Lesson 26.

DICTATION EXERCISES.

NOTE TO TEACHERS.--These lessons are intended as exercises in the meaning
as well as the spelling of words. Distinguish carefully words of similar
sound, but which differ in their spelling. At the recitation the sentences
should be read aloud by the teacher, and the pupils required to write them
out neatly and correctly upon their slates or on the blackboard.

He ate seven or eight apples. Send the pale maid with the pail of milk.
He owed for the paper on which he wrote an ode to the moon. We are not
quite ready for the quiet man. Age gives edge to wine. He said the idol
looked like a satyr. Clever satire often rouses the idle.



Lesson 27.

Sounds of ai, ou, ow, and ea,

paid bound cow cheat head
grain found how treat dead
staid ground town beast stead
waif hound growl bleat tread
rail mound clown preach dread
flail pound frown speak thread
quail round crown streak sweat
snail sound drown feast death