“Grammar is the way you speak in 9 different parts of speech; it is
an art divided in 4 quarters--tortology is one, and sintax one more.”
An Abstract Noun.--“Something you can think of, but not touch--a
red-hot poker.”
An Article.--“That wich begins words and sentences.”
A Pronoun “is when you don’t want to say a noun, and so you say a
pronoun.”
“A Adjective is the colour of a noun, a black dog is a adjective.”
“Adjectives of more than one syllable are repaired by adding
some more syllables.”
“Nouns are the names of everything that is common and has
a proper name.”
Verb.--“To go for a swim is a verb what you do.”
“Adverbs are verbs that end with a lie and distinguish words. It is
used to mortify a noun, and is a person, place, or thing, sometimes
it is turned into a noun and then becomes a noun or pronoun.”
“Preposition means when you say anything of anything.”
“Conjunction means what joins things together; ‘--and 2 men shook
hands.’”
“Nouns denoting male and female and things without sex is neuter.
‘The cow jumped over the fence’ is a transitif nuter verb because
fence isen’t the name of anything and has no sex.”
Interjection.--“Words which you use when you sing out.”
“Gender is how you tell what sex a man is.”
Which Hand is It In?
[Illustration]
A person having in one hand a piece of gold, and in the other a piece
of silver, you may tell in which hand he has the gold, and in which
the silver, by the following method:--
Some even number (such as 8) must be given to the gold, and an odd
number (such as 3) must be given to the silver; after which, tell the
person to multiply the number in the right hand by any even number
whatever, and that in the left hand by an odd number; then bid him
add together the two products, and if the whole sum be odd, the gold
will be in the right hand and the silver in the left; if the sum be
even, the contrary will be the case.
To conceal the artifice better, it will be sufficient to ask whether
the sum of the two products can be halved without a remainder--for in
that case the total will be even, and in the contrary case odd.
222. Which is the heavier, and by how much--a pound of gold or a
pound of feathers; an ounce of gold or an ounce of feathers?
223. Plant an orchard of 21 trees, so that there shall be 9
straight rows with 5 trees in each row, the outline to be a regular
geometrical figure.