EXERCISES IN COMPOSING. The words in the following lists are given, as before intimated (page 103), as suggestive of thought. In conducting the exercise, the Teacher selects a particular word, as Relieur (Bookbinder), and requires each pupil to compose a French sentence containing this term. The pupil is duly notified that he is at liberty to take any thought suggested by the word, and to produce a sentence of any form found in any of the foregoing Lessons; regard being had all along to all the Rules, Notes, Exceptions, etc., that may bear upon the case. Thus, adopting as a model the sentence, Votre marchand est bien obligeant (Lesson 17, Résumé); Le Danois a-t-il quelques pommes? (Lesson 18, Rule 7); Connaissez-vous le Docteur L.? (Lesson 30, Résumé); Ce monsieur est-il peintre? etc., etc., let him endeavor to produce others of the like kind. A little practice will render the exercise both easy and interesting. It will soon come to be easy to incorporate not only one, but two, three or more of the words taken from the lists. a baker. a brewer. an embroiderer. a coachmaker. a hatter. a coal-man. a pork butcher. a schoolmaster. a day-laborer. Un marchand de chevaux, ( a horse Un maquignon, Un maréchal ferrant, Un maréchal, Un menuisier, { dealer. a farrier, shoe ing-smith. a blacksmith. a physician. a joiner. a reaper. a musician. Un musicien, a quack. Un naturaliste, a naturalist. a cartman. a waggonmaker. a coppersmith. a surgeon. a ropemaker. a shoemaker. a currier. a cutler. a seamstress. a slater, tiler. a vicar. a dentist. a draper. a cabinetmaker. a clergyman. a grocer. a bishop. a mower. a farmer. a fripperer. a fruit-woman. Un orateur, |