LESSON CXXV Apple-pie, pudding, and pan-cake,— I WRITTEN Study the lines, and perhaps you will see the joke before you begin to write. This is one of the jingles intended to catch you unawares. Read the new rule. Remember to underscore the a when you copy the lines. Write from memory, and verify. Underscoring will be considered in Lesson 127. Rule 30 Use the dash to mark a sudden break in thought. II WRITTEN Copy the following and put in dashes where the break in thought occurs: 1 I went to ask but I must not tell yet 2 I wish I had but what is the use of asking? III ORAL Read the following sentences in which the double dash is used to show that the full name is omitted for some reason: 1 He went to M 2 Miss C IV ORAL and Mr. A were made the committee. Look thru your readers to find ex amples of the use of the dash for any purpose whatever. LESSON CXXVI Old King Cole was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was hę; He called for his pipe, and he called for his bowl, And he called for his fiddlers three; Every fiddler, he had a fine fiddle, And a very fine fiddle had he; "Tee-twee-dle-dee, tee-twee-dle-dee," Went-the-fiddlers. Oh, there's none so rare as can compare I WRITTEN Note every point in each line. Why is there a comma after fiddler in the fifth line? The dash, as used in the eighth line, marks a pause to show the beats in the line. Read this line slowly, one word at a time. Write from memory, and verify. II WRITTEN Write the rime of today again, making two lines of the first, the third, the fifth, the seventh, and the ninth lines. Capitalize as necessary Divide the lines by the rimes when there is a rime to go by, otherwise by the beats, which come at the commas. The rime is written in both ways. Rule 31 Use the dash to mark a long pause intended for effect. III ORAL Look thru your readers to find the dash used as in the rime of today's lesson. Can you find someone to sing Old King Cole to you? LESSON CXXVII Young lambs to sell! -If I'd as much money as I can tell, I WRITTEN Here is a street-cry, in which the crier interrupted his calls to the public by a remark to himself. The word-group in the fourth line is used like a quotation, and is pointed off like one except for the quotes. The dashes show the sudden break in thought. By underscoring, you call attention to the words thus made emphatic. Tell in this rime means count. A teller counts votes or money or other things, and you keep the tally, or the count, in your games. Write from memory, and verify. Rule 32 Underscore once for italics, twice for small caps, and three times for large caps. Small caps are the ones you generally use. You may not need to use large caps, unless in display ads for your school journal-if you have one. II WRITTEN Turn to the Additional Rimes, and find one similar to the rime given today. Copy it, and verify. III ORAL Turn to the rime in Lesson 81. Did the street-crier in that case stop to make a remark to himself? Repeat any other street-cries that you know. To the teacher: See Appendix note. |