To the Pupil. Which of the short sounds is missing here?

Then waste not (3), for (3) is the stuff that life is (1) of.

I (7) the morning air. Shakespeare.
Shall I not take mine ease (8) mine (8)?·

Prunes are dried (9)s. The wall is (9).

Shakespeare.

The Greeks burned the fragrant (3) as an offering to the gods.

The baby, (5) to earth and sky.— Holland.

There came a tapping as of some one gently (6)ping.· - Poe.

Jonah was (7) to Nineveh.

The angel (4) and vanished.

Take care of the (7)s.

Leigh Hunt.

To the Teacher. The time of one recitation could be very profitably spent in aiding the pupils to develop the thoughts contained in some of the quotations. The quotations might be copied for another exercise.

A soft answer turneth away wrath
After tempests come such calms.
I laugh that I may not weep.
It was a scar nobly got.
Famine comes like a gaunt wolf.

no threat shall daunt us.
Well begun is half done.

To the Teacher.

- Call attention to the silent 7's in the first column,

the silent p and 7 in psalm, the silent c in czar, etc.

Direction. Study down the columns, then from left to right.

Jalk little, and think much.

Tis the dawn of the Fairy day Our own misdoing balks our plans. He was false; the fault was his. Gauze was first made in Gaza. naught is seen in the vault on high.

To the Teacher.

Let the pupils see that u and w in the second column stand for the consonant sound of w, and that in the third and fourth columns u and w unite with a to equal a.

Drill on the pronunciation of the next lesson.

13. ȧ, intermediate (between ǎ and ä), in ask

â, long before r, in câre

â differs from a and from ă. Unlike ā, it does not take the vanish in I, but passes into r with a glide in ẽ (ev'er). If we prolong ǎ or ě, especially before r, the organs naturally slide into a position to give the main element

Chance and change are busy ever.

Much rain wears the marble.
The long day's task is done.

On with the dance!

Scornful glances wound the lowly. The boy was the staff of my age.

To the Pupil. Be careful not to give the u and ew, in this lesson, the sound of ; also to distinguish, in pronunciation, lose and loose. In the former s has the sound of z, in the latter its natural, or sharp, sound. Study down the columns, then from left to right.

Prove all things.

Make no truce with error.

The smooth stream gently flows. God moves in a mysterious way. Gilded tombs do worms infold. Hard eyes oozed pitying tears. Strew flowers in life's way.