Dear Uncle,

LETTER WRITING.

San Diego, Cal,
June 7, 1887.

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This is my first letter, and if I copy it correctly my teacher has promised to put it in a nice envelope. We have a post office in our school. It is made of a box. The children take turns in being postmaster.

Your loving niece,

Mr. L. F. Colton,

Los Angeles,
Cak

Jennie Cross.

LESSON 61.

DICTATION LESSON.

[Teacher may let pupils study this lesson before dictating, that they may be able to use Capital letters and punctuation marks correctly.]

1. Little girl, where do you go to school,
And where do you go, little girl?
Over the grass from dawn till dark,
Your feet are in a whirl.

2. You and the cat jump here and there,
You and the robin sing;

But what do you know in a spelling book?
Have you ever learned anything?

Answer each of the following questions with one of the above

sentences:

1. Who broke my slate?

2. Is that Grace Lowe?

3. Was Mr. Gray the man who was hurt?

4. Did you say that the cat caught my birds? 5. Who is knocking?

6. Who is making that noise?

7. Was it Carl or Ida who whispered?

8. Who took my pen?

9. Who is singing?

LESSON 63.

WRITTEN EXERCISE.

Fill the blanks with I, he, or she.

Copy this letter, filling the blanks with the following items:

Addie and I are having a fine visit and enjoy

every moment of the day. There are so many new sights that we have not time to describe them all.

Yesterday Uncle took us for a sail. We went far out on the bay, but were not at all seasick.

Every morning at eleven

we go down to the beach to see the bathers. It is very funny when a big wave rolls in among them.

We start for home next Monday, and hope to find you all well.

LESSON 65.

Combine these sentences, using one of the following words in each sentence: that, who, which.

Example:

1. The boy ate cherries.

The cherries were green.

The boy is sick.

(Combined) The boy who ate the green cherries is sick.

2. The fox was caught.

The fox killed a rabbit.

The rabbit was Eddie's.

[Have pupils read this poem carefully, after which let them write the story, answering the questions at the end of the lesson.]

Pussy cat out for an airing one day,

Was creeping along in her soft sly way,

When down near the garden wall she found

A turtle waddling along on the ground.

STORY FROM POEM.

Puss put up her back, and her tail grew big;
She spat at the creature and gave him a dig.
The turtle withdrew himself into his shell,

Puss stared in amazement, and then she said: "Well,

What in the world is this creature about?

I feel it my duty to try to find out."

She patted the shell, but the turtle kept still,
She picked it, and clawed it, and scratched with a will.

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But all of a sudden she gave a loud yell,

The turtle had seized her fore paw 'neath his shell.

She kicked, scratched,

and wriggled,