name? What marks separate those titles from the remainder of the address and from each other?

WRITTEN EXERCISE.

1. Copy the letter at the head of this lesson.

2. Write to the principal of some large school asking for a cir cular of the school.

3. Write to a dry goods firm for samples of goods. Tell what kind of goods you wish.

name.

When a bill is paid, the person to whom the money was due gives a receipt, or writes "Received Payment," and signs his The latter is called receipting a bill. When a clerk receipts a bill, he signs the ployer, and then writes his own name below. above, a clerk named Scott receipted the bill for his employers.

name of his emIn the example

What should be written first in a bill? Where should the name of the person that buys the articles be written? Where should the name of the person or firm that sells the articles be written? How are the names of the articles written?

Of what is the second bill a record? Where are the different items placed? Where are the dates written? What words should not be written until the bill is paid?

WRITTEN EXERCISE.

Rule paper as in the models given, and copy the two bills.

LESSON LXXVII.

BILLS.

WRITTEN EXERCISES.

I.

Herman Fuller bought the following articles of Bell and Norton, Minneapolis, Minn., Dec. 17, 1883: 1 Saddle @ $15; I Bridle @ $5; 1 Riding Whip @ $2; 2 pairs Skates @ $2.50; 2 Pocket Knives @ $.75; I Hatchet @ $1.25.

Make out the bill, and receipt it in your own name as clerk.

Mrs. Harriet West of Buffalo, N.Y., made a dress for Mrs. Orlando Foster. She furnished the following articles: 2 yds. French Silesia @ 224; 7 yds. Cambric @ 64; 2 doz. Buttons @ $1.00; 3 Whalebones @ 10; Braid, Silk, and Twist, 40%. She charged $10 for making the dress.

Make out a receipted bill, dated to-day. Follow the Form given in Lesson LXXVI.

LESSON LXXVIII.

RECEIPTS.

A written acknowledgment of money or goods received is

called a Receipt; as, —

1.

$600 Baltimore, Md., Mar. 1, 1898. Received from George S. Abbott Sixty and Dollars, to balance account.

$30.

72

100

2.

M. J. Blair.

Chicago, June 1, 1899.

Received from Helen M. Crawford

Thirty Dollars, for board to this date.

When is a receipt given? places is the amount written? twice?

Mrs. C. K. Wright.

By whom is it signed? In how many
How is it written? Why is it written

For what purpose was the first sum paid? What is meant by "balancing" an account?

WRITTEN EXERCISES.

I.

Copy the foregoing receipts. Be careful to arrange the different parts like those in the models given.

II.

Suppose Walter D. Moore rents a house that you own. On

the first day of this month he paid you thirty dollars for rent of house to that time.

Write a receipt for the amount received. Follow the Forms given in this lesson.

III.

Look at the bills in Lesson LXXVI., and write the two receipts that might have been given in place of the receipted bills.

LOST.

LESSON LXXIX.

ADVERTISEMENTS FOR ARTICLES LOST.

On Saturday afternoon, between the Commercial Bank and the Post Office, a small black morocco pocket-book, containing a check on the Commercial Bank and one or two dollars in silver. The finder will be suitably rewarded upon leaving the article at 714 Broadway.

What was lost? What does the phrase on Saturday afternoon tell? What does the second phrase tell? What words describe the pocketbook? What did the pocket-book contain? Where was the finder requested to leave the article?

When you write an advertisement about an article that is lost, describe the article so clearly that it may be known from your description.

WRITTEN EXERCISE.

Suppose you have lost one of the articles named below. Write an advertisement about the lost article, to be inserted in one of the papers in your town.

bracelet,

knife, 4

dog,

horse.