manned the sheets and halyards. 12. The mate then hailed the men on the yards with the words all ready forward? and all ready the cross-jack yards? etc. etc. and aye aye sir being returned from each the word was given to let go. 13. In the twinkling of an eye the ship which had shown nothing but her bare yards was covered with her loose canvas from the royal-mastheads to the decks. 14. Every one except a single man in each top made ready to overhaul and the topsails were hoisted and sheeted home all three yards going to the masthead at once the larboard watch hoisting the fore the starboard watch the main and the five light hands of whom I was one picked from the two watches the mizzen. 15. The yards were then trimmed the anchor weighed the cat-block hooked on and the fall stretched out manned by all hands and the cook then the anchor was brought to the head with cheerily men in full chorus. 16. The ship being now under way the light sails were set one after another and she was under full sail before she had passed the sandy point. 17. The fore royal which fell to my lot I being in the mate's watch was more than twice as large as that of the brig Pilgrim and though I could handle the Pilgrim's fore royal easily I found my hands full with this. 18. As soon as we were beyond the point and all sail out the order was given go below the watch in fact the crew said that though strict discipline was kept and the utmost required of every man in the way of his duty yet on the whole there was very good usage on board. 19. The head man of the watch to which I belonged was the sailmaker a thorough-bred old man-ofwar's-man he had been to sea twenty-two years in all kinds of vessels men-of-war privateers slavers and merchantmen everything except whalers which a thorough sailor despises and will always steer clear of if he can. 20. He had been of course in all parts of the world and was remarkable for what the old saying calls drawing a long bow in other words he was a great spinner of yarns. 21. His yarns were always amusing from their improbability he never indeed expected to be believed but spun them merely for amusement and as he had some humor and a good supply of man-of-war's slang and sailor's salt phrases he always made us fun. 22. Next to him in age and experience and of course therefore in standing in the watch was Harris an Englishman then came two or three Americans who had been the common run of European and south American voyages and one who had been in a whaler which in sailor's slang goes by the contemptuous name spouter. 23. Last of all was a broad-backed thick-headed boy from cape Cod who had been in mackerel schooners and was making at the time of which I now speak his first voyage in a square-rigged vessel. 24. The other watch was composed of about the same number John a tall fine-looking frenchman with coal-black whiskers and curly hair who was the head man two americans a german an englishman named Ben and two Boston boys just from the public schools. 25. The carpenter was sometimes mustered in the starboard watch an old sea-dog a swede by birth who was accounted the best helmsman in the ship this was our ship's company beside cook and steward who were blacks three mates and the captain. 26. As soon as all hands are at their stations the captain who stands on the weather side of the quarter-deck makes a sign to the man at the wheel to put it down and calls out helm's a lee. 27. Helm's a lee answers the mate on the forecastle and the head sheets are let go. 28. Raise tacks and sheets says the captain and when the order tacks and sheets is passed forward the fore and tack and main sheets are let go. 29. Then when all is hauled taut and the braces belayed the captain shouts main topsail haul! the braces are let go and if he has chosen his time well the yards swing round like a top otherwise it is as hard as pulling teeth. 30. Everything being now trimmed and in order each man coils up the rigging at his own station and the command is given go below the watch. APPENDIX 13 SUGGESTED LESSON ASSIGNMENTS DIRECTIONS TO THE STUDENT 1. Be able to explain the connection of each lesson with the whole course; the whole course is outlined in the table of contents. 2. Study the assigned sections with great care; every word in them counts. Pay close attention to the examples. Above all, be sure you really master the principles; no mere memorywork will enable you to solve in class the problems which your teacher will invent to test you. 3. Study the sections before you study the exercise that relates to them. In studying an exercise, do not try to cover it all; test yourself on it, here and there, throughout; the latter part is often harder than the beginning. 4. Do not mark an exercise in any way that will help you to recite. 5. The whole purpose of the course is to help you acquire the ability to write effective, respectable English. Your themes are the real and final test of this ability. Try to put into immediate use in your themes the principles you study; otherwise they are wasted. Do not be discouraged, if (as in the case of most students) your writing ability develops slowly; patient effort is bound at last to produce results. AUTUMN TERM. 1. Organizing an expository theme. Study secs. 1-32, 214223, omitting secs. 8, 9, 14, 15. Hand in ex. 4. The weekly themes for this term will be expository (see Appendix 16, parts V-X). 2. Topic sentences and transition. Study secs. 33-55, with special reference to exposition (secs. 41-42, 47-49). Hand in ex. 6: 21-25. 3. Position of modifiers. Study secs. 59-66, and ex. 9-11. The whole course in rhetoric absolutely requires a working knowledge of grammar-the parts of speech and their common uses, the distinction between main and subordinate clauses, the common uses of phrases and subordinate clauses, etc.in general a working knowledge of such terms and principles as are set forth for convenience of review in Appendix 8. This knowledge is especially necessary for the proper mastery of assignments 3-14. In preparing these assignments, consult Appendix 8 whenever you are in the slightest doubt on a matter of grammar. After assignment 9, and again after assignment 14, your teacher will be in a position to say whether you understand enough grammar to continue the study of rhetoric with any profit, or had better drop the rhetoric altogether for another year. This is a challenge to you to refresh your memory of the elements of grammar. 4. Reference of pronouns. Study secs. 67-76, and ex. 12-13. 5. Repeated prepositions and dangling expressions. Study secs. 77-82, and ex. 14-15. Review secs. 59-66. 6. Punctuation. Study rules 1-2 in Appendix 10, and ex. 63-64. Until further notice the punctuation rules are not to be learned by heart, but you must be able to reproduce their contents with complete accuracy, and you must know them by number. 7. Punctuation. Study rules 3-4 in Appendix 10, and ex. 65-66. 8. Punctuation. Study rules 5-10 in Appendix 10, and ex. 67-73, omitting 69. 9. Punctuation. Study rules 11-18 in Appendix 10, and ex. 74-79. 10. Incomplete sentences and number. Study secs. 83-95, and ex. 16-17. 11. Case. Study secs. 96-105, and ex. 18-19. 12. Correlatives and principal parts. Study secs. 106-112, and ex. 20-22; review secs. 96-105. 13. Shall and will. Study secs. 113-117, and ex. 23. 14. Other matters of grammatical correctness. Study secs. 118-129, and ex. 24-26. 15. Sentence unity and sentence transition. Study secs. 5-10, 50-55, and ex. 1, 8. 16. Review secs. 59-66, and ex. 9-11. 17. Review secs. 67-82, and ex. 12-15. 18. Review secs. 83-108, and ex. 16-20. 19. Review secs. 109-129, and ex. 27. 20. Review rules 1-18 in Appendix 10, and ex. 80. WINTER TERM. 21. Organizing a narrative theme. Study secs. 1-55, 194207, omitting secs. 5-10, 15, 16, 39-42, 47-49. Hand in ex. 2. The weekly themes for this term will be narratives (see Appendix 16, parts I-III). 22. Punctuation. Learn rules 1-2 in Appendix 10; study ex. 63-64. Beginning with this assignment, all the punctuation rules and examples are to be learned by heart word for word, except that the notes and the examples to the notes may be reproduced in your own words; you must know the rules by number. 23. Punctuation. Learn rules 3-4 in Appendix 10; study ex. 65-66. 24. Punctuation. Learn rules 5-8 in Appendix 10; study ex. 67-71. 25. Punctuation. Learn rules 9-12 in Appendix 10; study ex. 72-75. 26. Punctuation. Learn rules 13-15 in Appendix 10; study ex. 76-78. |