objects.
11. When you grind your corn, give not the flour to the devil and the bran
to God.
12. That which the fool does in the end, the wise man does at the
beginning.
13. Xerxes commanded the largest army that was ever brought into the field.
14. Without oxygen, fires would cease to burn, and all animals would
immediately die.
15. Liquids, when acted upon by gravity, press downward, upward, and
sideways.
16. Matter exists in three states--the solid state, the liquid state, and
the gaseous state.
17. The blending of the seven prismatic colors produces white light.
18. Soap-bubbles, when they are exposed to light, exhibit colored rings.
19. He who yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from
which he can never arise.
20. Young eyes that last year smiled in ours
Now point the rifle's barrel;
And hands then stained with fruits and flowers
Bear redder stains of quarrel.

CAPITAL LETTERS AND PUNCTUATION.

+Capital Letters+.--The first word of (1) a sentence, (2) a line of poetry,
(3) a direct quotation making complete sense or a direct question
introduced into a sentence, and (4) phrases or clauses separately numbered
or paragraphed should begin with a capital letter. Begin with a capital
letter (5) proper names and words derived from them, (6) names of things
personified, and (7) most abbreviations. Write in capital letters (8) the
words _I_ and _O_, and (9) numbers in the Roman notation. [Footnote: Small