MARKS USED IN PRINTING.

COMMA. The Comma denotes a stop long erough to count one.

; SEMICOLON. The Semicolon denotes a stop a little longer than the comma.

: COLON. The Colon denotes a stop a little longer than a semicolon.

PERIOD. The Period denotes a full stop. It is placed at the end of a sentence.

? NOTE OF INTERROGATION. The Note of Inter rogation denotes that a question is asked.

! NOTE OF EXCLAMATION. The Note of Exclamation denotes emotion or strong feeling.

DASH. The Dash denotes a sudden turn in a sentence. It is also used to lengthen the other pauses.

'APOSTROPHE The Apostrophe denotes that one or more letters in a word are omitted, as ne'er for never. It also denotes the possessive case, as

John's kite.

HYPHEN. A Hyphen is sometimes used to separate the syllables of a word, as po-ny.

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QUOTATION MARKS. Quotation Marks denote that the exact words of another are taken or quoted.

(PARENTHESIS. The Parenthesis encloses words which might be left out without injury to the sense. These words should be read with a lower, softer, and more rapid voice than the other parts of the sentence.

1. Ar break of day there was a great fall of rain, and now there is as great a fall of hail.

2. The sky is dull with a dark veil of rain clouds.

3. We must stay in the house all day. We can play in our own room, or sit in the old arm

chair, while the rain and hail are beating down

the grain.

4. When the rain and hail pass away, we may take a sail on the lake.

5. The wise God makes the sun shine, and the rain and hail fall. He does all things for the best.

THE DOG AND THE SNOW.

1. LET us sit down round

the fire this cold night, and I will tell you a true story of a dog.

2. A long way from this place there is a land where there is a great deal of cold, and where much snow falls,

and where the hills are so large and so high that their tops seem to reach the sky.

3. Some good men live there, who do all they can to help men who pass over these hills.

4. Those who have to go over these hills in winter, sometimes, in a snow-storm, sink into the snow and fall asleep. If some one does not wake them, they soon freeze to death.

5. Well, these good men, who live in a house in the midst of the high hills, keep large dogs, and they teach them to go out to seek for those who may be lost in the snow-drifts.

6. When they have found a man, they bark till they bring some of the good men to them. Then these men, with the aid of the dogs, take the poor man out of the snow, and help him to their house, where he finds food to eat, and fire to warm him.

THE BOY LOST IN THE SNOW.

1. ONE cold night, when the snow fell fast, and the wind blew loud and shrill, and it was quite