Supply the correct conjunction for each blank in the following sentences.

Write other sentences, using conjunctions to connect groups of words.

Name the conjunctions in the following sentences, and tell what groups of words they connect.

1. You will never miss the water until the well runs dry.

2. You may take a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink.

3. Be true to your friends, and they will be true to

you.

4. The race is not to the swift nor the battle to the

strong.

5. I sift the snow on the mountains below,

And their great pines groan aghast;
And all the night 'tis my pillow white,

While I sleep in the arms of the blast.

6. You cannot keep sunshine from yourselves if you bring it into the lives of others.

7. Keep thy lips from evil, and thy tongue from speaking guile.

8. Men may come and men may go,

But I go on forever.

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A POEM

BIRDS' NESTS

The skylark's nest among the grass
And waving corn is found;
The robin's on a shady bank,

With oak leaves strewn around.

The wren builds in an ivied thorn,
Or old and ruined wall;
The mossy nest, so covered in,
You scarce can see at all.

The martins build their nests of clay
In rows beneath the eaves;
While silvery lichens, moss, and hair,
The chaffinch interweaves.

The cuckoo makes no nest at all,
But through the wood she strays
Until she finds one snug and warm,
And there her eggs she lays.

The sparrow has a nest of hay
With feathers warmly lined;

The ring-dove's careless nest of sticks
On lofty trees we find.

Rooks build together in a wood,

And often disagree;

The owl will build inside a barn

Or in a hollow tree.

Birds build their nests from year to year

According to their kind,

Some very neat and beautiful,
Some easily designed.

The habits of each little bird,
And all its patient skill,

Are surely taught by God himself

And ordered by His will.

-Anonymous.

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WRITING SENTENCES ABOUT BIRDS

1. Write a sentence about the skylark and the wren, using the conjunction but.

2. Write one about the wren's nest, using the conjunction because.

3. Write one about the robin and the martin, using the conjunction but.

4. Write one about the martin and the chaffinch, using the conjunction while.

5. Write one about the cuckoo, using the conjunction

until.

6. Write one about the sparrow, using the conjunction and.

7. Write one about the owl, using the conjunction or.

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LEARNING TO COPY

Copy the following:

For want of a nail the shoe was lost,
For want of a shoe the horse was lost,
For want of a horse the rider was lost,
For want of a rider the battle was lost,
And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.

-Old Rime.

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LEARNING PARTS OF SPEECH

INTERJECTIONS

Hurrah! boys! The circus is coming.

Oh, Mary! Look at the fire.

Alas! I have lost my purse.

Stop! Look! Listen! There is danger ahead.

What feeling is expressed by the words at the beginning of the first sentence? the second? the third? the fourth? Do these words form part of the sentence?

A word used to express joy, surprise, sorrow, fear, c other strong feeling is called an interjection.

Name the interjections in the following sentences. 1. Hark, hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings. 2. Lo! when the service was ended, a form appeared in the doorway.

3. They come! the merry summer months of beauty, song, and flowers.

4. Ay! tear her tattered ensign down.

5. Give me of your boughs, O Cedar!

6.

Listen!

'Tis my voice you hear, my singing!

The principal interjections are O, oh, ah, alas, ay, hark, hurrah, lo, pshaw.

Nouns, verbs, and other parts of speech, however, may be used as interjections.

268

A STORY

THE EYES IN THE PEACOCK'S TAIL

Jupiter and Juno were king and queen of the gods. They lived in a gilded palace on the top of Mount Olympus.

At the foot of the mountain flowed a beautiful river, which from the mountain looked like a thread of silver in the valley below.

On the bank of the river lived the maiden Io. Jupiter often went down to the shiny river to talk to Io. This made Juno very angry.

One morning, therefore, she went down into the valley to see what Io was doing; but when she came to the river there was no maiden to be seen. There was only a white cow eating the dewy grass.

Juno guessed that Jupiter had changed Io into a cow to deceive her. So she sent Argus to watch the white cow. Argus had one hundred eyes, and Juno thought that all of them could never fall asleep at once. Sometimes the two eyes of a watchman fall asleep; but if two of the eyes of Argus fell asleep, he would still have ninety-eight eyes with which to watch.