ernment; but he begged to be excused.

"It would be strange, your Majesty, very strange, up in London, and my
work at Bristol suits me far the best. We want for nothing, and should
never feel so well and home-like as in our little house at Bristol."

The Queen understood him, and did not press him; and in another day or
two the couple were again on their way home.

"You're glad, wife, that we're going home?" John asked; "and you think I
did well not to take some office in London?"

"Well! You could have clone no better. It's been grand to see, and grand
to hear; but it would be very strange and uncomfortable to live always
like that, and I'll be right glad to be back once more.

"I'm more than proud of it all. But I should never like our own room, in
which Prince George sat so home-like with us, to belong to another."

"No, no--we will keep our own snug home," replied John with earnestness.

And so they did, living on quietly as of old; and the only display ever
made by Lady Duddlestone was, that whenever she went to church or to
market, she always wore the Queen's big gold watch.

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Language Lesson.--Let pupils use other words to express the meaning of
what is given below in dark type.

You'd _best keep_ alive.

It's been _grand_ to see.

_Then you need not_.

You're _nearly crazed to go_.

_Attendant_ is made up of two parts--the stem, _attend_, and the
ending, _ant_ (meaning one who).

The meaning of the word _attendant_ is _one who attends_.

Make out an _analysis_ of the last two lessons, and use it in telling
the story in your own words.

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LESSON XXXV.

pre sume', _suppose; think without being sure_.

mus'cles, _those parts of the body which give us
motion, and by which we exert our strength_.

ex tent', _space; distance_.

or'di na ry, _common; usual_.

knowl'edge, _that which is known through study_.

de gree', _measure, as of space or time_.

spent, _used up; exhausted_.

snapped, _broken off_.

de tached', _taken away from_.

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WHY AN APPLE FALLS.

"Father," said Lucy, "I have been reading to-day that Sir Isaac Newton
was led to make a great discovery, by seeing an apple fall from a tree.
What was there wonderful about the apple falling?"

"Nothing very wonderful in that," replied her father; "but it set him to