procession swept.

4. Perchance the bald old eagle,
On gray Beth-peor's height,
Out of his lonely eyrie

Looked on the wondrous sight;
Perchance the lion stalking

Still shuns that hallowed spot,

For beast and bird have seen and heard
That which man knoweth not.

5. But when the warrior dieth,

His comrades in the war,

With arms reversed and muffled drum,
Follow his funeral car;