21. Twelve pennies equal one shilling. 22. Nine 5s are equal to five 9s. 23. Patience and faith, like diligence, removes mountains. 24. They are the same persons who assisted us yesterday. 25. The third and last car were thrown off the track. 26. We are the most intelligent people who ever lived. 27. They all resembled each other so much that one could almost believe they were of one family 28. Men are speaking now who have gone to their final account twenty centuries ago. 29. He was, perhaps, more distinguished than any man for the eloquence of silence. 30. Neither despise the poor or envy the rich.

31. I wish that summer was here. 32. Let him that standeth take heed lest he falls. 33. You will find these kind of apples excellent. 34. Here was a man brought home by a Newfoundland dog in his shirt-sleeves. 35. I wish I was at home. 36. When was America first discovered? 37. Have you got any money with you? 38. Some virtues are only seen in adversity. 39. Virtue and vice differ widely with each other. 40. Ovid was banished Rome by his patron Augustus.

41. I only recited once a day. 42. Who ever heard of such a trick being played? 43. He was paid a high compliment. 44. I saw La Fayette, he who fought for American independence. 45. It was my brother that you saw, not me. 46. They did not think of its being me. 47. Every one must strive to do their best. 48. Hoary Winter comes on apace, scattering abroad its cheerless charms. 49. When a mouse or a rat is caught, they of course try to get away. 50. Neither of us is willing to give up our book.

51. There was a certain householder which planted a vineyard. 52. They were rich once, but are poor now. 53. The servant took away the horse, which was unnecessary. 54. A dog is an intelligent animal. 55. Novelty produces in the mind a vivid and an agreeable emotion. 56. ""Tis for a thousand pound." 57. The door was opened widely. 58. Bring me a fresh drink of water. 59. Our bullets glance harmlessly from the mark. 60. The wall is ten foot high.

61. Reason is superior to instinct; that belongs to the brute, this to man. 62. Time and tide waits for no man. 63. The rapidity of his movements were beyond example. 64. Nor want nor cold his course delay. 65. The fleet were seen off Cape May. 66. These rivers have sometimes overflown their banks. 67. Heat will expand metals. 68. She could not be more queenly if she was a queen.

69. "I wish I was in Dixie!" 70. Neither the horse nor the ox are capable of reasoning.

71. When I asked, "Who can answer the question?" all shouted, "Me." 72. A fair wind is the cause of a vessel sailing. 73. I speak of Butler, he who wrote "Hudibras." 74. It was not us that played truant. 75. Every one must answer for themselves. 76. Every

body has their troubles. 77. The child whom we met is quite sick. 78. A butterfly, which thought himself an accomplished traveller, happened to alight on a beehive. 79. Earth existed first in a state of chaos. 80. I can speak both the French and German languages.

81. Read on the fourth and fifth page. 82. A pink is a delicate flower. 83. What sort of a bird is a grouse? 84. Macaulay is a better historian than a poet. 85. The clerk may make a memoranda of it. 86. I have lost my new pair of boots. 87. The company have just erected a fine brick four-story building. 88. Lake Superior is larger than any lake in the world. 89. Two negatives in English destroy one another. 90. The boy don't know anything about his lesson.

91. Geography is not as hard a study as arithmetic. 92. I can swim further out to sea than him. 93. I don't think any of them can read like me. 94. I am desirous to introduce to you my friend. 95. Wisdom, and not wealth, procure esteem. 96. He was very glad indeed to have met his friends. 97. I expected to have finished my work this morning. 98. I would not have let you gone to such a meeting. 99. That much has been proved. 100. Instruct him to carefully shun the danger.

General Exercise.

For Analysis and Parsing.

1. You are a tyrant," he answered with a sigh.

2. "Stop!" said the driver, in a tone of anger.

3. "I do not mean," said the antiquary, "to intrude upon your lordship."

4. “A bird in the hand," says the old proverb, "is worth two in the bush."

5. So great was the demand for paper that the sovereigns of some countries, where the plant out of which it was made flourished, monopolized entirely its culture.

6. "All tickets, please," rang through the car.

7. I live as I did, I think as I did, I love you as I did.-Swift.

8. Deliver us from the nauseous repetition of as and

so,

which some

so-so writers, I may call them so, are continually sounding in our ears. -Felton.

9. Pausing a while, thus to herself she mused.-- Milton.

10. Oh that those lips had language!—Cowper.

11. There is no man that sinneth not.-Bible.

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See the blind beggar dance, the cripple sing,
The sot a hero, lunatic a king.-Pope.

From liberty each nobler science sprung,

A Bacon brightened, and a Spenser sung.-Savage.

The why is plain as way to parish church.—Shakespeare.

A dainty plant is the ivy green,

That creepeth o'er ruins old,

Of right choice food are his meals, I ween,

In his cell so lone and cold.

The walls must be crumbled, the stones decayed,

To pleasure his dainty whim,

And the mouldering dust that years have made
Is a merry meal for him.-Dickens.

Close beside her, faintly moaning,

Fair and young a soldier lay,

Torn with shot and pierced with lances,

Bleeding slow his life away.- Whittier.

Down came the tree, nest, eagles, and all.-Fontaine.

His heart went pit-a-pat, but hers went pity Zekle.--Lowell

Laugh those who can, weep those who may.-Scott.

Now they wax and now they dwindle,

Whirling with the whirling spindle;

Twist ye, turn ye! even so

Mingle human bliss and woe.-Scott.

The piper loud and iouder blew,

The dancers quick and quicker flew.—Burns.

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The window jingled in its frame,

And through its many gaps of destitution
Dolorous moans and hollow sighings came,
Like those of dissolution.-Hood.

Overhead the dismal hiss

Of fiery darts in flaming volleys flew.-Milton.

Hands that the rod of empire might have swayed
Close at my elbow stir the lemonade.-Holmes.

Can storied urn or animated bust

Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath?

Can Honor's voice provoke the silent dust,

Or Flattery soothe the dull, cold ear of death?—Gray.

26. Away they went, pell-mell, hurry-skurry, wild buffalo, wild horse, wild huntsman, with clang and clatter, and whoop and halloo, that made the forest ring.-Irving.

27. This is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.-Bible.

28. Whatever is read differs from what is repeated.-Swift.

29. What ho! thou genius of the clime, what ho!-Dryden.

30. Mark what it is his mind aims at in this question, and not what words he expresses.-Locke.

31. In singing, as in piping, you excel.-Dryden.

32. There brighter suns dispense serener light,

And milder moons imparadise the night.-Montgomery.

33. The beautiful strikes us as much by its novelty as the deformed itself.-Burke.

PUNCTUATION.

Punctuation treats of the use of points in dividing written composition.

The chief use of punctuation is to divide discourse into sentences, and these again into parts, in such a manner as will best show the relation of the several parts to one another.

Punctuation is based almost wholly on grammatical analysis. The same good judgment and accurate discrimination is needed, therefore, in the one as in the other.

The chief points used are the following:

The following are the most important rules for the use of the period.

RULE I.-Complete Sentences.—A period should be placed at the end of every declarative or imperative

sentence.

Ex. "I am the teacher." "Let me hear you recite."

Remark. The members of compound sentences are sometimes separated by periods; as, “The actual amount of money was smaller than we had expected. But we were not disappointed."