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RATIONAL METHOD IN READING
AN ORIGINAL PRESENTATION OF SIGHT AND SOUND WORK
THAT LEADS RAPIDLY TO INDEPENDENT AND
INTELLIGENT READING

BY

EDWARD G. WARD
SUPERINTENDENT OF PuBLic InstRuUCTION, BROOKLYN, N.Y.

ASSISTED IN THE PREPARATION OF THE LESSONS BY

MRS. ELLEN E. KENYON-WARNER

First Reader
(SECOND HALF-YEAR’S WORK)

Part J]. SIGHT AND PHONETIC READING. LARGELY REVIEW EXERCISES

ParT II. SIGHT AND PHONETIC READING. ADVANCE WORK

SILVER, BURDETT & COMPANY

New York BOSTON Cuxicaao
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““UIRATIONAL METHOD IN READING.

PRIMER.
Material: Conversations.
Part I,—Reading by the Word Method.
First Part II. —Sight and Phonetic Reading Combined.
FIRST READER.
Material: Conversations and Stories.
Part I.—Sight and Phonetic Reading. Largely Review
Exercises.
Part II. —Sight and Phonetic Reading. Advance Work.

SECOND READER.
Material: Stories and Poetry. Literary and Ethical.
‘Part J.—Sight and Phonetic Reading. Advance Work.
Part II]. —Sight and Phonetic Reading. The Remaining
Phonograms. Reading with All the Phono-
Second grams.
Year. THIRD READER.
Material: Stories, Poetry, ete., from History, Folk Lore, and
Standard Fiction. Literary and Ethical.
Sight and Phonetic Reading. Diacritical
Marks omitted from the easier and more
familiar Phonetic Words.

MANUAL OF INSTRUCTION FOR TEACHERS.

PHONETIC CARDS —
First Set. To Accompany the Primer.
Szeconp Set. To Accompany the First Reader.
Tuirp Set. To Accompany the Second Reader.

Other volumes forthcoming.

Corrmienrt, 1894, 1896, sy Sitver, Burperr & CoMPANY.

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PREFACE.
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TuHE special purpose of the Primer and the first two Readers in this series
is to put the child, within a year and a half from his entrance into school,
into possession of a complete key to English Reading; so that, should his
schooling then cease, his ability to read would nevertheless “grow with his
growth and strengthen with his strength.”
The method here introduced is a combination of the word (or sentence)
method and the phonetic method. It differs in many essential respects from
any before presented, the differences being based upon principles not hitherto
clearly understood, or, at any rate, not properly recognized.
The books provide material for part of the work, and indicate, therefore,
but part of the method. The rest, both work and method, must be sought
in the Manual, without a careful perusal of which no one should attempt to
use the books. The study of the Manual, though so important a matter, will
not be found difficult, since the directions are comparatively few, are logically
grouped, and are clearly and simply expressed.
Those who would have success in the use of the books should follow
these directions implicitly during the first year. They will then know the
method, and understand the underlying principles, well enough to be safe in
making such deviations from the beaten track as may seem to them good.
The method embodied in the series is an outgrowth of the author’s study,
observation, and experimentation in the public schools of Brooklyn; the lessons
are mainly the work of Mrs. Ellen EH. Kenyon-Warner, whose rare skill and
patience, no less than her practical acquaintance with class-room work, have
rendered her an invaluable assistant.
The publishers have beautified each book by the insertion of two repro-
ductions of famous paintings and two colored story-pictures. These should
be used as material for language lessons.
AveustT, 1896.
WESITULE.¢ 10 THE TEACHER.

Ir is absolutely useless to put children into this book unless

1. They know all the sight-words and phonograms presented in the
Primer, — and
2. Are skillful enough in “the blend” to determine readily any word
made up of not more than three or four of said phonograms.

If, therefore, your pupils have been imperfectly prepared for this book in
the grade below, —or, if having been well prepared, they have had a long
vacation between that grade and yours, —your first care must be to review
and perfect the work of that grade, whatever time it may require.
If they have not been prepared at all, i.e. have not been taught by the
Rational Method, you must, of course, prepare them ab initio. No matter
what their grade may be, the best of all ways to do this is to put them
through the Primer in strict accordance with the directions given in the
Manual for the first half-year’s work, except that instead of beginning with
the blackboard and learning all the words in Part I. in advance, they should
begin with the book itself, and learn the new words as they become necessary.

At the beginning of a term, though the scholars from the grade below
come to you well prepared, you will probably receive a number of new scholars
who know nothing of this method. Meet the difficulty involved in this
circumstance, thus : —
During the first month of the term, teach the new scholars, by means of
special drills, all the words and phonograms found in the following (Primer)
lists. Let them also, of course, participate in the regular reading of the
class, but do not expect their reading during this month to be good. From
the beginning of the second month, the class should be able to work as a unit,

THE Primer VocABULARY.

Words.
A, again, ail, all, am, an, and, any, apple, are, arm, as, at, ate,— be, bird,
boy, bread, but, by, — can, come, corn, could, cow, —day, did, do, does, dog,
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down, drink, —each, eat, egg, end, ever,—for, Frank, from, fruit, full,—
get, girl, give, go, goes, good, grass, — hand, has, have, he, heard, her, here,
him, his, home, horse, how, —I, if, ill, in, is, it, —Jack, — kind, — let, like,
look, —make, me, milk, Mr., much, —no, not, now, — of, old, on, one, other,
out, over, — picture, play, put, — said, saw, see, seed, she, some, stay,— take,
tell, than, that, the, them, there, they, thing, think, this, to, too,— up, us, —
want, was, water, way, we, well, were, wet, what, where, which, who, will,
wing, with, work, — yes, you.
Phonograms.
—k, —1,—
a, —e, ck, cr, cl, —é, er, ers, —f, —1, ight, ights, ing, ings,
m,—n,—6, 6, —p, pl, pr, —r, —8, $, —t, tr, —J.
(These phonograms should be taught or reviewed in the order in which
they are presented in the Manual, and not in the alphabetical or reference
order in which they are given above.)
Never have any lesson read by your scholars until you have specially
prepared them for it in accordance with the following directions : —
1. Select from the lesson all the phonetic (marked) words that contain
more than three phonograms each, and about a dozen of the shorter phonetic
words. 2. Write or print these words on the blackboard, marked as in
the book, and have them read by the scholars a number of times. Your
experience will soon teach you how much repetition is necessary. 3. In the
main, give the harder words to the bright scholars and the easier ones to the
dull scholars. If you would not have the dull remain dull, give them plenty
of work (always easy) to do.
This exercise will constitute at once a preparation for the lesson and the
“)blend-drill ” for the day.

A day or two before reaching a lesson that introduces a new phonogram,

teach said new phonogram, and practice your scholars in its use by having
them read (from the blackboard) a number of words taken from the Manual
list over which said phonogram appears. Do not teach any new phonogram
more than a day or two in advance of the lesson in which it is first presented.
Finally,— Do not attempt the use of this or any other book of this series
until you have thoroughly digested the instructions given in the Manual,
pp. 5-15.
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 FIRST READER.

SIGHT AND PHONETIC READING COMBINED.

PART I.

LESSON 1.

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To THE TeacuER. — See paragraphs 2 and 3 on page 13 of the Manual ; also Phonetic
List No. 10.

Now, boys and girls, attend to me. €&ps Off, boys.

yds this way. What have I in my hand, Kate?
Yes, it is an Aster. What kind of lédf has it? Is it
a narfow leaf? Tell me, Mack?
What is that you say? It is not an aster? And has
no lédf at all? Stand in the corner. You are not
a good boy.
Sit up, An#. This is no tim¢ fora nap. What were
‘you thinking of?
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8 FIRST READER.

No, Sam, Kate did not slip you. I saw and heard
it all. You were out of your seat. You are not a good
boy. Give me your hand. How many raps do you
want? That will do for this tim¢. Now go to your
seat and be good.
May, you were not here yesterday. Where were you?
And you are off¢n late. What is the rédsén of that?
 FIRST READER. 9

That will not do for an answer. You do not det

right. Standup. Now to¢ that crack. Stay there till
I tell you to go.
What have you in your lap, Ann? Give it to me.
You must not play here. You must doas I say. Iam
your teacher.
Now, boys and girls, take out your slates. We will
play it is raining. Lay the slates down. Put your
hands over them, sd. Now tap on them with your nails.
Yes, May, I see your hand up. I know what you
want to say. You heard it rajning. But
it was play rain. It will not wet you. You
cannot go out in it. So put your hand
down, pléds¢. And take off that wrap.
You must not ké¢p it on in here. If you
do, you will take eold.
Ot{s has a eat on his slate. I did not tell him to
make that. He must stand in this corner.
Now, littl¢ Nan, tell me this. Where did the rajn
come from? Where was it befor¢é we heard it falling?
Yes, it was in the sky. That is a good ansvwer.
Who can tell me where tallow comes from?
No, not from eandl¢és. We make eandl¢s of tallow.
10 FIRST READER.

But where do we get the tallow? That is right, Otto.

We get some of it from she¢p. Now you may come out
of the corner.
Mick, be still. Do not make it rain any mor¢. It
is tim¢ for it to stép. The sky is cléar. You are all
good boys and girls. I think I will let you play now.

—o7Q500—_

LESSON 2.

icone wind ee
The cré¢k is full of ice. May I go and skate on it?
No, littlé one. The wind is too eold for you. Jack
Frost is here. He eam¢ in the night. By daylight
there was ice in the water pail. There was ice in the
milk-can, too.
Yes, mother, and there is some here, too. See it on
the windoy »an¢. Shall I clédn it off?
No, Jack. If you do, mor¢ will come. Your nam¢-
sak¢ is at hand. He has come to stay, I fédr.
You mean Jack Frost. Did pédpl¢é nam¢ him for me?
How could they? Jack Frost is older than you.
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I see he is not my nam¢-saké. You did not intend

me to think he was. How does he get here?
He saiis on the wind.

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I think I heard him coming. It was one d’clock at

night. I heard something rattlé the windows. Does
he do that?
No, that was the wind. Jack Frdst ig slyer than
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that. You never hedr him at work. See the ice on

the tréds. He put it there in the night. He eamé¢
with the rain, you see. Slé¢t was falling, too. We
shall have snow by té@ timé.
I shall not like that. It will fall on the ice. I
cannot skate on the snow.
But you can make a snow eiastl¢. There will be
no lick of play. You can make tracks in the snow.
You can pilé it in heaps.
Oli, yes! that will be nice play. I shall eall Mat
to play with me. We were playing in the snow one
day. I saw him fall on his nosé. He did not cry.
He lay still for a tim¢. I said, ‘“ Mat, get up.” He
sald, “Slap me, Jack; slap me well. That will make
me get up.”
I did slip him. He did get up. We saw you at
the window. You eam¢ to eall us in to supper. You
saw what fing play we were having. There were
pan-eak¢s for supper that night. They were good.
I ate fur.
Yes, my boy, I know you like them. And sd does
Mat. I heard him say sd at the tim¢. We shall have
moré some day.
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LESSON 3.

sell new when

When am I to have a new wrap, mother? This

old one is getfing too light for the sédsén. The wind
is eold to-day. There is ice on the lak¢, too.
I shall get you one to-morfow. We will go down
to Mr. Knapp’s storé for it. |
Does Mr. Knipp sell wraps? I knew he sold nice
things to eat. But wraps are not to eat.
You have not seen his new stor¢é. He still ké¢ps
things to eat. But he now sells eaips and wraps, too.
Some of them he puts in the window. We will look
at the eap¢s and cloaks.
Does he sell mitts and sdcks?
Yes, I shall get mits for you and Kate. I shall get
Jack some new socks, too.
How many new things we must have! When are
you going to get them all?
When I get the wrap for you. I shall get them
all at one timé¢.
Will you go if it is eold?
14 FIRST READER.

Not if there is much wind. Is there much ice on

the lak¢?
Well, one could not skate on it. But there will
be mor¢é to-mérfow. The wind is getting eolder. It
is not a nice day.
In that eas¢, I shall not go out to-day. We will get
the new wrap to-morfow.

—079400-——

LESSON 4.

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To THE TracueER.— See paragraphs 2 and 8 on page 18 of the Manual; also Phonetic
List No. 11.

Milés Nich¢gls was a littlé boy. He could skip the

rop¢ like a girl. I never saw him trip. And he could
skate, but not along. He could do many edmic things,
too. His tricks would 6ffén make me smil¢.
Did you ever see him slip on the ice?
No; I saw him trying to skate one day. When
he saw me, he said, “Ok, Nick! Come and take mj
hand. That will ke¢p me from falling.”
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“Ok, yes!” I said; “but what will you

give me if I do? Will you sell me
your new skates?”
He put out his lip as if to cry.
“Ol, no!” he said, “I could
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not do without them.”

‘Well, here is my hand,” I
said. ‘I will teach you with-
out pay.”

Mother, what is a
me ehanic?
One who works
with his hands.
j, Mr. Morfow is a meelfianic. He makes
i , and mends locks. So is Mr. Post, the
' / potter. So is Mr. Lam}, the pajnter.
I want to be a meelanic, mother. I
like to work with my hands. I sball”
be a cléck maker when I am a man.
Yes, I shall be a clock maker.
I shall have a stor¢ and sell clocks. I
shall have many. They will all say the
 16 FIRST READER.

sam¢ thing. It will be, tick-tock, tick-tock. Will

you come to my stdr¢, mother? Will you let me sell
you a clock?
Yes, my boy, if you make good clocks. <A clock
must ké¢p good tim¢, you know. If it does not, no
one wants it.
Yes, I Know, mother. My clocks shall all be good.
I will make no other kind.

—079$ 00——_

LESSON 5.

don’t such our

Don’t léan out of the window, Tom. You are not

good when you do that. I do not like such tricks.
You will fall if you do so. Do you want to be a
crippl¢?
' Here is your rice and milk. Eat that, like a good
boy. Don’t you want a slice of bread?
Come, To6m! Come away from the window. There
is too much wind. We don’t want our litflé boy to
de sick. Here! sip your milk and eat some bread.
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fromm adaryis in the attic?

Mo When ever you like. Kat
your rice and milk now. When
= you have eatén it, we will
play. We shall have an hour
~— befdré supper.
Did you put the trip
in the attic?
Yes, the new one.
There may be some
. mice in it. Ol, they are
~ such nice litflé things!
I like to look at them.
Don’t you?
Yes; but they don’t lke you
and me. They féar us too much.
And they don’t like to be in the
trap.
There may not be any in the
trip. If there are, I shall let them out.
Ok, no, don’t do that. Mother will not like it.
They are such sly litfl¢ things! They eat our rice
18 FIRST READER.

and flour and medl. I shall give them to Nick Mo¢r¢. —

He will take them to his teacher. She will let the
boys and girls look at them.

079400

LESSON 6.

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To rue TreacHER. — See paragraphs 2 and 3 on page 13 of the Manual; also Phonetic
List No. 12.

There goes Miss Sanders. How pal¢é she is! What

makes her limp so?
Don’t you Know, Nick? One day there was ice on
the cré¢k. She was trying to cross it when
When what? Did she slip and have a fall?
Yes; and it was such a fall! Mr. Simridns and I
saw it. We ran to the spot. Miss Sanders could
not get up.
How did you get her away?
I could not Assist our friend much. But Mr. Sim-
mons could lift her alon¢. Her sister eam¢ out to
me¢t us. I ran in for some water. |
 FIRST READER. 19

Did she fajnt?

No; but she could not stand. That was four we¢ks
ago. Now she can go out along. But she has to have
a ean¢. Her limls are sd wedk.
—-0594 00o-—_—_

LESSON 7.
To rue Teacuer. — See paragraphs 2 and 3 on page 13 of the Manual.

My namé is Otto. Iam a small boy. Did you her

me coming?
My mother tells me to lift my heéls. I do. Can
you hear them come down?
My sock wants mending. It
is wet, too. I offen get my
fe¢t wet. I Abd

Do you see that réck out ||

there? Do you see the moss | //i4i
on it? That mds¢ is wet. If |(7i
I play there, I wet mf fe¢t. ye eM
What is the matfer with this ~.2%
lock? I'l] mend it, if you like. ~~
Isn’t that a good offer? I know how, if I am small.
Mother tells me I am a litfl¢ man.
20 FIRST READER.

I know how Ros¢ Knits my mitts. She fits them

well. She knits litflé mats, too, for salg. She sits
Knitting all day.
I know how mother lights the firé. She will not let
me do it. She thinks I am too small.
I know how And milks the cows. I can give dAts
to the horse. He eats them all up. He follows me
all over the lot. I must go in now.
Some one is knocking. It is Rollo. I will let him
in. I will offer him this récker.

Now the small boy is ill. He cannot rémp and

play to-day. It is not good to have wet féét.
Take him on your kné¢. Let him léAn on you.
Rock him to sléép. Sléép, Otto, slé¢p; it will do you
good.
Will the litflé man be ill all night?

Opén your ¢yés, Otts. It is not night any moré.

I have put out the light. The littlé man is all well.
Isn’t that good? 7
I will get you some soap and water. There! now
I must get Nat up.
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LESSON 8.
IT am an ap¢. I am somewhat like you.
Do you see my ¢yés and éArgs? Do you see my
arms and hands?
You eat fruit. So do I I like rip¢ apples as
well as you. a aK.
You like to :
play. Sodo I.
See me léap We op
to that rop¢. ©) ) Say
I have good ; a |

mus¢l¢s, I tell Ne. a

you. Do you . Ae

What is 7. sles ? 2
that thing? || #j ii k a
A lamp, did |)77 SS 2s
you say? [| = SSS SS SS =
want to handl¢ it.
Is it a plaything? Will you get it for me? Do
you know what it is for? I do not. What is that
you say? to give light?
22 FIRST READER.

We ap¢s cannot make things like that. We have

hands, but we cannot think much.
Do you not think we are good-looking? We do
not think yow are. Your nos¢ is not flat like min¢.
Your skin is too light. Your hands and arms are too
small. Your form is not fing like ming. No, you are.
not good-looking at all.

Are you there still, Tom?

You see I know your nam¢. You are Tom Lé¢.
You have a dog. He likes to spy out rats.
He is a small dog. You can take him in your
arms. You can pat him with your hand.
You take him all over with you. Sometim¢s you
tir¢é him out. He li¢s down, panting with the heat.
There he is now. I know his namé, too. No, it
is not Pdlt; it is Snap.
Poll is your tam¢ bird. She has wings. She is
not a mocking bird. She does not mdck other birds.
She mocks you and the other boys.
I know mor¢g than you think I do. I see you
looking at me. I can hear what you say.
That is a tin pail on your arm. I know what you
have in it. I can pé¢p into it.
 FIRST READER. 23

Did you fill the pail? You did not tid it up tight.
Look out! You will spill something out of it.
There is some apple pi¢é in it. I spy it and I want
some. Did you péél the apples? Did you put the
pi¢ in the pan?
You have some pork and beans in there. I see
some péds and be¢ts, too.
What kind of meat is that? Is it be¢df? You did
not omit anything, did you?
What is in that littlé can? I think it is téA. Did
you pour it out of the téa-pot? Have you any bread
and butter there?
Do not pok¢é me with that pol¢é. And do not stay
there forever. Tds$ me an apple and go away. Go
and spin your tdp. Do not take the pail with you.
Put it somewhere nédr me. _I like to look at it,
—_o7, 00——

LESSON 9.
Put up your hands, Jack. They are wet, but ming
are wetter. My arms are wet, too. Did you spill
that water on the matting?
No, but I will mop it up.
24 FIRST READER.

Do, beford it has tim¢ to soak in. Did it léak

from this pail?
No, from this one. See, the pail is léAking still.
What ails this mdp? It is as stiff as the handi¢.
It wants wetting. Take it to the spout and wet it.

You look pal¢, Ros¢.

What is the matter?
I have pain in my
arm. I ran this sté¢l
into it. I cannot put
my hand up.
Can you Opén your
hand?
Yes, but it is a litfld
lamé.
Is it the upper arm
that is sor¢é?
No, it is the lower arm. See, it is nédr the hand.
I see you have something wet on it. I suppos¢
mother put it on. It will make your arm well in
tim¢g. If fan you if you like. I'l! fan all the
gnats away.
 FIRST READER. 25

How many there are! Where do they all come

from? Have they wings?
Yes, but they are small wings. nats are like
littl¢ fli¢s.
If they are like fli¢s, they have wings. Go away
from us, litfle gnats. We do not want you nédr us.

It is supper tim¢. Rosé is ringing for the farm

hands. They will come in and eat with us. Here
are seats for them all.
What a pil¢d of plates! Put one on this tray. Put
some corn on it. Now some pork and bedns.
Give it to Nat Moor¢.
Here is a treat for you, Nat. This be¢f is tender.
Take some be¢ts, too. There is bread and butter
beforé you. ‘Try to make a good meél.
Give Nat the milk, Any. Give him all he wants.
This supper is plain but good.
——+07o400—

LESSON 10.

I saw Mr. Mo¢r¢ plant that tred. It is a seedling

Some day it will be a tall tré¢. I saw the seed.
26 FIRST READER.
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Did the tré¢d come from an acorn?

It did. It is an dak tre¢. All dAks come from
acorns and all acorns come from dfks.
Each plant has its seed. There is a seed in that
peach.
Pé¢dl the peach and eat it. Fling the seed down
any where.
It will lid still for a tim¢. Many rajns will fall on
it. By-and-by it will 6pén. What do you think will
come from it?
I will tell you. A litfl¢d peach tré¢d will come up.
Most tré¢s come from seeds.
I saw a peach tré¢ in Mr. Mogr颒s lot. I saw some
small fruit on it. That fruit will ripén later than
yours. The tré¢ is small. I can reach the fruit with
my hand. I never saw fruit lower on a tré¢.
What kind of fruit is it?
Well, well! Do. you not Know? What kind do
you think it is? Do apples come on peach tré¢s?
You did not take mj medning. Is it good fruit?
That is what I want to know.
It is not fit to eat. See! There is a tréd with out
a lédf. It has not a peach on it. It will never have
 FIRST READER. 27

any mor¢. Its lifé is over. Nat must saw it down.

He will saw it up for the firé. That is all it is
good for now.

LESSON 11.

I am a littlé ant. Don’t get in my way, pléds¢!

I have my work to do.
Look at that pil¢é of sand. My mates and I put
it there.
We have no
tim¢é to play
with you. Go
and play with
your lam}. Take
her up in your
arms. I think
her mother will
let you.
Lams don’t have any work to do. They don’t
know as much as we.
I saw May fling some bread down there. I want
to get some of it. My mates and I will take it away.
28 FIRST READER.

We will not eat it all now. Ants now too much for
that. We will lay some away.
We work for what we eat. Each of us does all he
can. We never think of playing. We don’t have
tim¢ for that.
This ant is a frjend of ming. See me spéak to
him. You cannot hear me spédk. I do it with my
fédlers. You never saw pé¢gpl¢é speak that way.
If one ant me¢ts another, he does so. Ants’ ways
are not like yours. They don’t play. They don’t
spéak as you do. They work, work, work, all day.

I am a bed. I am somewhat like the ant. I

work all day. You don’t see how I can, do you?
Well, you are not a be¢, you see.
I do not pout over my work. Do
ae you know any one that does?
2 WIL Z ~ Now, do you want to know what
SS hn I make? Well, think of some thing
*" " swedt, swe¢t, swe¢t. Do you know
what I mean? Yes, I see you do.
For whom do you think I make it? I do not make it
for you. I put it by. You come and take it from me.
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My mates and I never think of play. We work all

the timé¢.
Who, do you think, makes us work? No one makes
us. Be¢s work without making. We like to work.
We sing as we work. Do you not hear me singing
now? |
Well, what do you think we work for? It is to
have something to eat. Not now, but by and by.
Some day the snow will come. Snow is not good
to eat.
Now do you Know what we work for? And who
takes what we make? Who gets the most of it? I
want to Know where it goes.
Don’t go away, litfl¢ girl. Answer me befor¢d you
go. I will not sting you.
Tell me who takes my swe¢ts. Tell me befor¢é you
say good by.

LESSON 12.
To tur TracueEr. — See paragraphs 2 and 3 on page 18 of the Manual.

Did you eall me, mother?

Yes, I did, Stdp your eapers and come here. I
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want you to opén the clams. Clédn all the clay from
them. Go right to work, like a good boy.
How can the clams cloésé up so tight? Does it kill
them to dpén them?
Yes, I think it does.
Where did Mr. Sedtt get them? At the créék?
No, they eam¢ from the coast.
How many we have! This stén¢ créck is full.
Don’t dpén them with that eaiséd knif¢é, Tom. What
a boy you are! Go in and get the clam knif¢.

Mat has eatén his apple. I saw him fling the cord
away. I saw some rip¢ seeds init. I never saw such
rip¢ seeds beford.
We can plant the seeds and have tré¢s. |
Will apple tré¢s come up from them? Will there
be one for each seed? Who will own them? Will
they be ming?
Mat does not want them. That’s good. Now they’ll
be min¢.
Don’t kill the litflé tré¢s, Mat. Let them come up
for me. What is to ké¢ép me from Owning them?
If I do, Pl! be a fruit farmer!
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The tré¢s will come up by and by. Who will have

some of my apples?
Apple skins are not good to eat. And we do not
eat the edr¢s. Such things are good for horses and
COWS.

Otto wants his comb. Now give him his mitts.

Tell him it is eold. He must put on his over edat.
That eap¢ will not do. It is such a litflé eap¢.
Is he going to see Mr. Sedtt? He must not go
nédr the trajn. ane
There is snow on the rails. He must not get his
fé¢t wet.
Don’t tramp over the snoy, Otts. Go by the lak,
if you can. Don’t try to skate on it. Don’t think
of such a thing.
Butfén your eddAt up tight. Take your litfld ean¢
with you. Stop at the stor¢é. Tell the stord-ké¢p er
we want some edoal. Get me some mor¢ edttidn like
this.
Now don’t take all day to go. Be Off, and don’t
stop for anything. You are such a slow boy! The
eold dff¢n kills snails. You didn’t know that, did you?
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LESSON 13.
To tHe TracHEr. — See paragraphs 2 and 3 on page 13 of the Manual.

aie: Y

TA
Clédar the trick! The train is coming!
This is the right spdt. Stdp the tran. Let us
get off. We’rd going to eamp out.
Here we are! (Clap your hands, boys. Fling up
your eaps. Flap your wings and crow.
Here, Snap, let me pat you a litfl¢. That’s a good
dog! Now look over there. Do you see my e&p?
Go and get it for me.
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Here is a fallén tré¢. And here is another. Let’s

put the small one on tdp, sd. There! Now we can
play see-saw.
I see some old slats. We will make a firé with
thein.
This narfow one has a crack in it. Mack will make
some arrows out of it.
Hand me one of the slats, pléds¢. I want to knock
down some pin¢ednés.
There is no lack of rdcks here. See
how flat this one is. Let us eamp on it.
It is as good as any.
Ol, what a ldt of Asters! Where did
you get them, May?
What is the matter with Ann? Has
she lost her wrap?
No, she has the wrap. I do not know what ails her.
Don’t cry, An#. Tell me what ails you. Did that
godt frightén you?
Yes. He wants to play with me. He butts me.
I don’t like that kind of play. It tirds me out.
PléAs¢ make him stdp.
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LESSON 14.

I am.a cow. See me swing my tail. I do sd to

ké¢p the fli¢s off. There are not many to-day. There
is too much wind.
I like to be out in the wind. See it toss the tré¢s.
See that nirfow léaf spin in the wind.
It is too eold for the lambs. It is not too eold
for me. |
I am not a crés$ cow. You must not seold me.
I try to do right. I ké¢p still when Any milks me.
I want to det like a good beast. |
I give good milk. You can see the crédm ris¢ on it.
Ros¢ takes the créAm off the milk. You never saw
such créaAm in your lifé. Some of it is for the edffe¢.
Most of it is for butter.
I want Ang to milk me now. This is my windoy.
I will lay my nos¢ on the window sill When Any
sees me, she will come.
I don’t off¢n look at the sky. I see it now. There
will be moér¢ snoy, I think.
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The wind is eolder than ever. When it is too eold,

I come in. I eamé¢ in here to look for Anm.
I don’t want that
window opén now. Hear
it créak. Do you think
Any will closé it?
Fé¢l how the wind
povirs in! It comes in
apeebiatec Cracks ©t00.. 416
_mdans and mddns in the
' tré¢s.
See the kitf¢n cré¢p in
by the fird. See the
smok¢ go up. See the
wind play with it. Her the crows ealling.
That old horse has a cramp. Her him! He is ill
with the eold, I think. His Jaead is 6p¢én. When
will they come to him?
Come, right away, some of you pédpl¢! Do some-
thing for the old horse. When, when will you come?
Oli, here is Anw! She has the milk pail.
Don’t cry now, old horse. Any will clos¢ your
window. She'll aftend to you right away.
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LESSON “15:

Has any one told you the news? Tom Pratt has
ldst his new edAt. It was taken away from the rack.
It was stdlén in the night.
Tom put it there Friday night. A littlé later it
was not there. Who, do you think, has stdlén it?
Do you know how much the edt edst?
I have known, but I forget. It eam¢ from Mr.
Payne¢’s stord. Mr. Payn¢ sold it to Tém’s mother.
I was there at the tim¢d. I saw the edAt in the
window. Mr. Paynd let Tom try it on. It was a
good fit.
I saw Tom’s mother pay for it. I Knew he must
like it. And now it is 16st.
Don’t tell me any mor¢g. I don’t think the edt
was stolén. Tom did not put it on the rack. He
cannot reach the rick. He forgets where he put it.
No one has stdlén it.

Here comes Tom with the eddt on. I Knew it was

not ldst. See, it is torn. There is paint on it, too.
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| Who toré your new edat, Tom? Where did you put
it Friday night?
Pléas¢ don’t seold me. Mother let me play in mj
“new edAt. I was playing with Roljo. I todréd the
edAt on that nail. I didn’t mean to do so.
| I sat down on that stool. There was a pot of pajnt
| néar by. I didn’t know it was going to spill.
| By and by I rés¢ to go in. The pajnt was all over
| my new eddt. That was fing work!
Mother put the edAt away. She did not want to
look at it. She put it out of her sight. How mean
I did fedl! I eam¢ néfr crying.
_ She will mend the eoAt, I know. The pajnt she can-
|not get off. Did you ever see such a good mother?
I fedr I df{én tiré her out.
I must not make mother sd much work. I must
try to be good to her.
I must not litter the clédn flodr. I must ké¢p
away from pajnt pots. I must kéép away from nails.
: I must not romp so much.
- Thave no new ecddt now. But the eddt is not lost.
Who told you it was? Nat telis what he does not
Know. He must not do so.
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LESSON 16.

Mr. Lé¢ ké¢ps a stor¢d. Shall I tell you what kind

of storé? Tlf tell you what he ké¢ps for sal¢. |
He ké¢ps be¢f steak and trip¢d. He ké¢ps lam} and
pork. He sells all kinds of meat.
He ké¢ps the meat on ice. The ice ké¢ps it from
getting stald.
Shall I tell you any mor¢g? Do you Know the kind ©
of storé now? Do you spend much in his stor¢d? |

Mr. Pratf ké¢dps a stord, too. Shall I tell you what

he sells? =
Well, he sells tacks and nails. He sells pans and
tin cans. You can get a sté¢l knif¢ there.
He ké¢ps pots and pails. He sells forks and rolling
pins. He sells pdkers, rak¢s, and other tools.
Such things ké¢p without ice. Mr. Pratt does not
take ice. What kind of stor¢é has he? |
You are right. Now tell me this: .
I shali ké¢p a stor¢d some day. What kind of
stor¢ shall I have?
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I shall sell bread and rolls. I shall sell pi¢s and

eak¢és. I shall make things of corn me@l. I shall
make things of oat medl. They will all be nice.
I will make you a find loaf. The price will be small.
I shall ké¢p spice-eakés. I must have a trip for the
mice.
Now, what kind of stdr¢é will ming be?

You must ké¢ép stor¢, too. You must have be¢ts

for salé. You must have apples and other fruit.
You must sell téA and edffé¢. You must ké¢p milk
and butfer. You can get such things from the farm-
ers. You will have to ké¢p ice.
You must sell corn and péds. You must sell bird
seed. You must ké¢p rice and sago.
What kind of storé will yours be?

May shall ké¢p stor¢, too. She shall have another

Jing of goods.
She will have things for Knitting. She will sell
lamp mats and mitf¢ns. She will have fang and not¢
paper. She will sell pins and combs.
She will ké¢p sécks and stéckings. She will sell
40 FIRST READER,

edats and clodks. Wraps for old pédpl¢ and for litfl¢
folks. She will have satins and edtfén goods.
What kind of stor¢é will hers be?

Now, Jack, what is your stor¢ to be?

You may sell
_ all kinds of play-
= things. You must
? have rattlés and
tops. You may
sell me a good
jack-knifé.
You must kéé¢ép slates and paper kit¢és. You can
sell skates, too, if you like. Don’t you think you'll
have fing tim¢s?

The stor¢és must all be neat. We must not make

pédplé pay too much. We must treat them well.
That will make them come Offén.
We will tr¥ to plédsé them. They will want what
we have to sell.
They will prajsé the goods. They will spédk well
of us. They will send others to us.
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LESSON 17.

To rHe Treacuer. —See paragraphs 2 and 3 on page 18 of the Manual.

This is my litflé dog,

Tip. I’m teaching him to
play tricks.
He can pick up sticks.
He can get a peach at the
stor¢é. He can pay for it
with this nickél.
See him lick my hand
@ andarm. Did you ever see
such a nice dog?
Get mother’s slippers for
her, Tip. Now play you
are sick. Lié down like a sick dog. That’s the way.
Now, what did you eat, yesterday? Didn’t I tell
you not to eat picklds? I have told you a sedr¢ of
tim¢s.
Don’t tell me the kittén ate them! The kitfén
isn’t sick. What a litfl¢ seamp you are!
42 FIRST READER.

Here, take this milk and water. Now I shall ti¢

you up in the atfic.

Littl¢ Nick is a crip#pl¢.

One day he was playing on the ice. Mr. Cran¢
saw him slip and fall. He ran to pick him up.
It was too late. Nick will never be well any mor¢.
He did not cry. He lay still in Mr. Cran¢’s arms.
He told Mr. Cran¢é where to take him.
He was in a faint when I saw him. He spdk¢ no
mor¢ for many days. The pain was too much for him.
For ning days he knew no one. Have you ever
lain ill for ning days?
When he eam¢ to, he spok¢é to his mother. His
ton¢ was soft and low. He was still too wedk to say
much. I saw him try to rajs¢é his hand. He let it
fall on his pillow. What a sick boy he was! His fall
eam¢ nédr killing him.
He looks ill now. See how pal¢ his lips are. He
cannot go tripping by as he did.
No mor¢ skating for littld Nick! No mor¢ clim}-
ing for him! His kné¢é will never be well. He is
lam¢ for lif¢.
 FIRST READER. 43

LESSON 18.
To tHe Teacuer.— See paragraphs 2 and 3 on page 13 of the Manual.

' Miss Lé¢ is my teacher. She knows much mor¢

than any of us. She is teaching Tom his Primer.
She trims all her dwn wraps. She ké¢ps be¢s, and
they never sting her.
She is littl¢ Nick’s sister. She takes him out row-
ing in a skiff. Do you Know whos¢ skiff it is?
She knows old Sim, the pdtfer. She knows where
he gets his clay. She knows what he makes of it.
She Knows what makes him limp 83, too.
It is the rajn. It makes his lim}s stiff. It makes
them aeh¢, too. It gives him pajng in his wrists.
Is that Miss Lé¢ spédking? If sd, we must all
listén. I want to hedr what she has to say. :
She is telling us how to writé Mister. We must
writé it without so many letters.
This is the way to writ¢ it: C4. Don’t forget
how to end it. It is as simpl¢ as simpl¢ can be.

Here is litfl¢é Nick. What a slim littl¢d boy he is!

44 FIRST READER.

What a fing skin he has! He lisps a litfl¢. Does

he limp as much as he did?
No, but he will never go without limp ing.
I like him ever sd much. I want to take him up
in my arms. I want to kiss his litfl¢ lips.
With all his pajn, he is never créss. Who was ever
so swe¢t as littl¢d Nick?
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LESSON 19.

To THE TEACHER. — See paragraphs 2 and 3 on page 13 of the Manual; also Phonetie
List No. 13.

Clés¢ the window and ké¢p the wind out. I want

to sift this flour for the eak¢. Hand me the sitter,
if you pléds¢. Where is the sour milk? |
Our supper tim¢d is néar at hand. We must have
some clam fritfers. Tim, will you dpén the clams
for me? Do it right away, like a good boy.
The rim of this pan is not clé4n. I must seour it.
Where is the can dpéner? What is this simmer-
ing in the pot, Rosé?
It is fruit. It must simmer an our.
 FIRST READER. 45

All right, Rosé. What tim¢ is it now? Look at

the click, plés¢.
Sam, hand me that skimmer. Now you may go to
the stor¢ for me. I want a good many things. Get
paper, and make a list of them.

What are you wajting for? Wak¢ up, littl¢ boy.

We cannot wast¢d so much tim¢d. Is your list all
yrittn?
Did you put down a lamp wick? Don’t forget the
twilling. That is to ling my new wajst with. I must
make it this we¢k. The old one is worn out.
Is there a mat at the stord? If so, wipdé your fé¢t
on it.
If the stdr¢-ké¢p er is there, tell him what you want. |
If he is not there, tell his wif¢é. He was not well the
other day.
Tell him to send old Tim some edAl. The old man
is sick and cannot work. We must not let him want
a firé. |
Get all the things on your list. Do not forget one.
Let the stor¢d-ké¢per wrap them in paper. He will ti¢
them up with twing.
46 FIRST READER.

LESSON 20.

é est less ness

4

To tHe TEacnEeR. — See paragraphs 2 and 3 on page 13 of the Manual; also Phonetic
List No. 14.

Esther and Elen are sisters.

Esther is full of good séns¢. She is older than
Ellén. She is the wisest of littlé girls.
Elién is full of play. No one calls her Elién. We
all eall her Littlé Nell.
Néll is her sister’s pét. Esther lets her nésfl¢ up
clos¢ to her. She takes her in her arms. She séts
her on her kné¢. She kisgés her fat littl¢ né&ck.
Nélf will say, “Tell me something nice.” .What
do you suppos¢é she means? What does she want
Esther to tell her?
Esther tells her not one, but tén. No less than
tén will do. Tén what, littlé friend?
Our littléd missés have a find tént. They like to
play in it. One day it fél! upon them. The wind
upsét it. How do you suppos¢ they félt? Do you
‘think they wépt?
 FIRST READER. 47

Esther was fédrless. She knew the tént was light.

When Nél} saw this, she did not cry. They wént up
into the attic to play. ;
But the attic window was pan¢less. In eam¢ the
west wind. Down to the firéd wént We littl¢é girls.
They did not want any sickness.
Will eam¢ in, saying, “See this wrén’s nest. It was
on the grass. It is a meré wréck.”
The wind wrécks ténts and nests. It is not kind
to wréns. Where do you suppos¢ the littl¢ wrén was?
48 FIRST READER.

LESSON 21.

“Where did you get the nest?” said Esther.

“JT found it in Modr¢’s Lan¢,” said Will.
“Tt has a stém,” said litflé Nélf.
“Oli, no!” said Will. “This is an 64k st&m stick-
ing to it. The nest was in an oak tré¢. I found it
néar one.”
“TListén to the wind,” said Esther. ‘There are
mor¢ nests in the tré¢s. We shall see them all by
and by.”
“Will they all fall down?” said Néll}.
‘No, not at all,” said Esther. ‘This is what I mean:
the tré¢s will be lédfless in winter. When they are,
we can see the nests.”
“Ol, that will be sd nice!” said N&ll. “We shall
see the litfl¢ birds, too. The old ones will give them
things to eat.”
“What! in the winter?” said Esther. “No, no;
there will be no litfl¢ ones. Litflé birds do not come
in winter. It is too eold.”’
 FIRST READER. 49

“Come here,” said Will. ‘Let us look out of the

window. Other things are falling from our tré¢s.
They are good to eat. Don’t you see them on the
grass?”
“T see them,” said Esther. ‘They swell and crack
opén with the frdst. Go out and get some, Will.”
What do you supposé Will found? Where do you
think he found them? What kind of tré¢s did they
fall out of? Do you think it was eold that day?
No mor¢ playing in the tént this séAgdn.

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LESSON 22.

To rae Tracuzr. —See paragraphs 2 and 3 on page 13 of the Manual; also Phonetic
List No. 15.

“Come, Fréd,” said Will; ‘find your sléd. See if

it né¢ds mending. We must give our litflé Téd a
rid¢.”
Littl¢é Téd rdd¢ like a man. But such horses you
never saw.
50 FIRST READER.

They tri¢d to go on all fours. They réAréd up and

éyéd each other. One fing sté¢d crow¢éd like a edck.
The rdcks by the rill Seid¢d the crow. Téd’s horses
now spéd on. They never restéd.

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“Stop!” cridd Téd, ealling his horses by namé.

He féardd he might fall off.
One of them now play¢d lam¢. The other be eam¢
the léAder. They did not ké¢p to the rodd. They
wént from sid¢ to sid¢.
“Such wild horses!’’ cridd littl¢é Téd. ‘“ What are
you stopping for now? You must not pélt each other
with snow. Horses never do that.’
The horses did not listén. Maybe they did not
want to hear.
Néd eam¢ by and spok¢ to Téd.
 FIRST READER. 54

‘Your horses don’t seem to mind,” said he. ‘You

/seold them too much. You must be mild with them.
'They nééd a litfl¢ ledding. The snow has mad¢
‘them wald.”
| He léd the horses out of the piléd-up snow.
_ “Do you want your lodd lighténdd?” he said. “You
/eam¢ néfr upsétting the sléd You seem to forget
/that you have a rider. If I swnéd you, I’d teach you
fo mind. Now go on, and make good spé¢d.”’
The horses lisfén¢d to him. They sét dff down the
road. The sléd skimm¢d over the snow.
What a fing ridd it was for Téd!

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LESSON 23.

had would

Nél! would like to Know how to rédd. If she had

a primer, Esther would teach her. Suppds¢é you lend
her yours.
Mind isa rédder. Didn’t you know that? It would
not do for Littl¢é NélJ/. She must have some thing
52 FIRST READER.

mor¢é simpl¢. She cannot réfAd at all. She never

had a lessdén in her lifé.
She would lke to Know how to ywrit¢, too. She
cannot make one letter. Esther would teach her if
she had a slate.
There is no lack of paper. Esther does not né¢d
a slate. I wouldn’t say “if” so off¢én. Where there’s
a will, there’s a way.

Paint this spik¢. I would if I had pajnt.

Rak¢ the firé. I would if I had a poker.
Mend your stockings. I would if I had a né¢dl¢.
Get paint; get the poker; get a né¢dl¢é; do some-
thing.
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LESSON 24.

To THE TEACHER. — See paragraphs 2 and 3 on page 18 of the Manual; also Phonetic
List No. 16. ;

The eat has lippdd up all her milk.

I think you are mistaken. Some of it lédkdd out
of the pan.
 FIRST READER. 53

Yes, but she lickéd most of that up. I mdpp¢dd up

the littl¢ that was léft.
Who pickéd up the pan?
I did; and I sodkdéd it well. I rinséd it and wipéd
it, too. Now it is tippdd up with the others. Do you
| think it nééds to be seourdd?
No, littlé one; you have cléAndd it well. You are
/ a nice, neat girl.
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LESSON 25.

It was a eold winter night. The day’s work was

over. All the pédplé were at home. Hach was at
his dwn fir¢-sid¢.
Fréd and Will had come in from work. Outsid¢,
all was still.
In sid¢, the lamps were lit. The kétfl¢ was sing ing
over the firé.
Supper was over. All the things were put away.
All lookéd neat and home-like. The click tick¢d on
and on.
54 FIRST READER.

No one had any work to do. Mother’s hands lay

in her lip. We all sat looking at the fir.
Miss Le¢ had staid to téA with us. She had the
small rocker. She rock¢gd to and fro befor¢ the fir¢.

Kos¢ was nédrest to her. She wént and knélt by

Miss L颒s sidd.
“What are you think ing of, Mis
s Lée¢?”
It was mother who spok¢. Miss Lé¢
an swerdd with
a smil¢.
“T was thinking of our homes,” said she. «It
 FIRST READER. 55

is sd good to have a home. So many péa¢pl¢ have

/ no homes.”
| “Yes,” said mother with a sigh. ‘How sid it is!
|A eold night makes one think of the homeless.”
“Don’t let us be sid,” said Né&d. :
“No,” said Fréd; ‘“let’s find something to do.”
| And he told us all what to do.
He mad¢ Ros¢ get her Knitting. He put littl¢d Téd
into mother’s arms. He sént Will for some nice, swe¢t
pippins. They were to roast. Will found some pdp-
corn, too.
Fréd rak¢d the firé. He found the corn-pdpyer.
The boys pickéd the corn from the Gdrs. They put
it into the popper.
They put it over the
réd edals. They put _
the pippins nédr the Ba&°
— edAls, too. si
: They had to tend
the corn and pippins. Fréd did not take his ¢y¢s off
them. They had to be réll¢d over and over.
“Now, Miss Lé¢,” said Fréd, “tell us something
nice. Let it be a tald of the West.”
56 FIRST READER.

Mis¢ Led knew a good many wild tal¢s. She képt

us list¢éning for a good hour.
In the medntimé¢, the corn was popp¢d. The apples
were roastéd, too.
Fréd handéd us the corn. Will handéd us the
pippins. We all liked them. We had some home-
mad¢ eak¢, too. And each of us had a eup of milk.
At ning, Miss Lé¢d wént home.

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LESSON 26.

To THE TEACHER. — See paragraph. 2 and 3 on page 13 of the Manual; also Phonetic
List No. 17.

Fred led the horses down to the cré¢k. They

né¢ded water. They waded out into the cré¢k.
Fred waited for them. When they eamé¢ out, he
patted them, and led them home.
On the way, he mét litfl¢ Kate.
“T have the med@l!” cri¢d Kate. “I tridd to be
a good girl. I wasn’t sd good as I tri¢d to be.
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“But the teacher knew that I tridd. She prajs¢d

me for trying. I can ké¢p the medal a we¢k.”
“You are like the horses,” said Fred, smiling.
“You like to be prajs¢d and pétfed. I suppos¢ you
like to be fed, too. Would you like this red apple?”’
But Kate wouldn’t take it.
“You médnt it for the horse,” said she. “I don’t
want all the good things. The medal is all I né¢d
to-day. Give the apple to the horse.”
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LESSON 27.

To roe TeAcuer. —See paragraphs 2 and 3 on page 18 of the Manual ; also Phonetic
List No. 18.

What makes your fac¢ so red, Gécil?

I ran a rac¢ with Ted.
There isn’t much spac¢ for raging here. Did you
and he trdt sid¢ by sid¢?
Ted would not trdt besid¢ me. So we ran to and fro.
Do you eall that raging? You are fing ragers.
_ Which of you bet?
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I beat with éds¢. I am the older. Ted thinks he

can lédp over that féng¢.
I see he has léft his eip there. Get it, Ted. No
eap less littlé boys for me!
Now géds¢ your playing and come in.
) I want you to det like litfl¢ mice. Here
=
is some rice for you. . Take this plac¢,
Cécil. Don’t tilt your seat. It is safest to sit still.

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LESSON
28.

a un

To THE TracHER.
— See paragraphs 2 and 3 on page 13 of the Manual; also Phonetic
List No. 19.

Seat! Seat, I say!

What’s the matter, Miltgn?
Ol, such fun! The eat etiffdd her kitfdn’s édr.
Shall I pimp water on her?
No, no! Isn’t she the kitt¢én’s mother? She must
teach her kittén how to et. What did she etff her
for?
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6 For trying to drink out of

» her=-eup.
Did the kitfén run away?
Not until I said ‘Seat!’’ When she ran, the eat
ran, too. They wént under the fénc¢,
What good did your unkindness do? The kittén
will not like you now. She thinks you méant to
frightén her.
There is the old eat now. She has lajn down in
the sun. She is going to give hersélf a sunping.
Now she’s licking the kitfén all over.
She knows how to treat her litflé one. You cannot
teach her anything. See the kitf¢n etddl¢ down to
her mother.

Well, never mind the eats. Let’s go nitfing. Hach

puff of wind seatters a good many nuts.
We must have something to put them in. We
will take a edupl¢ of pillow slips.
Let’s go acréss that clover fjeld.
Now we are in the forest.
That isn’t a nut, Miltén; it’s a limp of mid.
Ké¢p out of that piddl¢, Ted! Don’t you see it?
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You would go anywhere for a nit. There’s mtid on

your kilt, now. You are not the neatest of litfl¢ boys.
Will you have something to eat?
Yes, pléas¢é, I will.
Well, here is a nice muffin. It is ett and butfer¢d.
My hands are nim} with the eold.
Never mind the nim}ness. The eold makes the
nuts come down. They never fall in stiimmer.
Let us do a litflé runing. We shall suffer less
with the eold) How many nits have you found?
I have tén. When shall we go home?
Not until I have my slip full.
You will not fill it to-day, my lad.
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LESSON 29.

sh ish

To raz Tuacuer. — See paragraphs 2 and 8 on page 18 of the Manual; also Phonetic ~
List No. 20.

Mr. Fisher was a fisherman. He fish¢d day in

and day out. He wént out to séd to fish. There~he
found all the fish he wanted.
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At low tid¢é he fish¢d for clams. He found them

in the mtd. He félt for them with his to¢s. He
could tell them from stén¢s that way. No ston¢ has
the shap¢ of a clam.

He would take them from the water. He would

toss them into his pail.
Each clam was shit up tight. Clams never opén
when the water is shallow. They wajt until the tid¢.
comes in. At that tim¢, they op¢én wid¢.
Mr. Fisher sold most of his clams. He képt some
to take home. ‘They were for his wif¢ and littl¢ ones.
They were nice and frésh. They were eatén with a
rélish.
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Some tim¢s Mr. Fisher wént fishing for shad. He

wént to the stré4m for them. They swam there in
shodls. The shad is a shy fish.
Did you ever tasté shad ro¢és? Did you like them?
Most pégpl¢ think they are nice,

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LESSON 30.

Ex
To THe TEACHER. —See paragraphs 2 and 3 on page 13 of the Manual; also Phonetic’
List No. 21.

I Knew a littl¢é Spanish boy nam¢d Rds. Roljd is

not a Spanish nam¢. I don’t know how he ecam¢
by it.
He had come over the séa to our land. He ealldd
it the land of the west.
He told me the nam¢ of his dwn land. He said it
was Spain.
He eaimé¢ over in a sailing véss¢l. The sails were
mad¢ of a stout edtidn stiff. It was ealléd canvas.
Stéam ships have no sails.
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Rollo was an honest littlé fellow. I wanted to

| invit¢ him to my home. Mother said I might do so.
One événing I wént to see him. He had fallén
|
ill with a féver. He was sick sévén we¢ks.
Pégpl¢ said he would never get well. Evén his
_ mother féaréd he would not.
She did many kind things for him. She sav¢d his
|_ilifg. But he beeim¢ pé¢vish. I did not like him any
_mor¢. Still I visited him.
It did litflg good. When I spok¢ he would not
answer me. Sometim¢s I wanted to shak¢ him.
One day I found out something. It eam¢ upon me
like a flash. I said to my sélf, “He cannot hedr!”
I was right. Rollo had ldst his hedring. He has
lost it for lifg. He will never hear any mor¢.

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LESSON 31

Nam¢ some fruits, my boy.

I will. Apples are fruit. So are peachés. Pltms
are fruit, too.
Are be¢ts and beans and péds?
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I do not Know.
What. do you know of seeds?
I know that we plant them.
Where do we get them?
= ——— = f° We get them from plants. Some
come out of apples and other fruits.
Some come out of pdds. Beans and péas come from
pods. .
What do we plant seeds for?
To get mor¢é plants to give us fruit.
How do we get mor¢ plants by planting seeds? :
The sun heats the seeds. The rajn wets them.
They become litflé plants, and spring up. Hach plant
has a stém and léavés. The sun shin¢s on them; the
rain wets them. The plant gets taller and taller. By
and by the fruit comes. We eat the fruit; but we
‘savé some of the seeds to plant.
Do we not some tim¢s eat the seeds them sélves?
Yes, we do. Bedng and péds are seeds. We eat
most of them, but not all. If we ate all, we could
not plant any. Then there would be no mor¢ bedns
and péds for us. |
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 FIRST READER.
PART II.

LESSON I.
We¢ Winni¢ Wimpl¢s.
fe Pe ye tly:

1. This is little
-Winni¢d Wimpl¢s.
She is a fat and
smiling little girl.
2. Do you want
to Know how old
she is? Well, she
int old. at all.
She is Only one.
3. Winni¢ is a livély little girl. She is full of
play. She romps mérrily all day. She is the family
pét.
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4. Her mother has a nice eguntry home. Néfr it,

there is a river. There is much sand besid¢ the
riv er. |
s. Winni¢d likes to play in it. She plays there
every fing stmmer day. On rajny days, she plays
at home.
6. Her play-mate is a kid. This is her eguntry
pét. She has a city pét, too. But I must not spédk
of that now.
7. The kid is a timid little thing. It likes Win- ©
ni¢d véry much. But there is some one whom it
likes mor¢ still. It is old mother Nanny Godt.
s. Winni¢’s mother has a fing gity home, too. She
and Winni¢ livé there in the winter.
9. The city pét that I. spok¢ of livés there. It is
a liv¢ly little puppy. Winni¢é likes him évén mor¢
than she does the kid.
10. Mr. Puppy is an 4etivd little dog. He romps
and plays with Winni¢ all day. He is much fonder
of play than the kid is. He is not at all timid, like —
the kid.
11. Winni¢ thinks him a funny little fellow. She
tells him so as well as she can.
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12 What do you think she is saying to

him now? Alic¢ thinks she is tell-
ing him stori¢s. |
13. He looks up at her
with shining ¢y¢s. He
ad 7 seems to listén.
Se. eer ee we little girl’s
— ee ; “ storids’’? must be funny
ones. No one but the puppy knows what they are.
15. Be ford Winni¢’s city home is another home. It is
in a tall tred. In it livé a mother and fiv¢ little ones.
16. They all have wings and beaks. All the little
ones have downy eddts. The mother’s edt is not
so soft.
17. The little ones want to eat all the tim¢. The
mother gets flids for them. She fé¢ds them one at a
tim¢d. They ké¢p her at it all day. Such little eaters
you never saw.
1g Winni¢ dff¢n goes to visit them. When she sees
them, she crows. When they say “pé¢p,” she clips
her hands. She wants them, too, for péts. But she
cannot have them. She would not know how to treat
them.
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LESSON IL
The Easter Eggs.

garden bush rabbit then

1. It was Rast er Sunday. Sally and Fred wént out

in to the garden. What
do you think they wént
“2

ip
to look for?
EZ
°
LSSs
i ce
.
2. They wént to a
corner of the garden.
There was an old ros¢
bush there. The lim}s
of the bush were low.
3. Our little friends
crépt sdftly to the
bush. A. ‘fat “rabbit
eam¢ out from under
it. The rabbit slippéd ~
away under the féng¢d. Then he seamperéd off into
ithe fjéld. How he did kick up his he¢ls!
a. “Olt, did you see that?” cridd Sally. “Now
we shall find some!”
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5. Then they lifted the limbs of the rosé bush.

They lookéd under them. There lay a vidlet egg.
Be sid¢ it was a crims¢n one.
6. ‘Take the one that pléasés you most,” said Sally.
| She was not a sélfish little girl.
7. “ IT know you are fond of crims¢n,” said Fred.
And he pick¢éd up the red one for Sally.
s. “IT will take the vidlet one,’ he said. Sod he
pickdd that one up for him sélf.
9. Then Sally and Fredranin. They showéd mother
and sister the eggs. They told them where they had
found them.
10. €¢iisin Péter was there.
Now, €¢tsin Péter likes
to téds¢. When they told him of the rabbit, he said,
‘Was it a crimsén or a vidlet rabbit?”
un. “Oh, Cdtisin Péter,” cridd Fred. ‘You are only
making fun of us. You think there was no rabbit
in the garden. But we saw one there. It was under
the bush. When it saw us, it ran swiftly out of the
garden. I wish you had seen how detiv¢ it was.”
iz. “It must have smélt the eggs,” said €¢tisin Péter.
“Maybe it eam¢ to eat them. What a pity it was
to take them away!”
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13. But Sally and Fred do not think so. They ©

beljév¢ that the rabbit lajd the eggs.
14. ‘“Let’s strik¢ our eggs one upon the other,” said
Fred. “Then we’ll see if they are Edster eggs. Are
you réady?”’
15. Silly’s egg was crickéd, and Fred’s crish¢d it.
It was not crimsén insid¢é. It was nédarly full of
meat. There was a little Empty spay¢ at one end.
is. ‘They are like other eggs,” said Sally.
17,‘ All but the outsid¢,” said Fred. “©dmmén —
eggs don’t have crimsén and vidlet shélls.”
is. Sally and Fred savéd the eggs for supper. Then —
they ate them with a rélish.
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LESSON III.
Richi¢ and the Chicks.

1. It was a sunny morning in the eguntry. A downy

little chick st®pp¢d out of his eggshéll. A pjéc¢ of
the shélf was still on his néck. The other pjégés were
in the nest.
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| 2. A little child was nédr. It was our own little

Richi¢. When the chick said “ Pé¢ép!” Richi¢ ran to
look. pe €
3 “IT can noth a
reach the 1&t{ch,”
he cri¢d. So Sally
lifted it for him.
|

4. The nest was in

Mack’s stall. Mack is
our chéstntit horse. He
was munching his dats
when Richi¢d wént in.
The eddchman had
given him his fédder, and léft him to eat it.
s. Richi¢é chickléd when he saw the chick and its
mother. They were over in the corner of the stall.
6. ‘T’ll catch that chick!” said he. But he didn’t
72 FIRST READER.

know how to edmménc¢ the chas¢. He was afrajd of

Mick’s he¢ls. And the chick would not come out.
7. “T’ll cheat it with some corn,” he said. So he
seatter¢d a little corn out sid¢ the stall. Then he eall¢d,
“Here, chick, chick, chick!”
s. But the chick had never seen corn. She did not
know what it was. She did not évén know her own
namé¢.
9. “You are right not to come,” said Richi¢. ‘The
corn would chok¢ you. You are too little to pick it up.
You are not an our old. I must try some other way.
I want you to come out into the garden patch. I’d like
to see your mother teach you to scratch. Under the ris¢
bush is a good plac¢d. I'll not let the rabbits chas¢ you.”
10. Lam¢ Sammy’s crifch was léAning up in the
corner. Richi¢ snifchdd it and ran to the stall. He
tri¢d to reach the chick with the criitch. He str&é{chdd
his short arm all he could.
a1. Mack did not like the criitch so nédr him. He .
lifted one of his f&¢t.
az It was funny then to see Rich¥é run. He never
stéppéd until he had saf¢ly reachdd the porch. His
mischi¢gf was ended for that morning.
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LESSON IV.
The Dainty Daisy.
d dr

2 A swe¢t little dafs¥ livdd in a fjéld. She smil¢éd

and nodded there all the sttmmer day. She délighted
the ¢y¢s of all who wént by. She was , yo

Ever ché¢ry,
Never dréAry.

2 When the rajn

drénch¢d her, she
did not mind it. |
She display¢dd her
wet pétdls to the ONG © pm Bax 22 SS Se
sun. His rays EKA RT te bull
kisséd them drj. AS RN
con (il Ve‘atI ys|
a
2 On windy ie |

days she nddded and smil¢d mor¢é than ever. Some-

tim¢s she look¢d down at the sdd beloy. Then she
would ris¢ anew on her slender stém.
74 FIRST READER.

a. She seem¢d to spédk in her dajnt¥ way. She

seem¢d to say, “I like to dwell here in the fjéld. It. is
niger than the dusty road. It is a dédrer home than
the garden rdsés have. I shall livé and di¢ here if
they will let me.”
5. But one day Dotty Dimpl¢é eim¢d by. She and
Dick Duntén were out for a strolf. They saw the dajsy
playing with the wind. Ddott¥ décgided she must
have it.
«. Dick dash¢d over the fénc¢ to get it. Daisy
cri¢d out as he eam¢ nédr.
7, He reachéd out his hand for her.
s. “ Plédsd do not tétich me!” she cridd. But he
did not hear her. He pltickéd her and earridd her to
Dotty Dimpl¢. } |
». Dotty handl¢d her tenderly, but all in vain. She
earridd her home and put her stém into water. But —
the vas¢ was not the fjéld. In a short timé Dajs¥ was
déad.,
| On the little dajs¥ dédr,
Dotty Dimplé drdppdd a tédr.
“Had I let her be,” she said,
“Dais¥ would not now be d&d.”
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LESSON V.

Brother Bén’s Show.

b bl br

1, Baby Bunting wént to see the show. It was in

Brother Bén’s bick garden. Nobody wént but Ben
and Baby Bunting. Shall I tell you all about it?
76 FIRST READER.

2. Well, there were some wild bedsts, chaindd up.

One was Tabby the black eat. Another was Chip,
the kitt¢n.
3, Then there was an Ostrich. That was Bén’s fat
dick.
4. There was a Chinés¢ lantern swinging from a tré¢.
It had a lighted candl¢ in it. |
s. Of edurséd there were some tumblers. One was
Baby’s own Jack-on-a-stick. Another was Bén, who
wént on his hands. Another was Baby himsélf. He —
tri¢dd to run on all fovirs. He only féll on his nos¢ and
cri¢d. Bén told him he was not there to det. ‘You
are to look on,” he said; ‘“‘but you shall play in the
band.”
e. So Baby Bunting playdd the fifé. Bén beat the
drtim and Kndek¢d on a tin bas{n. Néro, the dog, mad¢
a mérry din, too. It was a fin¢é band.
7. There was a man on spider wébs. This was Bén
riding his bic¥clé. :
s. Bén fé{ch¢d a lam}-skin mat from the stoop. He
put it on and wént on all fdvrs. He bleated like a
lamb. He roardd and béllowdd and braydd. He
boasted that he was for beasts in one.
 FIRST READER. TL

9 “Now I am a wild boar!” he cri¢dd. But the

lam} skin féll off. This showdd the body of a boy.
10. He lédpdd to his fé¢t, shouting, “Ok I know the
best thing of all!” Then he ran into the kifchén.
1. When he eam¢ back, what do you think he had?
iA livé lobster in a pan of water. He wént all over the
shoy, crying, ‘ Lobster over board !”’ |
12, Baby Bunting look¢d at the ldbster. He liked
to see it try to swim. Bén would not let him put
his hand néar it.
iz. “Now you must be the show yoursélf,” said Bén.
«Where is that rabbit skin? I want it to wrap the
Baby Bunting in. The lam} skin will do.”
14. He put the lam} skin over Baby Bunting’s shoyl-
ders. Then he plac¢d him on a small tabl¢. He wav¢d
his hands to the chickéns.
is. ‘“*Come one, come all!’ he said; ‘Come and look
at the only livé Baby Bunting.”
1s. Mother eam¢ out to look for the lobster. She
found her boys in fing spirits. She smil¢d at her Baby
Bunting. She said Bén’s show was a véry good one.
“And how well you mind the baby, Mr. Showman!”
she added.
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LESSON VI.

Bréak fast Timé. )

Obscure vowels.

}
3

1 Ting-aling-aling! That's the béll. Come to |_

bréak fast, brother,
2 Sit up straight. Take your elbows off the tablé.
 FIRST READER. 79

Lay your napkin so. Take your knif¢ in your right

hand. Do not reach acréss the tabl¢é. Hand your
| plate to the one besid¢ you. Don’t make so much ado,
my child. Good little boys sit still at meals. They
wait un til the older pédpl¢ are attended to. You make
/me ashaméd of you. Here is a eup of choeolat¢.
| 3. Are there any eiraway seeds in this bisewit?
4. Never mind your bisewit un til you have eat¢én your
musk mélon. Then you must have some dAt mel and
milk. Then come the dmelet and the eold mitttd¢n.
5. Mother télls me mitttén is the flésh of she¢p.
What kind of animal is a she¢dp? Is it anyae
like a cam¢l? I saw ecam¢ls in Lina’s
:atlas. There was a edravan crossing the
: désert. very Arab had a ecamél.
6 No, the eam¢l livés in another
—climat¢. The she¢dp is much smaller and not at all
like him.
7. Do we eat the flésh of the buffalo and the lion?
s. Not of the lion. We eat biffald meat some timés.
But you must not have so much to say. I want to see
your bréAkfast disappéfr.
9. What kind of s&lad is that?
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10. Only some of farmer Tool’s water-créssés.

nu. I’dlike a pj颢 of that citron ee Shall we have
water mélon for dinner?
12. May be so. We'll attend to bréAkfast now. One
thing at a tim¢, my lad.
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LESSON VII.

My Drédm.

th th

1. The alarm-cléck awok¢ me at thré¢ this morning.

It was not sét right.
2. The sun was not up, so I lay still. I tri¢d to
eiftch another nap befodr¢é day-light.
a I fell aslé¢p, but not into a dédgp slé¢p. I
dréAm¢d we livéd in a palacéd and it was C€lhris{mas.
4. There was a thron¢ in the palac¢d. It was on top
of a silver eon¢g. There were stéps on all sid¢s of the .
eon¢. You can make a edn¢ like that with clay. But
you cannot make it shin¢ as this one did.
5. A king sat upon the thrén¢d. He word a flowing
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rob¢ of crims¢n vélvét. It was trimméd with bright

fédthers. The king had a silver s¢épter in his hand.
e. His spé¢ch |
was like the roar-
ing of thunder;
but his fac¢ was
kind. You have
seen it many
tim¢s. Think of
_an old man with
a smiling, rosy
fagéd. A snowy
flow ing bedrd
falls be néath the
chin. His nam¢
is Santa Cl ;
Yes, of edsrs¢é
you know him
well!
7. There he
sat upon his throng. He thunder¢d to his pédpl¢ to
make réady the théater. They ran here and there to
earry out his wishés. They work¢d véry willingly.
82 FIRST READER.

They mad¢ beljévé they were afrajd, but all were

smil ing.
s. By and by he thimp¢d on the floér with his
s¢épter. Then he shouted, “Ring the béll!”
9 At the ringing of the béll there was such a
seampering! All the pédpl¢ ran to the throng. They
seated them sélv¢és upon the silver stéps. |
10. The cloth of silver rolléd up from the walls. —
Imméns¢ mirrors were now to be seen on all sid¢s.
1. And what do you think we saw in the mirrors?
It was a sight to make one bréath less.
iz. We saw the childrén of many lands. They were
all récgéiving ©ltristmas playthings. Some were tak-
ing them out of stockings. Others found them on
€liristmas tré¢s. A sick child found his on a tray
by his bedsid¢.
13. One little Spanish boy had a livé parrot. A little
Ditch girl had a réal améthyst bréAstpin. A Frénch
girl had a bunch of pdppi¢s for her bdnnét. Her
sister récéivdd a fing napkin ring. |
14 Many girls had délls and new séts of dishés.
Many boys had drtms, swords, rdck ing-horses, and
such things. Mor¢ than one boy had a bigyeld¢.
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is. Baby had a rubber ring to ett his te¢th upon.

Sister had a silver thimbl¢ and a né¢dl¢-eas¢. Brother
had a new blick-bodrd, with ribber and all.
16. Such a flutter as the little folks were in! Such
| a skipping and eapering and crying out!
17. We look¢d into all the eguntrids where Cliristmas
| is képt. Old Santa knows them all. He sat on his
thron¢ and lookéd upon the “show.” He smil¢d all
over his rosy, fat fag¢. This was his €lirist{mas morn-
ing treat. ——094002—

LESSON VIII.
All at Work.

once been sew

eight says pretty

1 Are you making that chickgn broth for Mr. Smith,

Sadi¢?
2. Yes, Anni¢; he is véry ill. He cannot eat any-
thing solid.
3. The brdth is thin, but there is a thick froth on it.
Shall I skim that off and throw it away?
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4. Yes, if you pléds¢. Where have you been all the

morning? I have not seen you once.
:
5. Oh, I have 2
5
been sewing. PZ
4
See, isn’t this ;
tabl¢é mat nice ly
work¢d ?
6 It is véry
pretty indé¢d.
You have mad¢
the letter E on
it. For whom
are you work ing
it?
7. For Emma
Smith. I have now workd¢d her eight. I have for
mor¢ to do. Emma says she is nédrly out of fing ones.
s. This is véry find work indé¢dd. Are they all as
neatly work¢d?
9. Oh, yes, I think so. I finishéd the forth on the
séegnd day I workéd upon them. When one once
knows how to do this work, it’s éAsy. It’s no bother
for me to sew. When my sewing is finish¢d, I fold
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it up neatly. Then, I lay it away with my thimbl¢

and thréad.
10. Are thés¢ mats as fing as mother’s?
1. Yes, but the stitching is not so pretty. Mother
| says hers are the nigest she has ever seen. But one
never finds the sam¢ kind more than once. I have
been several days looking for thés¢. You see there is
a pretty wréath in each corner.
12. It is a good thing to be abl¢ to sew. Both Emma
and I can sew véry well. But néjther of us can sing.
13. Well, it is tim¢d to take Mr. Smith his broth. I
shall have to lédv¢é you. I wish you would come with
me. The wédther is find and the thriishés are singing.
14. I cannot go. Here is Tommy crying. He has
thrust something into his thtim}. I must take it out
for him. He has been picking thisfl¢s, I suppos¢. Hear
what he has to say. Where have you been, Tommy?
1s. I’vé been over in the méAdoy, finding thisfl¢s
for Ros¢. See, I have eight pretty ones. When I was
picking the ninth, I prick¢dd mysélf. See how my
thim}s is blédd ing.
ae. You did that once befor¢. Will you never know
any bétter? How old are you, pray?
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17. I was eight yesterday. That’s pretty old, I know.

Pll not ery any more. Wajt till you hear what Ros¢
says about thés¢ thistl¢s! She is going to dréss them
for mother. They will come out like snow-balls. —

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LESSON IX.

Looking at the Ships.

1. Fanny and Frank have come down to the séa-

shor¢. They have been here about an fiour. Fanny
léft her sewing to come. They are sitting on this bank -
to see the ships go by. Some are sailing véss¢ls, and
some are stéamers.
2. There is a strdng wind blowing. The sailing ships
fly swiftly along beford it. The childrén have seen
eight go by within the hour. The sight is a pretty one.
3. Fanny does not like the stéAmers much. She
says the blick smok¢ they make is not pretty.
a. Krank likes them bétter than the other véss¢ls.
He sees a cannon on one of them. At sunsét, the
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cannon says “Bang!” Frank says, “Thank you! I

like that sdng.”
s. Fanny puts her hands over her éArs. She says
_ the cannon dédféns her.
| 6. Is that a pilot boat coming ashord?

7 Yes; it is a pilot boat. But it is not coming

this way. It is going toward the river. Befor¢ long,
it will reach the bay.
s. Is that a barrel out there? See it Appédr and
go out of sight once more. There is something in it.
I beljévd it is a béll. I hear a tinkling.
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9. Yes, the barrel is dnelidrdd. The béll is ring by

every wav¢ that lifts it. The water is shallow there.
You see the barrel is painted red. That is to make
it Gdsy to see. The ships ké¢p away from that spot.
At night they hedr the béll.
io. Once a ship sank there. It striick on the récks
at low tidé. That was beford the barrel was anekigrdd
there.
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EESSONS OS

The Donkéy.

busy business

1. There was once a donk¢y that liked to bray.

2. ‘What do you bray so much for?” said his Owner
one day.
3 The donk¢y only bray¢d again. That was his
way of answering. His Owner was a busy man.
There was much for him and the dénk¢y to do. He
had little tim¢ to listén to the braying.
4. He did lisf¢én some tim¢s, however. He knew that
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the braying was the donk¢y’s spé¢ch. He wanted to

understand what his dénk¢y méant.
s. At léngth, one day, the donk¢y said some thing
véry plainly. He said, “I work for you all day. This
is my business as well as yours.

6 “You must give me what I make. That silver

the pégpl¢ give you is bright and pretty. Some of
it is ming. I want it.
7. ‘Here we are on the brink of a stréAm. We have
been here eighty or nin¢ty tim¢s. I have drink of this
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water many a tim¢.” As he braydd thus, he drank

again.
a

s. “It is a pretty strédm,” he wént on. “I have

crosséd it on this plink. I have e&rridd your lodds
over, sling on my back.
9. “You have drivén me across again and again.
You have never thinkéd me. You make me do all
the work. But all the pay you take yoursélf. I fé¢l
that this is wrong. I must spéak out against it.
1o. ‘Some day this plink may bréak. Then my lodd
and I will go down. We shall sink and be
earri¢d down the etrrent.
1. “I don’t like to think of that.
This is not a saf¢ business. If you (km WQpy
ké¢p me busy at it, you must pay me 1
well.
12. ‘‘T will not créss this plank again.
I will not earry your load over. I will not do any thing
more until you pay me bétter. You must divid¢ all
that silver with me.”
13. ‘What would you do with the silver?” said the
man.
14. ‘‘T would eat it, of eduirs¢,” braydd the donk¢y.
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1s. “That is all a doénk¢¥ knows!” said the man.

“Here, take this pjéc¢d betweén your tédth. See if
you think it good fodder.”
1s. The donk¢y closdd his té¢th on the pjéc¢ of silver.
He look¢d blink. He had eatén bétter fodder than that.
17. “It isn’t so good as grass and dats and corn,” he
bray ¢d.
is. “Well, then, suppos¢ you léavéd me the silver,”
said his 6wner. ‘I will give you all the grass and
corn and oats you can eat. Taking the silver is my
business.”’
19. The donk¢y blinkéd a good dédl. He bray¢d no
more. He wént over the plank, and it did not bréak.
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LESSON XI.
The Bag pip¢.

1. Grac¢ was sewing on the édst porch. She stdppéd

her work and lookéd toward the lang. She was listdn-
ing to the gé¢s¢.
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2. ‘What are
they gabbling so
for?” she said
to her sélf.
3 The latch
clickéd, the gate
opénéd, and in
stépp¢d a man.
Grac¢ had never
seen him be for¢.
a “IT bellévd
he is a béggar,”
she said. “ What
a big man! And
how éddly he is
drésséd! And
what is that over
his shdvlder?”’
5. It was a bis-pip¢d. Did you ever hear one? The
etit will show you how it looks. You see the man has
on a kilt and a sash. How do you like the way his
fégt are dréssdd. Do you think his e&p pretty?
6. He was not a béggar. He said he would play for
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Gracg¢. She might pay him with a dinner. Grag¢

ealléd her mother. Nérd ecam¢ out, too, wagging his
tail éAgerly.
7. Mother was délighted when she saw the man,
She knew right away where he eam¢ from.
s. “ You are a Sedfchman,” she said.
9. “ Yes, ’m from Sedtland,” répli¢d the man, smil-
ing. “I ké¢p on my nativé dréss to show it. The
pégpl¢ of your country like to look at it. But they
don’t want it for them sélv¢s.”
10. His spée¢ch was as ddd as his dréss. But Grac¢
liked it. I suppos¢é that pédplé in Sedtland would
think our spé¢ch ddd.
u. “TI think the Sedfch dréss is vér¥ pretty,” said
mother, “And I am glid you are going to play for
us. PlédAs¢é be pin.”
12, The way that big-pip¢ scrééchdd was véry funny.
Grac¢ spring to her féét. She clappéd her hands to
her éArs. She was going to run away. But she
stdpp¢éd to look at her mother,
13. Mother’s ¢y¢s were saying, “Think of the man’s
fédlings. Never mind your dwn. Sit down again and
listén. Don’t forget your manners,”
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14. So Grac¢ sat down and smil¢d at the man. But

Nérd was not so polité. He put up his nos¢ and
howléd. He seem¢d to be trying to out-do the bag-
pip¢. He-had never sting such a séng befor¢d. Then
he tri¢d to drivé the man away. e
e
Vee

is. “ Begong!” he said, as plainly as a dog can

spédk. And he said it over and over again. Then he
mad¢ as if he would bit¢é the man’s légs.
as. “ Your dog does not like my playing,” said the
man.
17. ““No,’”’ said mother, “he has only a dog’s tast¢.
But we think you véry much. Now you must have
something to eat. Li¢é down, Néro.”
is. Liinch was nédrly réddy. Grac¢ avd the Sedfch-
man some griddl¢ eak¢s to be Zin with. Then she gav¢d
him some be¢f-st¢éak and potatd, with gravy.
ix. As the Sed{chman ate thés¢ good things, he told
stori¢s of Sedtland. He prajséd her herd¢s, who had
many tim¢s savéd his eguntry. He brigodd of Sedt- -
land’s glory and shdwéd the Sedfch flaps. Gracg¢ thinks
our flag much finer,

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LESSON XII.
Jami¢.

1. Jami¢ was a little négrd boy. He livéd with his

mother in a small fram¢ edttag¢.
2. He was a |
génerdgus little
‘féllow. Heliked
ginger-bread,
but would give
Jan¢ all he had.
3. Jan¢ was
his sister. He
never grudgdd
her any thing.
“That would be
stingy,” he said.
He ealléd her Jénny for a pét namé.
4 Of edyrséd Jain¢ was a little négréss. She was a
jolly little rogv¢, full of fun and mischi¢f. She liked
to play jok¢és on Jami¢.
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5. One day, a géntl¢man drov¢é up to the edttag¢.

Jami¢’s mother was standing in the ddgr way.
« “I want to éngigdé a small boy,” said the géntl¢.
man, ‘He will have to ridé in my earridg¢ with me.
Every tim¢ I stép and get out, he will mind the horse.
When we reach home, he will take him to the stabl¢.
Then he will sit just insidé my dddér and answer the
béll. He will have to do this from twélv¢ to thré¢.
My Sfficé Hours are from twélv¢ to thré¢.”
7. “Jami¢ ig Snly eight,” said the little boy’s
mother. ‘He is too small to go to work.”
a “He is as big as most boys of tén,” said the
géntléman. ‘So much riding in my bugsy will do him
good. An out-of-do¢dr lifé will make him grow.” |
9. ‘But he can not réad véry well,” said the mother.
10. “T’ll teach him to réad, and more things be sid¢s,”
said the géntl¢éman. “I want him. He is clédn and
neat. His teacher tells me he is a good boy. I hear. |
he is kind to his sister. He is a little géntléman. I _
like him and will be good to him.”
11. The mother did not dbjéet any more. JamY¢ wént
to livé with the strangé séntl¢man.
12, Little Jénny had no one now to play tricks up on.
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She miss¢d her brother all day long. She .was véry sad
and lon¢ly without him.
is. Jami¢ savéd up his wagés. He saved his sister a
magpi¢ in a gilded eag¢. This was to pay her for fé¢d-
ing his pig¢gns.
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LESSON XIII.

The Magpi¢.

1 Jénny’s magpi¢ Knew how to talk. It was al ways

chattering. It had about forty funny say ings.
2. It liked to have gavidy things in its eag¢. Jamy¢
brought it bright beads to play with. Jénny gave it
scrips of gay ribbdéns and dréss goods.
3. When Jénny’s mother seolded her, the magpi¢
would seold, too. It would eall out, “ Don’t be nayvghty.
Don’t be navghity.” Or it would cry, “You dygkt to
pray! You ought to pray!’’ Some one had tavght it
to say thés¢ things.
« When Jénny play¢d with her rag doll, it would
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say, ‘Flog your davghter! Flog your daygiter!” But

Jénny was too fond of her dayighter to flog her.
s. When the kéttl¢é bibbl¢d over, the magpi¢ would
say, ‘Thaw it out!
Thaw it out!” It
did not know what
“thaw”? means.
6 Some timé¢s it
would shout, “Td6m
Thimh’s a dwarf!
Tom Thimh’s a
dwarf!” Again, it
would be, “The
giant’s up the bean-
stalk! The giant’s
= up the. bedn-stalk ! ”
7. “ Where is the
| bedn-stalk?” said
Jénny, one day...
s. ‘Pavil’s a paviper! Paul’s a paviper!” réplidd the ©
maspi¢. 3
9. “Oh you silly bird!” cridd Jenny.
10. ‘I’m a jackdaw! I’m a jackdaw!” said he.
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u. “No, you’'r¢ not,” said Jénny. “You'r¢ only a

silly magpi¢.”
12 “Jélly and jam! Jélly and jam!” cridd the
magpi¢.
13. “ But where’s the bedn-stalk?” said Jénny.
14. “Put salt on it! Put salt on it!” réplidd the
bird.
1s. “‘Yes, I svéss that’s the way they eav¢ht you,”
said Jénny. ‘They put salt on your tail.”
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LESSON XIV.
Harry’s ‘“ Good-Night!”

h wh

1. Harry had been hélping his mother all day. It

was almost bedtim¢, and he was tir¢d.
2. He had chdpp¢d the meat for the hash. He had
whipp¢d the créAm and bak¢d the biickwheat-eak¢s.
3. He had brought in eighté¢n héAvy pails of water.
He had whittl¢dd a stick to st6p a halé in the pimp.
4 He had drivén the héjfers to the fjéld in the
morning. He had brovght them back at night.
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s. He had héld the baby whil¢ mother gdt the dinner |
réAdy. He had fed the héns and drivgn away a
chickén-hawk.
6. He had whistl¢d happily at his work most of the _
ay day. He liked to ké¢p
busy. Mother said he —
-was the best hélper she
had.
7. All the work was
finish¢d up now. Mother
said she would: play for
him awhil¢ on the organ.
She said he might li¢
down and rest.
a Harry féll aslé¢p
and dréam¢d he was in ©
héavén. He thovght the
drgan was playdd by angéls with whit¢é wings.
2. It was his mother playing swe¢gt hYmyps. At
léngth she stdppéd and closdd the érgan.
ao. Then she wakénéd Harry and sént him to bed.
She follow¢d him for the good-night kiss. Beforé she
léft him, she ttickéd him up nicely.
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11. Harry was almést too tirdd and ce to know

who it was. But he manag¢d to whisper, “‘ Good-night,
mother.”

LESSON XV.

The April Show er.

ou ow

1. “ Rajn, rajn, go away;

Come again another day.”

2 That was what Gédreé Brown said one day in

April. The clouds had gather¢dd just as he wanted to
go out. And now the tiny drops were pattering upon
the sid¢-walk. It was about four o’clock.
3 His kit¢ was all réddy. The string was wound
neatly around the stick. The tail had plént¥ of paper
bdbs in it. He had mad¢ that tail him sélf.
a. His kit¢é was a handsome red and whit¢ one. It
had a gilt crown and a rainbow on it. The sticks were
thin. G¢drg¢ knew it must be a good fifer.
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s. And now the ground was wet, and the sky was
wetter.
s “Such wédther!” cridd G¢orgd.
7 “No doubt the dicks hke it, ” said his sister
Hélén.
a “I’m not a
dick, and I don’t
Want 9tO) ae
drown¢dd,” said
Géored. “And I
don’t want to get
my new kité wet
éither. And I
don’t want to stay
in the hous¢. This
rain would make
any féllow growl.”
98 AY ets. it
would provok¢ a:
saint,” said Hélén.
“Let’s both growl togéther. Or, you growl whil¢ I
howl.”
10. “That would make a pretty row,” said G¢drg¢.
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“But I fé¢l too créss to jok¢ about it. I hate thés¢

showery days! I’m going up to bed.”
1. He shiffldd off stilkily up the hall. It was not
long be for¢ he had his nightgown on. Then he réally
&dt in to bed.
iz. In a little whilé Hélén tiptd¢dd up to his bedsidé.
1s. ‘“‘ Dédr, sick brother! ’’ she whisperdd. “You have
been so ill! You were talking wildly just a little
whil¢g ago. You frown¢d and whindd and be havdd véry
oddly. But you are resting éAsily, now. Have edtirage,
and you will get well.”
14. Hélén was gl ways doing and say ing funny things.
Géore¢ képt still to see what éls¢ she would say.
1s. “ How drowsy you are sincg¢ your long illness!”
she wént on. “The féver broyght you véry low. But
your brow is no longer hot.”
ic. She lajd her hand upon his foréhedd as she spok¢.
Then she wént to the tabl¢.
17. “IT must give you an ounc¢ of this powder,” she
said. “I suppds¢é a pound would be bétter.” |
18. She tridd to put some of the powder in to Gdérg¢’s
mouth, At this he gigeldd.
az “Qh Hélén!” he gcridd. “Do you think I am
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going to take that raw flour? What are you prowling

around here for, any way?”
20. “ There!” said Hélén, ‘I Knew you would be well
beford long. You don’t né¢d the powder now. [ll
make dov¢h of it for the fowls. Here is a towél to
wip¢ your lips.
a. “ But you don’t know what has happ¢n¢d! The
south wind has blown the clouds away. A thousand
sunbeams are shining in the glisténing rajndrdps.
There is a gloridus rajn bow in the éAstern sky. Hurry
on your trousers and come see it.”’
22. It did not take G¢éore¢ lén¢ to be dr&ésséd again.
The rain boy was gdn¢ when he reach¢d the édst porch.
But the sk¥ was bts
23. He rémajindd for a momént looking up and down
the strédt. On one sid¢ of the road were many piiddl¢s.
Thés¢ would wet hisay tail if it happ¢éndd to drag in
them.
24. The other sid¢g was higHer. It had alréAd¥ be come
pretty dry. G¢orgé thought he might ke¢p to that sidé
of the rodd.
25. ‘‘'There’s still tim¢ to try my kit¢ be ford supper,”
said he. And off he wént with it.
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LESSON XVI.

Ruth and her Garden.

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1. There grew two rosés in the light,

Ho! the wind and the wédther!
And one was red and one was whit¢,
And they shon¢ in the sun to géther.
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2 The two rosés

grew in Ruth May’s
garden. Ruth was a
Jewish majdén. She
was fond of flowers
and had many pretty
rosés.
3 She képt the
rogts well water¢d.
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a. Ryth word one at her throat every Evéning. She

liked the red ones best. That was beeays¢é she was a
brunstt¢.
5. She tended her flowers all the fordéng¢n.
«. She prundd her vin¢gs and bushés. She rémov¢d
all the wedds. She lodséndd the ground about the
tender shodts. She improvéd the shap¢s of the flower
beds.
7. She had a bed of lili¢és of the vallé¥y. This was
shap¢d like a horse sho¢.
s. She had some gods¢bérry bushés. There was one
ever grédén tréd for shad¢. It was a spruc¢. Under it,
there was a nice gréén bénch.
9. The garden was pretty, évén by mo¢nlight. It
was a eo¢l placéd summer évén ings, too.
10. Mr. May and his dayghter oftén had supper in the
garden. Ruth would sét the tabl¢é under the spruc¢
trée¢. She was a good little hous¢ké¢p er. Mr. May
was véry proud of her.
u. Mr. May k&pt a jewélry stor¢. There were some >
handsome rubi¢s in his show-eas¢.
iz, Ruth admirdd her flowers more than all the
jewels.
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LESSON XVII.

What the Winds Bring.

. Which is the wind that brings the eold?

The north wind, Fred; and it brings the snow,
The she¢p will seamper in to the fold,
When the north wind be Zins to blow.

ND . Which is the wind that brings the het?

The south wind, Katy, and corn will grow,
And peachés redd¢n for you to eat,
When the south wind be gins to blow.

3. Which is the wind that brings the rain?

The éAst wind, Fanny, and farmers know
That cows come shiv’ring up the lan¢,
When the éAst wind begins to blow.

. Which is the wind that brings the flow’rs?

The west wind, Béssi¢, and sdft and low,
The birds sing in the summer bow’rs,
When the west wind be gins to blow.
—KE. C. Stedman.
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LESSON XVIII.

The Wogd Vio let.

| 0) u ful |

ge

1A bashful violet livéd in a wodd. A chéérful

little brodk sang né@ar it.
2. A eodper’s woddén hit stodd at no grdat distane¢.
The violet could hear the eodper at his work. He was
al ways putting hogps on barrels.
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3. It was a pédcéful nodk where the violet spént her

lifé. She grew behind some frjend ly rocks.
a. Some tim¢s the playful wogd-mice eam¢ to visit
her. She could shad¢ them nicely with her broad
léavés.
s. Some tim¢s a be¢tlé or a lad¥-btg eam¢ that way.
The vidlet wélcomed them all.
6. Once a wild rabbit brish¢d rud¢ly by.
He shogk all her léav¢s. He nédrly brok¢
a stém or two.
7. “Never mind,” said the violet, “he ."-%,|
knows no bétter.” And she bént kindly over ae
the bigs and be¢tl¢s and wo¢d-mice again.
s. Sodn a more dréAdful thing than this happ¢n¢d.
A eaterpillar crawl¢d over one of her léavés. When he
eam¢ to a good plag¢, he be gan to eat the léaf.
9. “Oh dédr!” cridd the vidlet, for this didn’t fée¢l a
bit good. But she didn’t say any thing about a “ horrid
eaterpillar.”’
10. She knew the eaterpilldr would sodn spin him sélf
a edeggn. Then he would stdp making hol¢s in her
lédves.
uu. When simmer eam¢ again the edeg¢n would op¢n.
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A gorgédus butterfly would come out. The butterfly

would hélp the vidlets to grow and seatter seed.
12. ‘“ Butterfli¢s hélp vidlets,” she said to hersélf.
“Violets ought to be grateful and hélp butter fli¢s.”
13. So she héld her leaf stéady, and the eaterpillar
nib bléd away.
14. One day, Little Red Ridinghodd eam¢ that way.
She was on her way to her grand mother’s. She had a
bunch of wild flowers in her hand. That was be for¢
she mét the wolf.
1s. She spi¢dd the mddest little violet behind the
rick. She pushdd asid¢ the lédvés and pulléd every
blossém.
is. “Oh, how plédsdd my grandmother will be with
thés¢ violets!” said she.
17. Kach bléssém gav¢ a grdat sdb as it léft its mother.
is. ‘‘We shall never see our dédAr mother again,’’
sigi¢d the pogr things. ‘We shall never see our dédr
bigs and be¢tl¢és any more. The wo¢gd-mice will look —
up and see only léAvés. We shall never come back to
our pédcdful woddland home.
19. ‘We don’t like the warmth of Little Red Rid ing-
ho¢d’s hand. It is not good for us. It makes us dro¢gp
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and sickén. She will put us into a vas¢é of water.

That will réfrésh us, but only for a little whil¢é. We
can not livé long away from our mother.”’
zo. The mother plant staydd at home and mdyrndd.
Téars eam¢ from the brok¢n stéms.
ai. ‘‘ My childrén are all gdn¢,” she said in sorrowful
ton¢ds. “It is véry sad and lon¢ly here with out them.
I can have no more this séAsén. I may as well go to
slé¢p for the winter.”
22. So she withdrew the lif¢é from the léav¢s. They
sodn drogpéd and witheréd. Then they dri¢d and be-
eam¢ brown. When the rabbit eam¢ bound ing by again,
they crackléd un der his fé¢t.
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LESSON XIX.
A drift.

1 Iam not Rdbinsén Cruso¢. I wish I were. Cru:

so¢ found an igland to livé on. I don’t see any land
at all.
2. Yesterday this was all dry land. In the night
the water eam¢ and overflow¢dd everything. Look at
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my owner’s hous¢.
I ran there to get
away from the
water.
3. This sho¢ was
in the porch. My
owner al ways puts
his sho¢s there.
4. The water fdl-
low¢d me into the
porch. I jtimp¢d up on this sho¢ to ké¢p dry.
s. Mord and mor¢ water eam¢ in. {[t could not wet
the tdp of the shed. It could only lift the sho¢. The
sho¢ rosé with the water and floated out of the porch.
e. It makes a good boat, but what placd shall I sail
to? There is no one at home. Every one wént away
in bodts. The séednd story is full of water.
7. They eall this eduntry Hodlland. They say this
piéc¢ of it was stolen. Stolen from the séa. I think.
the séa has got it back again.
s. | wish they had not stdlen it. Then I might have
been born some where éls¢. What is going to become
of me?
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ES LESSON XX.
The Dragén Fly.
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1, Oh dédr!
I am so fright¢éndd! This is the
strangest plac¢ I ever was in. How shall I ever get
out again?
2. | eim¢ in at one of thos¢ big opdénings. When
I tridd to fly out again, something stdppdd me. I
could not see it, but I could fé¢l it.
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3. It gdt right in my way. I btimpdd against it over

and over again. The bimping mad¢ me giddy.
4 Dédar me! Iam so tirdd! I shall have to rest or
I shall drop.
5. I wili séttl¢é on this ddd-looking thing on the
wall. What’s the matter with the old thing, any
how? It says tick-tock, tick-tdck, all the tim¢. I
think it must be giddy too. But it doesn’t seem to
get tirdd.

6. What ails thids¢ childrén? What makes them

cré¢p under thos¢ things? I do be liév¢ they’r¢ afraid
of me!
7. Now isn’t that a good jok¢! Such giants as they
are to féar little me! If they only knew how afrajd I
am of them! .
s. Well, they will not harm me; that’s clédr. They
are too badly frighténéd to évén ty. Now I can think
what to do.

9. Why, there’s that mosquito I eam¢ in here for.

I'll eXfch him and eat him. Then I'll try to findmy
way out.
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10. I'll not bump my hédad any mord. Oh no! I

know too much for that now. Ill just crawl over that
thing that stops me. By and by, I’ll come to the hol¢
where I got in. Then out I'll go and away Ill fly to
the méadoys.
11. There I shall find plént¥ of mosquitos. I do like
mosquitos. I mefn I like to ding on them. They say
mén hate them. Then mén ought to like me. I kill
SO many mosquitos for them.
12. | wish I could spéak. Id tell thos¢ childrén what
a friend Iam to them. Then they would not féar me
so much.

iz. Why, my déar Mr. Mosquito! You are here just

in tim¢g. My fright is over, and I am htngry. Now I
have you.
14. Your singing and biting are finishéd. There!
Now you are finish¢d your-sélf. No one will ever li¢
awak¢é for you, again. |
15. Well, well! Here’s the vér¥ hol¢ I eimé¢ in at.
Now I think [ll be off. Good-by, silly childrén. I’m
as happy to go as you are to have me go. You will
never see me here again.
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LESSON XXI.

The Turkey’s Mis givings.

Turkey Thanksgiving

1. Gdb bl¢, Bb bl¢, Bb bI¢! They say Thanksgiving

Day is coming. I’d like to know what that medns.
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2. The childrén
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wish it were here.
3 The other
/fowls don’t seem
to think much about it. I think they dght to.
a. Yes, we must find out what is going on. I think
I will eall a me¢ting of fowls. The pig, too, shall
Attend if he likes.
s. I will get up on that sttimp and make a spé¢ch.
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I will tell my friends what I think. I will say I fédr

we are in danger. I will state what we showld do.

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6. My good friends, I am glad to see you all here.

Mr. Pig is not a fowl, but he is welcome. I wish to
have a short talk with you.
7. You have all heard this chatter about Thanks-
giving Day. I want to find out what it means. I am
going to try. I think you 6¥ght to hélp me.
s. I fédr we are all in gréat danger. Pédpl¢ look at
me in a way I do not like. So they do at you.
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». Jack had some thym¢ in his hand yesterday. He

lookéd at it and then at me. Then he said some thing
about Thanksgiving. Tnen he smack¢d his lips.
10. May was pathering sag¢ the other day. She
lookéd from it to Mrs. Geds¢. Then she look¢d from.
Mrs. Goe¢ds¢ to the sag¢. Then she said, “I don’t know
how to wait.” Then she smick¢d her lips and si¢gh¢d.
11. Td6m was picking up apples one day. Mr. Pig
was rogting in the ground néar by. Tom was talking
to mmsélf. I heard roast and apple-savg¢d. Then he,
too, smick¢d his lips.
12. | féar that all this means some thing véry sad for
us. Indééd, I almést Know it does. I begin to think
that thés¢ pédpléd mean to eat us.
is. Now let us all listén to every thing they say. Then
some of us will find out what they medn. If I am
right, we shall se¢gn Know it.
14. Then we will run away to the wodds. There we
can livé in pédc¢d. We shall have to work for our fo¢d,
of eours¢. It will not be brovght to us, as it is here.
We shall not have a ro¢f over our hédds at night. But
there will be something to make up for all this. We
shall never again her of Thanksgiving Day.
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LESSON XXII.
The Mischi¢évdus Puppy¢s.

yard watch

1, Qnce upon a tim¢ there were two little dogs.

They were nam¢d Jippy and Jimmy. They livéd in
a limber yard. It was né@r the river by a dock.
2. The mother of the puppiés was an Irish sétter.
She was képt in the yard, beeayséd she was a good
watch-dog. She was chajndd to her kénn¢gl. This
was a home for her and her childrén.
3. The puppi¢s play¢d closé by. They never thought
of running away. They had never seen anything but
limber. They did not know there was anything éls¢
to see.
4. One day the mother dog had to go away with
her owner. She did not like to léAv¢é her puppi¢s.
She féardd they would get into mischi¢f whilé she was
away.
5. And so, indé¢d, they did. They found a way out
of the yard, and ran off to the dock. There they saw
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some légs flodting in the water. They thovght it

would be fun to play on them.
6. So it was for a little whilé. They jimp¢d about,
full of glé¢. They barkéd with délight. They snifféd
at every thing they saw.
7. But they so¢gn tirdd of all this. Then they play¢d
as they did in the limber yard. They wréstléd and
tri¢dd to throw each other down.
s. This was too much for the logs. One of them
rolléd over. Sous¢d wént the puppies into the water.
They were dréddfully frightén¢dd. They had never.
been so wet and eold.
9. Such looking puppi¢s as they were when they
clamberéd out! Dripping and shivering they started
for home. All the way they ran, crying ki-i, ki.
10. When they reach¢dd home, they sho¢k them sélv¢s
well. Then they lay down in the sun. This dri¢dd
them, and they féll aslé¢ép. When they awdk¢, the
mother dog was home.
u. They told her all that had hippén¢d. She kiss¢dd
them both, dog fashign. Then she said, ‘“‘ You were
nayghtY to run away.” At this they whindd. Then
she added, “But you were good not to get drown¢d.”
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1 Sadi¢ Russ¢ll is a little city girl. She livés in

what is ealldd a flat. The hous¢ is a véry tall one.
Tén famili¢ds can liv¢é in it.
2. Hach flat is a whol¢d flodr. Each has sévén rogms.
Sadi¢ has a little bedrodm all to herself. She thinks
this véry fing. But there are some other things that
she does not like so well.
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3. She has to ké¢p véry still all the tim¢. The

landlord will not let her roémp. The pégpl¢ in the
other flats would not like to her her.
a. She cannot play in the halls or on the stoop.
And there is no garden to play in. Her only play-
plag¢ is the rodf. This, however, is mad¢ saf¢ for the
childrén.
s. There is a railing like a fénc¢ all around it. So
there is no danger that they will fall off.
6. The rogf is mad¢ of tin. There is a flodr of slats
lajd on it. This is to run about upon.
7. The childrén can play at hidé and seek. They
hidé behind the chimn¢ys. They can play tag, too,
and many other gam¢s. But they cannot play on the
rodf when the sun is hot.
s. Sadi¢ likes the kifch¢n almost as well as the ro¢f.
She says it is the livdliest redm in the flat. There is
always something going on there.
9. There is a pretty béll on the kifchén wall. Be- |
néath it is a buttén. When the béll sounds, the
little girl runs to the kitch¢n. She préssés the buttdn.
This op¢ns the stré¢t dogr. Sadi¢ knows that some
one is wajting there to come in.
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10. Sogn she hears another béll. Then she runs to

the hall dogr. She dopéns it and lets the ealler in.
11. Some tim¢s Sadi¢ hers
a loud whistl¢. This, too, is
in the kifchén. It mens
“Come to the dim} wajter.”
Sadi¢ :uns, but the eo¢dk is
there befor¢é her.
iz. The dim} wajter is a
little cldsét. Most closéts
stand still. This one goes
up and down from the top
of the hous¢ to the béttdm.
It is movéd by a ropé¢.
iz. The eodk ealls down,
“Who is it?” Some timé¢s
it is the grocer. He plagés
the groceri¢s in the dim 777): (iii)
wajter. The eo¢k pullsthem 7/;\7
up and ealls out, “All right!”
14. One day, the eo¢gk put Sadi¢ in the dim} wajter.
She let her all the way down, and then pull¢d her
up again.
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1s. “TI want to go higher,” said Sadi¢. So the eook

pulléd the rop¢. Up wént the little girl to the top
of the hous¢. Then the eo¢k let her down again and
todk her Off.
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LESSON XXIV.

The Little Eskimo.

1. This little boy is an Eskimo. He livés a gr¢at

way north of us.
2. It is véry¥ eold there. The boy’s cloth¢s, you see,
are mad¢ of skins. They are much warmer than our
cloth¢s.
3. The whit¢é mound you see, is his home. It is
mad¢é of snow. That is all there is to byild with in
his eguntry.
« One would think that the snow housés would
mélt. But they never do.
s. The Eskimo eats meat and fish. Th&s¢ are not
eodk¢d for him as our fodd is for us.
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s. His father eitchés sédls. Thésd animals livé in

the water. He ea&fchés some land animals, too. He
also eXtchés fish. Thés¢ are all for fodd. He spends
most of his tim¢ in this way.

7. This little boy sometim¢s goes out riding. He

has dogs for horses. The dogs are big and powerful.
s. The Eskimos always livéd nédr the water. The
water has ice over it, or in it, évén in simmer.
9. The Eskimo likes to livé where it is eold. You
think this strang¢, I suppos¢.
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10. Well, you like to livé where it is warm. Now

he would think that strang¢d if he knew it. But he
does not know anything about it. He is a little
sivag¢.
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