Literature and Art 



Of what other use of the hyphen do you know ? Find an 

 example of such use in this story. 



Write this story in your own words. 

 Use capital letters correctly in the title. 

 If you use the words I or O, write them in capital letters. 

 Use quotation marks, hyphen, and all other necessary punctua- 

 tion marks correctly. 



Arrange your story in paragraphs. 



' ' Take care of the minutes ; they come and are gone ; 

 Yet in each there is space for some good to be done. 

 Our time is a talent we hold from above; 

 May each hour have us richer in wisdom and love ! " 



SUGGESTED WORK 



1. Fasten an upright piece of wood or cardboard to a foundation. Place 

 this in the window so that the upright casts a shadow, and mark the place 

 where the shadow falls at a certain hour. With the stick in the same position 

 repeat this each day and see if the shadow falls at the same place and hour. 



Do you think this is a good way to tell time? 



2. Take a large bottle, fill it with water and put in a tight cork. Through 

 the cork make a small hole so that the water will slowly drop out when the 

 bottle is inverted or held upside down. Remove the top and bottom of a chalk 

 box and make a hole in one end, into which the neck of the inverted bottle may 

 be put. Place an empty cup under the cork and see how much water drops 

 into it in one hour. Measure the water that the bottle will hold to see how 

 many such quantities it contains. 



How many hours of time will this measure ? 



3. Take two empty ink or mucilage bottles ; fit them with corks. In the 

 center of each cork make a small hole. See that the corks are even with the 

 tops of the bottles. Put a handful of fine dry sand into one bottle. Invert 

 it and see how much sand runs out in a minute. Put this quantity into the 

 second bottle and empty all the sand out of the first one. Invert one bottle 

 over the other so that the holes in the corks are opposite each other and fasten 

 the necks together. Sealing wax may be used for this. See if you can use 

 this to measure time. 



How could you change it so that it would measure five minutes? 



4. Measure a new candle. Light it and let it burn for one hour. At the 

 end of the hour measure it again to see how much has burned away. How 

 many hours could this candle measure ? Mark it by notches or bands of colored 

 thread to show the number of hours. 



