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LESSONS IN TKN.M ANSI 111'. -XI. 



DUE attention to tii in-t ructions that have been given 

 preceding loaaona in tho art of Penmanship, and assiduous 

 l"-ut on hour a (lay, will havo rendered any one, 



> learn to writo from our copy 



ilo jiruiirii nt. in making letters, composed of right or 

 straight liiuM, or linrH that are commenced, or fini* ! 



Mishcil, as in tho case of tho top-and-bottom- 

 turu, with a hook or turn. 



A tfri'iit number of copies, conaisting of letters of this kind, 



havo boon supplied to give tho learner a sufficient variety in the 



> >r combinations of letters that ho is copying, and to give 



him conli'li-mu) in his power to make the four strokes which cnt r 



into tho formation of by far tho greater part of the letters of 



present it will bo sufficient to deal with those into whoM forma- 

 tion it enters without any alteration or modification whatever. 



Tho letter O is purely a curve-: no portion of it 



consists of a perfectly straight stroke, M the other letters which 

 havo already been brought under the reader's notice. It may 

 be commenced on the straight line c e, but it is better to begin 

 and end the letter at the point *, a little above the line, as it U 

 from this point that a fine hair-line is carried to the right, when 

 it is necessary to connect the letter o with any letter that may 

 follow it, as the learner will see in Copy-slip No. 40. Commenc- 

 ing, then, at tho point c, tho hair-line, of which the right side of 

 tho letter consists, is carried upwards to the line a a, and then 

 turned to the left and brought downwards. By a gradual pres- 

 suro on the pen the hair-lino is now turned into a thick i 

 which attains its broadest part at the line e e, when the ; 



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COPT-BLIP NO. 35. THE LETTER O. 



COPY-SLIP NO. 36. THE LETTEE O AND THK " BOTTOM-TURN. 



COPY-SLIP NO. 37. THE LETTER a. 



COPY-SLIP NO 38. THE LETTER d. 



COPT-SLIP NO. 39. THE LETTER 



the writing 1 alphabet, before ho begins to make the remaining 

 elementary strokes, which are of less frequent occurrence. The 

 practice that he has now had, and the knowledge and amount of 

 skill in writing that he has already acquired, will enable him to 

 advance more rapidly, and wo shall proceed as quickly as pos- 

 sible to the end of our elementary lessons in the formation of 

 the small letters of the writing alphabet, as exhibited in large 

 text, giving fewer copies than we have hitherto done, for tho 

 sake of affording practice in the formation of each particular 

 letter in combination with others. 



In Copy-slip No. 35 the learner's attention is directed to the 

 letter o, which is a complete and perfect letter in itself, while, 

 at the same time, it may be considered as a simple elementary 

 form, since it enters into tho composition of tho letters a, d., 

 and q. It also influences the formation of many other letters 

 of the alphabet, as tho learner will see hereafter ; but for tho 



of the pen is relaxed, and tho thick down-stroke is gradually 

 narrowed again into a hair-line, which is turned upwards to- 

 wards the right and joined to the hair-line with which the letter 

 was commenced at the point r. The learner will notice that the 

 upper part of the letter o, which lies above the line c c, is the 

 only portion of the letter that is really new to him, for tho lower 

 part of the letter is very nearly the same as that portion of the 

 bottom-turn or top-and-bottom-turn which is below the lino e e. 



In Copy-slip No. 36 tho letter o and the bottom-turn are 

 given. Those strokes, in combination from tho letter a, as in 

 Copy-slip 37, the bottom-turn being appended to the letter o in 

 such a manner that the point where tho hair-line forming tho 

 right side of the letter cuts the line c e lies in a line passing 

 along tho centre of tho thick down-stroke of tho bottom-turn. 

 Tho letters d and q ore formed by adding modifications of the 

 bottom-turn to the Totter o, aa shown in Copy-slips 38 and 39. 



