first case of the positive ending in _i_.
Thus the Charter House Grammar, is lepidor-- funnier, or more funny.
--The third is the superlative, which increases or diminishes the
signification to the greatest degree, formed from the same case by
adding thereto, _ssimus_. Thus the Comic Latin Grammar is lepidissimus,
funniest, or most funny. A Londoner is acutus, sharp, or 'cute,--
a Yorkshireman acutior, sharper, or more sharp, 'cuter or more 'cute--
but a Yankee is acutissimus-- sharpest, or most sharp, 'cutest or most
'cute, or tarnation 'cute.

Enumerate, in the manner following, with substantives, the exceptions to
this rule, mentioned in the Eton Grammar.

Bonus, good.
A plain pudding.

Melior, better.
A suet pudding.

Optimus, best.
A plum pudding.

Malus, bad.
A caning.

Pejor, worse.
A spatting.

Pessimus, worst.
A flogging.
&c. &c.

Adjectives ending in _er_, form the superlative in _errimus_. The taste
of vinegar is acer, sour; that of verjuice acrior, more sour; the visage
of a tee-totaller, acerrimus, sourest, or most sour.

Agilis, docilis, gracilis, facilis, humilis, similis, change _is_ into
_llimus_, in the superlative degree.

Agilis, nimble.-- Madlle. Taglioni.
Agilior, more nimble.-- Jim Crow.
Agillimus, most nimble.-- Mr. Wieland.

Docilis, docile.-- Learned Pig.
Docilior, more docile.-- Ourang-outang.
Docillimus, most docile.-- Man Friday.

Gracilis, slender.-- A whipping post.
Gracilior, more slender.-- A fashionable waist.
Gracillimus, most slender.-- A dustman's leg.
&c. &c.

If a vowel comes before _us_ in the nominative case of an adjective, the
comparison is made by magis, _more_, and maxime, _most_.

Pius, pious.-- Dr. Cantwell.
Magis pius, more pious.-- Mr. Maw-worm.
Maxime pius, most pious.-- Mr. Stiggins.

Sancho Panza called Don Quixote, Quixottissimus. This was not good
Latin, but it evinced a knowledge on Sancho's part, of the nature of the
superlative degree.

+OF A PRONOUN.+

A pronoun is a substitute, or (as we once heard a lady of the Malaprop
family say), a _subterfuge_ for a noun.

There are fifteen Pronouns.

Ego, tu, ille,
I, thou, and Billy,
Is, sui, ipse,
Got very tipsy.
Iste, hic, meus,
The governor did not see us.
Tuus, suus, noster,
We knock'd down a coster-
Vester, noster, vestras.
monger for daring to pester us.