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Make for yourselves nests of pleasant thoughts! None of us yet know, for none of us have been taught in early youth, what fairy palaces we may build of beautiful thoughts, proof against all adversity; bright fancies, satisfied memories, noble histories, faithful sayings, treasure-houses of precious and restful thoughts, which care cannot disturb, nor pain make gloomy, nor poverty take away from us; houses built without hands for souls to live in.-Ruskin.

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268-Prefixes

A prefix is a syllable or syllables joined to the beginning of a word to change its meaning.

mis-wrong, wrongly misuse, to use wrongly. un-not unreal, not real.

mis judge, deeds, place, call, con duct, deal, fit, fort une, lead, pro nounce, print, count.

un: easy, buck le, de cid ed, loose, mar ried, a ware, merci ful, sea son a ble, skill ful, thank ful.

Write the words with the prefix. Write sentences, using five of the words you have just made.

269-Dictation

The Indian invented the snow-shoe and the birch canoe. De Soto was buried in the Mississippi.

Raleigh wrote on a window-pane, "Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall." Queen Elizabeth, seeing the line, wrote below, "If thy heart fails thee, do not climb at all."

Florida was named in honor of Easter, the day on which Ponce de Leon landed. The Spanish name for Easter is Pascua Florida.

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Flower, in the crannied wall,

I pluck you out of the crannies ;Hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower-but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is.-Tennyson. Copy, learn, and recite.

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274-Sometimes Confused

sculp'tor, a carver of stone.
sculpt'ure, act of carving.
proph'e sy, to foretell.
proph'e cy, a prediction.
pre cede', to go before.
pro ceed', to advance.

Study the spelling and definitions.

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light'en ing, to make light.

light'ning, electric flash.
pa'tients, sick people.
pa'tience, endurance.
diş ease', illness.

de cease', death.

Write sentences, using the words.

1. His (prophesy, prophecy) was fulfilled. 2. Let us run with (patience, patients) the race that is set before us. Bible. 3. (Lightening, Lightning) must always (proceed, precede) thunder. 4. Enjoy the kingdom after my (decease, disease).-Shakespeare. 5. Phidias was a famous (sculpture, sculptor) of ancient Greece. 6. The captain ordered the (lightning, lightening) of the vessel. 7. The remedy is worse than the (disease, decease).-Shakespeare. 8. The physician cured many (patience, patients). 9. He forth on his journey did (precede, proceed). 10. The Greeks ornamented their temples with (sculptor, sculpture).

Write the sentences, selecting the right words.

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Write in a column, putting opposite each what and where it is.

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Ages ago there were large pine forests in the northern part of Germany. Amber is the hardened gum of a pine tree. After a storm great quantities are found in the seaweed that has been washed on the southern shore of the Baltic Sea. Insects and pieces of the cones are sometimes found in the amber. It is used for making beads, necklaces, earrings, mouthpieces of pipes, and is burned for perfume.

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Sam o set

Rog er Williams William Penn

Po ca hon tas Miles Stan dish James O'gle thorpe

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