Egypt
long the granary of the world. Three crops from December to June.
Productions--grain, cotton, and indigo.
Direction.---_Weave these facts into four paragraphs, writing the margin of
each the main thought_:--
The robin is thought by some to be migratory. But he stays with us all
winter. Cheerful. Noisy. Poor soloist. A spice of vulgarity in him. Dash of
prose in his song. Appetite extraordinary. Eats his own weight in a short
time. Taste for fruit. Eats with a relishing gulp, like Dr. Johnson's. Fond
of cherries. Earliest mess of peas. Mulberries. Lion's share of the
raspberries. Angleworms his delight. A few years ago I had a grapevine. A
foreigner. Shy of bearing. This summer bore a score of bunches. They
secreted sugar from the sunbeams. One morning, went to pick them. The
robins beforehand with me. Bustled out from the leaves. Made shrill,
unhandsome remarks about me. Had sacked the vine. Remnant of a single
bunch. How it looked at the bottom of my basket! A humming-bird's egg in an
eagle's nest. Laughed. Robins joined in the merriment.
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LESSON 158.
PARAGRAPHS AND THE THEME.
+Direction+.--_Weave these facts into four paragraphs_:--
Note that the several paragraphs form a composition, or +Theme+, the
general subject of which is WOUTER VAN TWILLER (according to Diedrich
Knickerbocker).
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