es" and "stanza."

XI. Exercises

1. Rewrite Model III in modern English.

2. Write an account of your own parents of about the same length as
Model III.

3. Before deciding finally on the style of this account of your
parents, seek in the corresponding sections of several
biographies for hints. Good ones may be discovered in Boswell's
_Johnson_, Lockhart's _Scott_, Southey's _Nelson_, Trevelyan's
_Macaulay_, and Hallam Tennyson's _Tennyson_.

XII. Suggested Reading

O. W. Holmes's _Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill_ and _Dorothy Q_.

XIII. Memorize

PROCRASTINATION

Be wise to-day; 'tis madness to defer;
Next day the fatal precedent will plead.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
At thirty, man suspects himself a fool;
Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan;
At fifty chides his infamous delay,
Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve,
In all the magnanimity of thought
Resolves, and re-resolves; then dies the same.
EDWARD YOUNG.

CHAPTER XIV

THE EXPOSITION OF MECHANICS

"'Tis not in mortals to command success.
But we'll do more, Sempronius; we'll deserve it."
JOSEPH ADDISON.

I. Assignments

1. Explain the plan of your own house.

2. Explain the plan of some new house that you pass on your way to
school.

3. Explain the structure of a new locomotive, railway car, street
car, automobile, ship, or aeroplane.

4. Explain the plan of your schoolhouse.

5. The papers contain many descriptions of new houses. These are
usually written with a fine disregard of the laws of
composition. Find and rewrite one of them. Do the same with a
description of a ship such as is common in periodicals.

II. Model I

The new suburban home of John Doe is located in a ten-acre tract
on the northern side of the Seven-Mile Road, midway between
Woodward Avenue and the Gratiot E. Turnpike. The material is
reinforced concrete; the style, Colonial; the roof of green
shingles; the size, 48 feet by 36 feet.

From a front entrance porch a central hall 7 feet wide extends
29 feet to the rear of the house, terminating in a flight of
stairs broken in the middle by a landing. Above this landing a
circular window gives plenty of light and at the same time forms
a decorative feature.

On the right, as one enters the hall, is a room 9 feet by
14 feet,