He. - He cannot be prefixed by a tick to Ll, Rl, Ml, Wl, or Hl. To all other stems bearing the L-hook, He is prefixed by the Chay-tick.

I. - I is prefixed to Ll, Ml, and Hl, by the Ray-tick. To all other stems with the L-hook, it is prefixed by the P-tick.

A, An, And. - Either of these words may be prefixed to Chl, Jl, Thl, and Dhl, by the T-tick. To all other stems with the L-hook, they are prefixed by the K-tick.

The. - The is prefixed to Ll, Rl, Ml, Hi, and Rl, by the Ray-tick; to Nl and Ngl, by the P-tick; to all other stems with the L-hook, by the Chay-tick.

He-complies. He-believed. He-tells. He-claims. He-fell. He-values. He-placed. I-apply. I-believe I-tell. I-delivered. I-rely. I-fell. I-declare. And-compel. And-belonged. A-belief. An-angel. An-equal. A-delivery. And-fill. And-really. A-rule. A-wealthy. And-disclaimed. The-people. The-delivery. The-claim. The-value. The-rule. The-wealth.

1. I-believe he-will really compel the-people to comply fully with the-rule. 2. The-clerk claimed to have delivered the-roll to the-children. 3. He relies upon-his claim, that he-fell on-the rail. 4. Tellium to call, and I-will deliver property equal to-that in value. 5. He declares-his belief that their wealth was real, but-that it belonged langely to their children. 6. They will make the-delivery by degrees. 7. Fill it full.

e. 1. It-will-be as-well, after-all, to apply soon. 2. Which-will you take, of-all they offer? 3. They-will-go, if you-will. 4. What-will-they do with-all-those boxes? 5. She-will do the-work as-well,as he does-it.

Sec. 14. When circles are combined with hooks, the combinations are named Sper, Spel, Sfer, Sfel, etc. When the small loop is thus combined, the outlines are called Stepr, Stetr, etc. The loops cannot be combined with hooks on curved stems, and Ses is never combined with a hook at the beginning of an outline. In writing circles within hooks on curved stems, care should be taken not to change the size of the hook. (Lines 10-12, page 71.)

Spray, spry, sapper, supper, sober, saber, stray, straw, strew, suitor, sitter, setter, cedar, sadder, cider, sager, sicker, soaker, safer, cypher, suffer, savor, sealer, simmer, saner, signer, singer. Stopper, stupor, stabber, stater, staider, stitcher, stager, sticker, stoker, stalker, stagger.

a. Supple, supply, sable, settle, saddle, sidle, satchel, sickle, cycle, civil, sizzle, social.

d. It occasionally happens that a hook cannot be made exact, when preceded by a circle in the middle of an outline. Care should be taken, in such cases, that it be sufficiently indicated.

Pastry, besieger, tasker, decipher, destroy, descry, disagree, gossamer, vestry, vesper, massacre, mastery, extra. Peaceable, paschal, disclose, disciple, disable, explosive, gospel, physical, visible, useful.

Sec. 15. Do not pass this section without understanding it perfectly. It provides the only means of indicating vowels between stems and their initial hooks. Do not leave it so carelessly as to make it possible for you to attempt to apply the rule to final hooks hereafter. It does not apply to final hooks.

Partial, paraphrase, parsimony, perceive, purple, dark, cheerful, Charles, journey, journal, church, kernel, courage, course, excursive, nearly, more. tell. till, delicacy, call, cull, cool, college, calumny, unskilful, fill, fell, fulfil, falsify, volume, valuable, vulgar, village, vulnerable.

How may be indicated, at the beginning of a phrase, by either the Chay- or Ray-tick, but the tick is always written immediately below the line.

How-much. How-long. How-many. How-far How-wide. How-can. How-true.

1. The-judge committed the-defendant. 2. Ah, Mary, you forget that-we already owe the-agent's wife a-dollar. 3. He gave-us his age. 4. The-youth who accompanied him was worthy of notice. 5. They occupy the farm which adjoins his, but they-are indifferent counties.

Sec. 16. The N-hook. - Make the hook small, on both straight and curved stems. This hook cannot be used, when the sound of N is followed by a vowel at the end of a word. (Lines 13, 14, p. 71.)

Pine, spine, pun, plain, prone. Spain, pan, plan, bin, brain, blown, tone, train, stain. Dane, done, sudden, drown, chain, join. June, keen, crane, clown, skin, screen, gain, grown, fawn. Often, stiffen, vain, even, seven. Thane, thin, then, assign, sheen, shine, sullen, slain, lawn, earn, stern (stRn), reign. Rhine, mean, moan, Simon, marine, moon, known, noon, swain, swan, one. wine, yawn. Pekin, pippin, pigeon, pennon (PnN), bacon, beaten. Buffon, obtain, bemoan, balloon, tighten, ottoman, detain, dungeon, domain. Chicken, cheapen, kitchen, cunning, griffin, gammon, foeman, vanish (VnSh), linen.

b. Olean, alien, ruin, galleon, scion. Pretorian, grammarian, agrarian, valerian, censorian, clarion.

c. Pines, spines, sprains, bones, bans, buns, tones, trains, stains, strains (sTrns), dins, dense, drowns, Siddons, chains, chance, joins, canes, coins, gains, groans, glance. Johnson, Robinson, Wisconsin, Benson's.

d. Pounced, pranced, bounced, danced, chanced, glanced. Spinster, punster, spinsters, punsters.

e. Princes, prances, pounces, bounces, trounces, dunces, chances, sconces, cleanses, glances.

f. Fence, softens, fawns, veins, heavens, Athens, thence, assigns, oceans, shuns, shines, lens, loans, lance, rains, rinse, runs, moans, immense, nonce, announce, wines.