whispering to yonder maids; it is your younger selves who, in the days that are

no more, are murmuring to the fairest mothers and grandmothers of those maids.

 

Happy the worn and weary man and woman in the picture could they have felt their

older eyes still glistening with that earlier light, and their hearts yet

beating with undiminished sympathy and aspiration. Happy we, brethren, whatever

may have been achieved, whatever left undone, if, returning to the home of our

earlier years, we bring with us the illimitable hope, the unchilled resolution,

the inextinguishable faith of youth.

 

--GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS.

 

QUESTIONS AND EXERCISES

 

1. Clip from any source ten anecdotes and state what truths they may be used to

illustrate.

 

2. Deliver five of these in your own language, without making any application.

 

3. From the ten, deliver one so as to make the application before telling the

anecdote.

 

4. Deliver another so as to split the application.

 

5. Deliver another so as to make the application after the narration.