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TO THE PUPIL:

1. Copy Mr. Monti's letter.

2. The square bracket shows that the author of this book put in the word Italy after Rome, so that it might not be confounded with the Rome in New York. Words enclosed in marks of parenthesis (), occurring within a quotation, are understood to belong to the quotation; words enclosed in brackets [] are understood to be put in by the writer who is quoting. Examples of its use may also be found on pp. 390 and 391. The word sic, meaning thus, enclosed in brackets, is used after a word or a statement that is incorrect, to mean that the quotation is an exact copy of the original.

3. Phantom (făn' tum), means spectral, ghost-like; magnified, made larger; grenadiers, soldiers; stealthy, (compare with steal), secret, sly, done by stealth or stealing; impetuous, rapid, raging, fierce; alder, a tree or shrub that grows only on moist land; aghast, (å gåst'), terrified, struck with terror or amazement; emerge, to come out; defiance, a challenge, a calling out to combat.

TO THE TEACHER:

On p. 93, "Evenings with Grandpa," Part I, you will find the word defying, on p. 94, defiant, and on p. 98, the cries of defiance of both David and Goliath. A proper use of this Biblical story will firmly fix defy and its derivatives in the vocabularies of your pupils.

Call the attention of your pupils to the fact that the second line of the third paragraph of the letter should be: remember me as I was when a visitor, etc.

Tell the pupils to look up and read Celia Thaxter's "Spring." It is an exquisite little poem, beginning,

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NINTH DAY

Next morning, everyone was up bright and early. A good breakfast, hearty good-byes to Mr. and Mrs. Lemon, and our party was off to the train.

On arriving in Boston, they went at once from the North to the South Station where they took the train for Cape Cod.

“How far are we going?" asked Ben as they seated themselves in the car.

"About one hundred miles from here to the extreme east end of the Cape. The place to which we are going is called Chatham. We shall meet there, I hope, my old friend, Doctor Worth," was Uncle Jack's reply.

"Is it far from the station to the hotel?" asked Belle.

"About a mile," replied Uncle Jack. "The barge will take us there."

"A barge, Uncle Jack?" exclaimed Ben. "Do we have to sail to the hotel?”

"A barge down here sails over a dirt road and is

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propelled by horse power," replied Uncle Jack, smiling.

Three hours were passed very pleasantly reading and conversing, and then: "Chatham! Chatham!" cried the brakeman. "All out! Last stop!"

As the children stepped from the car, they saw backed up against the station platform a wagon marked "Hotel."

"Come on, Mother!" cried Ben. "There's the barge," and he led the way to it, handing in his mother and sisters, and standing by till his father

and Uncle Jack got in. Then, as there was no more room inside, he climbed up and sat by the driver.

"Get along," said the driver to the horse, and they got along, arriving in good time at the hotel, which was right on the sea-shore.

"Now," said Uncle Jack when they had been shown to their rooms, "as soon as the trunks are unpacked, get your bathing suits out."

"That'll be splendid, Uncle Jack," said Ben. "Then we can have a swim before dinner."

"Will you teach me to swim, Ben?" asked Belle. "Certainly I will, with pleasure,” replied Ben. "And me, too?" said May.

"Yes, and you, too," was Ben's reply.

"You will soon learn to swim, girls, if you do just what you are told," said Uncle Jack.

Not very long after, they went in, Belle and May getting their first lesson in swimming from Ben and Uncle Jack.

They were so hungry after their bath, that they thought dinner time would never come. But come it did, at last, and full justice was done to the meal. Shortly after they had finished, Uncle Jack said:

"It's time we called on Doctor Worth." And they started off to make the call.

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