III. SYLLABLES.

Divide the following words into their proper syllables :—

Ado, adorn, adown, adrift, anoint, athwart, awry, bespeak, bestow, between, encroach, incrust, foreknow, forestall, forswear, underanged, preterit, retrace, unoiled, unrepaid, unresting, underbid, upholder, withal.

Civil, color, copy, damask, dozen, ever, feather, gather, heaven, lemon, meadow, never, orange, punish, robin, shovel, timid, whither, benefit, canister, generous, academical, several, miserable, tolerable, epidemic, paralytic, liberal, characteristic, experimental.

Folio, genial, genius, glossy, junior, mover, satiate, seizure, vitiate, ambrosia, convenient, ingenious, omniscience, peculiar, substantiate, sociable, partiality, pecuniary, annunciate, enunciate, appreciate, associate, expatiate, negotiate.

Eastern, pallet, stormy, England, anthill, cowslip, farewell, foretop, hogshead, homeward, sandstone, forever, husbandman, painstaker, bookseller, acquittal, requisition, architecture, machinery, aqueduct, arable, horrible, inflammation, impossible, preferable, perilous, business, preferred.

IV. FIGURE OF WORDS.

Correct the errors in the following, according to the rules on pages 27, 28. 1. The shine of the plough share is the farmer's wealth.

The cross row has ever had some thing of a magic spell in it.
The old fashioned are apt to think the world grows worse.
The stealing of water melons may lead to house breaking.
A good clothes brush helps greatly to make a gentle man.
2. An ill-tongue is a fearful corrupter of good-manners.
Envy not the good-luck of prosperous transgressors.
St. Paul admonishes Timothy to refuse old-wives'-fables.
Lawmakers have often been partial to male-descendants.
New-year's-gifts brighten many a face on new-year's day.
3. They that live in glass-houses should not throw stones.
A glass house is a house in which glass is manufactured.
A spirit stirring discourse is seldom a long winded one.
Knowledge and virtue are the stepping stones to honor.
The American whip poor Will is a night warbling bird.
4. Let school and meeting-houses be pleasantly located.
The teapot and kettle are now deemed indispensable.
Both the ten and the eight syllable verses are iambics.
Most, at six or seventeen years of age, are men and women.
A ketch is a vessel with two masts, a main and mizzen-mast.

5. The bloodyminded man seldom dwells long in safety.
A tiresmith puts on wheelbands redhot, then cools them.
Plato was so called because he was broadshouldered.
Timehonored custom may be souldestroying folly.
Is evenhanded honesty expected in slavemerchants?
6. A good pay-master is always a man of some fore-thought.
The glory of the common-wealth is the states-man's boast.
Rain-bows are made of sun-shine dissolved in sky water.

V.-SPELLING.

In the following exercises the pupil is required to correct the errors in spelling according to the rules on pages, 28, 29, 30.

I.

1. Few know the value of a friend, til they lose him. Good men pas by offences, and take no revenge. Hear patiently, iff thou wouldst speak wel.

2. The business of warr is devastation and destruction. To er is human; to forgive, divine.

A bad speller should not pretend to scholarshipp. 3. It often requires deep diging, to obtain pure water. Praise is most shuned by the praiseworthy.

He that hoists too much sail, runs a risk of overseting.

4. Quarrels are more easily begun than endded.

Contempt leaves a deepper scar than anger.

Of all tame animals the flatterrer is the most mischievous.
5. Smalness with talness makes the figure too slender.
Heedlesness is always in danger of embarrasment.
The recklesness of license is no attribute of fredom.
6. Good examples are very convinceing teachers.

Doubts should not excite contention, but inquirey.
Obligeing conduct procures deserved esteem.

7. Wise men measure time by their improvment of it.
Learn to estimate all things by their real usfulness.
Encouragment increases with success.

8. Nothing essential to happyness is unattainable.
Vices, though near relations, are all at varyance.
Before thou denyest a favor, consider the request.
9. Good-wil is a more powerful motive than constraint.
A wel-spent day prepares us for sweet repose.
The path of fame is altogether an uphil road.

II.

1. He is tal enough who walks uprightly.
Repetition makes smal transgressions great.
Religion regulates the wil and affections.

2. To carry a ful cupp even, requires a steady hand.
Idleness is the nest in which mischief lays its egs.
The whole journey of life is besett with foes.
3. Peace of mind should be prefered to bodily safety.
A bad begining is unfavorable to success.

Very fruitful trees often need to be proped.

4. None ever gained esteem by tattling and gossipping.
Religion purifies, fortifies, and tranquillizes the mind.
They had all been closetted together a long time.
5. Blesed is he whose transgresion is forgiven.

Indolence and listlesness are foes to happiness. Carelesness has occasioned many a wearisome step. 6. In all thy undertakeings, ponder the motive and the end. We cannot wrong others without injureing ourselves. A dureable good cannot spring from an external cause. 7. Duely appreciate and improve your privileges.

To borrow of future time, is thriftless managment. He who is truely a freman is above mean compliances. 8. Pitiing friends cannot save us in a diing hour. Wisdom rescues the decaies of age from aversion. Vallies are generally more fertile than hills.

9. Cold numness had quite bereft her of sense.

A cascade, or waterfal, is a charming object in scenery. Nettles grow in the vinyard of the slothfull.

Tuition is lost on idlers and numbsculs.

III.

1. He that scofs at the crooked, should beware of stooping. Pictures that resemble flowers, smel only of paint. Misdemeanors are the pioneers of gros vices.

2. To remitt a wrong, leaves the offender in debt. Superlative commendation is near akinn to detraction. Piety admitts not of excessive sorrow.

3. You are safe in forgeting benefits you have confered. He has run well who has outstriped his own errors. See that you have ballast proportionate to your riging. 4. The biasses of prejudice often preclude convincement. Rather follow the wise than lead the foollisb.

To reason with the angry, is like whisperring to the deaf. A bigotted judge needs no time for deliberation.

The gods of this world have many worshippers.

5. Crosness has more subjects than admirers.

Fearlesness conquers where blamelesness is armor-bearer.
6. Many things are chiefly valued for their rareity.
Vicious old age is hopeless and deploreable.
Irreconcileable animosity is always blameable.

7. Treachery lurks beneath a guilful tongue.
Disobedience and mischief deserve chastisment.
By self-examination, we discover the lodgements of sin.
The passions often mislead the judgement.

8. To be happy without holyness is impossible.
And, all within, were walks and allies wide.
Call imperfection what thou fancy'st such.
Without fire, chimnies are useless.

9. The true philanthropist deserves a universal pasport.
Ridicule is generally but the froth of il-nature.
All mispent time will one day be regretted.

Fiction may soften, without improveing the heart.
Affectation is a sprout that should be niped in the bud.
A covettous person is always in want.

Fashion is comparéable to an ignis-fatuus.

Fair appearances somtimes cover foul purposes.
Garnish not your commendations with flatterry.
Never utter a falshood even for truth's sake.
Medicines should be administerred with caution.
We have here no continueing city, no abideing rest.
Many a trapp is laid to ensnare the feet of youth.
We are caught as sillyly as the bird in the net.
By defering repentance, we accumulate sorrows.
To preach to the droneish, is to waste your words.
We are often benefitted by what we have dreaded.
We may be succesful, and yet disappointed.
In rebusses, pictures are used to represent words.
He is in great danger who parlies with conscience.
Your men of forhead are magnificent in promises.
A true friend is a most valueable acquisition.
It is not a bad memory that forgets injuryes.
Weigh your subject wel, before you speak positivly.
Difficulties are often increased by mismanagment.

Diseases are more easyly prevented than cured.
Contrivers of mischief often entrapp themselves.
Corrupt speech indicates a distemperred mind.
Asseveration does not allways remove doubt.
Hypocrites are like wolves in sheeps' clotheing.
Ostentatious liberallity is its own paymaster.

V.-MISCELLANEOUS.

A downhil road may be travelled with ease.
Distempered fancy can swèl a molehil to a mountain.
Let your own unbiassed judgment determine.
A knave can often undersel' his honest neighbors.
Xenophanes prefered reputation to wealth.
True politeness is the ofspring of benevolence.
Levellers are generally the dupes of designning men.
Rewards are for those who have fullfiled their duty.
Who trusts a hungry boy in a cubburd of dainties?
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellers.
The liberal man ties his purse with a beau-not.
Double-deelers are seldom long in favor.
The characters of the crosrow have wrought wonders.
The plagiary is a jacdaw decked with stolen plumes.
All virtues are in agrement; all vices, at varyance.
Personnal liberty is every man's natural birthrite.
There, wrapt in clouds, the blueish hills ascend.
The birds frame to thy song their chearfull cherupping.
There figgs, skydyed, a purple hue disclose.

Lysander goes twice a day to the choccolat-house.
Years following years steal sumthing every day.

The soul of the slothfull does but drowse in his body.
What think you of a clergiman in a soldier's dres ?
Justice is here holding the stilliards for a balance.
The huming-bird is somtimes no biger than a bumble-be.
The muskittoes will make you as spoted as a samon-trout.
Cruelty to animals is a malicious and lo-lived vice.
Absolute Necessity must sign their deth-warrant.
He who catches flies, emulates the nat-snaper.
The froggs had long lived unmolested in a horspond.
"These are villanous creatures," says a blokheded boy.
The robbin-read-breast til of late had rest,
And children sacred held a martin's nest.