CONSTRUCTION OF NOUNS SUBSTANTIVE.

Which is not quite so amusing as the construction of small boats, paper

kites, pinwheels, crackers, or any other mode of displaying the faculty

of "constructiveness"-- though in one sense the construction of nouns

substantive, is not unlike the construction of _puzzles_.

When two substantives of a different signification meet together, the

latter is put in the genitive case, as

Ulysses lumen Cyclopis extinxit:

Ulysses doused the glim of the Cyclops.

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