ORIGINAL COMPOSITION.
Describe some scene that you greatly enjoy, or draw your picture from
imagination. Make a framework and try to profit by all that we have said.
EXERCISES ON THE COMPOSITION OF THE SENTENCE AND THE PARAGRAPH.
SELECTION FROM THE BROTHERS GRIMM.
Once upon a time there was a very old man, whose eyes were dim, whose ears
were dull, and whose knees trembled. When he sat at table, he could
scarcely hold his spoon; and often he spilled his food over the tablecloth
and sometimes down his clothes.
His son and daughter-in-law were much vexed about this, and at last they
made the old man sit behind the oven in a corner, and gave him his food in
an earthen dish, and not enough of it either; so that the poor man grew
sad, and his eyes were wet with tears. Once his hand trembled so much that
he could not hold the dish, and it fell upon the ground and broke all in
pieces, so that the young wife scolded him; but he made no reply and only
sighed. Then they brought him a wooden dish, and out of that he had to
feed.
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