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I.I I.N PENMANSHIP. YIIL 



: one more cxorci funm-il by eombin*tioM >f 



,irn, top-turn, and top-and-bottom-tnrn 



, -slip NIL 'J.'i, pusses on to a now <!<!: 

 fourth ill order cf the single f.ru s of whii-h the letter* of the 



- alphabet are COIHIMMH|. .1. 



nitfht stroke." It i a down- 



Ktroko of uniform breadth I'D. m top to In.: [ by bringing 



the pen from tho top lino ee to the bottom line l> l>, with uu cijual 



throughout. Tho chief ililii'-iilty in forming this ntroki 



'iftiti'.; tin- jM'ii siiKirily ;i:i>l iiuirkly from tho paper when 

 it haa been brought as far as tho liuo 6 6, BO that tho termination 



" i', '. '. ; hut, an there in not a single letter into whose compo- 



troko of this length in otnriouily 



iu well M almoiit oseloM, to o! to eom- 



liii loMona by copying a Htroku tluit )io iu never colled 

 upon to make afterword* in any copy that ho may write. la 

 our system of teaching the art of Pcnouuuhip, we cause the 

 pupil to write the simplest and eaotefct letter* first, and then 

 proceed to tboae that arc more difficult, in all catetj teaching 

 liini fir.-t t write the elementary atrokea of which each net of 



in it sequence is formed, and then to combine them, HO 

 as to form the letters thenuclvea. Tin's, UU.T 

 why wo (lid not commence our IOMOUB with tho straight stroke, 

 according to tho usual practice, and why wo now introduco thLi 



NO. 24. COMBINATION of 11U. I.L.lhXS 1, 1, 111. 



COPY-SLIP NO. 25. THE '' STRAIGHT KTKOKE." 



COPY-SLIP NO. aO. THE " STRAIGHT STROKE " AND THE " TOP-AND-BOTTOil XUKN. 



COPY-SLIP NO. 27. THE LETTER h.. 



of the stroke on that line may be as square and clearly defined 

 in every respect as its commencement on the line ee. Tho 

 learner haa already had some practice in terminating a thick 

 down-stroke on tho line 66, in making tho "hanger" or top- 

 tnrn, and all letters into whose composition tho top-turn enters. 

 But these have been short strokes, and in making tho letter 1, 

 tho only letter that he has yet made that is equal in length to 

 the straight stroke, ho has been accustomed to lessen the pressure 

 on the pen before he reaches the line 6 6, in order to finish tho 

 letter with a fine hair-stroke turned upwards towards the right. 

 Any trifling difficulty, however, that ho may experience in making 

 the straight stroke at first will soon vanish, if when ho has 

 brought his pen down as far as tho line c c he remember that 

 he has only to finish tho stroke as if he were making the simple 

 top-turn, which must now bo easy enough to him. 



In learning to write, the pupil is generally taught, firat of all, 

 to make a straight stroke, no longer than that portion of tho 

 stroke in Copy-sup No. 25 which is contained between the lines 



stroke as the fourth in order of the simple elementary strokes, 

 and in the only form in which it is used in writing, instead o! 

 the short form usually given, in which shape, as we have 

 observed, it is never afterwards nsed by the pupil. 



In Copy-slip No. 26 the pupil proceeds to form the straight 

 stroke and the top-and-bottom-tnrn in alternation, and in Copy- 

 slip No. 27 ho finds that these strokes, when joined together, 

 form the letter h. The straight stroke enters into the compo- 

 sition of three letters h, p, and k ; but of these we confine 

 ourselves to li and p for the present. 



ESSAYS ON LIFE AND DUTY. I. 



INTRO DUCTOBY. 



IF we stand still for a moment in the great rush and hurry of 

 this time, and look both around us on what is, and also back- 

 ward as far as the eye can reach on what has been, we are 

 struck at first sight with the vastness of the world's labour. 



