till wear their Norman caps and their kirtles of homespun,
And by the evening fire repeat Evangeline's story,
While from its rocky caverns the deep-voiced, neighboring ocean
Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest.
PICTURES
Perry Pictures helpful in the Study of Evangeline:
Christ Church, Boston, 1357; The Sheepfold, 3049; The Blacksmith, 887;
Evangeline, 23; The Wave, 3197; Spring, 484; Pasturage in the Forest, 506;
Sheep-Spring, 757; Milking Time, 601; Angelus, 509; Haymaker's Rest, 605;
Landscape, 490; Priscilla Spinning, 3298; Shoeing the Horse, 908; Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow, 15; Priscilla, 1338; Autumn, 615; September, 1071;
Deer by Moonlight, 1005; Winter Scene, 27-B.
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We supply the above at one cent each, if twenty or more are ordered. They
may be assorted, as desired.
NOTES.
PART ONE.
I
1. A PRIMEVAL FOREST is one which has not been disturbed by the axe.
3. DRUIDS were Celtic priests. Their religious ceremonies were carried on in
oak groves, the trees being regarded as sacred.
10. GRAND PRE (graen-pr[=a]) means large meadow.
20. BASIN OF MINAS, an arm of the Bay of Fundy.
25. THE TIDES in the Bay of Fundy rise to the height of 60 feet. What is the
ordinary rise of the tide?
29. BLOMIDON is a promontory about four hundred feet high at the entrance of
the Bay of Minas.
33. THE HENRIES were rulers of France in the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries.
34. NORMANDY, a district in northern France bordering on the English
channel.
39. KIRTLE, a petticoat.
49. THE ANGELUS was a bell which called people to prayer. What do you know
of the painting called "The Angelus?"
57. Real misery was wholly unknown, and benevolence anticipated the demands
of poverty. Every misfortune was relieved, as it were, before it could be
felt, without ostentation on the one hand and without meanness on the other.
It was in short, a society of brethren. ABBE REYNAL.
72. HYSSOP, a plant. A branch of it could be used like a sponge. It was a
symbol of purification from sin.
74. CHAPLET OF BEADS, a string of beads used in praying. MISSAL, a prayer
book.
96. See Luke XXII, 60, 61.
111. A PATRON SAINT was a Saint who was supposed to exercise a special care
over the people of a town or district.
115. Lajeunesse (lae-zhe-n[)e]s').
144. There was a saying among the people that "If the sun shines on St.
Eulalie'
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