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"New National Fourth Reader"


"I slip, I slide, I gloom, I glance,
Among my skimming swallows."
"For men may come, and men may go,
But I go on forever."
Read the last two lines, and state whether the _inflected words_ are
also _emphatic words_.
Find a similar example of _inflection_ and _emphasis_ upon the same
words in the last stanza of Lesson XXXVI.

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Language Lesson.--Let pupils explain the meaning of the following
expressions.
_Join the brimming river_.
_Netted sunbeam_.

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LESSON LXI.

de terred', _kept from_.
en'ter prise, _an undertaking_.
im'ple ments, _articles used in a trade_.
sur vey'ing, _measuring land_.
in'di cated, _showed; pointed out_.
re clin'ing, _partly lying down_.
re lease', _let go_.
con clu'sion, _final decision_.
suc ces'sion, _following one after another_.
hur'ri cane, _a high wind_.
an'ec dote, _incident; story_.
com pact', _closely put together_.

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ANECDOTE OF WASHINGTON.
PART I

It was a calm, sunny day in the year 1750; the scene, a piece of forest
land in the north of Virginia, near a noble stream of water.


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