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Some words pronounced alike.

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

1. She's too low for a high praise, too brown for a fair praise, and too little for a great praise.

-WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.

2. The Saint, the Father, and the Husband

3. The letter is too long by half a mile.

prays.

- ROBERT BURNS.

- WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.

4. I would not spend another such a night, Though 'twere to buy a world of happy days.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.

5. Good-by, proud world! I'm going home.

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6. To hie him home, at evening's close,
To sweet repast and calm repose. — THOMAS GRAY.

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8. A voice, whose tones are sweet and wild,

Singing a song almost divine,

And with a tear in every line.

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9. The muskrat plied the mason's trade, And tier by tier his mudwalls laid.

-JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER.

Birds.

1. Copy carefully. 2. Write from dictation, or from memory. 1. The whip-poor-will, her name her only song.

2. And the humming bird that hung Like a jewel up among

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The tilted honeysuckle horns.—JAMES WHITCOMB Riley.

3. Modest and shy as a nun is she,

One weak chirp is her only note;

Braggart and prince of braggarts is he,
Pouring boasts from his little throat:
Bobolink, bobolink.-WILLIAM CULllen Bryant.

4. And there my little doves did sit
With feathers softly brown,

And glittering eyes that showed their right
To general Nature's deep delight.

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5. The eagle rode the rising blast,
Methought he never flew so fast
As then to me he seem'd to fly,
And then new tears came in my eye.

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Obscure o as in word = u in fur, and nearly in her, and i in sir.

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1. Copy carefully.

2. Write from dictation.

1. Of sunshine wilt thou think, and flower and song, And breathe as in a world where nothing can go

wrong.- WILLIAM WORDSWorth.

2. Every one is as God made him, and ofttimes a great deal worse.-CERVANTES.

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Knowest thou when Fate

Thy measure takes, or when she'll say to thee, "I find thee worthy; do this deed for me?"

Labor

-JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.

Knocked with its hundred hands at the golden gates of the morning.- HENRY WADSWORth Longfellow.

5. We should try to succeed by merit, not by favor.

6. An honest man's the noblest work of God.

7. No clouds are in the morning sky, The vapors hug the stream,

Who says that life and love can die

- PLAUTUS.

— ALEXANDER POPE.

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In all this northern gleam?- EDMUND C. STEDMAN.

8. Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow.

9. I'll be a poet and paint with words

– ALEXANDER POPE.

Talking children and chirping birds. - ALICE CARY.

Some words pronounced alike.

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

1. So be it, for it cannot be but so.

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3. Use the

- WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.

2. The bee that through the sunny hour

Sips nectar in the op'ning flower. — ROBERT BURNS.

3. Now were instituted "quilting bees" and "husking

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4. A fretful temper will divide

The closest knot that may be tied.-WILLIAM COWper.

5. O time! thou must untangle this, not I;

It is too hard a knot for me to untie !

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.

6. For in the inn was left no better room.

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7. And ere the stars were visible, had reached A village inn, - our evening resting-place.

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8. But hark! a rap comes gently to the door.

ROBERT BURNS.

9. Or wrap himself in Hamlet's inky cloak.

WILLIAM Cowper.

10. Thou flea, thou nit, thou winter cricket thou!

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11. Still closer knit in friendship's ties

Each passing year!-ROBERT Burns.

Sound of u as in rude, marked y.

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

1. There is a temple in ruin stands,

Fashioned by long-forgotten hands.

- GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON.

2. Whose rills o'er ruby beds and topaz flow, Catching the gem's bright color, as they go.

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3. In fact, there is nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth.

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5. One of the best rules of conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish unsaid. — JONATHAN Swift.

6. Morning rises into noon,

May glides onward into June.

- SAMUEL TAYLOR COLEridge.

7. The flying rumors gather'd as they roll'd, Scarce any tale was sooner heard than told.

- ALEXANDER POPE.

8. 'Tis as easy now for the heart to be true As for grass to be green or skies to be blue.

-JAMES RUSSELL LOWell.

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