Mary's matchless mimicry makes much mischief.

 

Seated on shining shale she sells sea shells.

 

You youngsters yielded your youthful yule-tide yearnings yesterday.

 

2. Sound the _l_ in each of the following words, repeated in sequence:

 

Blue black blinkers blocked Black Blondin's eyes.

 

3. Do you say a _bloo_ sky or a _blue_ sky?

 

4. Compare the _u_ sound in _few_ and in _new_. Say each aloud, and decide which

is correct, _Noo York_, _New Yawk_, or _New York_?

 

5. Pay careful heed to the directions of this chapter in reading the following,

from Hamlet. After the interview with the ghost of his father, Hamlet tells his

friends Horatio and Marcellus that he intends to act a part:

 

_Horatio_. O day and night, but this is wondrous strange!

 

_Hamlet_. And therefore as a stranger give it welcome. There are more things in

heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. But come;

Here, as before, never, so help you mercy, How strange or odd so'er I bear