Flowers.

1. Copy carefully. 2. Write from dictation, or from memory.

1. Said young Dandelion

With a sweet air,

I have my eye on

Miss Daisy fair. - DINAH MARIA MULOCK.

2. I lie amid the goldenrod,

I love to see it lean and nod. - MARY Clemmer.

3. Oh! roses and lilies are fair to see;

But the wild bluebell is the flower for me.

4. A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye!

Fair as a star, when only one

- LOUISA A. MEREDITH.

Is shining in the sky. - WILLIAM WORDSWORTH.

5. Of all the bonny buds that blow

In bright or cloudy weather,

Of all the flowers that come and go
The whole twelve moons together,
The little purple pansy brings

Thoughts of the sweetest, saddest things.

6. When on the breath of Autumn's breeze, From pastures dry and brown,

Goes floating, like an idle thought,

The fair, white thistle-down. - Mary Howitt.

Broad o as in gone, marked ô.

This sound is between o in not, and a in all.

1. Copy the following sentences carefully. 2. Write from dictation.

1. The woods were fill'd so full of song,

There seem'd no room for sense of wrong.

2. In dark and silence hidden long, The brook repeats its summer song.

- ALFRED TENNYSON.

- JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER.

3. The river forever glides singing along,
The rose on the bank bends down to its song.

- EDMUND WALLER.

4. And I envy thy stream, as it glides along Through its beautiful banks in a trance of song.

WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT.

5. What's gone and what's past help should be past grief.-WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.

6. Our life contains a thousand springs,

And dies if one be gone,

Strange! that a harp of a thousand strings
Should keep in tune so long.-ISAAC WATTS.

7. Soft as the memory of buried love,

Pure as the prayer which childhood wafts above.

- George Gordon, Lord Byron.

8. A bell was tolled in that far-off town,

For one who had passed from cross to crown.

-HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW.

Some words pronounced alike.

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

1. As dear to me as are the ruddy drops

2.

That visit my sad heart. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.

Where the deer's swift leap

Startles the wild bee from the foxglove bell.

3. Oh, God! that bread should be so dear,
And flesh and blood so cheap. - THOMAS HOOD.

4. Fair hands the broken grain shall sift,

And knead its meal of gold.- John Greenleaf Whittier.

5. He that is thy friend indeed,

He will help thee in thy need.- WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.

6. They are slaves who fear to speak

For the fallen and the weak.-JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.

7. What, keep a week away? seven days and nights? Eight score and eight hours? - WILLIAM SHAKESPEare.

8. If any man hath ears to hear, let him hear.

9.

And he said unto them, Take heed what ye hear.

Spring and Autumn here

Danc'd hand in hand. - JOHN MILTON.

10. Hark! I hear music on the zephyr's wing.

BIBLE.

-PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY.

Italian a as in far, marked ä.

1. Copy the following sentences carefully. 2. Write from dictation.

1. A rainbow's arch stood on the sea.

- PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY.

2. No tree in all the grove but has its charm.

- WILLIAM COWPER.

3. The birch trees wept in fragrant balm, The aspens slept beneath the calm.-SIR WALTER SCOTT.

6. How often have I paused on every charm, The sheltered cot, the cultivated farm.

OLIVER GOLDSMITH.

7. Dark and more dark the shades of evening fell.

8. See where, upon the horizon's brim,
Lies the still cloud in gloomy bars;
The waning moon, all pale and dim,
Goes up amid the eternal stars.

9. A tempest howling through the dark, A crash as of some shipwrecked bark.

- HENRY WADSWORTH LONGfellow.

D

Birds.

1. Copy carefully. 2. Write from dictation, or from memory. 1. A goldfinch there I saw, with gaudy pride

Of painted plumes, that hopped from side to side.

2. The birds of morning trim their bustling wings, And listen fondly—while the blackbird sings.

3. Among the dwellings framed by birds.

In field or forest with nice care,

Is none that with the little wren's

In snugness may compare. - WILLIAM WORDSWORTH.

4. O Bluebird, up in the maple tree,

Shaking your throat with such bursts of glee,
How did you happen to be so blue?

Did you steal a bit of the sky for your crest,
And fasten blue violets into your breast?

Tell me,

I pray you, tell me true! - SAMUEL SWETT.

5. The merry lark he soars on high,
No worldly thought o'ertakes him.
He sings aloud to the clear blue sky,
And the daylight that awakes him.

6. Linnet and meadowlark, and all the throng That dwell in nests, and have the gift of song.

- HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW.