Once behind the sheet of water, the roar is deafening. One can only
cling to the narrow railing or his guide, as he picks his way for more
than a hundred feet behind the roaring torrent.
A single misstep, a slip, or a fall, and nothing remains but a horrible
death by being dashed to pieces upon the jagged rocks below.
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Directions for Reading.--Point out four places in the lesson where
words would likely be run together by a careless reader.
The word _canon_ is pronounced _can'yon_.
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Language Lesson.--Give rules for marks of punctuation and capital
letters used in the first paragraph of the account of Niagara Falls.
Let pupils make out an _analysis_ in five or six parts, treating some
well-known scene.
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LESSON LXXIV.
vo ra'cious, _greedy; very hungry_.
o ver whelmed', _overcome by force of numbers_.
a bound'ing, _existing in large numbers_.
as cend'ing, _going up_.
her'ald ed, _gave notice of_.
im pet'u ous, _furious; without care for what happens_.
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