Exercise 59.

Make out the following orders in due form, supplying dates:

1. Carter Brothers give to Wm. H. Brown an order for 10 barrels of flour, Genesee Extra, on Robt. L. Fuller.

2. Lewis Clarke gives Stephen Dennison an order on Brown, Lewis & Co., for $2000.

3. Robt. Fulton gives to Hiram Day a check on Charles River National Bank for $1000.

4. Order somebody to pay money to somebody, or to deliver goods to somebody, and charge to your account, or to the account of somebody else.

$300.

PROMISSORY NOTE PAYABLE TO ORDER.

Richmond, Aug. 8, 1872. Ninety days after date, for value received, I promise to pay James Dickerman, or order, Three Hundred Dollars.

Henry G. Graham.

PROMISSORY NOTE PAYABLE TO BEARER.

Cincinnati, May 20, 1873.

On or before April 20, 1874, for value received, I promise to pay Richard Rowe, or bearer, One Hundred Ninetytwo and Dollars.

50 100

James W. Ward.

JOINT AND SEVERAL NOTE.

Boston, Sept. 4, 1873.

$30615.

On demand, for value received, we jointly and severally promise to pay Walter Wheeler, or order, Three Thousand Dollars, with interest at 7 per cent.

Sixty-one and

Exercise 60.

Ward, Wood & Co.

Write out the following according to the models:

1. John Scott, of Cambridge, owes Thomas Hooker $400, for which he gives his note, payable to him, or to his order, in 4 months from March 3d, 1873. Write the note.

2. On or before the 10th of Oct., 1873, Stephen Morse, Jr., of Boston, promises to pay to William Stickney, or bearer, $75.75. Write the note, and date it April 10th, 1873.

3. Write a note, drawn by Henry S. Harrington, of Boston, in favor of Francis Raymond & Co., for $500, payable on demand, with interest at 7 per cent. Date the note Feb. 16, 1871, and record in due form the following indorsements: June 1, 1871, $1.50; Sept. 13, 1872, $200.

D.-NARRATIVES.

A profitable exercise in composition is to take a series of detached simple sentences and put them together so as to make a continuous narrative, using sentences of the various sorts, simple, compound, and complex.

EXAMPLE. "In union is strength.”

An old man was on the point of death. He called his sons to his bedside. He ordered them to break a bundle of arrows. The young men were strong. They could not break the bundle. He took it in his turn. He untied it. He easily broke each arrow singly. He then turned toward his sons. He said to them, "Mark the effect of union. United like a bundle, you will be invincible. Divided, you will be broken like reeds." One way of combining.

An old man on the point of death called his sons to his bedside, and ordered them to break a bundle of arrows. The young men, though strong, being unable to do so, he took the bundle in his turn, untied it, and easily broke each arrow singly. Then turning toward his sons, he said to them, "Mark the effect of union. United like a bundle, you will be invincible; divided, you will be broken like reeds."

Another mode of combining.

An old man, being on the point of death, called his sons to his bedside, and ordered them to break a bundle of arrows. Strong as they were, they were unable to break the bundle; so he took it in his turn, and, having untied it, easily broke each arrow singly. Turning toward his sons, he said to them, "United, you can not be overpowered; divided, you will be broken as easily as reeds."

NOTE.-No two scholars will hit upon exactly the same form of expression. Pupils must try to combine in their own way.*

Exercise 61.

Do the same with the following paragraphs:

Tea.

Tea is the dried leaf of a shrub. This shrub grows chiefly in China. It is an evergreen. It grows to the height of from four to six feet.

* This model is taken from Swinton's "Progressive English Grammar."

It

These flowers resemble wild roses.

In

bears pretty, white flowers. China there are many tea farms. These are generally of small extent. They are situated in the upper valleys. They are situated on the sloping sides of the hills. In these places the soil is light. It is rich. It is well drained. The plants are raised from seed. They are generally allowed to remain three years in the ground. A crop of leaves is then taken from them. The leaves are carefully picked by the hand.

Paul Jones's Great Sea-fight.

The most desperate naval fight of the Revolutionary War was the combat between the Bon Homme Richard and the Serapis. This battle took place near the coast of Scotland. The Bon Homme Richard was commanded by John Paul Jones. He was one of the most daring captains that ever trod a deck. The Serapis carried heavier cannon than Jones's ship. Still Jones boldly lashed his vessel to the enemy's side. Then a fearful struggle began. It began under the light of the moon. The muzzles of the guns touched. The crews fought hand to hand, with musket and cutlass. Thrice both vessels were in flames. The carnage went on for two hours. Then the British captain asked Jones if he had surrendered. The little commander replied, "I have only begun my part of the fighting." At length, after the Serapis had lost over two hundred men, her captain struck his colors. The American ship was then leaking. Jones transferred his crew on board of the captured vessel. The next morning the Bon Homme Richard went down. Jones sailed in triumph in the English ship to a French harbor.

E. WRITING FROM HEADS.

A more advanced exercise in writing is to give the pupil merely the heads of a little composition, and then require him to fill it out.

The Cow.

Heads.-The most useful of horned animals; its flesh; articles made of its skin; uses of its horns; the hair; the bones; importance of milk; the calf; use of its skin.

Expanded. Of all horned animals the cow is the most useful. Its flesh is one of the most necessary articles of food to man; and the purposes to which the various parts of its body are applied are almost innumerable. Without its skin we could scarcely obtain covering for our feet, the boots and shoes that we wear being almost wholly made from the skin, which is, besides, manufactured into an endless variety of necessary commodities. Mixed with lime, its hair serves to make mortar; its horns are converted into combs, knife-handles, boxes, drinking-ves