26. His friends at home, [hadn’t put him into tails] having regard, I suppose, to his age, and not to his size and place in the school, [hadn’t put him into tails]; and [even] his jackets were always too small [even]; and he had a talent for destroying clothes, and making himself look [shabbily, shabby].
Oral Review-Exercise.—Correct the following sentences, after naming each fault.
1. Belonging to the modern realistic school of novelists, his address was an able defence of their tenets.
2. It is not probable that the scholars will yet give him a very lofty place, and they will be disinclined to call his books literature, but the division of sentiment as to their exact standing will not detract from the brilliancy of the future they promise.
3. “Here you are, a great, hulking fellow, endowed by providence with magnificent strength, instead of which you go about stealing nuts.”
4. Cæsar and all his legions was encamped around the city, and the barbarians knew well enough it was them they had to fight, them the soldiers of the Roman god-like man.
5. “It wasn’t us! it wasn’t us! We wasn’t there, we warnt.”
6. Neither of the adventurers, Olson and Lefevre, saw their native land again.
7. He sat the cage down; and the bird cried, between each mouthful, “Polly wants a cracker.”