The Description of an Occasion or Assemblage

—MoTivE V.

The unity of the following description is secured by the use of a fundamental quality :

MODEL

On a bright October day, when the air is full of golden sunshine, there is nothing quite so exhilarating as going nutting I like to see a crowd of boys swarm over a chestnut-grove ; they leave a• desert behind them like the seventeen-years locusts. To climb a tree and shake it, to club it, to strip it of its fruit and pass to the next, is the sport of a brief time. I have seen a legion of boys scamper over our grass-plot under the chestnut-trees, each one as active as if he were a new patent picking-machine, sweeping the ground clean of nuts, and disappear over the hill before I could go to the door and speak to them about it. Indeed, I have noticed that boys don't care much for conversation with the owners of fruit-tree. They could speedily make their fortunes if they would work as rapidly in cotton- fields.

ANALYSIS OF THE MODEL

I. The paragrafth structure is the same as in Descriyzim¬motive 1. Prove this statement.

2.	The materials used are : The actions, or feelings (given briefly), • of several persons. What is the fundamental quality? Do the details selected enforce this quality ? 3.	The devices used in the handling of the material : Find two similes.