Jehovah, God of hosts, hath sworn, saying: Surely, as I have devised, so shall it be; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand. George, you must not laugh at me; I will not bear it. You forget what you are about when you ridicule me: I know more than you do about the lessons. I never heard a word about it before, said George, yesterday: who told you about it, Charles? I never heard one word of it before, said my uncle Toby, hastily: how came he there, Trim? Thou shalt pronounce this parable upon the King of Babylon; and shalt say: How hath the oppressor ceased? It is not only in the sacred fane that homage should be paid to the Most High: there is a temple, one not made with hands; the vaulted firmament: far in the woods, almost beyond the sound of city-chime, at intervals heard through the breezeless air. THE END. [Illustration: List of textbooks] Transcriber's Notes: To retain the flavor of this schoolbook, the Transcriber has left all grammar errors in tact. Any exceptions are noted below. Page vii: Opening bracket added to first sentence. [_The Poetical Extracts Page 131: Period added: generosity. Page 139: Period added: she was immovable. Page 150: Period added: 18. Page 154: Period added: The same, subject, continued. Page 165: Word "might" changed to "mighty" due to space in poem and poem's scheme. Page 202: Word "curse" is presumed: "...curse resounds in the ..." End of Project Gutenberg's Parker's Second Reader, by Richard G. Parker