LESSONS IN PENMANSHIP. 



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LESSONS IN PENMANSHIP. XVIII. 



IN tho popy.xlipn that arc given on thin page, a now elementary 

 form in brought undor the reader's notion tho first of the four 

 ntary strokes entering into the composition of the seven 

 letter* of the writing ulpliah.-t. that yet remain to bo considered. { 

 stroke, which u shown separately in Copy-slip* No*. 61 

 mill <;;>, outers into the formation of V, W, and b. When exhi-, 

 y its,-]f. it may be dottoribed aH a fine bottom-turn or 

 , consisting of u ha ; r-lmo oommonood at the linn 



tho looped form of termination u useful when til* not lst**i 

 happen* to be e. as by making the finuhing-turn larger, we an 

 the better able to carry it into the AIM upstroke *"^nmM4nf at 

 e c, which form* the loop of this Utter. la Copy^lip Ho. 61, a* 

 our reader* will perceive, the stroke that we have been de*crit> 

 ing u giren with the top-and-bottom torn, to which tltmsntarj 

 utroko it U added in order to form the Utter V. tit* dajilMi of 

 the three letter* into whose oompoaitioo it enter*, la Cowslip 

 No. 63. the bottom-turn U giren, to which, twice repeaUd. thu 

 new elementary form I* added to form the Utter W. while with 



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Ol'Y-HLll' NO. b'l. ELEMENTARY STKOKJCH FOltMINO TH LXTTKB V. 



COPT-8LIP NO. 62. THE LFTTIE V. 



COPT-SLIP NO. 63. ELEMENTARY STROKES FORMING THE LETTERS W AND b. 



COPY-SLIP NO. 64. THE LETTER W. 



COPY-SLIP NO. 65. THE LETTER b. 



COPY-SLIP NO. 66. THE WORD VOW. 



f- c, and brought downwards, like the lower half of the ordinary 

 bottom-turn, as far as the line b b, where if is turned to the right 

 and carried upwards, with a slight inclination to the left after 

 it has crossed the line c c, until it reaches the line a a. The 

 pen is then brought down the line again to a point about mid- 

 way between a a and c c, to thicken it, and then turned abruptly 

 to tho right, making a small curved stroke, which completes tho 

 olementary form. The short thickened stroke which is made 

 by the downward course of the pen along the hair-lino already 

 carried up to the line a a, must have its broadest part at this 

 line, and taper gradually downwards until the point is reached 

 ut which the curved line completing tho stroke is turned to tho 

 right. Sometimes this utrok* is finished with a small loop at tho 

 top resembling the loop of the letter e. The method, however, 

 adopted in our copy-slips is neater and more compact, although 



the modification of tho bottom-turn, known as the letter L which 

 stands third in order in Copy-slip No. 63, it forma tho letter b. 

 The three letters V, W, and b. are given separately in Copy* 

 slips Nos. 62, 64, and 65. It will be noticed that although in 

 exhibiting the stroke by itself it has been oommenoed at th 

 line e c, and carried downwards and then upwards with a bottom* 

 turn, practically it is nothing more than th* extension of th 

 fine up-stroko of tho bottom-turn as far an the lino a a, where 

 it is finished in the manner already deecrh-ed. It should b 

 remarked that the letter W is frequently mads by adding thin 

 termination to the fine up-stroke of the bottom-torn of tho letter 

 n. The form, however, that we would recommend our reader* 

 to adopt is given in Copy-slips Noa. 04 and 66, whexc W > 

 formed by the addition of thin termination to the fin* up-strok* 

 of the second ojttom-turn of the letter U- 



