Do you think that such a _framework_ helps a writer to tell his story? Do
you not think that each sub-topic must suggest some thoughts that the
general topic alone would not suggest? If you keep clearly before you the
sub-topic of your paragraph, what effect do you think it will have on the
thoughts and the sentences of that paragraph? With a good framework clearly
before you, must not your story move along in an orderly way from a
beginning to an end? Have you ever heard stories badly told? If so, what
were the faults?


ORIGINAL COMPOSITION.

Have you not had some experience that you can work up into a good story? If
you have, tell the story upon paper, making use of the instruction we have
given you in our talk above.

+To the Teacher+.--Perhaps a reproduction of the story above may be
profitable.


EXERCISES ON THE COMPOSITION OF THE SENTENCE AND THE PARAGRAPH.

SELECTION FROM GEORGE ELIOT.

And this is Dovecote Mill. I must stand a minute or two here on the bridge
and look at it, though the clouds are threatening and it is far on in the
afternoon. Even in this leafless time of departing February, it is pleasant
to look at it. Perhaps the chill, damp season adds a charm to the
trimly-kept building, as old as the elms and chestnuts that shelter it from
the northern blast.