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polluted, nor a single star obscured-bearing for its motto no such miserable interrogatory as What is all this worth?" nor those other words of delusion and folly, Liberty first, and Union afterwards "—but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment-dear to every true American heart-LIBERTY and UNION, now and forever, ONE AND INSEPARABLE!-Webster.

LESSON XXXVII.

Articulation.-Continued.-Difficult
Combinations.

The following list of words and sentences contains specimens of nearly every difficult combination of consonant-sounds that you are likely to meet in reading. Some are, of course, very rarely found, but all should be practised in order to attain flexibility and accuracy in the use of the agents of articulation.

Acts, facts, lists, ghosts, depths, droop'st, adopts, fifths, laughst, hookst, desks, satst, help'st, twelfths, thefts, milk'st, halt'st, limp'st, attemptst, want'st, thinkst, warpst, dwarfst, hurtst, sixths, eighths, texts, protects, stifl'st, sparkl'st, waken'st, robb'st, amidst, width, digg'st, rav'st, writh'st, prob'dst, hundredths, begg'dst, besieg'dst, catch'dst, troubl'st, trifl'st, shov❜lst, kindl'st, struggl'st, puzzl'st, shieldst, revolv'st, help'dst, trembl'dst, trifl'dst, shov'ldst, involv'dst, twinkl'dst, fondl'dst, dazzl'dst, rattl'dst, send'st, wak'n'dst, mad

d'n'dst, lighten'dst, ripen'dst, hearken'dst, doom'dst, o'erwhelm'dsts, absorbst, regard'st, curb'dst, hurl'dst, charm'dst, return'dst, starv'dst, strength'ns, strength'n'd, wrong'dst, lengthen'dst, sooth'dst, act'st, lift'st, melt'st, hurt'st, want'st, shout'st, touch'd, parch'd, help'dst, bark'dst, prompt'st, touch'dst, rattl'st.

Put the cut pumpkin in a pipkin. Coop up the cook. A big mad dog bit bad Bob. Keep the tippet ticket. Kate hates tight tapes. Geese cackle, cattle low, crows caw, cocks crow. The bleak breeze blighted the bright broom blossoms. Dick dipped the tippet and dripped it. Giddy Kittie's tawdry gewgaws. The needy needlewoman needn't wheedle. Fetch the poor fellow's feather pillow. A very watery western vapor. Six thick thistle sticks. She says she shall sew a sheet. The sun shines on the shop signs. A shocking sottish set of shopmen. A short soft shot-silk sash. A silly shatter-brained chatterbox. Fetch six chaises. She thrust it through the thatch. Thrice the shrew threw the shoe. The slow snail's slime. I snuff shop snuff, do you snuff shop snuff? She sells seashells. Some shun sunshine. The sweep's suitably sooty suit. A rural ruler. Truly rural. Literally literary. Robert loudly rebuked Richard, who ran lustily roaring round the lobby. His right leg lagged in the race. Amidst the mists with angry boasts he thrusts his fists against the posts, and still insists he sees the ghosts. Around the rugged rocks the ragged rascal ran. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

Theophilus Thistle, the successful Thistle sifter, in sifting a sieve full of unsifted thistles, thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb; now if Theophilus Thistle, the successful thistle sifter, in sifting a sieve full of unsifted thistles, thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb, see that thou, in sifting a sieve full of unsifted thistles, thrust not three thousand thistles through the thick of thy thumb. Success to the successful thistle sifter. My dame has a lame tame crane,

My dame has a crane that is tame;
Oh, pray, gentle Jane,

Let my dame's lame tame crane

Drink and come home again.

Laid in the cold ground [not coal ground].

Half I a see the panting spirit sigh [not spirit's eye]. Be the same in thine own act and valor as thou art in desire [not thy known]. Oh, the torment of an ever-meddling memory [not a never meddling]. All night it lay an ice-drop there [not a nice drop]. Oh, studied deceit [not study]. A sad dangler [not angler]. Goodness centres in the heart [not enters]. His crime moved me [not cry]. Chaste stars [not chase tars]. She could pain nobody [not pay]. Make clean our hearts [not lean]. His beard descending swept his aged breast [not beer]. Did you say ten minutes to wait, or ten minutes to eight? A sore eye saw I. Why y? Thou straightest, fastest strokes struck'dst, Stephen.

TO THE TEACHER :-Many of the above sentences have been taken from Prof. Bell's excellent work, "The Principles of Elocution," to which I am glad to refer all teachers who wish to be abreast of the times in our art. Be careful that pupils do not overdo the sound of 8 so frequent in many of these combinations; in combinations like sts, in lasts, posts, etc., the difficulty is not with the 8, but to bring out properly the t. The separation of similar sounds, as of two 8's in succession, can only be effected by an instant of perfect jaw-relaxation between them. It is taken for granted that the teacher understands the actions of the various agents of articulation sufficiently well to be able to point out such technical exercises for overcoming special deficiencies as may be necessary in addition to those I have given.

LESSON XXXVIII.

Facial Expression.

The forehead, eyes, nose and mouth are the agents of facial expression. Facial expression comes in order of succession before gestures of any part. The face is next the brain, and is the first part to receive impressions from it.

A smooth FOREHEAD denotes calmness, serenity. The brow drawn down and contracted indicates mental concentration, perplexity, antagonism, resistance to pain, according to the degree of contraction. The brow lifted indicates interested or eager attention, surprise. The brow lifted and contracted denotes sorrow, grief, patient endurance of mental or physical suffering. The brow rises with the "patient shrug."

We have already discussed the EYE in previous les

sons.

The NOSE has few actions, and is not capable of many changes. It is the centre of the face, and like the torso, which is the centre of the body, must maintain a dignity commensurate with its position. The nostrils expand in strong emotions to allow more air to enter the lungs. A large, open nostril is always a sign of strong vitality; a pinched or contracted nostril denotes physical weakness. One nostril drawn up indicates disgust, contempt; both nostrils drawn up is the bearing of a mean, evil-minded person.

The MOUTH is the most expressive feature. Orators have large mouths as a rule. A small mouth shows a delicate, refined, but not powerful nature. We will consider the lips and lower jaw, which give the mouth its expression, separately.

Thin LIPS are cold, unemotional; thick, protruding lips are sensual, coarse. The lips drawn in indicate concentration, primness, severity; protruded slightly they indicate affection; they are protruded and contracted, much as in whistling, when we are exercising the judgment, discrimination. The pout is a rejection by the lips; in great disgust we act precisely as if we were trying to get rid of a disagreeable substance in the mouth. The lips drawn down at the corners indicate sadness, disappointment, melancholy; the corners are drawn up in pleasurable emotions. One side of

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