Talking with the Pencil: Primary Lessons in LanguageAmerican Book Company, 1898 - 128 pages |
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Talking With the Pencil: Primary Lessons in Language (Classic Reprint) William Swinton No preview available - 2017 |
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action-word ends Apples ball bee makes honey begin birds blackboard boat busy bee called capital letter caps cat's eye column comma Copy and learn Copy the words dark dear Draw a line elephant exclamation eyes danced Farmers raise fill the blank flowers FRANCIS DAY Frank and Ida full name George George Washington Girls given name groups of words head hive honey horse Ida Lewis interrogation point kind of letters LESSON lily lion little birdie look monkeys month mouse names of persons names of places names of things nest oral picture plant plural number possessive form pretty proper name pupils queen bee REVIEW QUESTIONS robin rose sailor salutation singular number story sweet TEACHER TOPIC twinkle words are names words that show Write a question Write a sentence Write answers Write statements telling Write the names
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Page 35 - Some of the starry spikes left in. Where did you get that little tear ? I found it waiting when I got here. What makes your forehead so smooth and high t A soft hand stroked it as I went by. What makes your cheek like a warm white rose I
Page 70 - They drive home the cows from the pasture, Up through the long shady lane, Where the quail whistles loud in the wheat fields, That are yellow with ripening grain. They find in the thick waving grasses Where the scarlet-lipped strawberry grows; They gather the earliest snowdrops, And the first crimson buds of the rose.
Page 76 - 4. The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast, And the woods against a stormy sky, Their giant branches tossed.
Page 40 - Come, little leaves," said the wind one day, " Come o'er the meadows with me, and play. Put on your dresses of red and gold. Summer is gone and the days grow cold.
Page 80 - and greenest, Where the hazel bank is steepest, Where the shadow falls the deepest, — Up the water and over the lea: That 's the way for Billy and me.
Page 80 - Where the blackbird sings the latest, Where the hawthorn blooms the sweetest, Where the mowers mow the cleanest, Where the hay lies thickest and greenest,
Page 57 - you If I could fly ; It must be so beautiful Why, little birdie — Why don't you go ? You sit on my finger, And shake your head " No!" He 's off! Oh, how quickly And gladly he rose ! I know he will love me Wherever he goes.
Page 57 - Good-bye, little birdie! Fly to the sky, Singing and singing A merry good-bye. Tell all the birdies Flying above, Nell in the garden Sends them her love. Tell how I found you Hurt in a tree, Then, when they 're wounded, They
Page 56 - A man of words, and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds.
Page 34 - Out of the sky as I came through. What makes the light in them sparkle and spin