1. Can you not see the father? It was he who

2. And the mother! It was she who

3. There, too, were the sisters! It was they who

4. Did you ever know such a schoolmaster? It was he who

5. Would you not like an aunt like that? It was she who

6. The uncle was rich in lore of fields and brooks. It

It may be she.

? It is

13. Might it have been your brother that I saw ? It might have been he.

14. If I had known it was he, I should have spoken to

Make a list of the pronouns used in the sentences above to complete the meaning of the verbs am, is, was, were, and of the verb-phrases ending in be and been. Observe that these verbs do not assert action; and they do not tell what is asserted.

To complete the meaning of the verbs am, is, was, were, and of the verb-phrases ending in be and been, use the

subject forms, and never the object forms, of the personal pronouns.

Write questions to be answered by the sentences given below. In class, read aloud the questions and the answers.

1. It is she.

2. I am he.

3. It is we.

4. It is I.

5. It is they.

6. It is you.

II. The word than is a conjunction. It should always be used to connect two statements, although the verb and other words of the second statement are often omitted.

EXAMPLES: Mary and Charles are my cousins. She is more sincere than he [is sincere], and so I like her better than [I like] him.

Complete and write the following sentences. Supply in the second statement of each sentence the words that would not be expressed in ordinary speaking or writing, and inclose them in brackets.

Read aloud the completed sentences: (1) with the words you have written in brackets; (2) omitting them.

(1) My brothers are much older than I (but I play tennis better than they ( (2) I understand my sisters better than them.

(3) (

-).

-);

-) is much taller than we (—(4) Do you know my mother? You are younger than

she (

-).

Tell of each personal pronoun after the conjunction than why it is a subject form or an object form.

Section 11. Oral and Written Composition

I. Give an account of a stormy night when you and the rest of the family prepared for a coming storm. Tell about the signs of the storm; what you did out of doors and indoors to get ready for it; and how you felt while the storm was raging.

II. Think of a bitterly cold evening when you were shut in at home while a blinding storm raged outside. If you can remember no such time, imagine one. Perhaps you were visiting at your grandfather's home. Possibly there were guests. Or was there only your own family gathered about the fire? You may have popped corn; made candy; played games. Some one may have read aloud; told stories; told riddles; asked conundrums. Perhaps some halffrozen traveler who had lost his way was welcomed and warmed by your fire. Or imagine that you were the one lost, and taken care of in the home of another.

Write about it. Take for the title of your story some such subject as, " An Evening at Home during a Storm."

Section 12. Review

Give five sentences using subject forms of personal pronouns after the verbs am, is, are, were. Give directions for the use of like and as; unless and without.

Use in one sentence the words unless and without. Give many oral sentences using like and as correctly.

Section 1. Reading and Discussion

Nello2 and Patrasche3 were left all alone in the world. They were friends in a friendship closer than brotherhood. Nello was a little Ardennois,* Patrasche was a big Fleming. They were both of the same age by length of years, yet one was still young, and the other was already old. They had dwelt together almost all their days; both were orphaned and destitute, and owed their lives to the same hand. It had been the beginning of the tie between them, their first bond of sympathy; and it had strengthened day by day, and had grown with their growth, firm and indissoluble, until they loved one another very greatly.

Their home was a little hut on the edge of a little village, - a Flemish village a league from Antwerp. . . . It was the hut of a very old man, of a very poor man. . . But the old man was very gentle and good to the boy, and the boy was a beautiful, innocent, truthful, tender-natured creature; and they were happy on a crust and a few leaves of cabbage, and asked no more of earth or Heaven; save indeed that Patrasche should be always with them, since without Patrasche where would they have been?

The entire story will be enjoyed.

2 Něl'lo.

3 Pa-träsh'.

♦ Ardennois (ar'den-wä'), a native of Ardennes, a hilly, woody tract partly in Belgium, partly in France.

5 Fleming, a native of Flanders, which is a province of Belgium.

Patrasche was body, brains, hands, head, and feet to both of them: Patrasche was their very life, their very soul. For Jehan Daas was old and a cripple, and Nello was but a child; and Patrasche was their dog.

A dog of Flanders, yellow of hide, large of head and limb, with wolf-like ears that stood erect, and legs bowed and feet widened in the muscular development wrought in his breed by many generations of hard service. . . Patrasche had been born of parents who had labored hard all their days over the sharp-set stones of the various cities, and the long, shadowless, weary roads of the two Flanders and of Brabant. He had been born to no other heritage than those of pain and toil.

II

The upshot of that day was, that old Jehan Daas, with much laborious effort, drew the sufferer homeward to his own little hut, which was a stone's-throw off amidst the fields, and there tended him with so much care that the sickness .. brought on by heat and thirst and exhaustion, with time and shade and rest passed away, and health and strength returned.

In his sickness they two had grown to care for him, this lonely old man and the little happy child. . . . So then, when Patrasche arose, himself again, strong, big, gaunt, powerful, his great wistful eyes had a gentle astonishment in them that there were no curses to rouse him and no blows to drive him; and his heart awakened to a mighty love, which never wavered once in its fidelity whilst life abode with him.

Now, the old soldier, Jehan Daas, could do nothing for 1 In English, John.