sentences. In interrogative sentences. In exclamatory

sentences.

What question will help you to find the subject and the predicate of an interrogative sentence?

What is the subject of a sentence? Give an illustration. What is the predicate of a sentence? Illustrate.

What is a compound subject? A compound predicate? Give an illustration of each.

What is a clause? What are the two kinds of clauses? Give examples of each kind.

What is a simple sentence? A compound sentence? A complex sentence? Give two examples of each.

Write two simple sentences and mark the separation between the subject and the predicate by a short vertical line.

Example: The flowers of autumn are beautiful.

Write from memory a stanza of poetry you have learned during the month.

Give sentences containing the forms of see.

CHAPTER TWO

LESSON 17 LITERATURE

1. Reading.

PHINEAS FLETCHER MEETS JOHN HALIFAX

"Get out of Mr. Fletcher's road, you idle, lounging, little -." "Vagabond," I think the woman was going to say, but she changed her mind. Ragged, muddy, and miserable as he appeared, the poor boy looked anything but a vagabond.

"Thee need not go out into the wet, my lad. Keep close to the wall and there will be shelter enough both for us and thee," said my father, as he pulled my little hand carriage into the alley, under cover from the pelting rain. The lad, with a grateful look, put out a hand, likewise, and pushed me farther in. A strong hand it was, roughened and browned with labor, though he was scarcely as old as I. What would I not have given to have been so stalwart and so tall!

The lad remained leaning against the wall, either through weariness or in order to be out of our way. Everything in him seemed to indicate that which I had not: his muscular limbs, his square, broad shoulders, his healthy cheek, though it was sharp and thin even his crisp curls of bright, thick hair.

Thus he stood, principal figure in a picture which is even yet as clear to me as yesterday: the narrow, dirty alley leading out of High Street, yet showing a glimmer of green field at the farther end; the open house doors on either side; through which came the drowsy burr of many a stocking loom; the prattle of children paddling in the gutters and sailing thereon a fleet of potato parings.

"Twenty-three minutes lost by this shower. Well, Phineas, I must find someone to go home with thee. Here, Sally Watkins, do any of thy lads want to earn an honest penny?"

Sally was out of earshot, but I noticed that as the lad near us heard my father's words, the color rushed over his face. I had not perceived before how hungry he looked.

"Sir, I want work.

May I earn the penny?"

"What is thy name, lad?"

"John Halifax."

"How old might thee be, John Halifax?" "Fourteen, sir."

"Well," said my father, after a pause, "thee shall take my son home. Shall I give thee thy groat now?"

"Not till I've earned it, sir."

So, drawing his hand back, my father slipped the money into mine and left us.

As soon as the rain ceased, we took our way home.

"How strong you are!" said I, half sighing.

"Am I? Well, I shall need my strength." "How?"

"To earn my living."

"What have you worked at lately?”

Anything I could get, for I have never learned a trade." "How will you live in the winter, when there is no out-ofdoor work to be had?"

"I don't know."

The lad's countenance fell, and that hungry, weary look which had vanished while we talked, came back more painfully than ever. "Here we are at home," said I, trying to disengage myself from my little carriage and mount the steps. John Halifax came to my aid.

"Suppose you let me carry you. I could, and — and — it would be great fun, you know."

He lifted me safely and carefully and set me at my own door. "Is there anything more I can do for you, sir?"

"Don't call me 'sir.' I am only a boy, like yourself. I want you. Don't go yet. Ah! here comes my father."

John Halifax stood aside and touched his cap as the old man passed.

"Hast thee taken care of my son? Did he give thee thy groat, my lad?"

We had neither of us once thought of the money. When I acknowledged this, my father laughed.

"Here is thy groat and a shilling added for being kind to my son.

"Thank you, but I only want payment for work."

"Thee art an odd'lad," said the old man. "But I can't stay talking with thee. Come in to dinner, Phineas. I say," turning back to John Halifax, "art thee hungry?"

"Very hungry. Nearly starving."

"Then get in and have thy dinner. But first thee works for thy living?"

"I do, whenever I can get it."

"Thee hast never been in jail?"

"No!" thundered the lad, with a furious look. "I don't want your dinner, sir. I would have stayed, because your son asked me and he was kind to me, and I liked him. Now I think I had better go. Good day, sir."

There is a verse in a very old book, which runs thus: "And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit unto the soul of David; and Jonathan loved him as his own soul." And this day I, a poorer and more helpless Jonathan, had found my David. caught him by the hand and would not let him go. "There, get in, lads," said my father.

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So, still holding my David fast, I brought him into my father's house.

2. Study of Selection.

· Dinah Mulock Craik.

Who is supposed to be telling this story?

Abel Fletcher was a Quaker. What is there in the story that tells you this?

What shows that Phineas was a cripple?

What qualities does Phineas show in his treatment of John Halifax? What qualities does Mr. Fletcher show? Why did Mr. Fletcher ask John so many questions? What question made John angry?

What did John have that Phineas greatly desired?
What did Phineas have that John desired?

In what "very old book" is the story of David and Jonathan told?

What was there in his appearance that showed John Halifax was not happy? What showed that his life had been hard?

Read the lines that describe the picture of which John Halifax was the central figure.

What part of this description shows that Phineas did not live in a large city?

What do you think is the most beautiful part of this description of the place in which the boys met?

Read the words which show that Phineas told this story years after the meeting.

Account for the use of the apostrophe in Mr. Fletcher's, father's, lad's, and I've. See 7 on page 325.

Find an example of words in a series in the third paragraph of the story. See 5 (b) on page 324.

Notice that in conversation the words of each speaker begin a new paragraph. Find examples in this story.

Subject: The Meeting of Phineas Fletcher and John Halifax as Told by John Halifax.

Make an outline to guide you and then tell the story.