"I should think they would take cold after the wool is off," said Ned. 66 No, Ned," said Frank. "They shear sheep only when it is warm, as it is now. The wool grows very fast, and by winter they have a warm coat again." LANGUAGE LESSON. Let pupils copy the following sentences, filling the blanks with the words is, are, boy, and boys. This boy — good. to This is good. These are good. That is tall Those are tall ROVER AND THE SQUIRREL. Here are Rover and Bunny. is very fond of Ned. He He is fond of nuts, too, and Ned gives him some every day. Bunny can hold the nuts in his paws, and crack them with his strong teeth. When he does not want to eat the nuts, he hides them under the dry leaves in the yard, and pats them down with his little paws. Bunny likes to get out of his cage, and play in the tall grass, and run up into the trees. A squirrel has sharp claws, and can run up into a tree very fast. One day Bunny was running in the grass and heard a dog bark. He stood up on his hind legs and saw that Rover, the dog, was near him. Bunny does not like dogs, so up he went into a tree. As a dog does not have sharp claws, Rover could not run up into the tree after Bunny. All he could do was to stand up, with his paws on the tree, and bark at Bunny. But Bunny was not afraid. He knew that Rover could not get up into the tree. Ned heard Rover bark, and when he found that he was after his tame squirrel, he made him go away. Poor Bunny was glad to come down from the tree and go into his cage. LANGUAGE LESSON. Let pupils give answers, whether oral or written, in complete sentences. How does a squirrel crack nuts? Why can a squirrel run up into a tree? Why can not a dog run up into a tree? How many feet has a squirrel? Where did you ever see a squirrel ? |