Phrase Exercise.

1. We buried him darkly.—2. At dead of night.—3. Misty light.—4. Useless coffin.—5. Martial cloak.—6. Bitterly thought.—7. Lightly they’ll talk.—8. Little he’ll reck.—9. Random gun.—10. Sullenly firing.—11. Field of his fame.


LXXVIII.—THE GOLDEN TOUCH.

Nathaniel Hawthorne.