c. The ponies.

d. The clowns.

e. The camels.

Read your sentences. Are they correct in the use of capitals, spelling, and marks.

Now the teacher will erase the sentences, leaving the outline, and you may write a short paragraph of two or three sentences about each of these topics. If there are any words you can not spell, ask the teacher and she will put them on the board.

2. When you have finished writing your sentences, you may read them in the class and we shall correct the mistakes and make a list of the words for spelling.

3. In this lesson we have as many paragraphs as there are topics in the outline. How do we show the beginning of a paragraph? How do we show the beginning and end of a sentence?

LETTERS

4. For another lesson write the teacher a letter giving three reasons why you would like to go to the circus. Before writing this observe the proper placing of the parts.

Study the following letter so as to know the correct form:

104 Magnolia Street,

Baltimore, Maryland,

Jan. 20, 1915.

Dear Aunt Mary,

Yesterday we were on the street when the Circus Pa

rade passed by.

Your loving nephew,

CHARLES.

Put the letter you write the teacher in an envelope and direct it properly.

In our next lesson we shall look at these letters and correct mistakes that have been made. We shall select those that are good enough to be models for our next letters.

5.

The funniest thing in the world, I know,
Is watching the monkeys in the show!
Jumping and running and racing 'round,
Up at the top of the pole, then down!
First they're here, and then they're there,
And just almost any and everywhere!
Screeching and scratching wherever they go,
They're the funniest things in the world, I know!

-James Whitcomb Riley.

The lion is the beast to fight;
He leaps along the plain,

And if you run with all your might,
He runs with all his mane.

1. The sky is blue.

The wind blew.

STUDY 17

HOMONYMS

What do you notice about the words blue and blew? How are they alike? How do they differ?

2. Find in the sentences below words that sound alike but have different meanings and are spelled differently:

She can not write with her right hand.

I am learning to sew.

We are going to sow the seed.

It is so cold that it seems like winter.

Such similar words are known as homonyms.

3. Study the following words and their meanings.

Make sentences using each:

4. Study the use of homonyms in the following sen

tences:

The wind blew the kites up into the blue sky.
The boy threw a stone through the window.
The son of the old man rose after the sun was up.
No, I do not know the gentleman.

I have two sharp eyes, but they are too careless to see some mistakes.

The maid made a loaf of good bread.

Our friends came an hour ago.

The bee may be happy gathering honey.

5. The following are some of the homonyms that we have used thus far in this book: