Whose words are repeated in the fourth remark? What words divide this quotation into two parts? How are the words said Harry separated from the rest of the sentence?

Read the first part of the last quotation. Read the second part. By what is each part enclosed?

When the exact words of a person are repeated by an other, they should be enclosed by quotation marks; as, Agassiz once said, "I have no time to waste in making money.”

When a quotation is divided by other words, each part should be enclosed by quotation marks; as, "The greatest of faults," says Carlyle, "is to be conscious of none."

WRITTEN EXERCISE.

Write a short conversation between two girls about a picnic. Be careful to use quotation marks correctly.

LESSON XCV.

INDIRECT QUOTATIONS.

1. Robert said, "I will carry the basket."

2. Robert said that he would carry the basket.

3. Mr. Brown said to us, "Do not go through my field."

4. Mr. Brown said that we must not go through his field.

Read Robert's words in the first example. Whose remark is repeated in the second example? Are his exact words given?

When one person repeats the exact words of another, the quotation is called a direct quotation.

When one person tells what another has said, but does not use the speaker's exact words, the quotation is called an indirect quotation. What kind of quotation do you see in the third example? What kind in the fourth example?

By what are the direct quotations enclosed? With what kind of letter does each begin? What mark is placed before each direct quotation?

The first word of a direct quotation should begin with a capital letter. If the quotation is short, it should be separated from the preceding part of the sentence by a comma; as, The man said, "I have finished the work."

An indirect quotation should not be enclosed by quotation marks, should not begin with a capital letter, and generally should not be separated from the preceding words by a comma; as, The man said that he had finished the work.

WRITTEN EXERCISE.

Copy the following sentences, and place quotation marks and commas wherever they are needed:

I. Once more he cried Stop a minute.

2. Charles said that he had received a letter from his uncle.

3. Mother said Clara Green may I go down to the bridge. with Edith Hope this afternoon?

4. Herbert says that we planted the seeds too deep.

5. Listen to this boys said she and hear what was done with your letter.

6. This is a pleasant day said Mr. Snow. Does it not make you happy Emily?

7. What did he say to you when he came by asked the officer. 8. He told me that he had to run to save his life.

They fought the dogs, and killed the cats,

And bit the babies in the cradles,

And ate the cheeses out of the vats,

And licked the soup from the cooks' own ladles,

Split open the kegs of salted sprats,
Made nests inside men's Sunday hats,
And even spoiled the women's chats,
By drowning their speaking,

With shrieking and squeaking
In fifty different sharps and flats.

III.

At last the people in a body

To the Town Hall came flocking:

"'Tis clear," cried they, "our Mayor's a noddy; And as for our Corporation,

shocking

To think we buy gowns lined with ermine
For dolts that can't or won't determine
What's best to rid us of our vermin!"

At this the Mayor and Corporation
Quaked with a mighty consternation.

IV.

An hour they sat in council;

At length the Mayor broke silence:

"I wish I were a mile hence!

Oh for a trap, a trap, a trap!
!"

Just as he said this, what should hap
At the chamber door but a gentle tap?
"Bless us," cried the Mayor, "what's that?
Anything like the sound of a rat

Makes my heart go pit-a-pat!"

"Come in!"- the Mayor cried, looking bigger; And in did come the strangest figure!

His queer long coat from heel to head
Was half of yellow and half of red;
And he himself was tall and thin,
With sharp blue eyes, each like a pin,
And light loose hair, yet swarthy skin,
No tuft on cheek nor beard on chin,
But lips where smiles went out and in.

V.

He advanced to the council-table:

And, "Please your honors," said he, "I'm able,
By means of a secret charm, to draw

All creatures living beneath the sun,
That creep, or swim, or fly, or run,
After me so as you never saw !

And I chiefly use my charm

On creatures that do people harm,

The mole, and toad, and newt, and viper;

And people call me the Pied Piper.

If I can rid your town of rats

Will you give me a thousand guilders?"

"One? fifty thousand!" was the exclamation Of the astonished Mayor and Corporation.

VI.

Into the street the Piper stept,

And ere three shrill notes the pipe uttered,
You heard as if an army muttered;

And the muttering grew to a grumbling;
And the grumbling grew to a mighty rumbling;
And out of the houses the rats came tumbling.