for many days. And, if animal food becomes scarce, he finds some mountain-side from which the snow is melted, and feasts on berries; or, if he gets very hungry indeed, he manages to make a meal of sea-weed.

Write a description of the white bear from the picture.

Describe first his head, then his body, then his legs, feet, and fur.

I wish you to keep in mind the difference between accent and emphasis.

Accent belongs to a syllable of a word, and emphasis belongs to a word in a sentence.

You have learned that, when you wish to call special attention to any word in a sentence, you speak that word with more force than you do other words before and after it. This emphasis is called the Emphasis of Force, because you use extra force of voice in speaking the word which you emphasize.

But there is another way of emphasizing a

word, and that is, by speaking it more slowly than you do the other words. This second kind of emphasis is called the Emphasis of Time, because you take more time to pronounce the word which you emphasize, than you give to the words before and after it.

As you have already learned, Emphasis of Force is shown, in writing, by a line drawn under the word to be emphasized, and in printing, by the word being printed in italics. Emphasis of Time may be shown by giving the word more s-p-a-c-e.

So, then, we have two ways of making those who hear us read think of the particular thing to which we wish to call their attention :

First By giving it with greater force than the other words of the sentence.

Second: By giving it more time than the other words of the sentence.

The Emphasis of Time is a much finer emphasis than the Emphasis of Force, and it is much more agreeable to listen to; but we can give the Emphasis of Time to those words only which have in them the long sounds of the vowels.

The short sounds of the vowels, as in "pretty and "cunning," can not take this kind of empha

sis; and so, to such words we can give only the emphasis of force and slide.

"O mother, how pretty the m-o-o-n looks to-night! She was never so cunning before;

Her two little h-o-r-n-s are so sharp and so bright, I h-o-p-e they'll not g-r-o-w any m-o-r-e.”

"What kind of eggs are those, Harry?”
"These are c-r-o-w-s' eggs."

"Where did you get them?"

"I found them in the woods. I climbed up a g-r-e-a-t, t-a-ll pine-tree, and got them out. of the nest."

I.

"You left us last September;
And, pray, where did you go?"

SWALLOW.

"I went South for the winter: I always do, you know."

I.

"The South? How do you like it? "

SWALLOW.

"I like its sunny skies;
And round the orange-blossoms
I caught the nicest flies!
But when the spring had opened,
I wanted to come back."

I.

"You're just the same old swallow ! Your wings are just as black."

SWALLOW.

"I always wear dark colors;

I'm ever on the wing:
A sober suit for traveling
For me's the proper thing."