Bill. (2) The Adventures of a Drop of Water (see Shelley's "Cloud "). (3) The Personal History of a Looking-glass. (4) The Story of My Knife. (5) The Adventures of an Umbrella. (6) The Story of a Broom. 4. Tell the story suggested by this picture.

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5. Pupils familiar with Mr. Kipling's Jungle Books and Mr. Thompson-Seton's Biography of a Grizzly and Wild Animals I Have Known, etc., will be tempted to write the biography or assumed autobiography of familiar animals,-some particular dog, canary, horse, squirrel, ground-hog, etc.

6. Tell the story suggested by the picture on p. 247. 7. Tell one of the following as a short story:—(1) Wordsworth's "Michael." (2) Cowper's "John Gilpin." (3) Whittier's "Maud Muller." (4) Tennyson's "Dora.”

(6) Tennyson's "Lord "Edwin Gray." (8)

(5) Tennyson's "Lady Clare." of Burleigh." (7) Tennyson's Tennyson's "Enoch Arden." (9) Tennyson's "Lancelot and Elaine." (10) Longfellow's "Birds of Killingworth." (11) Arnold's "Forsaken Merman." (12) Wordsworth's "Reverie of Poor Susan." (13) William Watson's "A Lute Player." (14) Aldrich's "The Face Against the Pane."

8. Tell any story of interest that you have read.

9. Tell any story of interest that you have heard told of real people.

I. Exposition-Definition. The explanation of things is Exposition. Whenever we seek to express clearly the nature of a principle, the method of doing a thing, the plan of a machine, the essential character of an object, we expound. The housekeeper's recipe for

making currant jelly, Euclid's explanations of the properties of a triangle, the engineer's statement of the means of storing electricity, the economist's elucidation of the character of money, the teacher's explanation of a rule or a passage, are all Expositions. This kind of composition is of high value in the practical world.

II. Theme:-MAKING PEANUT BRITTLE.

One of the very best of home-made candies is peanut brittle. It has the great merit of being easily made, of almost always turning out well, and of not resulting in a dismal and messy compound that refuses to harden or become anything but a sticky syrup.

To make peanut brittle, shell your peanuts and rub off the brown inner skin; then put the nuts on a bakeboard, and crush them with the rolling pin until they are broken to the size of coarsely ground coffee. Measure the broken nuts and take just as much granulated sugar as you have peanuts. Put the sugar in an iron skillet or saucepan on the fire, without a drop of water, and stir steadily as the sugar melts and turns brown. When the last trace of sugar melts into syrup, put in the peanuts, stir at once and pour out into buttered tins. All this last must be done very quickly, or the candy will harden as you handle it.

Plan. This exposition, however simple, follows a definite plan. Definition and general introduction; the exposition proper, the order and number of details, determined by the nature of the theme, and brought forward as if a narration. The purpose here is to make