22. Lingua-Dentals.

Subvocals.

27. d, day, deed, dandy, mud, hard.

28. th, vocal,- they, them, thee, feather, beneath. 29. j,-jay, joy, judge, jingle.

30. Z, zone, zay, buzz, zone, zero.

31. z-zh,

azure, seizure, measure, fusion.

23. Lingua-Dentals. —Aspirates.

32. t, tea, tie, late, fit, mate.

33. th, sharp, thin, thank, lath, froth, think.

34. ch, — chain, charm, chime, chop, catch. 35. s,—say, see, hiss, sis, hasty.

36. sh, — sham, ship, flash, crash, dash.

37. 1,-lo, lid, folly, lad, lonely. 38. r, run, rill, rid, lorn, banner.

25. Lingua-Nasal. Subvocal.

39. n,

no, now, run, vane, funny.

26. Palato-Nasal. Subvocal.

40. ng, song, sing, bring, long.

27. Palatals. Subvocals.

41. g,-go, gay, gone, goggle, grumble. 42. y,—yes, yet, your, yoke, yonder.

28. Palatals.

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Aspirates.

43. k, — key, kept, sack, baker, tickle. 44. h,—he, hay, hid, home, hub.

29. Exercises on Combined Consonants. br, — brought, brindle, broom, bring.

bst,nab'st, grub'st, throb'st.

bldst, troubl'd'st, tumbl'd'st, grumbl'd'st. bdst, fib'd'st, sob'd'st, throb'd'st.

gldst, mangl'd'st, wiggl'd'st, struggl'd'st. trifl'd'st, muffl'd'st, stifl'd'st.

fldst, dndst, tldst,

wid'n'd'st, hard'n'd'st.

nestl'd'st, whistl'd'st.

Idst, handl'd'st, kindl'd'st.

sk'st, risk'st, husk'st, ask'st.

30. General Exercises in Articulation.

1. Let lovely lilacs line Lee's lonely lane.

2. He drew long, legible lines along the lovely land

scape.

3. Theophilus Thistler, the successful thistle-sifter, sifted a sieve full of unsifted thistles.

4. The old, cold scold sold a school coal-scuttle. 5. Did you ever see a saw saw a saw?

6. Eight great gray geese grazing gaily into Greece. 7. Round the rough and rugged rocks the ragged rascals ran.

8. He sawed six long, slim, sleek, slender saplings. 9. Socks and shoes shock Susan.

10. Some shun sunshine; do you shun sunshine? 11. The hosts still stand in strangest plight.

12. Five wise wives weave withered withes.

13. She sells sea-shells; shall he sell sea-shells?

14. She uttered a sharp, shrill shriek, and then shrunk from the shriveled form that slumbered in the shroud.

15. A shot-silk sash shop.

16. Prithee blithe youth, do not mouth your words, when you wreathe your face with smiles. 17. Amidst the mists, with angry boasts, He thrusts his fists against the posts, And still insists he sees the ghosts.

18. The sun shines smilingly on the shop-signs.

31. Distinguish by Sound the following Contrasts:

NOTE. Read the following with the greatest rapidity of movement consistent with distinctness of utterance. [50 seconds.]

TWO BOOT-BLACKS.

1.

A day or two ago, during a lull in business, two little boot-blacks, one white and one black, were standing at the corners doing nothing, when the white boot-black agreed to black the black boot-black's boots. The black boot-black was of course willing to have his boots blacked by his fellow boot-black, and the boot-black who had agreed to black the black boot-black's boots went to work.

When the boot-black had blacked one of the black bootblack's boots till it shone in a manner that would make any boot-black proud, this boot-black who had agreed to black the black boot-black's boots refused to black the other boot of the black boot-black until the black boot-black, who had consented to have the white boot-black black his boots, should add five cents to the amount the white boot-black

had made blacking other men's boots. This the boot-black whose boot had been blacked refused to do, saying it was good enough for a black boot-black to have one boot blacked, and he didn't care whether the boot that the boot-black hadn't blacked was blacked or not.

This made the boot-black who had blacked the black bootblack's boot as angry as a boot-black often gets, and he vented his black wrath by spitting upon the blacked boot of the black boot-black. This roused the latent passions of the black boot-black, and he proceeded to boot the white boot-black with the boot which the white boot-black had blacked. A fight ensued, in which the white boot-black who had refused to black the unblacked boot of the black bootblack, blacked the black boot-black's visionary organ, and in which the black boot-black wore all the blacking off his blacked boot in booting the white boot-black.

32. Reading by Sound.

Utter each element separately before passing to the next:

Like | dreary | prison | walls |

The stern gray | mountains | rise | Until their topmost|crags|

Touch the the far gloo my skies | One steep | and | na rr ow | p a th |

Winds up the | m ou n t ain's crest | And from | ou r | our valley leads | |

Out to the golden| west.

33. Exercises in Orthoepy.

The following words in common use, are so frequently mispronounced by well informed people that

frequent drill upon them is essential to secure their correct pronunciation. Their notation is omitted, that the pupil may be required to avail himself of the dictionary, thus securing greater familiarity with their pronunciation. Every word should be looked up in the dictionary. It must not be assumed that the pupil can pronounce them correctly because they are familiar. Nothing makes a reader or speaker, who has some pretensions as such, more ridiculous than faulty pronunciation: