Excerpt from Winning Declamations and How to Speak Them: Part I for Intermediate and Grammar Grades; Part II Schools and Colleges This book contains declamations, from three to five minutes in length, which the editor, as a teacher of public speaking, has been collecting and testing for a number of years. Practically every selection in this volume has been tried out in class work and in public contests hence the major title of Win ning Declamations. Although some old favorites are included, a large proportion of the prose selec tions, and several of the poems, have never before appeared in a work of this character. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.