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46. Pride breakfasted with Plenty, dined with supped with Infamy.

47. Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gai since thou art not sure of a minute, throw no 48. It is easier to suppress the first desire tha that follow it.

49. Then plow deep while sluggards sleep, and corn to sell and to keep.

50. If time be of all things the most precious, was be the greatest prodigality.

51. Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere long thy necessaries.

52. Diligence is the mother of good luck, and things to industry.

53. Industry need not wish, and he that lives up die fasting.

54. He that riseth late must trot all day, and sha take his business at night.

55. There are no gains without pains; then help have no lands.

56. Always taking out of the meal-tub, and never p comes to the bottom.

57. Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor w▪ used key is always bright.

58. But dost thou love life, then do not squander is the stuff life is made of.

59. He that hath a trade hath an estate, and h calling hath an office of profit and honor. 60. Lost time is never found again, and what we ca always proves little enough.

61. Many, without labor, would live by their wits break for want of stock.

62. A little neglect may breed great mischief; f

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and for want of a horse the rider was lost, being overta slain by the enemy; all for want of a little care about shoe-nail.

63. He that by the plow would thrive,

Himself must either hold or drive.

64. Fond pride of dress is sure a very curse;
Ere fancy you consult, consult your purse.
65. Vessels large may venture more,

But little boats should keep near shore.
66. For age and want save while you may;
No morning sun lasts a whole day.

67. Get what you can, and what you get hold;

'Tis the stone that will turn all your lead into gol

85. An Enunciation Drill. Recite from memory Franklin's proverbs, enunciating each syllable very dis

A Talk to the Class. Select one of the topics on p and tell what Franklin has to say about it. Apply the proverbs to your everyday life at school or at hom

86. An Exercise: Analysis. (1) Find simple, co and compound sentences among Franklin's proverbs. ( compound subjects. (3) Find compound predicate (4) Point out the subjects, the verbs, the objects, the p nominatives, and the predicate adjectives in some of tences. (5) Find adjectival and adverbial modifie tell what each modifies.

(6) Point out five verb phrases, five prepositional | five subordinate clauses, and five principal clauses. (7) Point out five declarative statements and fiv mands.

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(8) Find four sentences that begin with th or there.

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87. Conversation and Note-taking: Divide the class into six groups to serve as discuss how boys and girls can help to reduc and help to save.

1. Ways to save food
2. Ways to save clothes

3. Ways to save light and heat

4. Ways to save w

5. Ways to save in

6. Ways to save t

The committees will gather together in grou parts of the room, with a chairman for each, app teacher. On paper they will then make notes gested. The chairman should see that every n committee expresses an opinion.

After a ten-minute committee meeting, the six make reports of what the committees have The class will take notes, and after each report w suggestions.

Talk about these topics at home and get oth from your family.

88. Writing Four Paragraphs. You have he mittee reports about the above topics. Write fou giving the most important ideas you have about topics. Keep in mind the idea "How Boys a Save Food, Clothes, Light, and Heat," and mak tions as helpful and practical as possible.

These paragraphs will be used as the first contest letter with another class.

Correcting the Composition. You have Light

Food

Clothes

in each paragraph only the ideas that deal with the to paragraph. Read through your composition to test t each paragraph.

(2) How many sentences have you used for each Does each sentence have its topic? Have you joined a sentence ideas that are not closely related? If so, yo observed unity of a sentence.

(3) Do your sentences begin in the same way? Va them by rearranging the words, or inverting.

Copy your revised composition as part of a letter, you use as heading your school and the present da salutation "Dear Sir."

Copy these four paragrap
Write on only one side of

of the body of the letter.
89. An Enunciation Drill.
the vowels, as follows:

Combine the sound

la; le, le; li, li, li; lo, lo, lo, lo; lu, lu, lu, lu, lu.

A Talk to the Class. The teacher will divide t and 6 on page 288 among the class. Outline what to say about your topic. In class give your sugges the front of the room.

90. Writing a Contest Letter. On scratch pa three paragraphs for topics 4, 5, and 6, which you H talked about. Revise your composition by cons suggestions at the top of page 289.

Copy these paragraphs as the second part of y continuing the work above and concluding the le six best letters will be chosen for the contest.

The Judges' Decision. The letters will be submi judges, and the winning class will be announced la winning letter may be sent to a local

paper.

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91. Understanding the Dictionary. Webste national Dictionary" gives the following info word trade, after it has given the pronund speech, derivation, and various meanings.

TRADE. 5. Any occupation or employment ing; business.

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Syn. — TRADE, CRAFT, BUSINESS, PROFESSION. any of the mechanical employments or handicra connected with agriculture (see OCCUPATION); C terchangeable with trade, but denotes esp. a skilled workmanship; as, a carpenter, bricklayer, farmer, gardener), by trade; "this honest shoema the bye, remarkable for the production of philoso (Coleridge); "To make a man a good weaver a would require . much time . . . and, after all, either craft" (Scott). BUSINES pared, applies esp. to occupations of a mercantil nature; PROFESSION designates the more learned business of a merchant, a manufacturer, a stockbroke of a clergyman, a lawyer, a physician, a sculptor, teacher; "In the greater part of mechanic trades, certain; but very uncertain in the liberal professions "that horrid profession which he had chosen to a called it " (Thackeray). See VOCATION, OFFICE, WO Observe the abbreviations: Syn. means esp. means" especially." Three dots indicate t are omitted. The parentheses are used for add Look up vocation, office, and workman "New International Dictionary.' When you

* From Webster's "New International Dictionary." Copyrigh and C. Merriam Company.

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