blossoms! The rein broke and his horse ran away. In the reign of George III. a tax was laid on tea. Please hand me that paper of tacks. She made a cheerful fire in the parlor grate. The cook will grate the nutmegs. "They never fail who die in a great cause." With bated breath they watched the crouching tiger. He baited the line and cast it into the stream. LESSON 70. some Instruction. In the suffix some e is silent and o equivalent to u short. This is an adjective suffix meaning like, or full of. Instruction. In the terminations of this lesson, being unaccented, o is equivalent to u short. Exceptions, depot (from the French), in which t is silent and o long obscure, also idol, gambol and symbol, in which o is short. od op oek Ŏek Instruction. In the words of the first two columns o in the termination is equivalent to u short. In the words of the last two columns o is short. In scallop, a is equivalent to o short. Instruction. In the suffix (or termination) et, e is short. NOTE TO TEACHER.-Pronounce these words (and those of Lessons 74 and 75) with such distinctness that the sound of e short in the unaccented syllable will be plainly heard. Impress your pupils with the fact that the pronunciation is jacket, not jackut; garret, not garrut; blanket, not blankut. Instruction. When the suffix (or termination) ic follows a single consonant preceded by any single vowel except u, it makes that vowel short and the single consonant joins the preceding vowel. Ĭe (continued). ĭet In Instruction. At the beginning of a word, p is silent before s. psychic, h is silent and the preceding c hard. In cambric, a is long. A mattock is a tool used in digging. "Is there a heart that music cannot melt?" "Woe unto them that call good evil, and evil good." The peacock seems to mimic the manners of vain and silly persons. If you would have good health you must eat wholesome food. The hunter trains the falcon to catch game in his sharp talons. A herd of bison was feeding on the margin of the river. The poet has written a book of idyls and sonnets. The critics say it is a classic work. The thicket on the mountain side is full of blithesome birds. Hear them carol forth praises to their Maker! And the robins sang in the orchard, where the buds to blossoms grew. Of the folded hands and the still face never the robins knew.- Whittier. |