A useful suffix.

er, in nouns, means one who or that which; as, teacher, one who teaches; heater, that which heats.

1. Copy carefully. 2. Write from dictation.

1. In the elder days of Art

Builders wrought with greatest care
Each minute and unseen part ;

For the Gods see everywhere.

- HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW.

2. Sweet shadows of twilight! how calm they repose, While the dewdrops fall soft in the breast of the rose! How blest to the toiler his hour of release

When the vesper is heard with its whisper of peace.

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.

3. Our friends the reviewers, those clippers and hewers.

4. How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.

5. And hark! how blithe the throstle sings!

He, too, is no mean preacher:

Come forth into the light of things,

Let Nature be your teacher.- WILLIAM WORDSWORTH.

6. And He from the mighty doubter

The great believer makes. - RICHARD WATSON Gilder.

7. That old bald cheater, Time. - BEN JONSON.

Some words pronounced alike.

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

1. His sole opinion, whatsoe'er befall,

Centering at last in having none at all.

- WILLIAM COWPER.

2. From the crown of his head to the sole of his foot, he is all mirth. - WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.

3. Oh, God! it is a fearful thing

To see the human soul take wing!

GEORGE Gordon, Lord BYRON.

4. And, jealous of the listening air,

They steal their way from stair to stair.

-SAMUEL TAYLOR COleridge.

5. Years following years steal something ev'ry day; At last they steal us from ourselves away.

6. Whose golden touch could soften steel and stones, Make tigers tame.-WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.

7. I thought it most prudent to defer the drafts till advice was received of the progress of the loan.

ALEXANDER HAMILTON.

8. The merrier up its roaring draught

The great throat of the chimney laughed.

- JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER.

9. O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been Cool'd a long age in the deep-delved earth.

A useful suffix.

en, in adjectives, means made of; in verbs, to make; as, wooden, made of wood; shorten, to make short.

1. Copy carefully. 2. Write from dictation. 1. Toned the golden clouds, sun-painted,

Till they paled, and paled, and fainted

From the face of heaven away. - EDMUND Waller.

2. The balmy gales awake the flowers,

And wave thy flaxen hair.- ROBErt Burns.

3. So joys, remembered, without wish or will, Sharpen the keenest edge of present ill.

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH.

4. Oft the cloud which wraps the present hour Serves but to brighten all our future days.

- JOHN BROWN.

5. There's a dance of leaves in that aspen bower,
There's a titter of winds in that beechen tree,
There's a smile on the fruit, and a smile on the flower,
And a laugh from the brook that runs to the sea.

WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT.

6. There now the sun had sunk; but lines of gold Hung on the ashen clouds. — PERCY BYSSHE SHelley.

7. When life was like a story, holding neither sob nor sigh,

In the golden olden glory of the days gone by.

M

-JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY.

Some words pronounced alike.

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

1. If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well

It were done quickly. - WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.

2. Amid the gliding waves and shadows dun.

- PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY.

3. Did Adam have duns and slip down a back-lane?

-JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.

4. In his fore leg there was a splinter of wood, and he was miserably lame. - DOCTOR John Brown.

5. If I could bid the fifth welcome with so good a heart as I can the other four farewell, I should be

6. When chill November's surly blast

Made fields and forests bare.- ROBERT BURNS.

7. I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.-ALEXANDER POPE.

In paradise that bear delicious fruit. - JOHN MILTON.

9. In the night, imagining some fear,

How easy is a bush supposed a bear.