Attendant is made up of two parts—the stem, attend, and the ending, ant (meaning one who).
The meaning of the word attendant is one who attends.
Make out an analysis of the last two lessons, and use it in telling the story in your own words.
LESSON XXXV.
pre sume', suppose; think without being sure.
mus'cles, those parts of the body which give us motion, and by which we exert our strength.
ex tent', space; distance.
or'di na ry, common; usual.
knowl'edge, that which is known through study.
de gree', measure, as of space or time.
spent, used up; exhausted.
snapped, broken off.
de tached', taken away from.
WHY AN APPLE FALLS.
"Father," said Lucy, "I have been reading to-day that Sir Isaac Newton was led to make a great discovery, by seeing an apple fall from a tree. What was there wonderful about the apple falling?"
"Nothing very wonderful in that," replied her father; "but it set him to thinking of what made it fall."
"Why, I could have told him that," said Lucy; "because the stem snapped and there was nothing to support it."