about him. O what a wretched place it was! Against the sides of the cave, stood long rows of boys and girls, with very sorry faces, all of them saying over as fast as they could speak, "Going to, going to!" "Wait a bit, wait a bit!" Pretty soon, pretty soon!" "In a minute, in a minute!" studying the names just as hard as if they were lessons. 66 There were Delays, and Tardys, and Putoffs, with ever so many more; and in a corner by themselves, and looking more unhappy than all the rest, were the poor little fellows whose names were "Too late." Directions for Reading.-Pupils should read loud enough for all the class to hear them. The words forming a quotation should usually be spoken in a louder tone than the other words in the lesson, as "Johnny," said his mamma, one day, "will you bring me armful of wood?" an Language Lesson.-Divide into syllables, accent, and mark the sounds of the letters in the following words: Carlo, armful, mountain, unwind. What two words can be used for each of the following: I'm, didn't, let's, you're, isn't, won't? What other words could be used instead of got (page 16, line 4)? Proper names should begin with capital letters: as, Johnny, Carlo. Give three other words used as proper names in this lesson. "No, you don't," said Wait-a-bit. "You don't care much about her, and this is really where you belong. This is the kingdom of Procrastination, and yonder comes the king." "The kingdom of what?" said Johnny, who had never heard such a long word in his life before. But just then he heard a heavy footfall, and a great voice that sounded like a roar, saying, "Has he come? Did you get him?" "Yes, here he is," said Wait-a-bit, “and he'd just been saying it a little while before we picked him up." Johnny looked up and saw a monstrous giant, with a bright green body and red legs, and a yellow head and two horrid coal-black eyes. "Let me have him," said the giant. So he took him up just as if he had been a rag baby, and looked him all over, turning him from side to side, and from head to feet. O but Johnny was frightened, and expected every moment to be swallowed! "Let's see," said the giant; "he always says 'Pretty soon.' No, that isn't it. What is it, my fine fellow, that you always say to your mamma when she asks you to do anything for her? "It isn't "Pretty soon,' nor 'In a minute.' What is it? They all mean about the same thing, to be sure, and bring everybody to me in the end; but I must know exactly, or I can't put you in the right place." Johnny hung his head, and did not want to tell; but an extra hard poke of the giant's big finger made him open his mouth and say with shame, that he always said, "I'm going to." "O that's it!" said the giant. "Well, then, you stand there." So he unwound a bit of the web from his fingers-just enough so that he could hold the Procrastinator's Primer-and stood him at the end of a long row of children, who were saying over and over again, just as fast as they could speak, "Going to, going to, going to, going to," just that, and nothing else in the world. Johnny was tired and hungry by this time, and longed to see his mamma, thinking that, if he could only get back to her, he would always mind the very moment she told him to do anything. He made a great many good resolutions while he stood there. At last the giant called him to come and say his lesson. "You shall have a short one to-day," said he, "and need say it only a thousand times, because it is your first day here. To-morrow, you must say it a million." Johnny tried to step forward, but the web was still about his feet, so he fell with a bang to the floor. Just then he opened his eyes to find that he had rolled from the rock to the grass, and that mamma was calling him in a loud voice to come to supper, and this time he didn't say, "I'm going to.” Directions for Reading.-The words in quotation marks should be read in the same manner as in Lesson I. Read words in dark type in the following sentences with more force than the other words: "Has he come? Did you get him?" Words that are read more forcibly than other words in a sentence are called emphatic words. Which are the emphatic words in the following sentences? "You shall have a short one to-day." "I must know exactly." Language Lesson.-Divide into syllables, accent, and mark the sounds of the letters in the following words: extra, primer, moment, coal-black. LESSON III. re märk'a ble, worthy of notice; unusual. moisture, wetness; that which makes wet. ab sôrbed', sucked up; drunk up. with'er, lose freshness. stärched, stiffened, as with ģērm, that from which the plant pearance; very preity. elåsped, surrounded; inclosed. THE BEAN AND THE STONE. “I think I ought to be doing something in the world!" said a little voice out in the garden. |