al Composition.
_Thursday_--Written Composition.
_Friday_--Public Speaking.

V. Notes, Queries, and Exercises.

1. Write an appropriate heading for each item.

2. Point out the "Four W's" in each.

3. Tell whether each sentence is simple, compound, or complex.

4. Explain the syntax of the nouns in Model I, the pronouns in II,
the verbs in III.

5. Explain the location of St. Louis, Halifax, Nova Scotia, the Bay
of Fundy, Washington, Michigan, Minnesota, Arizona, and
Montana.

6. Where is the copper country of Michigan? The salt, bromine,
calcium, chloride, graphite, and brick regions?

7. Explain the etymological signification of "demonstration,"
"extraordinary," "accumulated," "Nova Scotia," "annually,"
"geological," "Arizona," "Montana," "advent."

8. How many words does Model I contain? II? III?

9. Discover and write out the framework of each model.

10. Find one subject on which you could make an item like Model I.
Do the same for II and III.

VI. Written Composition

Remember that you are writing for the compositor. Every letter must be
right. If you do a good piece of work it is altogether probable that
your composition will get into one of the local papers.

VII. Suggested Reading

Mark Twain's _Tom Sawyer_, _Huckleberry Finn_, _Pudd'nhead Wilson_, or
_Roughing It_.

VIII. Memorize

GOETHALS, THE PROPHET ENGINEER

A man went down to Panama
Where many a man had died
To slit the sliding mountains
And lift the eternal tide:
A man stood up in Panama,
And the mountains stood aside.

For a poet wrought in Panama
With a continent for his theme,
And he wrote with flood and fire
To forge a planet's dream,
And the derricks rang his dithyrambs
And his stanzas roared in steam.

Where old Balboa bent his gaze
He leads the liners through,
And the Horn that tossed Magellan
Bellows a far halloo,
For where the navies never sailed
Steamed Goethals and his crew;

So nevermore the tropic routes
Need poleward warp and veer,
But on through the Gates of Goethals
The steady keels shall steer,
Where the tribes of man are led toward peace
By the prophet-engineer.
PERCY MACKAYE.[1]

[1] "He [Goethals] received last week three medals--one at Washington,
at the hands of President Wilson, from the National Geograph