1.

EXPERIMENT FOR TRANSMITTING SOUND-WAVES.

Lay a watch with its back downward, on a long board (or table) near to one of its ends, and cover the watch with loose folds of cloth till its ticking cannot be heard through the air in any direction at a distance equal to the length of the board. Now place the ear in contact with the farther end of the board, and you will hear the ticking of the watch very distinctly.-Gage: Introduction to Physical Science.

2.

EXPERIMENT IN CHARGING WITH ELECTRICITY.

Rub a rubber comb with a woolen cloth or draw it a few times through your hair (if dry). Hold the comb over a handful of bits of tissue paper; the papers quickly jump to the comb, stick to it for an instant, and then leap energetically from it. The papers are first attracted to the comb, but in a short time acquire some of its electrification, and then are repelled.-Gage: Introduction to Physical Science.

Class Discussion.

1. Note that in the above experiments, materials and directions for using are given first, and results are given finally. 2. Select expressions which might easily have been omitted through carelessness and thus have made the experiment come out wrong. 3. What is the force of the word contact in the first selection? 4. What other words might have been used for distinctly, the last word in the first selection? 5. Find words to express motion in the second selection. 6. What idea is conveyed to you by the use of the word energetically? 7. By the use of the word repelled? Subjects for written composition.

1. Explain how to perform a simple experiment or a trick for an evening's entertainment. 2. Explain how

to do a sleight-of-hand performance. 3. Explain how to perform an experiment in chemistry or physics or biology. 4. Explain how to make a fancy cake or a pudding or to do a simple piece of fancy work. 5. Give directions for making a hammered brass candleshade. 6. Give directions for making a pretty salad, or a fruit dessert. 7. Describe a new design or use for raffia-work. 8. Account for the reflection of clouds in the water in the picture opposite page 157.

Subjects for oral composition.

1. Read the poem aloud.

2. Give an imaginary word-picture of Dalton-Hall. 3. What answer did the outlaw make to the words of the maiden's song?

4. What famous outlaw do you know about? Tell something about him.

THE OUTLAW.

O Brignall banks are wild and fair,
And Greta woods are green,
And you may gather garlands there

Would grace a summer-queen.

And as I rode by Dalton-Hall
Beneath the turrets high,

A Maiden on the castle-wall
Was singing merrily:

"O Brignall banks are fresh and fair,
And Greta woods are green;
I'd rather rove with Edmund there

Than reign our English queen."

"If, Maiden, thou wouldst wend with me, To leave both tower and town,

Thou first must guess what life lead we
That dwell by dale and down.
And if thou canst that riddle read,
As read full well you may,

Then to the greenwood shalt thou speed
As blithe as Queen of May."
Yet sung she, "Brignall banks are fair,
And Greta woods are green;

I'd rather rove with Edmund there
Than reign our English queen.

"I read you, by your bugle-horn And by your palfrey good,

I read you for a ranger sworn

To keep the king's greenwood." "A Ranger, lady, winds his horn, And 'tis at peep of light;

His blast is heard at merry morn,
And mine at dead of night."
Yet sung she, "Brignall banks are fair,
And Greta woods are gay;

I would I were with Edmund there
To reign his Queen of May!

"With burnish'd brand and musketoon
So gallantly you come,

I read you for a bold Dragoon
That lists the tuck of drum."
"I list no more the tuck of drum,
No more the trumpet hear;

But when the beetle sounds his hum
My comrades take the spear.
And O! though Brignall banks be fair
And Greta woods be gay,

Yet mickle must the maiden dare

Would reign my Queen of May!

"Maiden! a nameless life I lead,

A nameless death I'll die;

The fiend whose lantern lights the mead
Were better mate than I!

And when I'm with my comrades met

Beneath the greenwood bough,— What once we were we all forget, Nor think what we are now."

Chorus.

"Yet Brignall banks are fresh and fair, And Greta woods are green,

And you may gather garlands there

Would grace a summer-queen.”

-Sir W. Scott.

LESSON XII

I. Vividness in the Expression of Ideas.

1. To gain vividness we should use words which will make the reader see the idea or image we have in mind. One way to do this is to substitute specific words for vague general words. For example, quadruped, animal, vessel, are general words; they name a class of objects: Boston-terrier, red-fox, four-masted schooner, are specific words; they name the individuals of a class of objects. Of the two sentences that follow, which presents the idea more vividly, and why?

A vessel sailed across the bay.

A cat-boat sped across the bay.

2. In the sentences which follow may be found examples of the way in which an idea may be made vivid by the use of specific words:

a dash of rain came swirling across from the crest of Ben Garin, whose steep bulk heaved itself a blue haystack above the level horizon of the moorland.

when the rain blattered and the wind raved and bleated alternately among the pines of the Long Wood of Barbrax. where Robert Kirk's dike dipped into the standing water

of the meadow.

It was duskily clear, with a great lake of crimson light dying into purple over the hills of midsummer heather.

humorsome, kindly eyes that lurked under their bushy tussocks of gray eyebrow.

It was a bask blowy day in the end of March, and there was a hint of storm in the air

where the mother granite sticks her bleaching ribs through

the heather.