EXAMPLES UNDER RULE I.—­OF ABRUPT PAUSES.

“You say famous very often and I don’t know exactly what it means a famous uniform famous doings What does famous mean”

“O why famous means Now don’t you know what famous means It means It is a word that people say It is the fashion to say it It means it means famous.”

UNDER RULE II.—­OF EMPHATIC PAUSES.

“But this life is not all there is there is full surely another state abiding us And if there is what is thy prospect O remorseless obdurate Thou shalt hear it would be thy wisdom to think thou now nearest the sound of that trumpet which shall awake the dead Return O yet return to the Father of mercies and live”

   “The future pleases Why The present pains
    But that’s a secret yes which all men know”

II.  THE EROTEME.—­Copy the following sentences, and insert rightly the EROTEME, or NOTE OF INTERROGATION, and such other points as are necessary.

UNDER RULE I.—­OF QUESTIONS DIRECT.

   “Does Nature bear a tyrant’s breast
    Is she the friend of stern control
    Wears she the despot’s purple vest
    Or fetters she the freeborn soul”

    “Why should a man whose blood is warm within
    Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster”

    “Who art thou courteous stranger and from whence
    Why roam thy steps to this abandon’d dale”

UNDER RULE II.—­OF QUESTIONS UNITED.

   “Who bid the stork Columbus-like explore
    Heav’ns not his own and worlds unknown before
    Who calls the council states the certain day
    Who forms the phalanx and who points the way”

UNDER RULE III.—­OF QUESTIONS INDIRECT.

“They asked me who I was and whither I was going.”  “St. Paul asked king Agrippa if he believed the prophets?  But he did not wait for an answer.”

   “Ask of thy mother Earth why oaks are made
    Taller and stronger than the weeds they shade”

III.  THE ECPHONEME.—­Copy the following sentences, and insert rightly the ECPHONEME, or NOTE OF EXCLAMATION, and such other points as are necessary.

UNDER RULE I.—­OF INTERJECTIONS.

“Oh talk of hypocrisy after this Most consummate of all hypocrites After instructing your chosen official advocate to stand forward with such a defence such an exposition of your motives to dare utter the word hypocrisy and complain of those who charged you with it” Brougham

   “Alas how is that rugged heart forlorn”

    “Behold the victor vanquish’d by the worm”

    “Bliss sublunary Bliss proud words and vain”