the King. "No, sire." "Is he wounded or thrown to the ground?" "No, sire," said the messenger; "but he is very hard pressed." "Then,” said the King, "I shall send no aid; because I am resolved that the honor of a great victory shall be his." 21. In writing a direct quotation, we must remember three things: (1) To begin it with a capital. (2) To enclose it in quotation-marks. (3) To separate it from the rest of the sentence by a comma, unless it is a question or an exclamation. If the quotation consists of several sentences, it may be preceded by a colon [:]. 22. When we introduce anything into our writing as a thought or an opinion of another without using his exact language, we make an Indirect Quotation. Thus : DIRECT. The King said, “I have lost the hearts of my people." INDIRECT. The King said that he had lost the hearts of his people. Indirect Quotations frequently begin with the word "that," and they require no quotation-marks. EXERCISE 6. Change the direct quotations on page 10 into indirect. 23. A Divided Quotation is one which is given in two parts, with some of the writer's own words between. Each part should be enclosed in quotation-marks, and generally separated from the rest by commas. Thus: "I propose to fight it out on this line," wrote General Grant, "if it takes all summer." 24. In writing a conversation between two persons, what each one says should generally occupy a separate paragraph. Thus: 66 "Colonel Miller," asked General Brown, can you silence that battery?" "I'll try, sir,” replied the gallant colonel. (1) Between two children about their tavorite amusement. MARKS USED IN CORRECTING WRITTEN WORK. 25. [The use of the following marks to indicate errors in written work may be illustrated on the blackboard. All but the caret should be repeated in the margin so as to attract attention. Where there is more than one mark, a line (/) may be used to separate them.] C X under either a small letter or a capital. The other form should be used. a cross between two words. Begin a new sentence. / this line drawn through a letter or mark means that it is wrong. 8 the de-lē in the margin. Omit what is marked. Ʌ the ca-rět. Something is wanting, a letter, a word, or O a circle around a mark in the margin. Use this mark. ¶ or No ¶ these signs mean begin or do not begin a new paragraph. 8 under a word. The spelling is wrong. WW these letters under a word. A wrong word has been used CHAPTER III. COPYING AND DICTATION. EXERCISE 8. Copy one or more of the following selections or write. from the dictation of your teacher, using capitals and punctuation marks correctly. 1. Capt. Nathan Hale was hanged as a spy during the Revolution. His last words were, "I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country." 2. Dr. Doddridge one day asked his little girl how it was that everybody loved her. "I do not know," she said, "unless it is that I love everybody." 3. "At Frankfort," said little Simson, "I once saw a watch that did not believe in the existence of a watch-maker. It had a very poor movement, by the way, and a pinchbeck case." 4. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When duty whispers low, "Thou must,” The youth replies, "I can." H. HEINE, EMERSON. 5. "Some people," says Alphonse Karr, "are always finding fault with Nature for putting thorns on roses. I always thank her for putting roses on thorns.” 6. Queen Elizabeth, daughter of King Henry VIII., was born in 1533. She was five-and-twenty years of age when, Nov. 17, 1558, she rode through the streets of London, from the Tower to Westminster Abbey, to be crowned. She died at Richmond, March 24, 1603. 7. "How dismal you look!" said a Bucket to his companion, as they were going to the well. "Ah!” replied the other, "I was reflecting on the uselessness of our being filled, for, let us go away never so full, we always come back empty." "Dear me! how strange to look at it in that way!" said the Bucket. 66 Now, I enjoy the thought, that, however empty we come, we always go away full." `8. "Over and over again, No matter which way I turn, I must take my turn at the mill; I must grind out the golden grain; I must work at my task with a resolute will, 9. William H. Prescott, John L. Motley, and George Bancroft are distinguished American historians. Prescott wrote "The Conquest of Mexico." Motley wrote "The Rise of the Dutch Republic." Bancroft wrote the "History of the United States." "Yes, in the old gambrel-roofed house looking out on the College Green, lived Rev. Dr. Abiel Holmes, — pastor of the First Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts, but of wider fame as the author of the American Annals, and there was born to him the son, Oliver Wendell, who was to shed new lustre on the family name as the brightest of American poets and essayists. His birth-date is August 29, 1809." 11. "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the most popular of American poets, was born in Portland, Maine, Feb. 27, 1807. His father was a well-known jurist, and, like Bryant, he was descended from John Alden, the youngest of the Mayflower's Pilgrims. "From 1835, the time of his appointment as Professor of Modern Languages and Literature in Harvard University, till his death, March 24, 1882, Longfellow lived in the stately old Cambridge man sion occupied by Washington during the siege of Boston, 1775-76." REPRODUCTION OF STORIES. EXERCISE 9. en reproduce from the outline the story of E OYSTER AND ITS CLAIMANTS. ravellers discovered on the beach Oyster, carried thither by the sea. eyed with equal greediness by each; n came the question whose was it to be. cooping down to pounce upon the prize, thrust away before his hand could snatch it quite so quickly," his companion cries; you've a claim here, I've a claim to match it; st that saw it has the better right ts possession; come, you can't deny it." ," said his friend, "my orbs are pretty bright, I, upon my life, was first to spy it |