On one occasion, in the public discharge of his functions as corrector of manners, Augustus had brought a specific charge against a certain knight for having squandered his patrimony. The accused proved that he had, on the contrary, augmented it. "Well," answered the emperor, somewhat annoyed by his error, "but you are at all events living in celibacy contrary to recent enactments." The other was able to reply that he was married, and was the father of three children; and when the emperor signified that he had no further charge to bring, added aloud, "Another time, Cæsar, when you give ear to informations against honest men, take care that your informants are honest themselves." Augustus felt the justice of the rebuke thus publicly administered, and submitted to it in silence.

Exercise 2.

Indicate the proper corrections in the following:

On one ocasion in the public discharge of his funcion as corector of manners; Augustus had brought specific charges against a certain night for haveing squandered his patrimoney. The accused proved that he on the contry had augmented it. Well," answered the Emperor," somewhat annoied by his error, but you are at all events living in cellibacy contrary to recent enactmants" The otherwas able to reply that he was married and was the father of three children, When the Emperor signified that he had no farther charge to bring, he added allowed, "Another time, Cæsar, when you give ear to informations against honest men take cair that youre informants are themselves honest. Augustus felt the justice of the rebuke thus publicly administered, and submited to it in silense.

CHAPTER II.

RULES FOR SPELLING.

1. Derivatives from words ending in c, formed by adding a termination beginning with e, i, or y, insert k after the c; as, trafficked, mimicking.

2. Derivatives formed by adding a termination beginning with a vowel, to monosyllables and words accented on the last syllable that end in a single consonant (not h or x) preceded by a single vowel, double the consonant; as, planned, regretted.

EXCEPTION. Most derivatives of gas, and derivatives which throw the accent back; as, gaseous, preference.

3. Derivatives of words ending in a single consonant and accented on some other syllable than the last, are spelled differently by different lexicographers; as, cancelled or canceled, equalled or equaled, traveller, travelling, travelled or traveler, traveling, traveled.

4. Derivatives formed by adding a termination beginning with a vowel to words ending in silent e usually drop the e; as, rising, noticing.

EXCEPTION.. The e is retained in a few words whose pronunciation seems to require it, and in a few which otherwise might be mistaken for other words; as, hoeing, shoeing, toeing, singeing, dyeing, etc.

5. Derivatives formed by adding the termination ing to words ending in ie drop the e, and change i to y; as, dying, lying.

6. Derivatives formed by adding terminations not beginning with i to polysyllables ending in y, change y to i; as, rectified, qualifier.

7. Verbs ending in e, drop the e on adding ed; as, stated, rated.

8. A few derivatives from all and well drop one 7; as, almighty, welcome.

9. Compounds of mass drop one s; as, Christmas, candlemas.

10. Compounds whose last part is the adjective full drop one ; as, hateful.

11. Whenever in derivatives the same letter would otherwise occur three times in succession, one letter is dropped; as, freer, fully. (Before the termination less two 's may be retained and a hyphen inserted; as, skill-less.)

12. Plurals are formed by adding s to the singular, when they can be pronounced readily in this form; otherwise they add es, which forms an additional syllable; as, days, distresses.

EXCEPTIONS. Echo, cargo, embargo, motto, and potato add es. Letters, figures, and characters add an apostrophe and s to form their plural. Nouns ending in y preceded by a consonant, change y to i and add es. Many other exceptions occur, especially in words adapted from other languages; as, 3's, cities, strata.

13. In other cases, derivatives and compounds are usually formed without change of the primitive; as, befall, windmill.

14. When a word is divided at the end of a line, the division must be made between two syllables. Monosyllables, therefore, can never be divided.

Exercise 1.

Correct the errors in the following:

A PALACE IN A VALLEY.

YE who listen with credulity to the whisper of fancie, and persue with egerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age wiil perform the promisis of youth, and that the deficiencyes of the present day will be supplyed by the morrow; attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abysinia.

Rasselas was the fourth son of the mighty emperor in whoes dominions the Father of Waters begins his course; whose bounty poures down the streams of plenty, and scatters over half the world the harvests of Egipt.

According to the custum which has desended from age to age among the monarchs of the torid zone, Rasselas was confinned in a private pallace, with the other sons and daughters of Abyssinyan royality, till the order of succesion should call him to the throne.

The place which the wisdom or policie of antiquity hah destined for the residense of the Abyssinian princes was a spaceious valley in the kingdom of Amhara, surounded on every side by mountians, of which the sumits overhang the middle part. The only pasage by which it could be enterd was a cavvern that passed under a rock, of whitch it has long beon disputed wether it was the work of nature or of human industery. The outlett of the cavern was consealed by a thick wood, and the mouth which opened into the vally was closed with gates of iron, forged by the artifficers of ancient days, so massey that no man could withouth the help of engines open or shut them.

Exercise 2.

Correct the errors in the following:

THE DISCONTENT OF RASSELAS.

HERE the sons and daughters of Abysinia lived only to know the soft visissitudes of pleasure and repose, attended by all that were skilful to delight, and gratified with whatever the senses can enjoy. They wandered in gardens of fragrance, and sleeped in the fortreses of security. Every art was practiced to make them pleased with their own condition. The sages who instructed them told them of nothing but the miserys of publick life, and described all beyond the mountains as regiouns of calamity, where discord was always rageing, and where man preyd upon man.

To highten their opinion of their own felisity, they were daily entertained with songs, the subject of which was the happey vally. Their apetites were excited by frequent enumerations of diferent enjoyments, and revelery and merryment was the buisness of every hour from the daun of morning to the close of even.

These methods were generally successfull; few of the princes had ever wished to enlarge their bounds, but past their lives in full conviction that they had all within their reach that art or nature could bestow, and pittied thoes whom fate had exkluded from this seat of tranquility, as the sport of chance and the slave of misery.

Thus they rose in the morning and laid down at night, pleased with each other and with themselves, - all but Raselas, who in the twentysecond year of his age begun to withdraw himself from their pastimes and assemblys.