Lessons in Language

EXERCISES IN LANGUAGE.

umbrella man.

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7. The children had fine fun. Baby looked on with wondering eyes. He could not quite understand what it was all about.

Read what is given in paragraphs one, two, and three.

Who said "Umbrellas to mend?"
Finish what he said.

What do we call paragraph one? How should it be marked? Where was the mother going? was going? What did she say? said this?

Why do you think she
Why do you think she

What had these children planned? What is Sam doing? What did Hatty tell her mother? Give me Hatty's exact words, so that I can write the quotation.

Tell me the part of the story told in these three paragraphs, using your own language. Tell it again, just as it is to be written here.

Complete aunt Sue's quotation in paragraph four.
Read paragraph five.

Tell what Hatty did.

What do you think the broken rib was trying to say? Give the first quotation in paragraph six. Give the

second.

Read the whole story, supplying all the quotations.

Write the story given in the last lesson, filling out the quo

tations properly.

SENTENCE BUILDING.

LESSON 93.

SENTENCE BUILDING.

Complete these sentences:

1. The horse could not draw the load, because
2. Anna did not break her doll, but

3. My uncle went to San Francisco, because
4. Boys like tops and marbles, but

5. The cattle crossed the stream, although
6. A cat caught my bird, although
7. Plants grow very rapidly, if.

8. I think that Emma will receive a new book Christ

mas, if

9. You may play with my kite, Fred, but

10. Will you lend me your knife, if

11. William rolled his ball under the sidewalk, and

12. Little Henry cut his finger, yet

13. The horse ran as if

14. Since

he can go a fishing.

15. John has done his work, therefore

16. It is further to Ogden than

17. Lift your foot so as

LESSON 94.

LETTER WRITING.

THE ADDRESS.

1. Name of Person.

1. The address consists of 2. No. and Street (if in a city).

3. Town.

4. State.

The address is written twice; once on the envelope and once at the end of the letter.

EXERCISES IN LANGUAGE.

LIE-LAY.

WRITTEN EXERCISE.

Draw envelopes on paper and address them to:

WORD PICTURES.

WRITTEN EXERCISE.

Read this stanza, then describe, in your own words, the picture you have in your mind of "Old Santa Claus."

He was dressed all in fur from his head to his foot,
And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot.
His eyes, how they twinkled! his dimples, how merry!
His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry.
His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow,
And the beard on his chin was as white as the snow.