love, and so dauntless in war;
Have ye e'er heard of gallant like young Lochinvar?

SIR WALTER SCOTT.

=HELPS TO STUDY=

Read the poem through and tell the story briefly. Where is the
scene laid? _Border_ here means the part of Scotland bordering on
England. Who is the hero? Give your opinion of him. Find the
expressions used by the poet to inspire admiration for Lochinvar.
Give your opinion of the bridegroom. Quote lines that express the
poet's opinion of him. What word is used instead of _thicket_ in
the second stanza? a _loiterer_? a _coward_? Why do you suppose the
bride had consented? Why did her father put his hand on his sword?
What reason did Lochinvar give for coming to the feast? Why did he
act as if he did not care? Was the bride willing to marry "the
laggard in love"? How do you know? Describe the scene as the two
danced. What do you suppose was the "one word in her ear"?

Read aloud the lines describing Lochinvar's ride to Netherby Hall.
Read those describing the ride from the hall. Notice the galloping
movement of the verse.

IN LABRADOR

I

Trafford and Marjorie were in Labrador to spend the winter. It was a
queer idea for a noted [v]scientist and rich and successful business man
to cut himself loose from the world of London and go out into the Arctic
storm and darkness of one of the bleakest quarters of the globe. But
Trafford had fallen into a discontent with living, a weariness of the
round of work and pleasure, and it was in the hope of winning back his
lost zest and happiness that he had made up his mind to try the cure of
the wilderness. Marjorie had insisted, like a good wife, on leaving
children and home and comfort and accompanying him into the frozen
wilds.

The voyage across the sea and the march inland into Labrador were
uneventful. Trafford chose his winter-quarters on the side of a low
razor-hacked, rocky mountain ridge, about fifty feet above a little
river. Not a dozen miles away from them, they reckoned, was the Height
of Land, the low watershed between the waters that go to the Atlantic
and those that go to Hudson's Bay. North and north-east of them the
country rose to a line of low crests, with here and there a yellowing
patch of last year's snow, and across the valley were slopes covered in
places by woods of stunted pine. It had an empty spaciousness of
effect; the one continually l