Hard g as in get, marked ğ.

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

1. Youth is to all the glad season of life.

-THOMAS CARLYLE.

2. Where hast thou wandered, gentle gale, to find The perfumes thou dost bring?

3. And see the waves so gently glide.-ROBERT BURns.

Shone, not a sound was heard; the very winds,
Danger's grim playmates, slept.

5. The poorest twig on the elm-tree Was ridged inch deep with pearl.

6.

-JAMES RUSSELL Lowell.

Those towers sublime,

MOORE.

That seemed above the grasp of Time.-THOMAS Moore.

7. The brightness of their smile was gone from upland, glade, and glen.-WILLIAM CULLEN Bryant.

8. Pride goeth forth on horseback grand and gay, But cometh back on foot, and begs its way.

9. His one ambition still to get and get,

He would arrest your very ghost for debt.

-JAMES RUSSELL LOWell.

Long u as in mute, marked i.

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

3. In sweet music is such art, Killing care and grief of heart

Fall asleep. WILLIAM SHAKESPEAre.

4. Come, pensive Nun, devout and pure,
Sober, steadfast, and demure. - JOHN MILTON.

5. How small, of all that human hearts endure,
That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.

6. The wind, the wandering wind Of the golden summer evesWhence is the thrilling magic

-OLIVER GOLDSMITH.

Of its tunes amongst the leaves? - FELICIA D. HEMANS.

7. Life, like every other blessing,

Derives its value from its use alone. -SAMUEL JOHNSON.

8. In the heaven that clear obscure,

So softly dark, and darkly pure.

Short u as in tub, marked ů.

1. Copy the following sentences carefully. dictation.

1. He lived one year in our orchard,

From spring till fall, you see,

And swung

2. Write from

and swung, and sung and sung, In the top of the highest tree. — Alice Cary.

2. Being all fashioned of the self-same dust, Let us be merciful as well as just.

3.

4.

There the thrushes

Sing till the latest sunlight flushes
In the west. - CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI.

Sing, Robin, sing!

All among the reeds and rushes,

Where the brook its music hushes. -SARAH F. DAVIS.

5. Yet Love will dream and Faith will trust

(Since He who knows our need is just) That somehow, somewhere, meet we must.

-JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER.

6. Avoid extremes; and shun the fault of such, Who still are pleased too little or too much.

7. And there never was water half so sweet
As the draught that filled my cup,
Drawn up to the curb by the rude old sweep
That my father's hand set up. - PHŒBE CARY.