1. Washington and Lincoln have birthdays in February. 2. July and August are the hottest months of the year. 3. The dog growled and snarled ferociously.

4. Mary and Julia went to the city.

5. She swept and dusted the whole house.

6. The maple and the oak leaves are beautiful in the fall. 7. He went to the window and threw up the sash. 8. Every boy and every girl should study English. 9. Automobiles and airplanes are recent inventions. 10. The parents and children went to the country for the week end and had a good time.

The boy went away.

Has he gone to the city?
No, he has gone to school.

5. Common Errors Corrected

SELECTION FOR MEMORIZING
Four things a man must learn to do
If he would make his record true;
To think without confusion clearly;
To love his fellow-men sincerely;
To act from honest motives purely;
To trust in God and Heaven securely.

27. A STORY

-Henry van Dyke

THE EYES IN THE PEACOCK'S TAIL

Jupiter and Juno were king and queen of the gods. They lived in a gilded palace on the top of Mount Olympus.

At the foot of the mountain flowed a beautiful river, which looked like a thread of silver in the valley below.

On the bank of the river lived the maiden Io.

Jupiter

often went down to the silvery river to talk to Io. This

made Juno very angry.

One morning, therefore, she went down into the valley to see what Io was doing; but when she came to the river there was no maiden to be seen. There was only a white cow eating the dewy grass.

Juno guessed that Jupiter had changed Io into a cow to deceive her. So she sent Argus to watch the white cow. Argus had one hundred eyes, and Juno thought that all of them could never fall asleep at once. Sometimes the two eyes of a watchman fall asleep; but if two of Argus's eyes should fall asleep, he would still have ninety-eight eyes with which to watch.

Never for a moment did Argus take his eyes off the cow. All day long he watched her feed by the river, and at night he tied a rope around her neck and fastened her to a tree.

Io was very uncomfortable because the hundred eyes were always gazing at her. Jupiter pitied her so much that at last he sent Mercury to set her free. Now, Mercury had been made the messenger of the gods because he traveled so quickly. He very soon came to the beautiful river and sat down near the place where Argus was watching Io.

While he sat there, Mercury began to play softly upon his lyre, and soon the mighty head of Argus began to nod and his eyes began to grow dim. At last, all of the eyes were closed in sleep. Then Mercury drew his sword and slew the sleeping monster, and Jupiter came and changed Io back into a maiden.

Juno was so angry at what Mercury had done that she put the eyes of Argus in the tail of her peacock, and there they remain to this day.

-Greek Myth

Does the story fit the title? How many paragraphs in this story? Select the topic sentence in the paragraph you like best. Does this story fit into the plan

or outline which every good story has? Give reasons for your answer.

Oral work. Read one of the following legends and be prepared to tell it to your class. If you know other myths or legends you may tell one of those instead. 1. The Labors of Hercules

2. The Golden Fleece

3. The Cyclops

4. The Sack of Troy

5. The Good King Arthur

6. The Great Knight Siegfried

Written work. Write the story of one of the legends that have been told before your class. Examine your paragraph carefully to see if you can improve it.

Abbreviations are convenient in making lists and in literary references, but in compositions and letters they are not considered good form.

Be able to write the abbreviations for:

1. The months of the year
2. The days of the week

3. The states of the Union

Do not abbreviate the name of a city or state in the address on an envelope. There are seventeen Charlestons, twenty-eight Washingtons, and many other cities in the United States which have the same name. The postal authorities have difficulty in figuring out what state is meant, because so many abbreviations look alike.

2. The following words may be abbreviated when part of a title, but are not abbreviated by those who write the most careful English.

3. The following abbreviations are often used in business. You should know their meaning:

p., page

pp., pages

P.S., postscript
Sr., Senior

U.S.A., United States Army

U.S.N., United States Navy

vol., volume

inst., instant, the present
month

O.K., all right or approved
pro tem. (pro tempore), for the
time being

Address an envelope to a doctor by the name of John Brown who lives at 3842 Broadway in the largest city in the United States. Use the block form. In the upper left-hand corner place your home address.

In your reader and history textbook find and write sentences about men to whom the titles in list 2 could apply.

29. THE SUBJECT OUT OF ITS USUAL ORDER Lower and lower in the heavens, sank the setting sun

We

What is said

What are we talking about in this sentence? are talking about the sun, of course. about the sun? It sank. If this sentence were arranged in the usual order, it would read:

The setting sun sank lower and lower in the heavens.

The subject of the sentence is not always found in the first part of the sentence, nor is the predicate always found in the last part. Sentences are oftentimes made stronger and more beautiful or forceful by changing the usual arrangement.

Words or phrases out of their usual order are in transposed order.

Point out the subject and the predicate in the follow