Hunting for partridge allowed from September to December. 
Tramping through the woods. 
Something moving. 
Creeping up. 
How I felt; excited; hand shook. 
Partridge on log. 
Gun failed to go off; cocking it properly. 
The shot; the recoil. 
The flurry of the bird. 
How partridges fly. 
How they taste when cooked. 
Getting the bird. 
Going home. 
Partridges are found in the woods; quail in the fields. 
What my sister said. 
My brother’s interest. 
My father’s story about shooting three partridges with one shot. 
What mother did.

2.  The second step in outline making has relation to coherence.  After we have rejected from our notes all items which would interfere with the unity of our theme, we next arrange the remaining items in a coherent order.  One method of securing coherence is illustrated by a simple narrative which follows the time-order.  We naturally group together in our memory those events which occurred at a given time, and in recalling a series of events we pass in order from one such group to another.  These groups form natural paragraph units, and the placing of them in their actual time-order gives coherence to the composition.

After rejecting the unnecessary items in the preceding list, re-arrange the remaining ones in a coherent order.  How many paragraphs would you make and what would you include in each?

3.  The third step in making an outline has relation to emphasis.  In some outlines emphasis is secured by placing the more important points first, in others by placing them last.  In this particular outline we have a natural time-order to follow, and emphasis will be determined mainly by the relative proportion to be given to different paragraphs.  Do not give unimportant paragraphs too much space.  Be sure that the introduction and the conclusion are short.

+Theme XLV.+—­Write a personal narrative at least three paragraphs in length.

Suggested subjects:—­
    1.  How I was saved from drowning.
    2.  The largest string of fish I ever caught.
    3.  An incident of the skating season.
    4.  What I did on Christmas day.
    5.  A Saturday with my grandmother.
    6.  To the city and back.

(Make an outline.  Keep in mind unity, coherence, and emphasis.  Consider each paragraph with reference to unity, coherence, and emphasis.)

+85.  Development of a Composition with Reference to the Time-Order.+—­ Of the several methods of developing a composition let us consider first that of giving details in the natural time-order. (See Section 46.) If a composition composed of a series of paragraphs possesses coherence, each paragraph is so related to the preceding ones that the thought goes steadily forward from one to another.  Often the connection in thought is so evident that no special indication needs to be made, but if the paragraphs are arranged with reference to a time-order, this time-order is usually indicated.