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all others that the American Republic requires is understanding what is being said without too much of a struggle on the part of the listener. I submit the following examples:

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled prickled peppers,
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled prickled peppers,
Where is the peck of pickled prickled peppers that Peter
Piper picked?

Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats,
Brown rats, black rats, gray rats, tawny rats,
Grave old plodders, gay young friskers,

Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins,
Pointing tails and prickling whiskers,
Families by tens and dozens,
Brothers, sisters, husbands, wives-
Followed the Piper for their lives.

Dividing and gliding and sliding,
And falling and brawling and sprawling,
And driving and riving and striving,
And sprinkling and twinkling and wrinkling,
And sounding and bounding and rounding,
And bubbling and troubling and doubling,
And grumbling and rumbling and tumbling,
And clattering and battering and shattering;

Browning.

Browning.

Retreating and beating and meeting and sheeting,
Delaying and straying and playing and spraying,
Advancing and prancing and glancing and dancing,
Recoiling, turmoiling, and toiling and boiling,

And gleaming and streaming and steaming and beaming,
And flapping and rapping and clapping and slapping,
And curling and whirling and purling and twirling,
And thumping and pumping and bumping and jumping,
And dashing and flashing and splashing and clashing.

Southey.

Theophilus Thistle, the thistle sifter, thoroughly sifted a siftful of thistles:

A siftful of thistles Theophilus Thistle, the thistle sifter, thoroughly sifted.

If Theophilus Thistle, the thistle sifter, thoroughly sifted a siftful of thistles,

Where is the siftful of thistles Theophilus Thistle, the thistle sifter, sifted?

What noise annoys a noisy oyster? A noisy noise annoys a noisy oyster.

Fresh fried fish freely flavored frizzling finely.

Susan shineth shoes and socks, socks and shoes shineth Susan:

She ceaseth shining shoes and socks, for socks and shoes shock Susan.

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Three gray geese in a green field grazing. Gray were the geese and green was the grazing.

The sea ceaseth and it sufficeth us.

She sells sea shells, sells she.

She stood in an arbor welcoming him in.

All he holds are old whole hold-alls.

A big black bootblack blacked Bertie Black's black boots with black-backed brush and blue black blacking.

The unceremoniousness of their communicability is wholly inexplicable.

Most hypocritically he managed his part in the counterrevolutionary movement.

Authoritatively and peremptorily he forbade all communication.

Such extraordinary untractableness manifested anything but disinterestedness.

The blind man bewailed the blast.

Who can say crackers, crime, cruelty, crucible?

I think it is my duty to do my duty, when it is my duty to do my duty.

Her rough and rugged rocks, that rear their hoary heads high in the air.

I never saw such a saw as this saw, saw six sleek slim saplings.

We wistfully watched wrathful waters wildly play.

Lamely limped the lonely lion along the lane.

I say that that, that that man said, is not that, that that man told him.

When a twister twisting would twist him a twist,
For twisting a twist three twists he will twist;
But if one of the twists untwists from the twist,
The twist untwisting untwists the twist.

Robert Rowley rolled a round roll round;

A round roll Robert Rowley rolled round, round;
Where rolled the round roll, Robert Rowley rolled?

VI. Emphasis

Emphasis is the body or the mechanical part of interpretation, where the speaker wishes to make a certain

word or idea stand out clearly in the minds of his auditors, and is often accomplished at the expense of all speech form.

REPLY TO HAYNE

Daniel Webster.

I have not allowed myself, Sir, to look beyond the Union to see what might lie hidden in the dark recess behind. I have not coolly weighed the chances of preserving liberty when the bonds that unite us together shall be broken asunder. I have not accustomed myself to hang over the precipice of disunion, to see whether, with my short sight, I can fathom the depth of the abyss below; nor could I regard him as a safe counsellor in the affairs of this government, whose thoughts should be mainly bent on considering, not how the Union may be best preserved, but how tolerable might be the condition of the people when it should be broken up and destroyed. While the Union lasts, we have high, exciting, gratifying prospects spread out before us, for us and our children. Beyond that I seek not to penetrate the veil. God grant that, in my day at least, that curtain may not rise! God grant that on my vision never may be opened what lies behind! When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original lustre, not a stripe erased or polluted, nor a single star obscured, bearing for its motto no such miserable interrogatory as "What is all this worth?" nor those other words of delusion and folly, "Liberty first and Union afterwards;" but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every

true American heart-Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!

VII. Accentuation

We read in many books, page after page, chapter after chapter, upon the subject of Accentuation, but get little or no light. While it is a sort of will-of-the-wisp subject and was first treated nearly a century ago, it is, nevertheless, a positive step, worthy of profound respect and due consideration, from the teacher or student wishing to teach or interpret Literature. This step is very closely allied to the step named colorization in the Grammar of the Spoken Word; and as colorization is the soul-revealing step and has to do with giving the Symbol Life, this step deals primarily with each idea and serves to create a background for word-painting.

In order to master this step, it is positively necessary for the speaker to become conscious of the whole situation, and through his appreciation of, and living into this situation, he will be enabled to reflect the actual, which, in some degree, may seem ideal.

A BALLAD

Sidney Lanier.

Into the woods my Master went,
Clean forspent, forspent.
Into the woods my Master came,
Forspent with love and shame.

But the olives they were not blind to him,
The little gray leaves were kind to him;
The thorn-tree had a mind to him

When into the woods he came.

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