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Variant a as in ask, marked å.

This sound is between a in hat, and a in far.

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

1. A fool must now and then be right by chance.

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2. Feast, and your halls will be crowded; Fast, and the world goes by.-ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.

3. The windows rattled with the blast, The oak trees shouted as it passed.

- HENRY WADSWORTH Longfellow.

4. When the shore is won at last,

Who will count the billows past? — JOHN KEBLE.

5. To watch the colors that flit and pass

With insect wings, through the wavy grass.

- FELICIA D. HEMANS.

6. 'Tis not on youth's smooth cheek the blush alone, which fades so fast,

But the tender bloom of heart is gone ere youth itself be past.-George Gordon, Lord Byron.

7. There is not wind enough to twirl

The one red leaf, the last of its clan,
That dances as often as dance it can,
Hanging so light and hanging so high,

On the topmost twig that looks up to the sky.

-SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE.

Some words pronounced alike.

1. Copy carefully. 2. Write from dictation. 3. Use the italicized words in sentences of your own.

1. The shepherds on the lawn,

Or ere the point of dawn,

Sat simply chatting in a rustic row. -JOHN MILTON.

2. Chasing the wild deer, and following the roe-
My heart's in the Highlands wherever I
go.

ROBERT BUrns.

3. Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The rapids are near, and the daylight's past! 4. O life! thou art a galling load,

- THOMAS Moore.

Along a rough, a weary road! - ROBERT BURNS.

5. Swift summer into the autumn flowed, And frost in the mist of the morning rode.

6.

In awe.

The sailors rowed

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY.

- PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY.

7. Each boatman, bending to his oar, With measured sweep the burden bore.

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SIR WALTER SCOTT.

8. Th' allotted hour of daily sport is o'er,
And Learning beckons from her temple's door.

- GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON.

9. Thy form and mind, sweet maid, can I forget? In richest ore the brightest jewel set!- ROBERT Burns.

Narrow a as in care, marked â. âi = â.

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

1. Graceful and tall as a lily fair,

The peach lent the bloom to her blushes rare,
And the thrush the brown of her rippling hair.

- PHOEBE CARY.

2. The sweetest flowers are ever frail and rare.

- PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY.

3. Not what we give, but what we share, For the gift without the giver is bare.

-JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.

4. The voice so sweet, the word so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air. - BEN JONSON.

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Thou layest thy finger on the lips of Care.

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6. Time was when I was free as air,

The thistle's downy seed my fare,

My drink the morning dew. - William Cowper.

7. But me, not destined such delights to share, My prime of life in wandering spent and care.

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8. I love it, I love it; and who shall dare To chide me for loving the old armchair?

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ĕa = e short, marked ě.

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

1. How wonderful is Death,

Death and his brother sleep!-PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY. 2. Boughs where the thrush, with crimson breast, Shall haunt, and sing, and hide her nest.

- WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT.

3. The low of cattle and song of birds, And health and quiet and loving words.

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5. Closed are the pink and the poppy red,

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And the lily near them hangs her head. -PHŒbe Cary.

A simple child,

That lightly draws its breath,

And feels its life in every limb,

What should it know of death? - WILLIAM WORDSWORTH.

7. At every breath were balmy odors shed,

Which still grew sweeter as they wider spread.

- ALEXANDER Pope.

8. I count my health my greatest wealth. - ROBert Burns.

9. Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?- ROBERT BROWNING.

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