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Instruction.—In the termination ish, i is short.

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is often used by the poets for anger. We must wait while she alters that garment. "Strike, for your altars and your fires!" He was bolder in the cause than his more prudent friend. Let us rest a moment in the shade of this large

bowlder. The merchant says this ring is made of the purest gold. Ring the bell for the servant. The laundress will wring out the clothes. The miner labors all day in the dark and cheerless mine. Let us drop all minor matters for the present. He is still a minor and cannot vote.

Little the tyrant recks of broken hearts. Silent lie the wrecks of many a gallant ship upon these cheerless shores. The sun shone brightly in the cloudless sky. "A wise son maketh a glad father." He bore the constant pain in silence. The careless boy broke a costly pane of glass. Your daughter has a very kind heart. The male red deer is called a hart; the female a hind. The servant is making some grape jam. The hinges of that door are working loose from the jamb.

LESSON 105.

NOTE TO TEACHER.-Review Instruction, Lesson 31. Remind pupils that in many words two vowels, having the appearance of a vowel digraph, are sounded separately and belong to separate syllables. Let the accent mark immediately precede the final Vowel.

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Instruction. In these words let the accent mark immediately In buoyant, u is equivalent to w.

precede the final vowel.

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Instruction.-In the terminations of these words ou is a vowel digraph. Mark u silent and o equivalent to u short. Let the accent mark precede the syllable containing this digraph.

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It was the warmest day of the year. Only through constant prudence and faultless judgment can a banker prosper. "Farewell, a long

farewell to all my greatness." "Faith is the substance of things hoped for." Her movements were full of girlish grace. The servant brought us a bunch of fragrant flowers. It is better to work for a mere pittance than to be a vagrant. The king was jealous of the growing prestige and power of the duke.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is

To have a thankless child.-Shakespeare.

For of all sad words of tongue or pen,

The saddest are these: "It might have been.”—Whittier.

He prayeth best who loveth best

All things, both great and small;

For the dear God who loveth us,

He made and loveth all.-Coleridge.

LESSON 109.

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Instruction. In the termination ure (unaccented), e is silent and u long obscure. In these words let the accent mark immediately precede this termination or the syllable containing it.

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Instruction.-In the terminations of these words mark the righthand vowel in the digraph silent and the preceding vowel long obscure.

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