ught star-beams, fallen sheer
In the night, and woven here
In jewel-fretted tapestries.

4. Sound distinctly the ending _ing_ in: Languishing, blackening,
threatening, rushing, ascending, flashing, throbbing.

Roughening their crests and scattering high their spray,
And swelling the white sail.

Blazing with light and breathing with perfume.

. . . . a revolting shape
Shivering and chattering sat the wretched ape.
Lakelets' lisping wavelets lapping,
Round a flock of wild ducks napping,
And the rapturous-noted wooings,
And the molten-throated cooings
Of the amorous multitudes
Flashing through the dusky woods,
When a veering wind hath blown
A glare of sudden daylight down.

5. Sound final _d_ in "and":

Rest and a guide, and food and fire.

Away from the world, and its toils and its cares.

And the sun went down and the stars came out.

Peace, and order, and beauty draw
Round thy symbol of light and law.

East and west, and south and north
The messengers ride fast,
And tower, and town, and cottage,
Have heard the trumpet's blast.

Blood and fire on the streaming decks,
And fire and blood below;
The heat of hell, and the reek of hell,
And the dead men laid a-row!

6. Articulate distinctly words in which the same or similar sounds
immediately succeed each other:

Spanish ships of war at sea.

At Flores, in the Azores, Sir Richard Grenville lay.

Come Roderick Dhu,
And of his clan the boldest two.

Saint Fanny, my patroness sweet I declare.

Cast off earth's sorrows and know what I know,

When into the glad deep woods I go.

The silver vessels sparkle clean.

From the sails the dew did drip.

The sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

Thousands of their seamen looked down from their decks and laughed.

7. Sound the letter _h_ in what, while, where, when, which, whether,
white, whiten, whine, whist, etc.

8. Avoid the sound of _u_ in:

for, from, was, because, when, what, etc.

for coalescent _e_ in:
her, earn, verse, mercy, verge, serge, prefer, ermine, etc.

for _[)e]_ in:
enemy, events, poem, etc.

for _[)i]_ in:
spirit, family, credible, visible, charity, unity, sanity,
humanity, ruin, promise, divide, divisible, dissolve, languid,
negative, similar, abominable, imitate, inimitable,
purity, native, etc.

for _i_ (coalescent) in:
sir