xsiiir. 



21 



ienr, il n'a piw do velnurft do colon, il n. rlu volourn 



vims do I i ' 



do la N 'i indent, x. 'i>ui a t|.- 



>iun-h:in.l ii'a pti-t <1V 'I :i 'In drap, 



<lu \el<nirs, et <! l;i loie, ! " '. 



:r, je )i':ii rien ilu tout. 1-. i 



ill. ins d'argent . !' ' 'MiitoiM 



I I. (,,'ui a \otiv eliien I.V I." W> ' -ien >le 



M-in. ir,. ,\ .- t il p;i - \i.tr.' ehoval ausMi? 17. Non, 

 ir, il a le cheval <le votn- miii. IS. A 



Mailaiix-, je ll'ai lii I hi-loire .I- 



ni 1'histoire il'Ar . ni le livre ni Id 



jo n'ai Tii 1'iiu ni 1'autn-. 



a da papier!- _':!. I,.- liln-airo n'a pas do papier. 24. 

 ii'nn ;i-t-il nn livn-: - J."). IVr-onne n'a <!> livre. 



K 8. 



1. Ha; Hie !>.>' -. No, Sir, tho baker has no 



velvet. .-i.i ailk vcl . < hatter hju silk vlvt 



and a nilk h;i . . you two ml wr buttons ? 6. No, Sir, 



I have a cloth coat, a Hilk hat, and a velvet choc. 7. Has your 



woodun tabln ; 8. Yes, Sir, he ha* a mahogany 



tulile. '.I. Ha- \.iiir rou-iii a hiMorv f 10. No, Sir, 



' ill have TMith*r the cloth nor 



the velvet. !J. \Vi- have neither the meat nor the ooff 

 Han any one a book : 14. Your ootuin hac a book, a velvet 

 coat, and a Hilk hat. 15. Have yon tho phyaician's book? 

 16. Yea, Madam, I have the physician's book and the lady** 

 P'l'l i -m tho merchant cloth!- 18. The merchant 



lth, I. nt ho haw money. 19. Who has your neighbour'* 

 li-K ' -". Nobody ha my naiphbonr'n dog. 21. Han any one 

 my book :- 22. No one haa your hook. 23. Han your ooon' 

 brother anyt'i -ir, lie ha nothing. 25. Who ha 



your friend's boot - haa my cousin's book. 



-7. Has ho tho tailor' H coat:* -'-. He ha- ii"t tho tailor's eoat. 

 1\>. We havo neither tho cloth n-r th<; silk. 



MP, NO. 2. THE LETTER 1. 



COPY-SLIP, NO. 3.- THE LEI 



COPY-SLIP NO. 4. THE LETTER t. 



LESSONS IN PENMANSHIP. II. 



IN our last lesson we gave the student an example of tho first 

 etroko that should engage his attention in beginning to acquire 

 the art of writing, and explained to him that it was a down- 

 stroke square at the top and brought downwards with an equal 

 pressure of the pen until it narrows at the bottom into a fine 

 hair-line, which is turned upwards towards the right. This 

 down-stroke with a fine up-turn, or "pot-hook," as it is 

 familiarly called, but which we shall term a bottom-turn for the 

 sake of brevity, enters into the composition of no less than 

 nine letters of the alphabet in writing, of which four namely, 

 i, U, t, 1 consist of this stroke only, with certain slight modi- I 

 ficationa. We mention this to the self -teacher to encourage him 

 to perseverance in the task he has undertaken, for he will see 

 plainly enough, after a little consideration, that when be is ablo 

 to imitate this bottom-turn correctly, ho has not only learnt to 

 make this simpla stroke itself, but has actually advanced more 

 than half-way towards writing the four letters we have just 

 named, besides five others that will be pointed out in tho course 

 of future lessons. 



A brief examination of the copy-slips given in this page will 

 bo sufficient to prove the truth of our statement. The letter i, 

 the simplest letter in the alphabet, is merely tho elementary 

 bottom- turn shown in Copy-slip No. 1, with a dot or point a 

 little above it in the direction of tho slope of tho letter, or, in 

 other words, immediately above tho letter in a straight lino 

 which passes through the centre of the thick down-stroke from 

 top to bottom. The letter U, again, is merely the bottom-turn 

 twice repeated, the fino hair-stroke of the first bottom-turn 



being joined to tho thick down-stroke of the second in a line 

 passing midway between the two horizontal lines within which 

 the letter is written ; while the letter t is formed by the bottom- 

 turn, commenced at the same distance above the upper of these 

 horizontal lines as that at which the dot ia placed above the 

 letter i, and crossed a little above that line by a short horizontal 

 hair-stroke. 



It may be as well to say something about the form in which our 

 Copy-slips are placed before our readers. The lines a a, b b, as 

 in Copy-slip No. 4, are the lines between or within which wh&t 

 we may call the body of each letter ia written. These lines and 

 the space between them resemble in some measure the staff in 

 music, portions of certain letters being carried above tke appor 

 line a a in some cases, or below tho lower one & b in others, as 

 ledger notes are carried above or below the staff in masical 

 notation. The line c c, midway between the lines a o, b 6, M 

 that in which the letters, or component parts of letters, xkoJ-i 

 be joined together, while the line dd shows the distance above 

 o a at which the letter t should be commenced, or the dot placed 

 above the letter i. The diagonal lines sloping from right to left 

 show the proper inclination of tin 1 thick down-strokes of tho 

 letters, and act as guide lint" to enable beginners to make all 

 their let Urn of tho same slope, and keep the down-strokes 

 parallel to one another. A little trouble taken at starting 

 t<> ki -ep on the same level the heads, loops, and tails of all 

 1 above or below tho linos within which the 

 body of car! -i, will go far to ensure neatness said 



regularity when the learner can write with ease and rapidity, 

 and his handwriting begins to assume a character peculiar 

 



