is
tail, so are declensions of substantives distinguished by the ending of
the genitive case. Our fear of outraging the comic feelings of humanity,
prevents us from saying quite so much about them as our love of learning
would otherwise induce us to do. We therefore refer the student to that
clever little book, the Eton Latin Grammar, strongly recommending him to
decline the following substantives, by way of an exercise, after the
manner of the examples there set down. First declension, Genitivo ae.
Virga, a rod. --Second, i. Puer, a boy. Stultus, a fool. Tergum, a back.
--Third, is. Vulpes, a fox. Procurator, an attorney. Cliens, a client.
--Fourth, us-- here you may have, Risus, a laugh at. --Fifth, ei.
Effigies, an effigy, image, or Guy.

The substantive face, facies, _makes faces_, facies, in the plural.

Although we are precluded from going through the whole of the
declensions, we cannot refrain from proposing "for the use of schools,"
a model upon which all substantives may be declined in a mode somewhat
more agreeable, if not more instructive, than that heretofore adopted.

_Exempli Gratia._

Musa mus_ae_,
The Gods were at tea,
Musae mus_am_.
Eating raspberry jam,
Musa mus_a_,
Made by Cupid's mamma,
Musae mus_arum_,
Thou "Diva Dearum."
Musis mus_as_,
Said Jove to his lass,
Musae mus_is_.
Can ambrosia beat this?

+DECLENSIONS OF NOUNS ADJECTIVE.+

Some nouns adjective are declined with three terminations-- as a pacha
of three tails would be, if he were to make a proposal to an English
heiress-- as bonus, _good_-- tener, _tender_. Sweet epithets! how
forcibly they remind us of young Love and a leg of mutton.

Bonus, bona, bonum,
Thou little lambkin dumb,
Boni, bonae, boni,
For those sweet chops I sigh,
Bono, bonae, bono,
Have pity on my woe,
Bonum, bonam, bonum,
Thou speak'st though thou art mum,
Bone, bona, bonum,
"O come and eat me, come,"
Bono, bonae, bono,
The butcher lays thee low,
Boni, bonae, bona,
Those chops are a picture,-- ah!
Bonorum, bonarum, bonorum,
To put lots of Tomata sauce o'er 'em
Bonis-- Don't, miss,
Bonos, bonas, bona,
Thou art sweeter than thy mamma,
Boni, bonae, bona,
And fatter than thy papa.
Bonis,-- What bliss!

In like manner decline tener, tenera, tenerum.

Unus, one; solus, alone; totus, the whole; nullus, none; alter, the
other; uter, whether of the two-- make the genitiv