In the elder days of Art, Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part; For the Gods see everywhere. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW: The Builders. Write about the adventures of a parcel that was not properly addressed, using from memory not fewer than six of the words 3 A man is said to be laconic in his speech when he is short and direct in it. Once when Philip of Macedon wished to subjugate the Laconians, he sent them a letter saying, "If I go down into your country, I will level your great city to the ground." When he received their letter in reply, he found it contained the single word "If." This little clock which had been given to her when she was a small girl, not only struck the hours and half-hours and quarterhours, but there was attached to it a pretty contrivance which also told the time. On the front of the clock, just below the dial, was a sprig of a rosebush beautifully made of metal, and on this, just after the hour had sounded, there was a large green bud. At a quarter past the hour this bud opened a little, so that the red petals could be seen; fifteen minutes later it was a half-blown rose, and at a quarter of an hour more it was nearly full blown; just before the hour, the rose opened to its fullest extent, and so remained until the clock had finished striking, when it immediately shut up into a great green bud. - FRANK R. STOCKTON: The Clocks of Rondaine. Add y to the words in the last four columns. What change occurs in the spelling of the original word? Give, in a few lines, the autobiography of a gingham apron. Use from memory not fewer than five of the words above. Add ing to the words in the third and fourth columns. What change occurs in the spelling of the original word? (See page xiv.) Review the lists found on pages 50, 60, and 73. Imagine yourself a clock and tell your story, using from memory not fewer than five of the words above. forth cloudy One pleases to be in your forenoon the clock said to the dial: "What a slave you are; you cannot tell an hour unless the sun you. I can tell the hour at any time. I would not state for the world. It is just now twelve o'clock." and showed the time of day. It was half past twelve. The dial replied: "You may now - that to err. I depend upon Just then the sun shone Your freedom is only you are wrong. the sun, and if you did not depend upon me you would ever -."— ESOP. go |