Imagine that you are living in one of the early colonies. Word has just been received that an Indian massacre threatens your village. Tell what the settlers decide to do, using from memory not fewer than eight of the words above. From your dictionary learn the correct pronunciation of each Practice this pronunciation until you have made of these words. Analyze each of the following words so as to show this meaning 9 DEAR SIR: TRIBUNE OFFICE, N. Y. I am overworked and growing old. I shall be sixty next February 3. On the whole, it seems I must decline to lecture henceforth except in this immediate vicinity, if I do at all. I cannot promise to visit Illinois on that errand, — certainly not now. HON. HORACE GREELEY Yours truly, HORACE GREELEY SANDWICH, ILL., May 12, 1869 Your acceptance to lecture before our association next winter came to hand this morning. Your penmanship not being the plainest, it took some time to translate it; but we succeeded, and would say, your time, February 3, and the terms, sixty dollars ($60.00), are entirely satisfactory. As you suggest, we may be able to get you other engagements in the immediate vicinity; if so we will advise you. Yours respectfully, Write a third letter which you think Horace Greeley might have written, apologizing for his poor penmanship. The Gothic church plainly originated in a rude adaptation of the forest trees with all their boughs, to a festal or solemn arcade, as the bands about the cleft pillars still indicate the green withes that tied them. No one can walk in a road cut through pine woods, without being struck with the architectural appearance of the grove, especially in winter, when the bareness of all other trees shows the low arch of the Saxons. In the woods in a winter afternoon one will see as readily the origin of the stained glass window with which the Gothic cathedrals are adorned, in the colors of the western sky seen through the bare and crossing branches of the forest. RALPH WALDO EMERSON: History. 11 Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day When my cousin and I took our porridge of a morning, we had a device to enliven the course of the meal. He ate his with sugar and explained it to be a country continually buried under snow. I took mine with milk, and explained it to be a country suffering gradual inundation. You can imagine us exchanging bulletins ; how here was an island still unsubmerged, here a valley not yet covered with snow; what inventions were made; how his population lived in cabins on perches and traveled on stilts; and how mine was always in boats. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON: Child's Play (Abridged). |