Review.

1. Copy the following sentences. Underscore all the words containing ǎ or ě. 2. Write from dictation.

1. For youth loves not the things that are sad,

2.

But turns to the hopeful and the glad. - PHOEBE Cary.

Behind the black wall of the forest, Tipping its summit with silver, arose the moon.

-HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW.

3. Far in the chambers of the west,

The gale had sigh'd itself to rest.—SIR WALTER SCOTT.

4. Freedom, hand in hand with labor,

Walketh strong and brave. -JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER.

5. And on their way, in friendly chat,

Now talked of this, and then of that.-JAMES MERRICK.

6. It is well to think well. It is divine to act well. - HORACE MANN. half so useful

7. Fine sense and exalted sense are not

as common sense. ALEXANDER POPE.

8. Blue were her eyes as the fairy flax, Her cheeks like the dawn of day.

- HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW.

9. Thy looks, thy gestures, all present The picture of a life well spent.

-WILLIAM WORDSWORTH.

Hard c as in can = k, marked €.

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

1. Then catch the moments as they fly. - ROBErt Burns.

2. Sing away, aye, sing away,

Merry little bird,

Though your life from youth to age

Passes in a narrow cage. - DINAH Maria Mulock.

3. My crown is called content;

A crown it is that seldom kings enjoy.

4. He that keeps nor crust nor crumb,

Weary of all, shall want some. — WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.

5. Yon clear spring tells no tale

Of all the good it's done. - WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT.

6. The rainbow hangs on the poising wave, And sweet is the color of cove and cave.

7. And I think of the smiling faces

That used to watch and wait,

- ALFRED TENNYSON.

Till the click of the clock was answered
By the click of the opening gate.

- JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY.

8. Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright.

GEORGE HERBERT.

Soft c as in ice, marked o̟ = s.

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

1. The price of wisdom is above rubies. — BIBLE.

2. Winter creeps along with tardy pace,
Sour is his front, and furrow'd is his face.

-JOHN DRYDEN.

3. Dreaming upon the wonderful sweet face Of Nature, in a wild and pathless place.

4. The tender grace of a day that is dead
Will never come back to me. - ALFRED TENNYSON.

5.

Envious streaks

Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.

6. Free as the wind, or feathered race

That hop from spray to spray. - ROBERT BURNS.

7. And thou, vast Ocean! on whose awful face Time's iron feet can print no trace.

-ROBERT MONTGOMERY.

8. O city of the seven proud hills!
Whose name e'en yet the spirit thrills.

-FELICIA D. HEMANS.

9. Pure gurgling rills the lonely desert trace And waste their music on the savage race.

Long i as in pine, marked i.

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

1. Her lips are like the cherries ripe.- ROBERT BUrns.

2. Alone, alone, all, all alone,

Alone on the wide, wide sea!

- SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE.

3. The green trees whispered low and mild; They were my playmates when a child, And rocked me in their arms so wild!

- HENRY WADSWORTH Longfellow.

4. Vain, very vain my weary search to find That bliss which only centers in the mind.

OLIVER GOLDSMITH.

5. Like one who spies, or thinks he spies, Through flickering clouds the new moon rise. - VIRGIL.

6. Each purple peak, each flinty spire,

Was bathed in floods of living fire. SIR WALTER SCOTT.

7. To hear the lark begin his flight,

And singing startle the dull Night,

From his watch-tower in the skies,

Till the dappled dawn doth rise. -JOHN MILTON.

8. While to the music, from on high,

The echoes make a glad reply.—WILLIAM WORDSWORTH.

ỹ=i long, marked i.

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

1. In and out like arrows fly

The slender swallows, swift and shy.-PHEBE CARY.

2. Oh! lagging hours, how slow you fly!

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY.

3. A brood of nature's minstrels chirp and fly, Glad as the sunshine and the laughing sky.

JOHN CLARE.

4. The tear, down childhood's cheek that flows,
Is like the dewdrop on the rose;
When next the summer breeze comes by
And waves the bush, the flower is dry.

- SIR WALTER SCOTT.

5. When the bloom was on the clover, and the blue was in the sky,

And my happy heart brimmed over in the days gone by. -JAMES WHItcomb Riley.

6. "Will you walk into my parlor ?"

Said the spider to the fly.

""Tis the prettiest little parlor

That ever you did

spy."

- MARY HOWITT.

7. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, And answer, echoes, answer, dying, dying, dying.

ALFRED TENNYSON.