of these spaces; then through the middle of these run a needleful of embroidery silk, taking up several of the warp threads as you go, and turn them the other way, making an openwork pattern; or run a narrow ribbon of some gay color through them. The bottom hem comes up to meet this work and helps complete a richlooking border. If you wish to make a very pretty one, set all around it some cream-colored lace and put a ribbon for strings; but this kind of apron has no pocket. The Wide Awake.

LIST OF SUBJECTS FOR SIMILAR DESCRIPTIONS.

Making a Doll's House.

How to Sweep a Room.

Care of a Canary.

Christmas Presents.

How to Take Care of House Plants.

How to Make Paper Flowers.

How to Make Figures by Folding a Handkerchief.

Folding Paper to Make Boxes.

HOW TO CAST A FLY IN FISHING.

One of the most difficult things in fly-fishing is to get your fly to fall just where you wish it to.

To do this, a

little preliminary practice is necessary. Tie a small weight, say a little block of wood an inch long and as thick as your little finger, to the free end of your line, which has been drawn out some eight or nine feet. Then, standing firmly erect in an easy position, take the rod in the right hand, grasping it by the handle just above the reel; with the thumb and forefinger of the left hand take light hold of the bit of wood at the line's end.

You are now ready for the cast; the rod is nearly vertical, and the line is drawn taut. By a motion gradually increasing in rapidity, wave the rod backward over the left shoulder, at the same time loosing the bit of wood and allowing the line to swing straight out behind you. Then before the wood can touch the ground in your rear wave the rod, by a gradually quickening motion and with a slight curve to the right, forward so as to whip the line to the full length that is unwound, straight out before you, allowing the block, which is at present your fly, to settle lightly on the ground.

Now to cast again, wind off by turning the reel a foot or more of line, and then by a gentle sweep of the rod upward and backward, fling the line full length straight behind, and before it can fall to the ground throw it forward again as in the first casts. Try this over and over again until you get so that you can fling out twelve feet of line every time and make your bit of wood go to just the spot you aim at. This accomplished, you are ready to begin practice on water with a fly.

The foregoing list is especially adapted for boys, as that of Exercise I. is for girls. In both cases what seems apparently very easy will be found upon trial to be difficult. The number of persons who can give a clear and accurate description of the way anything is made or done is very small.

CHAPTER IV.

COMMON ERRORS IN THE USE OF LANGUAGE.

All sentences should be correct in form. The errors most commonly made by those who use the language with a fair degree of accuracy are included in this chapter.

LESSON XIII. - THE NON-AGREEMENT OF SUBJECT AND

PREDICATE.

This mistake is most likely to occur in the case of collective nouns, and when the subject is complex or far removed from the verb.

The usage for collective nouns is not entirely fixed, but the principle seems to be, that when the speaker or writer thinks of the objects indicated by a collective noun as a whole, a singular verb should be used; when he thinks of them individually, a plural verb should be used.

Examples of Correct Usage.

The wages of sin is death. — The subject is conceived as singular. Five dollars is too much. Five dollars is taken as a whole. The multitude were of one mind. — Individuals are thought of. The multitude was too large to number. - Individuals are not thought of.

Pleasures, and not study, occupy his mind. with the affirmative subject instead of the negative.

The verb agrees

Love, and love only, is the loan for love. - - When subjects are emphatically distinguished, the verb agrees with one, and is understood with the others.

You were busy even when alone. plural verb.

You always requires a

The gentleman with his children is in town. With his children does not affect the verb.

EXERCISE I. JUSTIFY THE USE OF THE ITALICIZED WORDS.

"Books" is a noun.

The jury gave their verdict.
Twice as much is too much.
The tongs are not here.

The crowd throng the streets.
Either he or I am right.

You were alone in the house.

Money, as well as men, is needed.

It was stock-certificates that I purchased.
Every one should have his life insured.

Mr. Edwards, in company with his sons, is in the city.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

Wrong Case of the Pronoun after the Verb To Be.

The verb to be takes the same case after it as before it. This rule holds good when there is a noun or pronoun in the objective case before the infinitive.

Examples of Correct Usage.

I believed it to be him. It is objective, so him should be objective.

I knew it was she. It is nominative, so she should be nomina

tive.

LESSON XIV.

-ERRORS IN THE USE OF VERB-TENSES.

Confusion of Past Tense and Perfect Participle of the Following

The pupil should give the principal parts of these verbs, and illustrate their use in compound tenses.

The pupils should make sentences illustrating the correct use of these verbs.

Confusion in the Use of Shall and Will, Should and Would.

RULE. Use will and would whenever the subject names the one whose will controls the action; and shall and should whenever the one named by the subject is under the control of external influences.

The original meaning of shall is to owe, to be obliged; of will, is to determine.

Shall in the first person denotes simple futurity; in the second and third, determination.

Will in the first person denotes determination; in the second and third, simple futurity.