study over, to
read to your teacher when you read this lesson to him; and he will
probably require every one in your class to read them all aloud to him.

8. I wish you not to go up to your teacher to ask him to assist you,
until you have tried yourself to read them, and find that you cannot.

9. There are some words that are not pronounced as they are spelt, as I
have taught you in a former lesson.

10. Such a word as _phthisic_, which is pronounced as if it were spelled
_tis'ic_, I dare say would puzzle you, if you had never seen it before;
but before you go up to your teacher, to ask him any questions, you
should read over the whole of your lesson, and perhaps you will find, in
the lesson itself, something that will explain what puzzled you; and
thus you could find it out from your book, without troubling your
teacher.

11. Here are some of the long words I wish you to read.

12. Organization, Theoretical, Metaphysical, Metempsychosis,
Multitudinous, Arithmetician, Metaphysician, Hyperbolical.

13. Apotheosis, Indefeasible, Feasibility, Supersaturated, Prolongation,
Meridional, Ferruginous, Fastidiousness.

14. Haberdashery, Fuliginous, Exhalation, Prematurely, Depreciation,
Appreciability, Resuscitate, Surreptitious, Interlocutory.

15. Sometimes the letters _a e_, and _o e_, are printed together, like
one letter, as in the words Caesar, Coelebs, and then the syllable is
pronounced as if it were spelled with _e_ alone, as in the following
words:

16. Diaeresis, Aphaeresis, OEcumenical, AEthiop, Subpoena,
Encyclopaedia, Phoenix, Phoebus, AEolus.

17. When there are two little dots over one of the letters, they are
both to be sounded, as in the word Aerial, which is pronounced
a-e-ri-al.

18. The letter _c_ is one which puzzles many young persons who are
learning to read, because it is sometimes pronounced like _k_, as in the
word _can_, and sometimes like _s_, as in the word _cent_; and they do
not know when to pronounce it like _k_, and when to sound it like _s_.

19. But if you will recollect that _c_ is sounded like _k_ when it
stands before the letters _a_, _o_, or _u_, and that it is sounded like
_s_ before the letters _e_, _i_, and _y_, you will have very little
trouble in reading words that have the letter _c_ in them.

20. So also the letter _g_ has two sounds, called the hard sound, and
the soft sound. The hard sound is the sound given to it in the word
_gone_; the soft sound is that which is