The Century Handbook of Writing Part 61

11. The thing that took my eye most of all were the walls.

Pennants, pictures, and souvenirs were hanging everywhere.

12. Grandmother had put the spectacles in the Bible which she had lost.

13. In the summer time the weather is warm but some people are complaining of the hot weather and who wish the weather would turn cooler but is it not this kind of weather that makes the plants grow, which in turn furnish us food?

14. Until athletics are demanded from the weaker students, the training will go to the one who does not need it, and the ones who do need it are sitting up on the bleachers exercising their lungs.

 

15. The people of olden times used pumps, but did not know why they worked, they thought it worked because "nature abhors a vacuum."

=G.=

1. Each one of these three books are interesting.

2. You may put this hat in any desired shape you like.

3. We motored over to Bloomington which was much more pleasant than the train.

4. Every one of his statements are so clear that they cannot be misconstrued what they mean.

5. a.n.a.lysis is when things are resolved into elements or parts.

6. She dropped the doll on the pavement, of which she was very fond.

7. He was offered money to keep still, but would not, thus showing his good character.

8. The first training center for training police dogs was in Hildesheim, Prussia, and was in the year 1896.

9. The draining of land not only increases the yield, and it greatly lengthens the season that the land may be worked.

10. He next stated the number of the founders of the Const.i.tution, which were 39 in no.

11. The life of Doctor Kingsley is a good example of a man who has succeeded.

12. The fortunes of our country are now standing at the cannon's mouth, and one vote may stem the tide of disaster.

13. There was little scenery on an Elizabethan stage. While the parts intended for women were performed by men.

14. The cave which Tom Sawyer was lost in really existed. It was the cave just outside Hannibal, Missouri, it was near the Mississippi. Here was the place where Mark Twain was a boy.

15. Yes, and the buildings werent what they are now, do you remember how we used to go to the old log meeting house, that was up on stilts, and the pigs crawled under the floor and raised such a disturbance that the preacher had to stop and have the pigs chased out before he could continue the sermon?