Long o preserved in syllables without accent, marked .

1. Copy the following sentences.

2. Write from dictation.

1. If hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a hero? - THOMAS CARLYLE.

2. O for a seat in some poetic nook, Just hid with trees, and sparkling

3. Would you know what money is?

with a brook!

- LEIGH HUNT.

Go borrow some.

- GEORGE HERBERT.

4. O beautiful rainbow, - all woven of light! There's not in thy tissue one shadow of night.

SARAH J. HALE.

5. No more the flow'r in field or meadow springs; No more the grove with airy concert rings.

6. Winds wander, and dews drip earthward, Rain falls, suns rise and set,

Earth whirls, and all but to prosper

A poor little violet. --JAMES RUSSELL Lowell.

7. I sat by my window one night,

8.

And watched how the stars grew high;
And the earth and sky were a splendid sight
To a sober and musing eye.

- HENRY WADSWORTH Longfellow.

Some dead lake

That holds the shadow of a lark

Hung in the shadow of a heaven. — ALFRED TENNYSON.

Long i and u preserved in syllables without accent, marked i, .

1. Copy the following sentences. 2. Write from dictation. 1. He who comes up to his own idea of greatness, must always have had a very low standard of it in his

2. O let us still the secret joy partake,

To follow virtue even for virtue's sake.

- ALEXANDER Pope.

3. Men are seldom blest with good fortune and good sense at the same time. — LIVY.

4. Nature, exerting an unwearied power,

Forms, opens, and gives scent to every flower.

5. The picture must not be overbright,
Yet all in the golden and gracious light
Of a cloud, when the summer sun is down.

ALICE CARY.

6. Man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin.

7. "There's nothing," said Toby, "more regular in its coming round than dinner-time, and nothing less regular in its coming round than dinner."

8. Nature sleeps in the plant, dreams in the animal,

wakes in the man. -FRIEDRICH W. J. SCHELLING.

Some words pronounced alike.

1. Copy carefully. 2. Write from dictation. 3. Use the italicized words in sentences of your own.

1. Boatman, come, thy fare receive;

Thrice thy fare I gladly give. - JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND.

2. When purple morning starts the hare,

To steal upon her early fare. — Robert Burns.

3. Her eyes were fair and very fair;

4.

Her beauty made me glad. - WILLIAM WORDSWORth.

The juicy pear

Lies, in soft profusion, scattered round.

- JAMES THOMSON.

5. Age and Want, oh! ill-matched pair! - ROBERt Burns.

6. He pares his apple that will cleanly feed.

- GEORGE HERBERT.

7. All creatures look to the main chance.

SIR ROGER L'ESTRANGE.

8. Each wave was crested with tawny foam,

Like the mane of a chestnut steed. - SIR WALTER SCOTT.

9. Tell how many beads there are

In a silver chain

Of evening rain

Unraveled from the trembling main.

- THOMAS LOVELL BEDDoes.

Definitions.

A Vowel is a letter which represents a sound of the human voice but slightly interrupted by the vocal organs.

The vowels are a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes w and y. w and y are consonants at the beginning of a word or a syllable; as in wet, yet; they are vowels in cow, dying, duty, etc.

A Consonant is a letter which represents a sound of the human voice greatly obstructed by the organs of speech.

A Diphthong is a union of two vowel sounds pronounced in one syllable; as, ou in out.

A Triphthong is a union of three vowels in the same syllable; as, eau in beau.

A Digraph is two vowels or two consonants combined to express a single sound; as, ea in head, or th in both.

A Syllable is one or more letters pronounced by a single effort of the voice.

A Monosyllable is a word of one syllable; as, class.

A Dissyllable is a word of two syllables; as, class ing.

A Trisyllable is a word of three syllables; as, clas si fy.

A Polysyllable is a word of more than three syllables; as, clas si fy ing or clas si fi ca tion.

Accent is stress of voice on a particular syllable of a word.

A Prefix is one or more letters or syllables placed before a word to qualify its meaning; as, un in unkind.

A Suffix is one or more letters or syllables placed after a word to qualify its meaning; as, ly in manly.

A Primitive word is one not derived from another word in the same language; as, man.

A Derivative word is one formed from another word; as, manly.

A Compound word is one composed of two or more simple words; as, inkstand, to-day.