2. Why does the north wind whistle and roar? 3. While the rear wheels were spinning around, John threw a rock into the rut to stop them.

Pronounce the following words:

Write three sentences, using as many of the words

in the list as you can.

Read your sentences aloud. Be careful to pronounce correctly all of the wh words.

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A STORY

THE THREE FAIRIES

1. Last year, three wondrous fairies showered the West with riches. They are still pouring bounty from their horns of abundance.

2. First and most powerful was the fairy queen, Cupra, with her tawny Indian skin and quick-running red blood, altogether lustrous and lovely. Her gifts to the West ran to a round million dollars a day.

3. The second fairy was Zincuma, who had nothing like Cupra's power of attraction. Indeed, for many years the West did not consider Zincuma a fairy at all, but a mischief-making earth sprite, created to annoy. However, her real character became apparent when she brought gifts amounting to a quarter of a million dollars daily.

4. Finally, there was the fairy Plumbuma, the bluelipped one, heavy-lidded, and slow in all her ways.

She bestowed three-fourths of a million dollars weekly on those who sought her out.

5. These are all fairies of the mineral kingdom. In the markets of the world they go under their commoner names of copper, zinc and lead.

-James H. Collins.

The Saturday Evening Post, October 4, 1916.

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STUDYING THE PARAGRAPHS IN THE STORY Five of you, in turn, may read aloud the five paragraphs of the story.

What does the first paragraph tell you?

What are the fairy names of copper, zinc, and lead? Write a sentence telling the fairy name of each. Which paragraph tells you what Cupra did for the West?

Which tells what Zincuma did?

Which tells you what Plumbuma did?
What is the thought of the last paragraph?

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WRITING A PARAGRAPH STORY

Can you think of three fairies of the vegetable kingdom?

Write a paragraph, telling something that one of these fairies does for you.

What must the sentences in your paragraph do?
Give your story a title.

Some one may write his paragraph on the blackboard.

What will the class notice about the thought of the paragraph? about the sentences in the paragraph?

The class will also note whether the first sentence makes a good beginning, and the last sentence a good ending for your paragraph.

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USING THE RIGHT WORD

Read these sentences, putting the correct word in each blank.

6. Coming home, Dick sat between father and

7. She asked Frank and

store.

to go to the grocery

2. Joe told us that his father had given Tom and

a new automobile.

3. Tom and —

are both learning to drive.

4. Dick wants to know if you will share your tent with Frank and when we all go camping. have no tent of their own.

5. Frank and

SHE, HER

1. Mother telephoned that father and not be home until eleven o'clock.

2. Aunt Sarah wrote that grandma and not well.

3. We are going to see both grandma and

soon.

would

are

very

4. Helen said that you had invited Florence and

to your party.

5. She said, too, that neither Florence nor could

come.

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TELLING EXPERIENCES

You have all had interesting things happen to you. Plan to tell one of these to your classmates.

Perhaps the following topics may suggest something to you.

1. My First Party.

2. Learning to Skate on Ice. 3. Learning to Use Roller-skates. 4. At the Moving Pictures. 5. My First Day at School. 6. My First Day at the Farm. 7. Learning to Ride a Pony. 8. Learning to Ride a Wheel. 9. My First Fishing Trip. 10. Wading in the Brook.

11. Playing in the Hay.

12. Building Sand Forts.

In relating your experience, it will help you if you plan to tell:

1. When and where it happened.

2. What was the most interesting thing about it. 3. How it turned out.

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REVIEWING WORD FORMS

COME, CAME, HAVE COME

Two members of the class may read the conversation that follows, supplying the correct form of the word come wherever it is omitted.

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in, Helen. I am glad to see you."

"Thank you, Grace. I

brothers have

to tell you that my

home from the war."

too. He

"I am very glad. My brother has

last week. We are very happy to have him home again."

"We are happy, too. When my brothers

into

the house last night, I cried for joy. The best of it all is that they have -to stay."

"Here —— my brother. He will be glad to see you."

Come and comes show present time.

Came shows past time.

Come, helped by have, has, or had, shows that the action is completed.

Remember that came is never helped by any other

word.