What is the name of this bird? Of what shape is its body? With what is the body covered? How is the skin of the duck protected from moisture?

What kind of bill has the duck? Legs? Where are the legs placed? Describe the feet.

What does the duck do? On what does it largely feed? Why is the duck useful to us?

Write a description of the duck.

MEMORY LESSON.

A man of kindness to his beast is kind,
But brutal actions show a brutal mind;

Remember He who made thee, made the brute;
Who gave thee speech and reason formed him mute.
He can't complain, but God's all-seeing eye
Beholds thy cruelty and hears his cry-

He was designed thy servant, not thy drudge;
And know that his creator is thy judge.

Lesson 55.-On what is the bird at the top of the picture sitting? What is it doing? With what is it holding to the branch?

What is near the bottom of the picture? What are in it?

Unite the answers to the fourth

and fifth questions; thus, Near the

bottom of the picture is a nest in which, etc.

What is on the edge of the nest? What do you think she intends to do? What does she give them

to eat?

Is not a bird's-nest full of young birds a pretty sight? Is it not cruel to rob a bird's-nest?

Complete this sentence.

Birds .... happy cheerful

with ....

tuneful, ...... make us ......

Lesson 56.- Write the story of this poem in prose, as in

the model below.

THE GIRL AND THE ROBIN.

There came to my window
One morning in spring,
A sweet little robin;

She came there to sing.

And the tune that she sang,
It was prettier far

Than ever was heard

On the flute or guitar.

Her wings she was spreading

To soar far away;

Then resting a moment,
Seemed sweetly to say,
"Oh happy, how happy
This world seems to be!
Awake, little girl,

And be happy with me!"

THE GIRL AND THE ROBIN.

One morning in spring a sweet little robin came to my window to sing.

No one ever heard, on flute or guitar, a prettier song. She spread her wings to fly away. Then she stopped for a moment, as if she would speak to me. "Wake up, little girl," I thought she said, "All the world is happy. Wake up, and be happy with me."

Write the story of "The Girl and the Robin" in your own language.

Lesson 57.-Sitting on the floor; in his left hand holds a block, while with his right about to place one on his castle, which is at his side; five blocks lie on the floor in front of him.

Do you think the boy is having a happy time?

This picture represents a little boy playing with blocks.

Where is the boy? What has he in his left hand? What is he doing with his right hand? Where is the castle? What lie on the floor? Are they behind him? Ask a question about the boy.

Write a description of the picture.

Lesson 58.-Harry at Play.

When Harry was four years old, his sister gave him a box of blocks. As soon as he got the blocks he went to his room to play.

Harry sat on the floor and made a house with a tower on the top, and steps coming down to the floor. called the house his castle.

Soon his sister came into the room. said Harry, "see my pretty castle.

like the one we saw in the picture?"

He

"Oh, Minnie,' Doesn't it look

Just then down went the castle, tower, steps, and all, with a crash. The blocks were scattered all over the floor.

Harry and Minnie laughed heartily over the mishap, and then went to work to build it up again.

After reading the story carefully, write it from memory.

Lesson 59.-Perseverance.

Soon after a snow-storm, a little boy began to shovel a path through a great snow-bank before his grandmother's door. He had nothing but a small shovel to work with.

"How do you expect to get through that drift?" asked a man passing by.

"By keeping at it," said the boy cheerfully.

'By keeping at it" is the secret of mastering almost every difficulty.

Read the above story carefully, then write it in your own words.

If by easy work you beat,

Who the more will prize you?
Gaining victory from defeat-

That's the test that tries you!