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THE PASTURE FIELD

When spring has burned
The ragged robe of winter, stitch by stitch,
And deftly turned
To moving melody the wayside ditch,
The pale-green pasture field behind the bars 5
Is goldened o'er with dandelion stars.

When summer keeps
Quick pace with sinewy white-shirted arms,
And daily steeps
In sunny splendour all her spreading farms, 10
The pasture field is flooded foamy white
With daisy faces looking at the light.

When autumn lays
Her golden wealth upon the forest floor,
And all the days 15
Look backward at the days that went before,
A pensive company, the asters, stand,
Their blue eyes brightening the pasture land.

When winter lifts
A sounding trumpet to his strenuous lips, 20
And shapes the drifts
To curves of transient loveliness, he slips
Upon the pasture's ineffectual brown
A swan-soft vestment delicate as down.

--_Ethelwyn Wetherald_ (_By permission_)

PREPARATORY.--Select the phrases which call into play
the Imaging process.

Describe four typical Canadian scenes suggested by this
poem.

Distinguish the sound of _a_ in PASTURE, RAGGED, BARS,
etc. (Appendix A, 1.)

What words express the central ideas in each stanza, and
at the same time form a contrast with one another?

What Inflection is used in the first four lines of each
stanza? (Introduction, p. 16.)

How does the Shading of these lines compare with that of
the last two of each stanza? (Introduction, p. 33.)

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SHIPWRECKED

From "Kidnapped"

1. The time I spent upon the island is still so horrible a thought to
me that I must pass it lightly over. In all the books I have read of
people cast away, either they had their pockets full of tools, or a
chest of things would be thrown upon the beach along with them, as if
on purpose. My case was very much different. I had nothing in my
pockets but money and Alan's silver button; and being inland bred, I
was as much short of knowledge as of means.

2. I knew indeed that shellfish were counted good to eat; and among
the rocks of the isle I found a great plenty of limpets, which at
first I could scarcely strike from their places, not knowing quickness
to be needful. There were,