Part 51 (2/2)

14 Why I Belong to the X Political Party

15 Various Methods of Heating a House

185 Below is given in full Lincoln's _Gettysburg Speech_ It is perfect in its English and its construction Study it with especial reference to its coherence, unity, and emphasis Some of the words of coherence have been italicized

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers, brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all reat civil war, testing whether _that nation_, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure

We are reat battle-field of _that war_ We have co-place for those who here gave their lives that that nationand proper that we should do _this But_ in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground The brave led here_ have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract The world will little note, nor long reet what _they did here_

It is for us, the living, _rather_, to be dedicated here to the unfinished hich _they who fought here_ have thus far so nobly advanced _It is rather for us_ to be here dedicated to the great task re before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full hly resolve that _these dead_ shall not have died in vain; that _this nation_, under God, shall have a new birth of freedoovernment of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth

186 _Small Economies_, from Mrs Gaskell's _Cranford_

I have often noticed that everyone has his own individual s fractions of pennies in some one peculiar direction--any disturbance of which annoys his or pounds on soentleence of the failure of a Joint-Stock Bank, in which some of his money was invested, with a stoicalsu) out the written leaves of his now useless bank-book Of course, the corresponding pages at the other end came out as well, and this little unnecessary waste of paper (his private economy) chafed him more than all the loss of his money Envelopes fretted his soul terribly when they first came in The only way in which he could reconcile himself to such waste of his cherished article was by patiently turning inside out all that were sent to hih tahters when they send a whole inside of a half-sheet of note paper, with the three lines of acceptance to an invitation, written on only one of the sides

I a that I have this huet full of little hanks of it, picked up and twisted together, ready for uses that never co of a parcel instead of patiently and faithfully undoing it fold by fold How people can bring themselves to use india-rubber bands, which are a sort of deification of string, as lightly as they do, I cannot iine To me an india rubber band is a precious treasure I have one which is not new--one that I picked up off the floor nearly six years ago I have really tried to use it, but ance

Srieve others They cannot attend to conversation because of the annoyance occasioned by the habit which so more butter than they want Have you not seen the anxious look (almost mesmeric) which such persons fix on the article? They would feel it a relief if theyit into their ownit down; and they are really made happy if the person on whose plate it lies unused suddenly breaks off a piece of toast (which he does not want at all) and eats up his butter They think that this is not waste

Now Miss Matty Jenkins was chary of candles We had many devices to use as few as possible In the winter afternoons she would sit knitting for two or three hours--she could do this in the dark, or by firelight--and when I asked if Imy wristbands, she told ht in with tea; but we only burnt one at a tiht co (but who never did), it required soth, ready to be lighted, and to look as if we burnt tays The candles took it in turns; and, whatever we , Miss Matty's eyes were habitually fixed upon the candle, ready to juht the other before they had becoth to be restored to equality in the course of the evening

One night, I remember this candle economy particularly annoyed me

I had been very much tired of my compulsory ”blind man's holiday,”

especially as Miss Matty had fallen asleep, and I did not like to stir the fire and run the risk of awakening her; and so I could not even sit on the rug, and scorchto my usual custom

187 A LIST OF BOOKS FOR READING These books are of a varied character and are all interesting and of recognized excellence in their English

Most of theeneral education, should be read by everyone

Fiction: Treasure Island--Stevenson

Kidnapped--Stevenson

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde--Stevenson

The Scarlet Letter--Hawthorne

Twice Told Tales--Hawthorne

The Luck of Roaring Caination--Poe

Silas Marner--Eliot

Robinson Crusoe--Defoe

Ivanhoe--Scott

Henry Esress--Bunyan

The Spy--Cooper

The Man without a Country--Hale