It begins "Old Uncle Pillick he built him a boat On the ba-a-ck side of Nantucket P'int; He rolled up his trowsers and set her afloat From the ba-a-ck side of Nantucket P'int.

It begins "Old Uncle Pillick he built him a boat On the ba-a-ck side of Nantucket P'int; He rolled up his trowsers and set her afloat From the ba-a-ck side of Nantucket P'int.

"Al-ay-ck-sagreat country

C-ck-d-dl-d! CHANTECLER [Trying to get away.]

"Fizzcrackc-r-r-r-a-a-c-k, cr-k-crk-ck!"

Lady Ck reproached him as 'the late Mr. Kemble;' and then, looking significantly at me, told him who I was.

To the amusement of all, and to my increased consternation, he drew forth a volume of the "Wild Irish Girl," (which he had brought to return to Lady Ck) and, reading, with his deep, emphatic voice, one of the most high-flown of its passages, he paused, and patting the page with his forefinger, with the look of Hamlet addressing Polonius, he said, "Little girl, why did you write such nonsense?

FOOTNOTES: [Footnote CK: The New York Herald is edited by two renegade British subjects, one of whom was, I am told, formerly a writer in a scurrilous publication in this country.]

This being clearly excessive, let us next see what will occur if the lever arm, CH, be reduced as in the diagram to CK.

The real eccentricity is now reduced in the proportion of OK to OH, while the lengths of the cut-off valves, and what is equally important, their travel over the back of the main valve, are reduced in the proportion of CK to CH, in this instance nearly one-half; a gain quite sufficient to warrant the adoption of the expedient.

"B-a-ck ye-r t-to-p-sails, will ye?"

RULE V.FINAL CK.

Monosyllables and English verbs end not with c, but take ck for double c; as, rack, wreck, rock, attack: but, in general, words derived from the learned languages need not the k, and common use discards it; as, Italic, maniac, music, public.

In respect to the final ck and our, he also intentionally departs from THE STANDARD which he thus commends; preferring, in that, the authority of Walker's Rhyming Dictionary, from which he borrowed his rules for spelling.

But it is proper to inform him, that we have in our language eighty-six monosyllables which end with ck, and from them about fifty compounds or derivatives, which of course keep the same termination.

UNDER RULE V.OF FINAL CK.

[FORMULE.Not proper, because the word "critick" is here spelled with a final k. But, according to Rule 5th, "Monosyllables and English verbs end not with c, but take ck for double c; as, rack, wreck, rock, attack:

RULE V.FINAL CK.

In hough, lough, shough, it sounds like k, or ck; thus, hock, lock, shock.

In stead of doubling c final, we write ck; as in lack, lock, luck, attack.

Ck, final, for double c Cadence, explained faulty, precept against, by RIPP.

Figures, Arabic, in what cases pointed by some Final f, l, or s, in spelling; other finals than, in do. ck or c, use of ll, to what confined e of a primitive, when omitted; when retained y of a prim. word before a terminat., how managed ise or ize, which termination to be taken Finals, what letters may assume the position of; what may not, and why Finite verbs, agreem.

Again, and again, the sound of the flute would be interrupted, and a gurgling cry of "qu-a-a-ck" be heard.

ck Litchfield.

" "Qua-a-ck, quack, quack," the young Negro mocked, and passed on grinning.