3. What is a proper noun?

4. What is a common noun ?

5. What have you learned about writing proper names? *

6. How should a proper noun be written?

7. When a common noun is joined to a proper noun as part of the name, how should it be written?

EXERCISE 1.

The first word of every line of poetry should begin with a capital letter.

CHRIST AND THE LITTLE ONES.

1. "The Master has come over Jordan,"
Said Hannah the mother one day;
"He is healing the people who throng him,
With a touch of his finger, they say.”

2. "And now I shall carry the children,
Little Rachel, and Samuel, and John;
I shall carry the baby, Esther,
For the Lord to look upon."

3. The father looked at her kindly,
But he shook his head and smiled:
"Now who but a doting mother

Would think of a thing so wilá?”

4. "If the children were tortured by demons,
Or dying of fever, 'twere well;

Or had they the taint of the leper,
Like many in Israel."

* See p. 34, Part I., Elem. Less. in Eng.

Through the row of proud Pharisees listening,
She pressed to the feet of the Lord.

9. "Now why shouldst thou hinder the Master,”
Said Peter," with children like these?
Seest not how from morning to evening
He teacheth, and healeth disease?”

10. Then Christ said: "Forbid not the children,
Permit them to come unto me!"

And he took in his arms little Esther,
And Rachel he set on his knee**

11. And the heavy heart of the mother
Was lifted all earth-care above,
As He laid his hand on the brothers,

And blest them with tenderest love:

12. As He said of the babe in his bosom,
"Of such is the kingdom of Heaven,"

And strength for all duty and trial

That hour to her spirit was given. — JULIA Gill.

2. What is the poem about? Who wrote the poem? What story is told in the poem?

3. What words are quoted in the poem? What marks are used around the quotations? What mark of punctuation is used before each quotation?

4. Draw a line under every noun in the poem. When is a name a noun?

a noun?

5. Write the nouns which name

What is

the father,

the boys,

the little girl.

6. Copy from the poem

the mother,
the baby,

another proper noun which names a person,
two proper nouns which name places,

a proper noun which names a river.

Read the nouns copied, and tell what each names. What kind of nouns are they? Why? How should a proper noun be written?

By what names was Christ mentioned in the poem? Look at the first letter of each of those words. What kind of letter is it?

7. Copy the names by which Christ is mentioned in the poem.

8. Why are the words which refer to Christ written with capitals?

Any name of the Supreme Being, of Christ, of the Trinity, or of the Virgin Mary, should begin with a capital letter; thus, God, Our Father, Master, Holy Ghost, Queen of Heaven.

9. Why is the word Pharisees written with a capital?

A noun which names any sect or body of people should begin with a capital letter; as, Methodists, Republicans, Germans.

10. Why is the word Heaven written with a capital letter? When the word heaven means "the home of the blessed," it should begin with a capital letter.*

11. Look over the poem and mention any other words that begin with capitals. Why are those words

capitalized?

12. What rules did you learn in Part I. that should guide you in the use of capitals?

See pp. 65 and 136, Part I., Elem. Less. in Eng.

EXERCISE 2.

1. Write a declarative sentence in which you use the names of the city or village, the county, and the State in which you live.

2. Write an interrogative sentence in which you use the name of the river nearest your home.

3. Write an imperative sentence in which you use the name of our country.

4. Write an exclamation that is a sentence, and use in the exclamation the name of your favorite book.

5. Mark the proper nouns in your sentences.

* In the Bible the word heaven is written without the capital, and the sky is spoken of as "the heavens."

VOCABULARY LESSONS.

I.

Learn from the dictionary how these words should be pronounced, and use each word correctly as a noun:

Learn to spell these words, and use each correctly as a

1. Without changing the thought, use different words in place of the italicized words in these sentences:

A clergyman from London is visiting at the house

of Dr. Sheldon.

Did you come in a buggy or on the train?

He was paid the amount due.

Such rudeness is unpardonable.

Ask his consent before you undertake it.

This sketch is an excellent portrait.