. St. Nicholas [serial] . ? Canute cried ; Could I bid the silver moon to pause upon her heavenly ride ?If the moon obeys my orders, sure I can command the tide ! Vol. VIII.—10. 146 NOT SO STUPID AS HE SEEMED. [December, Will the advancing waves obey me, Bishop, if I make the sign ?Said the Bishop, bowing lowly: Land and sea, my lord, are turned toward the ocean : Back ! he said, thou foaming brine. From the sacred shore I stand on, I command thee to retreat;Venture not, thou stormy rebel, to approach thy masters seat;Ocean, be thou still ! I bid thee come not nearer to my feet! B
. St. Nicholas [serial] . ? Canute cried ; Could I bid the silver moon to pause upon her heavenly ride ?If the moon obeys my orders, sure I can command the tide ! Vol. VIII.—10. 146 NOT SO STUPID AS HE SEEMED. [December, Will the advancing waves obey me, Bishop, if I make the sign ?Said the Bishop, bowing lowly: Land and sea, my lord, are turned toward the ocean : Back ! he said, thou foaming brine. From the sacred shore I stand on, I command thee to retreat;Venture not, thou stormy rebel, to approach thy masters seat;Ocean, be thou still ! I bid thee come not nearer to my feet! But the sullen ocean answered with a louder, deeper roar, And the rapid waves drew nearer, falling sounding on the shore ; Hack the Keeper and the Bishop, back the King and courtiers bore. And he sternly bade them never more to kneel to human clay,But alone to praise and worship That which earth and seas obey;And his golden crown of empire never wore he from that day. King Canute is dead and gone. Parasites exist NOT SO STUPID AS HE John Lewees. THERE was once a French ship, anchored, for atime, at a small port in Italy. While the unloadingand loading of the vessel were going on, the sailorswould often ramble about on shore, to see the sightsof the strange town. One day, a party of these sailors found them-selves in the court-yard of an inn, where a travel-ing showman had lodged a number of wild animals,with which he intended to open an exhibition inthe town, the next day. Almost all these animals were in cages, but oneof them, a large black bear, was quietly sleeping onthe ground, being merely fastened by a rope fromhis collar to a stake. He was a performing bear,and one of the principal attractions of the show. Among the sailors who had wandered into thecourt-yard, and now stood looking at the strangecreatures around them, was a man named Caspar,who was a very vain fellow in many ways, butparticularly vain of his knowledge. He wished allhis comrades to unde
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