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Signs used for a as in care.

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âi, eâ, êi, ê = â.

1. Copy the following sentences. 2. Write from dictation. 1. But what can give pleasure, or what can seem fair,1 When the lingering moments are numbered with care? - ROBert Burns.

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2. Airs1 that on their errands sped And wild birds gossiping overhead.

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW.

3. Nature has shown by making it so rare, That wit's a jewel which we need not wear.2

- EDWARD YOUNG.

4. Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine!

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5. There children dwell who know no parents' care; Parents, who know no children's love, dwell there.*

GEORGE CRABBE.

1. Copy.
The sea is a jovial comrade;

2. Write from dictation, or from memory.

He laughs wherever he goes;

His merriment shows in dimpling lines

That wrinkle his hale repose:

He lays himself down at the feet of the sun,

And shakes all over with glee;

And the broad-backed billows fall faint on the shore

In the mirth of the mighty sea. - BAYARD TAYLOR.

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Flowers.

1. Copy carefully. 2. Write from dictation, or from memory. 1. For the world is full of roses, and the roses full of dew,

And the dew is full of heavenly love that drips for me and you. -JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY.

2. The jasmine faint, and the sweet tuberose, The sweetest flower for scent that blows.

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3. But on the hills the golden-rod, and the aster in the

wood,

And the yellow sunflower by the brook, in Autumn beauty stood. WILLIAM CULLEN Bryant.

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4. A Sensitive Plant in a garden grew,
And the young winds fed it with silver dew,
And it opened its fanlike leaves to the light,
And closed them beneath the kisses of Night.

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5. The buttercups, bright-eyed and bold,

Hold up their chalices of gold

To catch the sunshine and the dew.-JULIA C. R. DORR.

6. The pansy in her purple dress,

The pink with cheek of red,

Or the faint, fair heliotrope, who hangs,

Like a bashful maid, her head. - PHOEBE CARY.

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1. And then each1 pale lily, that slept in the stream,1 Rose and fell with a wave, as if stirr'd by a dream.1

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2. My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream1— Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream.1

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- ROBERT BURNS.

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3. A man who can't put fire into his speeches should put his speeches into the fire. -WILLIAM MATHEWS.

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4. Honest plain words best pierce the ear1 of griefs

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.

5. When honor comes to you be ready to take it; But reach1 not to seize it before it is near.1

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6. The hills we climbed, the river seen 2
By gleams1 along its deep ravine,-
All keep the memory fresh and green.2

7. They say he wears a key

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- JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER.

in his ear1 and a lock

hanging by it.-WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.

8. The world deals1 good-naturedly with good-natured people.-WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THAckeray.

9. Government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth.

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ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

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1. When, even on the mountain's breast,1

The chainless winds were all at rest.

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- WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT.

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2. Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself. - JONATHAN SWIFT.

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Lions make leopards tame.

Yea, but not change his spots.- WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.

4. A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.

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4 CHARLES Lamb.

5. The heifer that lows in the upland farm, Far-heard, lows not thine ear to charm.

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I know no cause

- RALPH WALDO EMERSON.

Why I should welcome such a guest as grief.

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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.

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8. Crush me, ye rocks; ye falling mountains hide, Or bury me in ocean's angry tide.-WILLIAM COWper.

9. He who has a thousand friends has not a friend"

to spare,

And he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere. - ALI Ben Abu Taleb.

Flowers.

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

1. And queen hollyhocks,

With butterflies for crowns. -JEAN INgelow.

2. And honeysuckle loved to crawl

Up the long crag and ruined wall.-SIR WALTER SCOTT.

3. And the Hyacinth purple, and white, and blue,
Which flung from its bells a peal anew
Of music so delicate, soft, and intense,
It was felt like an odor within the sense.

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4. Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green,

That creepeth o'er ruins old!-CHARLES DICKENS.

5. Open afresh your round of starry folds, Ye ardent marigolds. -JOHN KEATS.

6. The morning-glory's blossoming Will soon be coming round;

We see their rows of heart-shaped leaves Upspringing from the ground. — Maria White Lowell.

7. The thistle's purple bonnet,

And bonny heather bell,

Oh, they're the flowers of Scotland

All others that excel!-JAMES HOGG.

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