1. Express pleasure in receiving Robert's letter and in the fact that your cousin is coming.

2. Your town (located on mountains or plains, near lake, ocean, or river).

Number of people.

Interesting things, if any, such as wharves, swimming tanks, places to fish or hunt, factories to visit, parks, libraries, or museums.

3. Your school.

Number of teachers.

Your grade.

What you are studying in arithmetic, geography, history, and grammar.

Your playground and games.

4. Extend an invitation from your mother to Robert and his mother to stay with you until they find a suitable place to live.

Using the above outline to help you, write an answer to Robert's letter. Decide what subjects you wish to write about, and in what order you will use them. After you have finished writing about one thing, do not go back in another part of your letter and tell something more about it.

Read your letter through three times: first, to see if each sentence sounds well; second, to correct grammatical errors; and third, to correct capital letters, periods, and spelling.

146. A LANGUAGE LESSON

The Children's Festival

Once the moon saw a wonderful sight. From North, East, South, and West came crowds of little boys and girls.

They came in processions and bands and troops and

groups. They came in double file and single file, in dozens, scores, and hundreds. They came walking, running, leaping, laughing, chattering, singing.

All kinds came. There were little yellow, slant-eyed Chinese children with long pigtails flying. Two of them carried a child princess in a palanquin. At least, she was as rich as a princess. She wore sparkling jewels in her hair, and silver nail shields over her long finger nails. Her two tiny feet were much too small for a poor Chinese child's feet.

There were small red Indians with flutes and drums and rattles. The boys' heads were wreathed with sweet grass. The girls' long black hair was entwined with beads.

There were dark-skinned little Eskimos in fur from tip to toe, as if they were polar bears. There were white children from all parts of Europe and America. Some were tall fair-haired boys and girls from Norway. Some were broad-chested English. Some were gray-eyed, redcheeked Irish. Some were straight-backed, quick Americans. Some were dark-skinned Italians. Some were French children. There were ever so many more.

They were on their way to the Children's Festival to be held at the most central place, The Field of Play. From The Five Senses, by ANGELA M. KEYES

Find in the above account the names of directions used to name sections of the country. With what kind of letters do these words begin?

Find a sentence containing a series of words connected by and. How is the sentence punctuated? Find a series of words in which and is omitted. How is the series punctuated? Find, learn to spell, and capitalize the names of eight nationalities and three countries.

Find, learn to spell, and capitalize the name of one place and one event.

There are four nouns showing possession. Are they singular or plural? Tell how these nouns were formed.

Find and study the use of two, too, to; their, there. Make a list of the words containing hyphens. Study the difficult words for spelling.

Be ready to write the account from dictation. Afterward, compare your work with the book, sentence by sentence, and mark all errors. Classify your errors under these heads. In which part did you make the greatest number of errors?

147. HELPERS USED WITH THE PARTICIPLE When the helpers having and having been are used with the past participles of verbs, adjective modifiers result. Having been is used also with the present participle to make an adjective modifier.

1. The little birds, having flown from the nest, are eating seeds.