What sound has _o_ in _iron_? Is _d_ silent in _edges_?
What sound has _ai_ in _pairs_? What other word pronounced like this?
How do you spell the fruit pronounced like _pair_? How do you spell the
word for the act of taking the skin off any fruit? What sound has _u_ in
_business?_ In what other word has it the same sound? Mention another
word in which _ch_ has the same sound that it has in _schemes_. What other
word in the above has _ai_ with the same sound that it has in _chairs_?
VIII.
16. I now proceeded to choose a healthy, convenient, and pleasant spot
for my home. I had chiefly to consider three things: First, air;
second, shelter from the heat; third, safety from wild creatures,
whether men or beasts; fourth, a view of the sea, that if God sent any
ship in sight I might not lose any chance of deliverance. In the course
of my search I found a little plain on the side of a rising hill, with
a hollow like the entrance to a cave. Here I resolved to pitch my tent.
(He afterward found a broad, grassy prairie on the other side of the
island, where he wished he had made his home. On the slope above grew
grapes, lemons, citrons, melons, and other kinds of fruit.
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