LESSON XXIV

Cock crows in the morning
To tell us to rise,
And he who lies late

Can never be wise;

For early to bed

And early to rise

Is the way to be healthy

And wealthy and wise.

I WRITTEN Look at this new way of writing the lesson you had yesterday. The rime is usually written in eight lines, as given here. Write from memory, and verify by your book. Remember that your writing must be so perfect that it might be used by the printer for copy.

II WRITTEN Write from memory the rule for independent statements. Write the list of words which may show a statement to be independent.

III ORAL Repeat any other early-rising rimes that you may know.

"Lend me thy mare to ride a mile!"
"She is lamed, leaping over a stile."
"Alack, and I must keep the fair!
I'll give thee money for thy mare."
"Oh ho, say you so?

Money will make the mare to go!"

LESSON XXV

He that would thrive
Must rise at five;

He that hath thriven

May lie till seven;

And he that by the plow would thrive
Himself must either hold or drive.

I WRITTEN Study this rime carefully. Notice that the third couplet has longer lines than the other two. Plan for this before you start to write, and begin your first line well in from the margin. When your work is done, the whole should be well centered. The semicolon which occurs after seven separates two independent statements. What word joins the last independent statement to what goes before? Write from memory, and verify by your book. Was your work entirely free from errors?

II WRITTEN Write one or two sentences telling in your own words what the rime teaches.

III ORAL Find out by inquiry whether it is necessary to "hold" a new-fashioned plow. Find pictures, if you can, of both the old-fashioned and the newfashioned plows.

IV ORAL Find a word to rime perfectly with each of the following:

LESSON XXVI

Be you to others kind and true
As you'd have others be to you;
And neither do nor say to men

Whate'er you would not take again.

I WRITTEN You have two new contractions here, you'd for you would and whate'er for whatever. What word introduces the last independent statement? Write from memory; verify.

II WRITTEN Put into one or two sentences the teaching of this rime, trying to get it all into one short sentence if possible.

III ORAL Try to find some other rimes that teach this same lessons of kindness. If you find such, read them in class. Do you call this rime a good one to live by? Did you ever hear of the "Golden Rule"? What is it?

Intery, mintery, cutery corn,
Apple-seed and apple-thorn;
Wire, brier, limber lock,
Three geese in a flock;

One flew east, and one flew west,
One flew over the cuckoo's nest;
Sit and sing by the spring,

Out, out, and in again,
O-U-T, and out goes he!

LESSON XXVII

How many stars are in the sky?
More than you can count or I.
How many drops are in the seas?
How many leaves upon the trees?

How many grains of sand on the shore?
Count all you can, and there are more.

I WRITTEN Study the rime. Notice the way of writing the couplets. Where did we have the same form before? What are the riming words? Notice the comma between the two independent statements of the last sentence. Every line in this rime is a Write from memory, and verify by your

sentence. book.

II WRITTEN Try to make an original couplet, and copy it to read in class.

III ORAL Look thru your readers and notice some of the ways in which stanzas are alined. Read one stanza in class, and tell which lines are alined. A stanza is a single group of lines.

IV ORAL Do you see that a question is a statement turned around? He must becomes must he when we ask a question. How many sentences do you count in the rime? Are the rimes perfect? How many independent statements in all? Seven is right.

LESSON XXVIII

I'll tell you a story
About Jack a' Nory,
And now my story's begun;
I'll tell you another

About Jack and his brother,
And now my story's done.

I WRITTEN Study all the points with care before you try to write. Note the two commas and the semicolon. The connection in thought is closer at the commas than at the semicolon. The semicolon follows the first sentence, and each sentence contains two independent statements joined by and. a' before Nory means from or of.

Notice I'll for I will and for is. Observe that there are two couplets and that the last line rimes with the third. Be sure to aline as the copy does. This is a very common pattern of rime. Write from memory, and verify by your book.

II WRITTEN Arrange the following words in an order of rime like that given today, and consider whether they can be arranged in many other ways:

feather, dresses, succeed, blesses, indeed, weather

III ORAL Look thru your readers for rimes made on the pattern of the one in today's lesson. If you find any, read them in class. If you do not succeed, ask someone to tell you the rime of Little Miss Muffet, of Hey, diddle, diddle, or of Old Mother Hubbard. Can you tell how many beats or accents are in the third or in the sixth line?

To the teacher: See Appendix note.