which
you find, and correct them_:--

1. I knew him since boyhood.
2. It was a superstition among the Mexicans that a bullet will not kill a
man unless it has his name stamped on it.
3. Being absent from the last recitation, I am unable to write on the
subject assigned this morning.
4. Soon after Oliver reached home a servant announces the presence of
Charles.
5. "'Got any luck?' says I. 'No,' says he. 'Well,' says I, 'I've got the
finest string of trout ever was seen.'"
6. Be virtuous and you would be happy.
7. Stackhouse believed that he solved the problem he had so long studied
over, and yesterday afternoon he started from his house, No. 2446 North
Tenth Street, to make a test.
8. This beautiful little bird that appears to the king and tries to warn
him, was not an ordinary bird.
9. Next September I shall be at school three years.
10. I know very little about the "Arabian Nights," for I have never read
any of the stories before I came to this school.
11. If he received your instructions he would have obeyed them.
12. Before he was going to have the sign printed he submitted it to his
friends for corrections.
13. The Balloon Society recently invited Mr. Gould to read before them a
paper on yachting. Mr. Gould, in reply, has expressed regret that the
shortness of his visit will prevent him from accepting the invitation.
14. I should be obliged to him if he will gratify me in that respect.
15. While he was in England the British had given him very honorable
positions in America in order to have his help if they had any trouble
with the colonies.
16. Up and down the engines pounded. It is a good twenty-one knots now,
and the upper deck abaft the chart-house began rapidly to fill.
17. Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln regret that a previous engagement, will prevent
them from accepting Mrs. Black's kind invitation for Thursday.
18. Mr. Rockwell will accept with pleasure the invitation of Mr. and Mrs.
Pembroke for Tuesday evening, December 3d.
19. I am sure that he has been there and did what was required of him.
20. He might probably have been desirous, in the first place, to have
dried his clothes and refreshed himself.
21. He could not have failed to have aroused suspicion.
22. When, on the return of Dr. Primrose's son Moses from the Fair, the
family had discovered how he had been cheated, we are shown an
admirable picture of home life.
23. Apart from his lov