Why refer to the solstice?
What was the immediate effect of the news?
Then what?
Was it a time when character would show?
Explain.

Who shows clearly his temperament?
_Father Felician's Rebuke._ Lesson IX, Lines 460-486.
(To me, this selection is one of the finest in the poem.

It is a fine tribute to _character_.

We have in this and the preceding lesson two pictures in marked contrast.

Recall the effects the Mandate must have had on the pioneers; how we of the class would feel if we now received such an order.