They sailed: they sailed. Then spake the mate: With lifted teeth, as if to bite! Brave Adm'r'l, say but one good word: Then, pale and worn, he kept his deck, It grew to be Time's burst of dawn. -Joaquin Miller Words: Gates of Hercules-The headlands between which lies the Strait of Gibraltar; mutinous-disobedient, rebellious; blanched white with fear. Questions: Do you know how the Gates of Hercules received their. name? Why did the men grow mutinous? What quality of Columbus's character does this poem clearly reveal? NATURE'S SONG HERE is no rhyme that is half so sweet As the song of the wind in the rippling wheat; There is no meter that's half so fine As the lilt of the brook under rock and vine; And the loveliest lyric I ever heard Was the wildwood strain of a forest bird. -Madison Cawerr BOU THE CADI'S DECISIONS1 OU-AKAS,* an Arab sheik, had heard that the cadi° of one of his twelve tribes administered justice in a manner worthy of King Solomon himself, and so determined to test the truth of the report. Accordingly, dressed like a private person, and mounted on a docile Arabian steed, he set out for the cadi's town. He was just entering the gate when a cripple seized the border of his garment and asked him for alms. Bou-Akas gave him money, but the cripple still held the garment fast. "What do you want?" asked the sheik. "I have already given you alms." "Yes," replied the beggar, "but the law says not only, "Thou shalt give alms to thy brother,' but also, 'Thou shalt do for thy brother whatsoever thou canst.'" "Well: and what can I do for you?" "You can save me from being trodden under the feet of men, horses, mules, and camels, a fate that would certainly befall me in passing through the crowded square where the fair is now going on." "And how can I save you?" "By letting me ride behind you, and putting me down safely in the market-place, where I have business." "Be it so," replied Bou-Akas; and stooping down, he helped the cripple to get up behind him. The strangely-assorted riders attracted many eyes as they passed through the crowded streets, and at length they reached the market-place. "Is this where you wished to stop?" asked Bou-Akas. "Yes." "Then get down." "Get down yourself." 'From Alderman's Classics Old and New, Fourth Reader. Copyrighted by American Book Company. "What for?'' "To leave me the horse." "To leave you my horse! What mean you by that?" "I mean that he belongs to me. Know you not that we are in the town of the just cadi, and that if we bring the case before him, he will certainly decide in my favor?" "Why should he do so when the animal belongs to me?" "Don't you think that when he sees us two,-you with your strong, straight limbs, which Allah has given you for the purpose of walking, and I with my weak legs and distorted feet,he will decree that the horse shall belong to him who has most need of him?" "Should he do so, he would not be the just cadi," said BouAkas. "Oh, as to that," replied the cripple, laughing, "although he is just, he is not infallible. "So," thought the sheik to himself, "this will be a capital opportunity of judging the judge." He said aloud, "I am content; we will go before the cadi." The When they reached the tribunal, they found that they must wait, as two trials were ahead of theirs. The first of these trials was between a learned man and a peasant. The disputed point was one in reference to the philosopher's wife, who the peasant asserted was his own. The woman remained perfectly silent, not declaring the slightest word in favor of either. judge heard both sides attentively, reflected for a moment, and then said, "Leave the woman here, and return tomorrow.” The learned man and the laborer each bowed and retired, and the next case was called. This was a difference between a butcher and an oil seller. The latter appeared covered with oil. The butcher spoke first : "I went to buy some oil from this man, and in order to pay him for it, I drew a handful of money from my purse. The sight of the money tempted him. He seized me by the wrist. I cried out, but he would not let me go. Here we are, having come before your worship, I holding my money in my hand, and he still grasping my wrist. Now I assert that this money is truly my own." Then the oil merchant spoke : "This man came to purchase oil from me. When his bottle was filled, he said, 'Have you change for a piece of gold?' I searched my pocket and drew out a handful of money, which I laid on a bench in my shop. He seized it, and was walking off with my money and my oil, when I caught him by the wrist and cried out, 'Robber!' In spite of my cries, however, he would not surrender the money. So I brought him here that your worship might decide the case. Now I assert that this money is truly my own." The cadi caused each plaintiff to repeat his story, but neither varied one jot from his original statement. He reflected a moment, and then said, "Leave the money with me, and return tomorrow. The butcher placed the coins on the edge of the cadi's mantle, after which he and his opponent bowed to the tribunal and departed. It was now the turn of Bou-Akas and the cripple. "My lord cadi," said the former, "I came hither from a distant country with the intention of visiting this city. At the city gate I met this cripple, who first asked for alms, and then prayed me to allow him to ride behind me through the streets, lest he should be trodden down in the crowd. I consented; but when we reached the market-place he refused to get down, asserting that my horse belonged to him, and that your worship would surely adjudge it to him who needed it most. That, my lord cadi, is precisely the state of the case." "My lord," said the cripple, "as I was coming on business to the market, and riding this horse, which belongs to me, I saw this man seated by the road-side, apparently half dead with fatigue. I good-naturedly offered to take him on the crupper, and let him ride as far as the market-place, for which |