LESSONS IX ! -i:\MANSHIP. 



. in Saxon, signifies an elevation, a lull, and even .. 

 ty be the origin of our ton a* 

 'us may be henoe derived. In " WoljrtU-i- 

 tons are defined aa Bridget / injk //<.', -non an lie 

 i he coasts of Essex and SUBHOX, in roads 



li ships lie on* these hilly coasts at anchor." V> 

 ' Salisbury Plain " is, in the parts near the city, a chalky 

 . famous for feeding sheep. 



ut will do woll to continue his study of the Saxon 

 :ts of our language. For this purpose I reoommoud to 

 him the poetry of Wordsworth, the simpler portions of which 

 are pre-eminently Saxon. In order that ho may have a speci- 

 men under his eyes, the opening stanzas of " Lucy Gray," by 

 worth, are given in the following 



EXERCISE. 

 1 . Parse the following stanzas : 



-I heard of Lucy Gray, 



-I to MO *t break of day 

 The solitary child. 

 No mate, no comrade, Lucy knew; 

 She dwelt on a wide u. 



i Tb eweeteet tbiug tbat ei 



Ifceile a human door f 

 Ton yet may spy tbe fawn at play. 

 Tbe bare upon tbe green > 



I: .' ' .-.- f J ,.;/ 



Will never mom U oea. 



2. Form sentence* baring in them the following words : 



Compound, simple, primitive, derivative, departure, wWrtirUoa, 

 affix, prefix, dutwotiou, ahead, amain, aflection, allow, ittrtirt. am- 

 biguity, anarchy, onticbrwt, anteobamber, apotbeoarjr. aatoetit, Une- 

 footor, malefactor, conversion, coUuiuoit, contravene, dialogue, dtt> 

 traction. 



3. Write a theme on each of the following subjects : 

 1. The Convention of St. Paul. 2. The Battle of tbe Boyne. 3. 

 The Structure of tbe Eye. 4. Jacob's Journey to Padac-anm. 



z 



COPY-SLIP NO. 50. THE LETTER 8. 



COPY-SLIP NO. 51. THE WORD Six. 



COPY-SLIP NO. 52. ELEMENTARY LOOPED STROKE, BOTTOM-TURN. 



COPY-SLIP NO. 53. THE LETTER j. 



LESSONS IN PENMANSHIP. XY. 



THE last of the four letters that may be considered as being 

 modifications of the letter o is the letter 8, examples of which 

 are given in Copy-slips Nos. 50 and 51. That its form is based 

 in a great measure on the letter o, may be seen by drawing a 

 fine line through the middle of this letter diagonally from right 

 to left, from the point in which a line drawn in the direction of 

 the slope of the letter (as in our early copy-slips), and touching 

 its right side, would cut the line a a, to the point in which a line, 

 also drawn in the direction of the slope of the letter, and 

 touching its left side, would cut the line b b. The letter s is 

 formed in the following manner : First, a hair-stroke is carried 

 upwards diagonally from left to right, a little above the line a a; 

 the pen is then brought downwards, and a curved down-stroke is 

 made, which is turned upwards to the left when it has reached 

 tho line 6 b, and terminated in a dot made about midway 



between the lines b b, c c on the diagonal hair-line with which 

 the letter was commenced. The letter 8 is connected with any 

 letter that follows it by a hair-stroke carried to the right from 

 the middle of tho curved down-stroke on the right of tho letter, 

 as may be seen in Copy-slip No. 51. When s is preceded by 

 anv letter which terminates in a bottom-turn, the hair-line of 

 the bottom-turn is carried into the diagonal np-ttroke with 

 which tho letter is commenced ; but when tho letter that precedes 

 it does not end in a bottom-turn, as b. f, O. r, V, and W, the 

 connecting hair-stroke is carried into the dinetvm of the diagonal 

 np-stroke midway between the linos o a, c c , tho lower part of 

 the diagonal up-stroke being of necessity omitted, and the letter 

 is finished in the usual manner, as will be seen in Copy-slit 

 No. 59. When double 8 occurs in any word, the first 8 is som 

 times made by a hair-line looped above the line o o, like the * 

 of the letter "f, turned at tho top to the left, and conve- 

 gradually into a thick down-stroke, which U brought down* 



