3. If you find your task is hard,
Try, try again;
Time will bring you your reward,
Try, try again.
All that other folks can do,
Why, with patience, should not you?
Only keep this rule in view:
Try, try again.
DEFINITIONS.--l. Cour'age, resolution. Con'quer, gain the vic-tory. 2.
Pre-vail, overcome. Dis-grace', shame. Win, gain, ob-tain. 3. Re-ward',
anything given in return for good or bad con-duct. Pa'-tience, constany in
labor.
EXERCISES.--What does the mark before "'T is" mean?
What is it called? What point is used after the word "case" in
the second stanza? Why?
III. WHY THE SEA IS SALT. (29)
A FAIRY TALE.
Mary Howitt was born in 1804, at Coleford, England. She wrote many
charming stories for children in prose and verse, and also translated many
from Swedish, Danish, and German authors. This story is arranged from one
in a collection named "Peter Drake's Dream, and Other Stories." She died
in 1888.
1. There were, in very ancient times, two brothers, one of whom was rich,
and the other poor. Christmas was approaching, but the poor man had
nothing in the house for a Christmas dinner; so he went to his brother and
asked him for a trifling gift.
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