1.

Surd th as in thin, unmarked.

1. Copy the following sentences. 2. Write from dictation.

Yet this is Rome,

That sat on her seven hills, and from her throne

Of beauty ruled the world. - MARY RUSSELL MITFOrd.

2. Let us then, be what we are, and speak what we think, And in all things keep ourselves loyal to truth.

3. The primrose opes its

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW.

eye,

And the young moth flutters by. - ELIZA COOK.

4. Where the night has its grave and the morning its birth. - PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY.

5. Yet oft, in his marble hearth's bright glow, He watch'd a picture come and go.

- JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER.

6. The clouds o'er their summits they calmly did rest, And hung on the ether's invisible breast.

7. And can it be that in a world so full and busy, the loss of one weak creature makes a void in any heart, so wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth of vast eternity can fill it up!

-CHARLES DICKENS.

8. The measure of life is not length, but honesty.

- JOHN LYLY.

1. Copy carefully. 2. Write from dictation, or from memory.

THE DAFFODILS

I wander'd lonely as a cloud

That floats on high o'er vales and hills,

When all at once I saw a crowd,

A host, of golden daffodils;

Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretch'd in never-ending line
Along the margin of the bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,

Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they
Outdid the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,

In such a jocund company:

I gazed and gazed- -but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;

And then my heart with pleasure fills,

And dances with the daffodils.-WILLIAM WORDSWORTH.

Sonant th as in the, marked th.

1. Copy the following sentences.

2. Write from dictation.

1. They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts. - SIR PHILIP SIDNEY.

2. To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven.

OLIVER GOLDSMITH.

3. How beautiful the silent hour, when morning and evening thus sit together, hand in hand, beneath the starless sky of midnight!

- HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW.

4. Night drew her sable curtain down.

And pinned it with a star. - M'Donald Clarke.

5. Vapors clothe earth's monarch mountain-tops With kingly ermine snow. - PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY.

6. Oh! but to breathe the breath

Of the cowslip and primrose sweet —

With the sky above my head,

And the grass beneath my feet! - THOMAS HOOD.

7. We did so laugh and cry with you,

I've half a mind to die with you,

Old year, if you must die. - ALFRED TENNYSON.

8. Hither and thither with screams as wild

As the laughing mirth of a rosy child.-MARY HOWITT.