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९९ abbreviations adjectives Æsop Alcott aloud answer apostrophe Ask your classmates begin bird Bob-o'-link called capital letter CATHERINE JUDD Cercyon chee classmates questions comma Correct Usage Correction Exercise correctly Cratchit deer Dictation Exercise dictionary difference eyes fable father Fido following sentences girls give goggie greeting Group Exercise groups of words Hans Andersen HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN hear HENRY W Hiawatha horse Iagoo Ichabod interesting John John Poe learned Letter Writing Literature and Composition little boy Longfellow look meaning Medea Midas mistakes mother nest never nouns Oral Exercise paragraphs picture poem preceding pupils quotation rain red-headed woodpecker Robinson Crusoe sandpiper second sentence Sheik Chilli show possession speaking Spink squaws stanza story Story-Telling teacher tell the class tences Theseus things thought Tiny Tim told tree verbs Written Exercise
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Page 238 - ... lines. Hats off! The colors before us fly; But more than the flag is passing by...
Page 9 - IT was six men of Indostan To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them were blind), That each by observation Might satisfy his mind. The First approached the Elephant, And happening to fall Against his broad and sturdy side, At once began to bawl: "God bless me! but the Elephant Is very like a wall!
Page 302 - And could only follow with the eye That joyous crowd at the Piper's back. But how the Mayor was on the rack, And the. wretched Council's bosoms beat, As the Piper turned from the High Street To where the Weser rolled its waters Right in the way of their sons and daughters! However he turned from South to West, And to Koppelberg Hill his steps addressed, And after him the children pressed; Great was the joy in every breast. 'He never can cross that mighty top! He's forced to let the piping drop, And...
Page 181 - How beautiful is the rain! After the dust and heat, In the broad and fiery street, In the narrow lane, How beautiful is the rain! How it clatters along the roofs, Like the tramp of hoofs! How it gushes and struggles out From the throat of the overflowing spout! Across the window pane It pours and pours; And swift and wide, With a muddy tide, Like a river down the gutter roars The rain, the welcome rain!
Page 287 - He saw at a distance the lordly Hudson, far, far below him, moving on its silent but majestic course, with the reflection of a purple cloud, or the sail of a lagging bark, here and there sleeping on its glassy bosom, and at last losing itself in the blue highlands.
Page 150 - ... gush of stuffing issued forth, one murmur of delight arose all round the board, and even Tiny Tim, excited by the two young Cratchits, beat on the table with the handle of his knife, and feebly cried Hurrah ! There never was such a goose.
Page 241 - He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weathercock perched upon his spindle neck, to tell which way the wind blew.
Page 297 - Oh for a trap, a trap, a trap!" Just as he said this, what should hap At the chamber door but a gentle tap? "Bless us," cried the Mayor, "what's that?