66 VOWEL EXERCISE. pâir hâir €âre thêre STORY OF THE BEES. Frank, I am going to drive my new pair of horses. Do you wish to go with me?" "O yes. 66 "Yes. May Jane go, too?" We will go out to see Fred and look at his bees." The horses went very fast and were soon there. 66 'O here are the bees! Jane. papa'?" 66 66 "Do they live in this box, Yes, Jane. The box is a hive.” Why is that hole in the hive? "It is there so that the bees may go in and out, and have air." 66 Do not be afraid, Jane," said her papa'. "It will not hurt your hair. Keep very still and it will fly away." Let pupils write the "Vowel Exercise," using proper marks. 66 STORY OF THE BEES-Continued. Look,. papa', here is one on my arm," said Frank, "and one on my hat, too.". 66 'Well, if you keep very still, they will not harm you." But Frank did not mind what his papa' said. He hit one of the bees with his hat and ran off. The bees did not like this, and stung him. "O, O, papa'! What shall I do?" Run into the barn and get away from them," said Jane. So Frank ran and hid, but Jane stood still, as her papa' had told her. Bees were on her arm and hair, but as she did not move, they soon left her. "You see, Jane," said papa', “the bees will not sting if you do not harm them." LANGUAGE LESSON. Who went to see the bees ? In what do the bees live? Why did the bees sting Frank? Why does the hive have a hole in it? Answers to these questions, whether oral or written, should be in complete sentences. |