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Oral and Written Review.

1. Will you please bring me your knife?

2. Will you show me your ring?

3. Have you ever been out to your father's farm?

4. Will you show us the leaves on the plant?

5. Do you see a bird now?

6. Have you much money with you?

7. Is your horse gentle?

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8. If you were to meet a stranger and he were to ask you, “Do you know a man by the name of Henry Truscott”? what would you say?

NEVER USE THE EXPRESSIONS AINT, HAINT AND TAINT.

LESSON XXI.

Oral and Written Review.

Read the following sentences aloud. The class may read them in concert:

1. I have no pencil.

2. I see no clouds in the sky.

3. I have solved no problems today.

4. I have not solved any problems today.

5. He knows nothing.

6. He does not know anything.

7. She comes here no more.

8. She does not come here any more.

9. They want nothing.

10. They do not want anything.

Copy these sentences neatly.

LESSON XXII.

The Pressure of Air.

Provide a tumbler and a piece of cardboard a little larger than the top of the tumbler.

Fill the tumbler level full of water. Lay the card over it. Hold it in place while inverting the tumbler. The card will remain in place and keep the water in the tumbler.

What do you observe? What keeps the card in place? Change the position of the tumbler. In what direction does the air press to keep the card in place? Why does the air press on things? Why does it press equally in all directions? The pressure of the air is due to its weight.

There are many examples of air pressure that may be observed.

Water rises in a pump because the air is withdrawn from the pump-stock and the air around the stock presses the water up until it flows out of the spout in wells up to thirty feet in depth.

Write out in declarative sentences all that you have learned from this lesson.

LESSON XXIII.

A Picture Study.

You may give names to these children. Are they brother and sisters? What are they doing? What has the little girl in her hand? What time of year is it? How do you know?

Do the children go to school? What day of the week is it? Tell a story about these children, suggested by what you see in the picture on the opposite page.

Write neatly all you have thought out about the picture.

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LESSON XXIV.

Reproduction.

Study this little poem carefully to see if you can get the story from it.

Study difficult expressions in it until you have the complete meaning of the poem.

Do you know the author? Find out something about his life. Have you read some of his other selections?

Tell the story of this poem in your own words. Write it neatly, using just the best language you can.

Wynken, Blynken, and Nod.

Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night

Sailed off in a wooden shoe

Sailed on a river of crystal light,

Into a sea of dew.

"Where are you going and what do

The old Moon asked the three.

you

wish ?"

"We have come to fish for the herring-fish
That live in this beautiful sea;

Nets of silver and gold have we!"
Said Wynken,

Blynken,

And Nod.

The old Moon laughed and sang a song,

As they rocked in the wooden shoe,
And the wind that sped them all night long
Ruffled the waves of dew.

The little stars were the herring-fish

That lived in that beautiful sea

Wynken, Blynken, and Nod.

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"Now cast your nets wherever you wish— Never afraid are we !"

So cried the stars to the fishermen three:

Wynken,
Blynken,

And Nod.

All night long their nets they threw

For the fish in the twinkling foam

Then down from the skies came the wooden shoe,

Bringing the fishermen home.

"Twas all so pretty a sail, it seemed

As if it could not be;

And some folks thought 'twas a dream they dreamed
Of sailing that beautiful sea-

But I shall name you the fishermen three:

Wynken,

Blynken

And Nod.

Wynken and Blynken are two little eyes,

And Nod is a little head,

And the wooden shoe that sailed the skies

Is a wee one's trundle-bed;

So shut your eyes while mother sings
Of wonderful sights that be,

And you shall see the beautiful things

As you rock on the misty sea,

Where the old shoe rocked the fishermen three:

Wynken,

Blynken,
And Nod.

-Eugene Field.

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