Salt Lake Herald | 1897-12-12 | Page 6 | A Spelling Contest

A Spelling Contest I Louisville CourierJournal I you can spell every word correctly in the following I follow-ing rhymes all legitimate expressions you may consider yourself qualified to enter en-ter a spelling bee Stand up ye spellers now and spell Spell phenakistoscope and knell ei Or take some simple word as chilly I Or gauger or the garden lily To spell such words as syllogism I And lachrymose and synchronism I And Pentateuch and saccharine Apocrypha and celadine I Jepnino and homoeopathy Paralysis and chloroform Metempsychosis gherkins basque Is certainly no easy task Kaleidoscope and Tennessee Kamschatka and erysipelas If And etiquette and sassafras Jrtpjy Infallible and ptvallsm y Allonathy and rheumatism C Alopathy rheumatsm And cataclysm and beleaguer Twelfth eighteenth rendezvous intriguer in-triguer I Ant hosts of other words all found On English and on classic ground Thus Behring Straits and Michaelmas Thermopylae jalap Havana Cinquefoll and Ipecacuanha And Rappahannock Shenandoah And Schuylkill and a thousand more Are words some prime good spellers miss In dictionary lands like this Nor need one think himself a scroyla Ifsome of these his efforts foil Nor deem himself undone forever To miss the name of cither riVer The Dnieper Seine or Guadalqulvir