a're a a'cre

chan'nel

bar'gain com plain' bu'reau

DAILY LESSONS

1

The area of the field is ten acres.
At its narrowest point, the English
Channel is twenty miles wide.

"Make every bargain clear and plain
That none may afterwards complain."
The caster under the bureau is broken.

en'trance

tail'or

limp'ing bat'ter bat'tered

"Beware of entrance to a quarrel." The tailor will commence work upon

com mence' my suit of clothes to-morrow. "Next November limping, battered, Now the goodly ships are shattered Far at sea on rock and reef." "The cap of velvet could not hold The tresses of her hair of gold."

reef

tress'es

prac'tice

head'ache

flung

"Practice makes perfect.".

"A crown is no cure for a headache." I flung a stone into the brook.

cleanse

pu'ri fy

fleet

hoarsely

strewn

tim'ber

pov'er ty

sense

re lig'ion

ar'mor

ear'nest

ef'fort pa'tri ot

roam

dean

fa'mous

knack

rhyme

en vel'op

en vel'oped

"Cleanse the fountain if you would purify the stream."

"I heard the thunder hoarsely laugh, Many fleets were strewn like chaff." The timbers creak under the heavy strain.

"If poverty is the mother of crime, want of sense is the father."

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Religion is the best armor in the world, but the worst cloak.”

5

"Success follows earnest effort."
"Such is the patriot's boast where'er

we roam,

His first, best country, is his home."
"The dean was famous in his time,
And had a kind of knack at rhyme.”
"Then high above the river's mist
appears an arc of light,
A city sleeps, at either end enveloped
in the night."

reign pri' vate sta'tion

buoy

va'por

north'ern

gleam

pau' per

no'bod y ag'ile

beck'on

cun'ning ly

with'er

with'ered

shepherd

haw'thorn

dale

la'zi ness
o ver take'

6

The king reigns.

"The post of honor is the private station."

Buoys warn sailors of danger.
"No clouds are in the morning sky,

The vapors hug the stream;
Who says that life and love can die

In all this northern gleam?"
"He's only a pauper whom nobody owns."
The monkey is an agile animal.

7

"Time did beckon to the flowers, and
they

By noon most cunningly did steal away
And withered in my hand."

"And every shepherd tells his tale
Under the hawthorn in the dale."
"Laziness travels so slowly that poverty
overtakes him."

The approach to the house is by a gentle

noise'less

mem'o ry

clad

va'cant

cre ate' scan'dal

gos'sip

ed'u cate

gas'es flu'id

8

"It takes two to create a scandal, one gossip to tell it, and one to listen to it."

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'Every man must educate himself." All liquids, air, and all gases are called fluids, because they flow.

"With noiseless step, sweet memory

comes.

"Spring has clad the grove in green." The house is vacant at present.

to bac'co

car'ry ing

taint

bel'low

ve'hi cle

heav'y heav'i ly qui'et ly a mid!

lean

spur

"Evil company is like tobacco smoke -you cannot be long in its presence without carrying away its taint." Do you hear the cattle bellow?

"Our minds are like certain vehicles,
-when they have little to carry, they
make much noise about it; but when
heavily loaded, they run quietly."
"I lie amid the goldenrod,

I love to see it lean and nod."
"Never spur a willing horse."

aisle

an'them

tan'gle tan'gled de ceive'

gild

dis grace' re tire'

hov'el

gait un'ion

im pel'

im pelled'

se lect'

cas'ket

can'ter

health

wealth

knit

al'to

inn

"The sounding aisles of the dim woods rang,

To the anthem of the free." “Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive." "A sunny temper gilds the edges of life's blackest clouds."

In disgrace, the thief retires to his hovel, to die.

The horse moves at a slow gait.
"In union, there is strength."

12

"I feel impelled to select a few of the little gems from this casket of song."

It is a pleasure to ride a horse that

canters.

Health is better than wealth.

My aunt will knit a mitten.

The lady in the choir sings alto.

"For in the inn, there was no better room."