Food, a kind of cake, made Pret. of breed, to bring up. from flour.

Bread with five letters, food we need;

With four the bred that comes from breed.

EXERCISE.

'Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.'

The acquiring some knowledge of cookery should be compulsory; few of the girls bred here can make bread or cook a dish of potatos, spinach,* cabbage, brocoli, or other vegetable.

'A moral, sensible, and well-bred man
Will not affront me, and no other can.'

A barrel; blow from the head To aim at with the head.

of an animal; object of ri

dicule; stand on which a
mark to shoot at is fixed.

But, conjunction, or if the but, but-end should be,
The letters it takes you will find only three;

Butt we shoot at, or laugh at-to butt with the head-
Or butt, barrel, we write with four letters instead.

EXERCISE.

'And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.'- The lip of truth shall be established for ever; but a lying tongue is but for a moment.'

A butt of sherry was cast overboard in the storm.-My arrows go into the butt, not the target.-I dropped my watering-pot into the butt.-That conceited fellow is a perfect butt, but it is not fair to tease him; if you will but reflect on the disadvantages under which he has laboured, you will be more considerate.

'A goat will butt, a dog will bite,

If teased-and serve the meddler right.'
* Or spinage.

B-u-y, buy, to purchase must relate;

By, with two letters, near, from, past, will state;
While b-y-e you sometimes see applied
To bye, apart, divided, or aside.

EXERCISE.

By your conduct I judge your principles.- Accidents are caused by passengers stepping out of trains in motion; the practice is foolish, and is against the bye-laws of the company.'

I left him by the door very disconsolate.-We can buy a magic lantern apparatus with reflector, pictures, and diagrams, at the optical department of the Stereoscopic and Photographic Company.-Send a message by electric telegraph, telling Jem to buy the goods wholesale, not retail.

"By the pricking of my thumbs

Something wicked this way comes.'

Cannon, s.

Canon, s.

An engine for projecting balls; An ecclesiastical law; an a large gun.

officer in cathedrals.

Cannon, with two n's, weapon used in war;
Canon, with one, church-officer or law.

EXERCISE.

'It was not cowardice made him pause in face of innumerable enemies and rows of cannon.'-According to canon law he is right.'

'Then the soldier,

Seeking the bubble reputation

Even in the cannon's mouth.'

'Oh that this too, too solid flesh would melt,
Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew!

Or that the Everlasting had not fixed

His canon 'gainst self-slaughter!'

According to Johnson and other authorities, by-the-by is more correct.

'While the earth remaineth, seed-time and harvest, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.'

Relatives rely on him to cede this point, and form the alliance, in reliance on their judgment, and compliance with their wishes, in defiance of his own; his reply is that he must deny their request, and defy their opinion. This will sow the seeds of dissension. The worst soil may be rendered capable of nourishing good seed.

I want you to seal up this memorandum book.-Naturalists tell marvellous tales about the sagacity of the beaver and the seal.—Why should the ministers conceal their readiness to sign and seal the treaty ?-Our new hall is nearly finished, they have only to ceil it in, and complete the decorations.

Ceiling, s.

The inner roof.

Sealing, v.

The act of affixing a seal.

Commence with c, the ceiling overhead;
With s, when sealing, fastening, is said.

EXERCISE.

Adhesive envelopes* save time that was wasted in sealing letters. So far as ink and sealing-wax could defend a land against sword and fire, the Netherlands were impregnable against the edicts, and the renewed episcopal inquisition."

This is the arsenal. From floor to ceiling,

Like a huge organ, rise the burnished arms;
But from their silent throats no organ pealing
Startles the villages with strange alarms.'

* Or envelops.

D

'Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction and understanding.'

'Bliss there is none but unprecarious bliss.'-That is the gem. Sell all and purchase that.'

'Oh, Saviour of the faithful dead!
With whom thy servants dwell,

Though cold and green the turf is spread
Above their narrow cell.'

'How skilfully she builds her cell!
How neat she spreads her wax!'

If you know how to spell sense (meaning), you need scarce trouble yourself about the other cense (to tax, or to perfume), as it is rarely used; but remark the orthography of the words census (a numbering of the population), censer (the vessel for burning incense), and censor (one who censures or corrects manners).—Blind people have an exquisitely delicate sense of touch.-Give the sense of the matter without technical terms. 'Say what is taste but the internal powers Active and strong, and feelingly alive To each fine impulse? a discerning sense Of decent and sublime, with quick disgust From things deformed, or disarranged, or gross In species ?'

Cent, s.

cen

Sent, v.

An abbreviation of Perfume; power of Pret. of send, to

the

Latin

tum (a hundred);

a small coin.

Scent, s.

smelling.

When you write cent, c-e-n-t,
"Twill coin or number tell;

Sent, s-e-n-t, is dispatched ;

Scent, with five letters, smell.

EXERCISE.

dispatch.

The wretched man was an American; a dollar and a cent were found in his pocket.―This offensive caricature was sent by post. The scent and taste of a first cigar has sent many a lad to bed with a headache-well for the sufferer if he take nature's kindly warning, and do not persevere in a habit expensive, if not injurious to himself, and disagreeable to many of his friends.'-Bertha has sent an explanatory epistle.

'Pernicious weed whose scent the fair annoys,
Unfriendly to societies' best joys.'

Observe, I check your queen with my knight.-I have lost a cheque for thirty pounds; go immediately to the bank, and stop payment of the money.-My aunt wore a blue dress with a check pattern.-I want to check the increase of these moths.Why check your horse in that sudden way? the temper of many a fine horse is spoiled, and his nervousness increased by rough careless usage; and a horse that has met with really cruel treatment becomes absolutely unsafe and uncertain. Shall we never be able to check the practice of ill-treating domestic animals?—Acknowledge the cheque I send without delay.

'The large ship sailing o'er the deep,

The hand of man can turn its course;
His own rude tongue he cannot keep,
He will not check or tame its force."