one of the boys is to make a speech, and they are to have some fireworks.

3. Every May these children gather flowers to put on the soldiers' graves. This day is called

4. There is one other day that Californian children honor. It is the birthday of their own state and is called

Memorize :

SUMMARY.

The name of each month and holiday should always begin with a Capital letter.

LESSON 48.

ONE AND MORE THAN ONE.

ORAL EXERCISE.

Learn to spell these words:

calves, leaf, lives, shelf, wolf, knives, wife, loaves, thief.

Change these sentences so that each shall speak of more than one:

1. The knife has a pearl handle.

2. The loaf is made of wheat flour.
3. Has the calf pretty eyes?
4. A country life is the happiest.
5. The dishes are on the shelf.
6. Do not trust a thief.

Change these sentences so that each shall speak of one only.

1. The leaves are green.

2. The shelves are filled with books.

3. Have the thieves been caught?

4. Wolves are fierce and strong.

5. The wives do the housework.

Write the sentences that you have made.

LESSON 49.

STORY.

Write the answers to the following questions in the form of a story, combining carefully those that go well together:

Par. 1.

What has this little boy in his hand?
What has happened to the umbrella?

What do you see falling all around the boy?
Where are his books?

What has he on his head?

What on his hands?

Par. 2. What around his neck?

Par. 3.

What can you see behind the boy?

With what is the ground covered?

How old is the boy?

Where is he going?

Who

Par. 4.

What do you think he will do with the umbrella? How will his mother feel when she sees her little boy?

What will she do?

LESSON 50.

COMBINING STATEMENTS.

Write each group in one sentence:

What word helps seen to make the second statement?

What word helps done and gone?

Which three words need no help?

THE STANZA.

Make a statement using has and seen.
Make a statement using had and done.
Make a question using is and gone.
Make a question using were and seen.

Use the following as helping words in these statements:
has, have, had, is, are, was, were.

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[The teacher cannot give too much drill upon these generally misused verbs.]

LESSON 52.

THE STANZA.

ORAL EXERCISE.

What do you think I saw
Out in the fields at play?

Something woolly, and soft, and white,
Skipping and prancing in sheer delight;

Two round eyes that were opened wide,

As it gamboled and frisked by its mother's side,
Yet it had not been in the world a day.

Well, who do you think has come?

The birds have begun to sing,

The willows to bud, and the lambs to play.

The grass to grow greener every day,

The brook to sparkle, and dance and leap,

And the flowers to wake from their winter's sleep;
What is it that has come?

-Kate Lawrence.

What do we call a story written in this way?