u most in this
scene. Read aloud the lines that best describe the scenery.

II. Describe Rip's waking. What was his worst fear? How did he
explain to himself the change in his gun and the disappearance of
Wolf? How did he account for the stiffness of his joints? What was
still his chief fear? Describe the changes which had taken place in
the mountains. With what feeling did he turn homeward? Why? How did
he discover the alteration in his own appearance? How did the
children and dogs treat him? Why was this particularly hard for Rip
to understand? What other changes did he find? What remained
unaltered? How did Rip still account for the peculiar happenings?
Describe Rip's feelings as he turned to his own house, and its
desolation.

III. What change had been made in the sign over the inn? Why? What
important thing was taking place in the village? Why did the speech
of the "lean fellow" seem "perfect jargon" to Rip? Why did he not
understand the questions asked him? What happened when Rip made his
innocent reply to the self-important gentleman? How did he at last
learn of the lapse of time? What added to his bewilderment? How was
the mystery explained? Note the question Rip reserved for the last
and the effect the answer had upon him. How did Peter Vanderdonk
explain the strange happening? What is the happy ending? Do you
like Rip? Why?

SUPPLEMENTARY READING

Urashima--Graded Classics III.
Vice Versa--F. Anstey.
Peter Pan--James Barrie.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow--Washington Irving.
A Christmas Carol--Charles Dickens.
Enoch Arden--Alfred Tennyson.

FOOTNOTE:

[9-*] For words marked [v], see Dictionary.

[Illustration: Photograph by Aldrich

The Great Stone Face]

THE GREAT STONE FACE

I

One afternoon when the sun was going down, a mother and her little boy
sat at the door of their cottage, talking about the Great Stone Face.
They had but to lift their eyes, and there it was plainly to be seen,
though miles away, with the sunshine brightening all its features.

And what was the Great Stone Face? The Great Stone Face was a work of
Nature in her mood of majestic playfulness, formed on the perpendicular
side of a mountain by some immense rocks, which had been thrown together
in such a position as, when viewed at a proper distance, precisely to
resemble t