Rule 2. In repeating the different tenses of verbs, be careful to be provided with a short English verse, contrived so as to rhyme with the third person singular, and another to rhyme with the third person plural. In this way your powers of composition as well as of memory will be profitably exercised.
| Example. Second Conjugation. Moneo. | |
| Sing. | Moneo, mones, monet, Reid & Co.’s heavy wet. |
| Plu. | Monemus, monetis, monent, Beats that from the firmament. |
| Third Conjugation. Rego. | |
| Sing. | Rego, regis, regit, A statesman for office unfit. |
| Plu. | Regimus, regitis, regunt, Is much like a bear in a punt. |
Rule 3. Should you be desired to give the English of each person in the tense which you are repeating, you may (we mean a class of you), follow a plan adopted with great success and striking effect in that kind of dramatic representation entitled “A Grand Opera,” that of singing what you have to say. Hold up your head, turn out your toes, clear your voices, and begin. A-hem!
GOING THROUGH THE VERBS.
AUDIO—I HEAR.
| Fourth Conjugation. Audio. | ||
| Trio. | ||
| Sing. | Audio, Audis, Audit, | I hear the Tartar drum! Thou hearest the Tartar drum! He hears the Tartar drum!—the Tartar drum! the Tartardrum! |
| Chorus. | He hears! He hears! | |
| He h - - e - - - a - - rs the Tar - tar drum! | ||
| Plu. | Audimus, We hear the Tartar drum, &c. | |
Verbs Irregular—
Are regular bores. The above Rules are equally applicable to them, and also to the