5. Letter to a country church, offering to repeat for them an entertainment which has been successful in your own church or school
_Note._--Make the letters above complete in all details, as to distance from the city or country, cost of transportation, etc.; and in the answer give full terms and conditions.
6. Letter to a livery stable, asking their price for a sleigh ride for a party of twelve.
7. Letter to the owner of an athletic field, asking his price for the use of the field every Tuesday afternoon during April and May.
8. Letter to a firm of dealers in athletic goods, asking for a reduced rate for an outfit for basket-ball, baseball, etc., and giving reasons why you think you should have a reduction.
9. To a piano manufacturer, asking lowest prices for a piano for the school and easiest methods of payment, installments, etc. Explain that the pupils are attempting to raise the money by entertainments.
10. To a bank, inclosing check and asking them to deposit it to your brother's credit, and to send acknowledgment to his address.
=Exercise 84.=--Write the following: 1. To a carpenter, asking price of shelf for your class room. Give all necessary information about length, width, etc.
2. To a dressmaker, asking price for making a dress. Give all particulars.
3. To a department store, asking to open an account. Give references.
4. To the Gas Company, saying that you are about to leave town for a month and wish the gas turned off the house during that time.
5. To a theater, asking what reduction will be made if a number of pupils from your school buy tickets together.
6. To a railroad, asking what reduction in price will be made for a school excursion.
7. To a grocer, milkman, butcher, making arrangements for daily delivery of goods at your house.
8. To a caterer, asking prices for a large reception.
9. To the leader of a musical organization, asking his prices for playing at a school entertainment.
10. To a person who is to speak at your school, stating exactly what the occasion is, who will form his audience, how long he is expected to speak, etc.
=51. Notices.=--In olden times, when any one wished to announce a meeting or give some information of common interest, he hired the town crier. This was a man who went about the town with a horn or bell, attracting as many people as possible to him, and then crying out in a loud voice the news he had to tell. The notice you put up on the blackboard in your class room, the slip of paper you post on the walls of your schoolhouse, to announce an entertainment, an examination, or a meeting of one of your clubs, is the modern town crier. The notices which you see in the newspapers, telling people the time and date of a public meeting, or announcing church services, also take the place of a town crier. There is this difference. If the crier forgot to tell the people listening to him any important detail of his news, they could at once call out and ask him; but if a notice is incomplete, there is no way for the people interested to get the information needed.