25. After I had discovered the various kinds of fruit which grew on the
other side of the island, especially the grapes which I dried for
raisins, my meals were as follows: I ate a bunch of raisins for my
breakfast; for dinner a piece of goat's flesh or of turtle broiled;
and two or three turtle's eggs for supper. As yet I had nothing in
which I could boil or stew anything. When my grain was grown I had
nothing with which to mow or reap it, nothing with which to
thresh it or separate it from the chaff, no mill to grind it,
no sieve to clean it, no yeast or salt to make it into bread,
and no oven in which to bake it. I did not even have a water-pail.
Yet all these things I did without. In time I contrived earthen
vessels which were very useful, though rather rough and coarse;
and I built a hearth which I made to answer for an oven.
Questions and Notes. What is peculiar about _body?_ What sound has
_ch_ in _ached?_ Note that there are to _i_'s in _medicine_. What is
peculiar about _house?_ What other word pronounced like _weak?_ Use it
in a sentence. What is the plural of _leaf?_ What are all the
differences between _does_ and _dose?_ Why is _week_ in the phrase
"In the course of a week or two" spelled with double _e_ instead of
_ea?_ What is irregular about the word _muscles?_ Is _c_ soft before
_l_? Is it silent in _muscles?_ What three different sounds may _ui_
have? Besides _fruit,_ what other words with _ui_? What sound has _ea_
in _breakfast?_ What two pronunciations has the word _mow?_
What difference in meaning? What sound has _e_ in _thresh?_
How do you remember the _a_ in _separate?_ What sound has _ie_ in
_sieve?_ Do you know any other word in which _ie_ has this sound?
What other sound does it often have? Does _ea_ have the same
sound in _earthen_ and _hearth?_ Is _w_ sounded in _answer?_
What sound has _o_ in _oven?_ Use the following words in sentences:
_week, pole, fruit, pane, weak, course, bred, pail, ruff_.
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