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If you are not located in the United States, you -will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before -using this eBook. - -Title: The Aldine readers: a second reader - -Authors: Frank E. Spaulding - Catherine T. Bryce - -Illustrator: Margaret Ely Webb - -Release Date: July 17, 2022 [eBook #68545] - -Language: English - -Produced by: hekula03 and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at - https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images - made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ALDINE READERS: A SECOND -READER *** - - - - - - -A SECOND READER - - - - - _THE ALDINE READERS_ - - A SECOND READER - - By - Frank E. Spaulding - Superintendent of Schools, Newton, Mass. - - and - - Catherine T. Bryce - Supervisor of Primary Schools, Newton, Mass. - - With Illustrations by - Margaret Ely Webb - - NEW YORK - NEWSON & COMPANY, PUBLISHERS - - _Copyright, 1907, by_ - NEWSON AND COMPANY - - _All rights reserved_ - -The authors and publishers desire to acknowledge their obligation to -Mr. NATHANIEL L. BERRY, Supervisor of Drawing in the Public Schools of -Newton, Massachusetts, for valuable assistance in planning and arranging -the illustrations in this book. - - - - -PREFACE - - -This Second Reader, like the two preceding books of the Aldine Series, -combines material and method in such a way that the former does not -suffer, while the latter gains by the combination. That is, the -subject-matter of the book, both the text and the illustrations, is just -as suitable and just as interesting as it could be made were there no -such thing as method; indeed, the sole sign of method, as one reads the -book, is the parenthesis about certain words preceding the stories. At -the same time, this subject-matter, both the text and the illustrations, -embodies in systematic arrangement the most effective principles of -mastering the mechanics of reading. - -Children who have read thoroughly the preceding books of this Series -have acquired independence, the habit of self-reliance, and the power of -self-help to such a degree that they will be able to master this book -with little or no direct aid from the teacher. And when they have thus -mastered this book, they will be good readers. That is, so far as the -mechanics of reading is concerned, they will be able to read unaided -anything which they can understand; so far as the subject-matter is -concerned, they will be able to understand from the printed page anything -which they can understand through the spoken word. More than this, if -the teacher has contributed her part, most such children will have -realized the utility and tasted the real delights of reading to such an -extent that they will continue to read of their own accord; most of them -will also be good oral readers, reading with appropriate expression and -genuine enthusiasm. - -These statements are not mere predictions of the hoped-for results of -untried theories; they are simple, unexaggerated expressions of facts -which have been observed in the work of thousands of children of a score -of nationalities. - -To secure such results a complete mastery and intelligent observation is -necessary of the principles and plans described in the authors’ _Manual -for Teachers_, entitled “Learning to Read.” - -The authors gratefully acknowledge their indebtedness to Miss Marie Van -Vorst for the use of “Three of us Know” and “The Sandman”; to Mrs. Emily -Huntington Miller for “The Bluebird”; to Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & -Co. for the use of the poem “Discontented,” by Sarah Orne Jewett, and -“Calling the Violet,” by Lucy Larcom; to Messrs. Charles Scribner’s Sons -for “The Wind,” by Robert Louis Stevenson. - - - - -CONTENTS - - - PAGE - OUT OF DOOR NEIGHBORS 1 - The Cat and the Birds 3 - Why Ravens Croak 6 - The Proud Crow 8 - The Wolf and the Kid 12 - Queer Chickens 17 - Little Ducks _Robert Mack_ 21 - - ONCE UPON A TIME 23 - The Caterpillar 25 - Who is Strongest? 27 - Lambikin 37 - The Ant and the Mouse 46 - - SONGS OF LIFE 51 - The Brook 53 - The Little Brook 55 - Calling the Violet _Lucy Larcom_ 59 - The Wind _Mary Lamb_ 61 - The Wind _Christina Rossetti_ 62 - The Wind _R. L. Stevenson_ 63 - The Leaf’s Journey 64 - Sweet and Low _Tennyson_ 69 - Sleep, Baby, Sleep! _From the German_ 70 - Stars and Daisies 71 - Lady Moon _Lord Houghton_ 73 - - WITH NATURE’S CHILDREN 75 - The Little Shepherdess 77 - Discontent _Sarah Orne Jewett_ 81 - Belling the Cat 84 - Three of us Know _Marie Van Vorst_ 91 - The Dandelion 93 - The Magpie’s Lesson 95 - The Bluebird _Mrs. Emily Huntington Miller_ 100 - The Wolf and the Stork 102 - The Indian Mother’s Lullaby _Charles Myall_ 103 - - IN STORY LAND 105 - How Mrs. White Hen helped Rose 107 - The Sandman _Marie Van Vorst_ 115 - Billy Binks 117 - - SOME THINGS TO THINK ABOUT 131 - When the Little Boy ran Away 133 - How the Bean got its Black Seam 138 - Friends _L. G. Warner_ 145 - Help One Another 147 - - WITH OUR FEATHERED FRIENDS 149 - The Drowning of Mr. Leghorn 151 - The Starving of Mrs. Leghorn 160 - Mr. and Mrs. Leghorn to the Rescue 172 - - VOCABULARY 179 - - - - -[Illustration: Out of Door Neighbors] - -[Illustration] - - -THE CAT AND THE BIRDS - - (hap py) - rap - - doc tor - - words - - door - -[Illustration] - -An old cat lived near a bird house. - -Every day he saw the birds flying in and out. - -Every day he said to himself, “How I wish I had one of those nice fat -birds for my dinner!” - -[Illustration] - -One day he heard that the birds were ill. - -“Now is my time,” he said. “I will get a bird to eat to-day.” - -So he put on a tall hat and a coat. - -He took a cane in one hand and a box of pills in the other. - -Then he went to the bird house and rapped at the door. - -“Who is there?” asked an old bird. - -“It is I, the doctor,” said the cat. “I heard that you were ill. So I -have come to see you. I have some pills that will make you well. Open the -door.” - -The old bird looked out. - -“Your words are kind,” he said, “like the words of the good doctor. Your -hat, coat, cane, and box of pills are like his. But your paws are those -of the old cat. Go away! We will not let you in. We do not want your -pills. We are more likely to get well without your help than with it.” - -Then all the birds flew at him. - -They pecked at his eyes; they pecked at his ears. - -[Illustration] - -They tore his coat. - -Away flew his high hat; away flew his cane; away flew his box of pills. - -Then away flew the old cat himself, and he never went back. - - -WHY RAVENS CROAK - - wash es - - wa ter - - pret ty - - (w eather) - f eather - - (ought) - th ought - - (am) - sw am - - swan - - use - -[Illustration] - -A raven was very unhappy because his feathers were black. - -One day he saw a beautiful white swan swimming in a lake. - -“How beautiful and white her feathers are,” he thought. “It must be -because she washes them so much. Why, she almost lives in the water. If I -should wash my feathers all day long, they might get white, too. I will -try it.” - -So he flew from his nest in the woods, and lived for days near the lake. - -Every day he washed his feathers from morning to night. - -But his feathers did not get white. - -They were just as black as ever. - -But as the raven was not used to living in water, he caught a very bad -cold. - -So, at last, he flew back to his nest in the wood. - -“It is no use,” he croaked. “I can never be white. I do not want to be -white. Black feathers are pretty enough for me. Croak! Croak!” - -All ravens have said “Croak! Croak!” ever since. - - -THE PROUD CROW - - (p ea) - sp eak - - l uck y - st uck - - laughed - - on ly - - (l oud) - pr oud - - (c ool) - f ool ish - - a mong - - steal - - (r ock) - pea c ock - - (n ot) - l ot - - (f ull) - p ull ed - -One day a crow found a lot of peacock feathers. - -“My,” cried the silly crow, “how lucky I am. No other crow in the world -will look as fine as I. How all my old friends will envy me!” - -And the proud crow stuck the peacock feathers all over his back. - -Then he flew away to show himself to his friends. - -He strutted up and down before them. - -But they only laughed at him. - -“Just look at that silly bird!” they cried. “See him strut! Did you ever -see anything so proud? Caw, caw, caw!” - -The proud crow was now very angry. - -“Do not speak to me,” he said. “I have fine feathers. I am a peacock. I -will have nothing to do with you crows.” - -[Illustration] - -So off he strutted to the peacocks. - -“How do you do, my dear friends?” he said in his sweetest voice. - -“Who are you?” cried the peacocks scornfully. - -[Illustration] - -“Do you not see that I am a peacock?” answered the crow. “Look at my fine -feathers.” - -“Fine feathers, indeed! We threw those old feathers away long ago. You -are no peacock. Yon are just an old black crow.” - -Then the peacocks fell upon the old crow, and pulled off all his fine -feathers. - -They tore out many of his own feathers, too. - -The foolish crow was a sight! - -He crept back to his old friends. - -He tried to steal in among them without being seen. - -But they all cried out, “Who are you? What do you want here?” - -“Don’t you see that I am your old friend?” croaked the crow. “I am going -to live with you always.” - -“No, you are not,” answered a wise old crow. “You are no friend of ours. -A few old peacock feathers made you think you were a peacock. So you left -your old friends. The peacocks saw you were a cheat and drove you away. -Hereafter you must live alone. Be off with you!” - -And all the crows said, “Caw, caw, caw! Caw, caw, caw!” - - -THE WOLF AND THE KID - - (h ark) - d ark - - (m uch) - s uch - - noise - - e nough - - trot ted - - (h ive) - l ive ly - - (l eg) - b eg ged - - (p ea) - pl ea se - - (k ind) - find - - hun gry - - oft en - - wolf - - (n ow) - gr ow led - -One day a little kid was lost in a dark wood. - -He ran on and on, but could not find his way out. - -At last he became frightened and began to bleat. - -A hungry wolf heard him. - -How glad the wolf was to find such a good dinner! - -“Oh, Mr. Wolf!” cried the little kid, “please show me the way home.” - -[Illustration] - -“Show you the way home!” growled the wolf. “I am hungry and I’m going to -eat you.” - -“Oh, please, please, Mr. Wolf,” begged the frightened kid, “please let me -go!” - -“No, no, I’ll eat you,” growled the wolf. - -And he sprang at the kid, now almost dead with fright. - -Just then a lucky thought came to the little kid. - -“Oh, Mr. Wolf,” said he, “I have heard that you make very fine music. -I love to dance. Will you not sing for me, so that I may have one more -dance before I die? It is not much to ask.” - -[Illustration] - -This pleased the wolf, for he was proud of his voice. - -“Well,” he growled, “music is good before eating. I often sing before my -dinner. To-day I was too hungry to think of it. But I will sing just one -song. Then I will eat you. Dance lively, now!” - -So the wolf sang a song, and the kid danced his best. - -When the wolf stopped, the kid cried, “That was good. But you did not -sing loud enough or fast enough for me. Is that the best you can do?” - -“No,” said the wolf. “I can sing louder and faster than any one in the -woods. Listen!” - -So the wolf sang louder and faster. - -And the kid danced livelier and better than before. - -But the wolf made so much noise that the dogs heard it. - -They came running into the woods to see what the matter was. - -The wolf had to run for his life. - -But the wise little kid trotted safely home to his mother. - -“I have to go without my dinner,” growled the wolf. “I alone am to blame. -I should kill and eat kids, not sing for them.” - - -QUEER CHICKENS - - (qu ick) - ch ick - ch ick en - - (c are) - d are - - (d eer) - qu eer - - splash - - (th ank) - b ank - - (r ose) - th ose - - each - - e ven - - sail - - a fraid - - (th en) - h en - t en - - (t ook) - br ook - - (east) - l east - - stream - -[Illustration] - -An old hen found a nest behind the gate. - -It was full of eggs. Such beautiful eggs! - -They would make any old hen’s heart glad. - -“I will sit on these eggs. I will keep them warm,” thought the hen. “Then -a little chicken will come out of each one.” - -So the old hen spread her wings over the eggs. - -How very wide she had to spread them! - -For many days she sat there waiting. - -One morning she awoke to find her nest full of little ones. - -One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, -twelve, there were. - -“Cluck, cluck, what dear little chickens,” said the hen. - -“Come and get breakfast. Cluck, cluck, cluck, cluck! What hungry chickens! - -Now I will let you play in the meadow. Come down to the brook first and -get a drink. - -The water is clear and cool. Do not go too near, or you will fall in.” - -Now, what do you think those little ones did? - -You never could guess, so I will tell you. - -As soon as they saw the brook they ran to it. They ran as fast as ever -they could go. - -They rushed right into the water. - -“Cluck, cluck! Cluck, cluck! Come back! Come back!” called the old hen. -“Come back, come back to your mother!” - -But they did not come back. - -They did not even listen. - -They sailed clear across the stream. - -They sailed up stream and they sailed down stream. - -But they did not come back to their mother. - -She could only run up and down the bank, looking and calling. - -“What shall I do? What shall I do?” she cried. “Come back! Come back, -you naughty chickens. You will drown, every one of you. I know you will -drown. O, why will you not mind your mother?” - -[Illustration] - -How frightened she was! - -She just knew all her dear chicks would drown. - -Still she did not dare to follow them into the water. She never swam a -stroke in all her life. She never even waded in the water. - -But such fun as her little ones were having! - -They were not the least bit afraid. They swam and splashed around all -day. - -All day the old mother hen ran up and down the bank calling and begging, -“Come back! Come back! Come right back to your mother!” - -At last the little ones were tired. - -Then they came back to their frightened mother. - -One after another came up the bank and ran to her. - -How glad she was to gather them again under her warm wings. - -But what queer chickens they were. - -[Illustration] - - -LITTLE DUCKS - - (who) - who se - - sure - - (c aught) - n aught y - - be lieve - - once - - roam - - Ma’am - -[Illustration] - - “My dears, whatever are you at? - You ought to be at home; - I told you not to wet your feet, - I told you not to roam. - - Oh, dear! I’m sure you will be drowned, - I never saw such tricks; - Come home at once and go to bed, - You naughty, naughty chicks!” - - Now most of them were five days old, - But one, whose age was six— - “Please, ma’am,” said he, “I think we’re ducks; - I don’t believe we’re chicks.” - - —ROBERT MACK. - -[Illustration] - - - - -[Illustration: Once Upon a Time] - -[Illustration] - - -THE CATERPILLAR - - ugly - - push - - (w ise) - r ise - -[Illustration] - - I creep upon the ground, and the children say, - “You ugly old thing!” and push me away. - - I lie in my bed, and the children say, - “The fellow is dead; we’ll throw him away.” - - At last I awake, and the children try - To make me stay, as I rise and fly. - - -WHO IS STRONGEST? - - (age) - c age - - (f ellow) - b ellow - - (high) - s igh ed - - breathes - - bear - - (h ouse) - m ouse - - (sp eak) - cr eak - squ eak - - climbed - - roared - - Tum tol lo - - (ice) - m ice - - (b ox) - ox - - (th ink) - dr ink - - uprooted - - bur rowed - -[Illustration] - -Once upon a time Tumtollo climbed a tree. - -The wind blew hard and uprooted the tree. - -Tumtollo was thrown to the ground. - -“Oh, oh, oh!” he cried with pain, “oh, oh, oh!” - -“My, isn’t the tree strong!” cried he; “it can throw Tumtollo to the -ground.” - -“You are wrong,” creaked the tree. “I am not strong. If I were, could I -be uprooted by the wind?” - -“Ah, I see,” said Tumtollo, “it is the wind that is strong. - -The wind uprooted the tree. - -The tree threw Tumtollo to the ground.” - -“No, friend, you are wrong,” sighed the wind. “If I were strong, could I -be stopped by the hill?” - -“Oh, I see now,” said Tumtollo, “it is the hill that is strong. - -The hill stopped the wind. - -The wind uprooted the tree. - -The tree threw Tumtollo to the ground.” - -[Illustration] - -“Wrong again,” said the hill. “I am not strong. If I were, I should not -be burrowed by mice.” - -[Illustration] - -“Oh,” said Tumtollo, “then it is the mouse that is strong. - -The mouse burrowed the hill. - -The hill stopped the wind. - -The wind uprooted the tree. - -The tree threw Tumtollo to the ground.” - -“Still wrong,” squeaked the mouse. “It is not I who am strong. If I were, -could the cat catch me?” - -[Illustration] - -“Well, then, it is the cat that is strong,” said Tumtollo. - -“The cat caught the mouse. - -The mouse burrowed the hill. - -The hill stopped the wind. - -The wind uprooted the tree. - -The tree threw Tumtollo to the ground.” - -“No, Tumtollo, I am not strong,” mewed the cat. “If I were, could the dog -frighten me?” - -[Illustration] - -[Illustration] - -“Then it is the dog who is strong,” said Tumtollo. - -“The dog frightened the cat. - -The cat caught the mouse. - -The mouse burrowed the hill. - -The hill stopped the wind. - -The wind uprooted the tree. - -The tree threw Tumtollo to the ground.” - -“It is not I who am strong,” barked the dog. “If I were, would the ox -hook me with his horns?” - -[Illustration] - -“Then it must be the ox who is strong,” said Tumtollo. - -“The ox hooked the dog. - -The dog frightened the cat. - -The cat caught the mouse. - -The mouse burrowed the hill. - -The hill stopped the wind. - -The wind uprooted the tree. - -The tree threw Tumtollo to the ground.” - -“No,” bellowed the ox, “I am not strong. If I were, would the bee sting -me?” - -[Illustration] - -“Ah, ha! it is the little bee that is strong,” said Tumtollo. - -“The bee stung the ox. - -The ox hooked the dog. - -The dog frightened the cat. - -The cat caught the mouse. - -The mouse burrowed the hill. - -The hill stopped the wind. - -The wind uprooted the tree. - -The tree threw Tumtollo to the ground.” - -“No, no!” buzzed the bee, “it is not I who am strong. If I were, would -the bear steal my honey?” - -[Illustration] - -“Indeed, then it is the bear who is strong,” said Tumtollo. - -“The bear robbed the bee. - -The bee stung the ox. - -The ox hooked the dog. - -The dog frightened the cat. - -The cat caught the mouse. - -The mouse burrowed the hill. - -The hill stopped the wind. - -The wind uprooted the tree. - -The tree threw Tumtollo to the ground.” - -“You are wrong, Tumtollo,” growled the bear. - -“If I were strong, could the lion drive me away from my dinner?” - -[Illustration] - -[Illustration] - -“Very well, then it is the lion who is strong,” said Tumtollo. - -“The lion drove away the bear. - -The bear robbed the bee. - -The bee stung the ox. - -The ox hooked the dog. - -The dog frightened the cat. - -The cat caught the mouse. - -The mouse burrowed the hill. - -The hill stopped the wind. - -The wind uprooted the tree. - -The tree threw Tumtollo to the ground.” - -“It is not I who am strong,” roared the lion. - -“If I were, could the rope bind me?” - -“Just as you say,” said Tumtollo, “then it is the rope that is strong.” - -“The rope bound the lion. - -The lion drove away the bear. - -The bear robbed the bee. - -The bee stung the ox. - -The ox hooked the dog. - -The dog frightened the cat. - -The cat caught the mouse. - -The mouse burrowed the hill. - -The hill stopped the wind. - -The wind uprooted the tree. - -The tree threw Tumtollo to the ground.” - -“It is not I, indeed, that am strong,” said the rope. “If I were, could -the fire burn me?” - -“Well, well, then the fire must be strong,” said Tumtollo. - -[Illustration] - -“The fire burned the rope. - -The rope bound the lion. - -The lion drove away the bear. - -The bear robbed the bee. - -The bee stung the ox. - -The ox hooked the dog. - -The dog frightened the cat. - -The cat caught the mouse. - -The mouse burrowed the hill. - -The hill stopped the wind. - -The wind uprooted the tree. - -The tree threw Tumtollo to the ground.” - -“No, no, Tumtollo,” snapped the fire, “I am not strong. If I were, could -the water put me out?” - -“The water it is, then, that is strong,” said Tumtollo. - -[Illustration] - -“The water put out the fire. - -The fire burned the rope. - -The rope bound the lion. - -The lion drove away the bear. - -The bear robbed the bee. - -The bee stung the ox. - -The ox hooked the dog. - -The dog frightened the cat. - -The cat caught the mouse. - -The mouse burrowed the hill. - -The hill stopped the wind. - -The wind uprooted the tree. - -The tree threw Tumtollo to the ground.” - -“You are still wrong, Tumtollo,” sang the water in a spring near by. “I -am not strong. But I will tell you who is truly strong. It is Man. - -[Illustration] - -Man drinks the water. - -Man lights the fire. - -Man makes the rope. - -Man cages the lion. - -Man tames the bear. - -Man eats the bee’s honey. - -Man drives the ox. - -Man keeps the dog. - -Man feeds the cat. - -Man kills the mouse. - -Man digs the hill. - -Man breathes the wind. - -Man fells the tree. - -Man rises when he is thrown to the ground.” - -Tumtollo rose, drank deeply from the sweet spring, and went on his way. - - -LAMBIKIN - - (who) - who m - - mor sel - - curled - - (pl ant) - can’t - - wad dle - - reached - - (t ip) - sk ip - - (s eed) - gr eed y - - (j ump) - h ump - pl ump - - joy - - (g ate) - ate - - (out) - ab out - - (cr ied) - d ied - - mouth - - breath - -Once upon a time there was a wee, wee Lambikin. - -[Illustration] - -He frolicked about on his tottery legs from morning to night. - -He was always happy. - -One day Lambikin set off to visit his Granny. - -He was jumping with joy to think of the good things he would get. - -As he frisked along, he met but a wolf! - -[Illustration] - -The wolf howled, “Lambikin! Lambikin! I’ll _eat_ YOU!” - -But with a hop and a skip, a hump and a jump, Lambikin said, - - “No, no, - To Granny’s house I go, - Where I shall fatter grow, - Then you can eat me so.” - -The wolf thought this wise and so let Lambikin go. - -Away frisked Lambikin. - -He had not gone far, when whom should he meet but a bear! - -[Illustration] - -The bear growled, “Lambikin! Lambikin! I’ll _eat_ YOU!” - -But with a hop and a skip, a hump and a jump, Lambikin said, - - “No, no, - To Granny’s house I go, - Where I shall fatter grow, - Then you can eat me so.” - -The bear thought this wise and so let Lambikin go. - -Away frisked Lambikin. - -He had not gone far when whom should he meet but a lion! - -[Illustration] - -The lion roared, “Lambikin! Lambikin! I’ll _eat_ you!” - -But with a hop and a skip, a hump and a jump, Lambikin said, - - “No, no, - To Granny’s house I go, - Where I shall fatter grow, - Then you can eat me so.” - -The lion thought this wise and so let Lambikin go. - -Away frisked Lambikin. - -At last he reached his Granny’s house. - -“Granny dear,” he cried, all out of breath, “I have said I would get fat. -I ought to keep my word. Please put me in the corn-bin at once.” - -“You are a good Lambikin,” said his Granny. - -And she put him into the corn-bin. - -There the greedy little Lambikin stayed for seven days and seven nights. - -He ate, and ate, and ate, and he ate until he could hardly waddle. - -“Come, Lambikin,” said his Granny, “you are fat enough. You should go -home now.” - -“No, no,” said cunning little Lambikin, “that will never do. Some animal -would surely eat me on the way, I am so plump and tender.” - -“Oh, dear! Oh, dear!” cried old Granny in a fright. - -“Never fear, Granny dear,” said cunning Lambikin. “I’ll tell you what to -do. Just make me a little drumikin out of the skin of my little brother -who died. I can get into it and roll along nicely.” - -So old Granny made Lambikin a drumikin out of the skin of his dead -brother. - -And cunning Lambikin curled himself up into a round ball in the drumikin. - -And he rolled gayly away. - -Soon he met the lion, who called out, - - “Drumikin! Drumikin! - Have you seen Lambikin?” - -[Illustration] - -Lambikin answered sweetly as he rolled along, - - “Fallen into the fire, and so will you! - On, little Drumikin! Tum-pa, tum-too!” - -“Too bad, too bad,” sighed the lion, as he thought of the sweet, fat -morsel of a Lambikin. - -So away rolled Lambikin, laughing gayly to himself and sweetly singing, - - “Tum-pa, tum-too; - Tum-pa, tum-too!” - -Soon he met the bear, who called out, - - “Drumikin! Drumikin! - Have you seen Lambikin?” - -Lambikin answered sweetly as he rolled along, - - “Fallen into the fire, and so will you! - On, little Drumikin! Tum-pa, tum-too!” - -[Illustration] - -“Too bad, too bad,” sighed the bear, as he thought of the sweet, fat -morsel of a Lambikin. - -So away rolled Lambikin, laughing gayly to himself and sweetly singing, - - “Tum-pa, tum-too; - Tum-pa, tum-too!” - -[Illustration] - -Soon he met the wolf, who called out, - - “Drumikin! Drumikin! - Have you seen Lambikin?” - -Lambikin answered sweetly as he rolled along, - - “Fallen into the fire, and so will you! - On, little Drumikin! Tum-pa, tum-too!” - -“Oh, ho, little Lambikin, curled up snug in your little drumikin,” said -the wolf, “you can’t fool me. I know your voice. So you have become too -fat to hop and to skip, to hump and to jump. You can only roll along like -a ball.” - -And the wolf’s mouth watered as he thought of the sweet, fat morsel of a -Lambikin. - -Little Lambikin’s heart went pit-a-pat, but he cried out gayly, - - “Hark, hark! Hear the dogs bark! - Faster, roll faster, my little Drumikin!” - -The wolf was frightened and stopped to listen for the dogs. - -And away rolled cunning Lambikin faster and faster, laughing to himself -and sweetly singing, - - “Tum-pa, tum-too; - Tum-pa, tum-too!” - - -THE ANT AND THE MOUSE - - (h oney) - m oney - - (th is) - m iss - - pieces - - sharp - - (w ish) - f ish - - (r ob) - c ob - - lost - - buy - - (c arry) - m arry - - (r each) - p each - - roost er - - hur ried - -There was once an ant. - -While sweeping her house one day, this ant found three pieces of money. - -“What shall I buy?” said she. - -“Shall I buy fish?” - -“No, fish is full of bones. I can’t eat bones. I’ll not buy fish.” - -“Shall I buy bread?” - -“No, bread has crust. I can’t eat crust. I’ll not buy bread.” - -“Shall I buy peaches?” - -“No, peaches have stones. I can’t eat stones. I’ll not buy peaches.” - -“Shall I buy corn?” - -“No, corn grows on a cob. I can’t eat cobs. I’ll not buy corn.” - -“Shall I buy apples?” - -“No, apples have seeds. I can’t eat seeds I’ll not buy apples.” - -“Shall I buy a ribbon?” - -“Yes, that’s just what I want. I will buy a ribbon.” - -And away ran Miss Ant to the store and bought her a bright red ribbon. - -She tied the ribbon about her neck and sat in her window. - -An ox came along and said, “How pretty you are, Miss Ant! Will you marry -me?” - -“Sing,” said the ant, “so I may hear your voice.” - -[Illustration] - -The ox was very proud of his voice and he bellowed with all his might. - -“No, no,” cried the ant, “I’ll not marry you, Mr. Ox. Your bellow -frightens me. Go away.” - -Soon a lion came that way and said, “How pretty you are, Miss Ant! Will -you marry me?” - -[Illustration] - -“Sing,” said the ant, “so I may hear your voice.” - -The lion was proud of his voice and he roared with all his might. - -“No, no,” cried the ant, “I’ll not marry you, Mr. Lion. Your loud roar -frightens me. It shakes the very hills. Go away.” - -The lion had not been gone long when a proud rooster came strutting along -that way. - -“How pretty you are, Miss Ant! Will you marry me?” said the rooster. - -“Sing,” said the ant, “so I may hear your voice.” - -The rooster was very proud of his shrill voice and he crowed with all his -might. - -[Illustration] - -“No, no,” cried the ant, “I’ll not marry you, Mr. Rooster. Your shrill -crow frightens me. Go away.” - -The rooster was hardly out of sight when a big dog came trotting that way. - -“How pretty you are, Miss Ant! Will you marry me?” said the dog. - -“Sing,” said the ant, “so I may hear your voice.” - -[Illustration] - -The dog was very proud of his voice and he barked with all his might. - -“No, no,” cried the ant, “I’ll not marry you, Mr. Dog. Your sharp bark -frightens me. Go away.” - -After a time a wee little mouse came frisking that way. - -“How pretty you are, Miss Ant! Will you marry me?” said the mouse. - -“Sing,” said the ant, “so I may hear your voice.” - -Now the wee little mouse was not at all proud of his voice. But he -squeaked as sweetly as he could, “Wee, wee, wee!” - -“Yes, yes,” cried the ant, “I’ll marry you, dear Mouse. Your sweet little -voice pleases me. Come right in.” - -In scampered the mouse. - -The ant gave him two pieces of money, for she had spent only one for her -ribbon. - -He hurried away to the store, and came quickly back bringing apples and -bread. - -Mrs. Ant Mouse now sat down to a feast. - -Mr. Mouse ate the crusts and the seeds, so nothing was lost. - -[Illustration] - - - - -[Illustration: Songs of Life] - -[Illustration] - - -THE BROOK - - (fl ies) - sk ies - - branch es - - riv er - - (l ove) - ab ove - -[Illustration] - - Down from the hillside, - Sparkling and bright, - Rushes the little brook, - In the sunlight. - - On through the meadow, - Where the flowers hide, - With skies bright above it, - Now its waters glide. - - Tall trees beside the brook, - Their branches o’er it throw, - As through the quiet woodland, - The sparkling waters flow. - - So it hurries down the hillside, - And across the meadow sweet, - And through the shady woodland, - Till the river it shall meet. - -[Illustration] - - -THE LITTLE BROOK - - (l ift) - sw iftly - - (th is) - wh is per - - (gr ass) - p ass - - mur murs - - talk - - (spl ash) - d ash - fl ash - ash - -See the little brook rushing down the steep hillside! - -How it hurries! - -How it leaps over the falls! - -Hear it dash and splash among the rocks! - -See its waters flash and sparkle in the sun! - -“Stop, stop, little brook! Wait, I want to talk with you.” - -“No, no, I must hurry on. I have a long way to go.” - -“I will go with you, then. I will run along your banks. Please do not -hurry so. I can hardly keep up with you.” - -Now we come to the wide meadow. - -Here the little brook flows more slowly and quietly. - -But it never stops. - -It must flow ever on and on. - -Bright flowers are hiding along its banks. - -They peep out from the grass. - -They look into the clear flowing water. - -“Stay, little brook, play with us,” they whisper. - -“Why do you always hurry so? Are you not weary?” - -“No, no, I am never weary, never tired,” murmurs the brook. - -“I never stop to play. - -It is play for me to rush swiftly down the steep hill. - -It is fun to flow gently across the meadow. - -I like to see you peeping over my banks as I pass. - -But I cannot stop. - -[Illustration] - -I must hurry on to meet the river. - -Good-by, sweet flowers, good-by.” - -Now the brook glides into the woodland. - -Here the sad willows droop over the gliding waters. - -High above them tower the oak, the ash, and the pine trees. - -“Do not hurry, little brook,” whisper their leaves. - -“Are you not tired? - -You have come a long way. - -Here the bright sun never comes. - -Stay with us, and we will shade you. - -Rest a while under our spreading branches. - -In the meadow the burning sun is so hot. - -But here it is cool. - -Why can you not stay with us? - -Why must you always hurry on?” - -“Because I have to meet the river. - -I love your wide spreading branches. - -I love the gentle murmur of your green leaves. - -I love your cool shade. - -You are very kind to me. - -But I cannot stay with you. - -The great river needs me. - -I shall have to hurry on. - -Good-by, noble trees. - -Good-by, drooping willows.” - -So the never resting brook rushes, and glides and flows on forever. - - -CALLING THE VIOLET - - mos sy - - don’t - -[Illustration] - - Dear little Violet, - Don’t be afraid! - Lift your blue eyes - From the rock’s mossy shade. - All the birds call for you - Out of the sky; - May is here waiting, - And here, too, am I. - - Come, pretty Violet, - Winter’s away; - Come, for without you - May isn’t May. - Down through the sunshine - Wings flutter and fly; - Quick, little Violet, - Open your eye! - - —LUCY LARCOM. - - -THE WIND - - (m oss y) - t oss es - - height - - up ward - - (w hen) - w hen ce - - (sh all) - v all ey - - (c oats) - g oats - - trav erse - - whith er - -[Illustration] - - Which way does the wind blow, - And where does he go? - He rides o’er the water - And over the snow; - O’er wood and o’er valley, - And over the height— - Where goats cannot traverse - He taketh his flight. - - He rages and tosses, - And bare is the tree, - As when you look upward - You plainly can see; - But from whence he comes, - Or whither he goes, - There is no one can tell you, - There is no one who knows. - - —MARY LAMB. - - -THE WIND - - nei ther - - trem bling - - (h ow) - b ow - -[Illustration] - - Who has seen the wind? - Neither I nor you; - But when the leaves hang trembling, - The Wind is passing through. - - Who has seen the wind? - Neither you nor I; - But when the trees bow down their heads, - The Wind is passing by. - - -THE WIND - - dif fer ent - - young - - la dies - - skirts - -[Illustration] - - I saw you toss the kites on high - And blow the birds about the sky; - And all around I heard you pass, - Like ladies’ skirts across the grass— - O wind, a-blowing all day long, - O wind, that sings so loud a song! - - I saw the different things you did, - But always you yourself you hid. - I felt you push, I heard you call, - I could not see yourself at all— - O wind, a-blowing all day long, - O wind, that sings so loud a song! - - O you that are so strong and cold, - O blower, are you young or old? - Are you a beast of field and tree, - Or just a stronger child than me? - O wind, a-blowing all day long, - O wind, that sings so loud a song! - - —R. L. STEVENSON - - -THE LEAF’S JOURNEY - - jour ney - - (f ish) - w ish ed - - eight - - (l og) - fr og s - - leaped - - (st ream) - d ream ed - -On the steep hillside grew a tall ash tree. - -Right on the bank of the rushing brook it grew. - -Its branches spread far out across the little stream. - -[Illustration] - -Its leaves looked down into the flashing water. - -There, when the sun shone brightly, they saw leaves looking up at them. - -They called these “water leaves.” - -The little tree leaves wished to go to the water leaves. - -Many of them had already fluttered down. - -But one leaf, very young, could not let go her hold of the twig. - -At last a raging wind tore away the little leaf. - -Over and over she turned. - -Down, down, down, she fell. - -She was so afraid the wind would carry her away. - -But the friendly stream leaped up the rocks to meet her. - -It bore her away, swiftly but gently. - -The little leaf was afraid. She was lonesome. - -The dear little “water leaves” were nowhere to be seen. - -“Don’t be afraid, little leaf,” murmured the kind brook. - -“I will give you a fine ride. - -And I’ll talk to you all the time. - -I’ll tell you all about the things we pass. - -Here we are, already in the meadow. - -Now I don’t have to hurry. - -See the pretty flowers peeping over my banks. - -They all love me. - -I give them cool water to drink. - -[Illustration] - -Here we go past the old mossy log. - -Just see the frogs on it! - -They are all in a row. - -One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, of them! - -They love me, too. - -When anything makes them afraid, they leap into me. - -They hide in some of my deep pools. - -Here is the shady woodland. - -Now I glide more slowly. - -Soon I shall meet the great river. - -I will not carry you into it. - -For there you would be afraid. - -I will land you here with lots of other leaves.” - -And the stream pushed her gently upon the low bank of sand. - -“Good-by,” he murmured; “good-by, little leaf.” - -And the little leaf lay quietly thinking. - -How many different things she had seen! - -She never dreamed there were so many things in the whole world. - -[Illustration] - - -SWEET AND LOW - - west ern - - roll ing - - fa ther - - (p ea) - s ea - br ea the - -[Illustration] - - Sweet and low, sweet and low, - Wind of the western sea, - Low, low, breathe and blow, - Wind of the western sea! - Over the rolling waters go, - Come from the dying moon and blow, - Blow him again to me; - While my little one, while my pretty one, sleeps. - - Sleep and rest, sleep and rest, - Father will come to thee soon; - Rest, rest, on mother’s breast, - Father will come to thee soon; - Father will come to his babe in the nest, - Silver sails all out of the west, - Under the silver moon; - Sleep, my little one, sleep, my pretty one, sleep. - - —TENNYSON. - -[Illustration] - - -SLEEP, BABY, SLEEP! - - (dr ess) - gu ess - shep herd ess - -[Illustration] - - Sleep, baby, sleep! - Thy father watches his sheep; - Thy mother is shaking the dreamland tree, - And down comes a little dream on thee. - Sleep, baby, sleep! - - Sleep, baby, sleep! - The large stars are the sheep; - The little stars are the lambs, I guess; - The gentle moon is the shepherdess. - Sleep, baby, sleep! - - —FROM THE GERMAN. - - -STARS AND DAISIES - - (t alk) - w alk - - di a mond - -[Illustration] - - Twinkle, twinkle, little star, - How I wonder what you are, - Up above the world so high, - Like a diamond in the sky. - -Do you know what daisies are? - -Do you know what stars are? - -I will tell you what I think. - -At night we see the stars shining in the sky. - -There are so very many of them, more than we can count. - -[Illustration] - -I think the sky is a beautiful meadow. - -And the stars are little white daisies growing in the sky meadow. - -[Illustration] - -Sometimes the moon comes into the meadow. - -She is a beautiful lady. - -All night she walks among the flowers. - -She gathers the little sky daisies. - -In the morning we cannot see the stars. - -Where are they? - -In the meadow near our home are many bright-eyed daisies. - -There are so very many of them, more than we can count. - -How did they get there? - -Where did they come from? - -Daisies look like stars, you know. - -So I think the lady moon threw them down from the sky. - - -LADY MOON - - rov ing - - pale - - Lady Moon, Lady Moon, where are you roving? - Over the sea. - Lady Moon, Lady Moon, whom are you loving? - All that love me. - - Are you not tired with rolling, and never - Resting to sleep? - Why look so pale and so sad, as forever - Wishing to weep? - - Ask me not this, little child, if you love me; - You are too bold; - I must obey my dear Father above me, - And do as I’m told. - - Lady Moon, Lady Moon, where are you roving? - Over the sea. - Lady Moon, Lady Moon, whom are you loving? - All that love me. - - —LORD HOUGHTON. - -[Illustration] - - - - -[Illustration: With Nature’s Children] - -[Illustration] - - -THE LITTLE SHEPHERDESS - - soft - - taste - - awoke - - lost - - (s eek) - ch eek - -[Illustration] - - Little Bo-peep has lost her sheep - And can’t tell where to find them; - Leave them alone and they’ll come home - Bringing their tails behind them. - -One morning a pretty little shepherdess drove her flock of sheep to the -meadow. There she watched them while they ate the fresh, green grass. -How sweet it tasted to the hungry sheep! - -A large dog went with the shepherdess to help care for the sheep. He was -the shepherd. - -The shepherd let no lamb go astray. If one got too far from the flock, -Mr. Shepherd ran after him. - -“Bow-wow! Go back!” cried the shepherd. - -The shepherdess took good care of her flock, too. She led them where the -grass was greenest and sweetest. - -When noon came all the sheep had eaten enough. So they lay down quietly -in the cool shade of some old oak trees. Little Bo-peep lay down too, -with her good shepherd dog beside her. - -How cool and still it was there! Little Bo-peep could hear only the -gentle rustling of the leaves overhead. She could feel only the soft wind -on her cheek. - -The wind blew more and more softly; the leaves rustled more and more -gently. Soon little Bo-peep was fast asleep. - -“Bo-peep, Bo-peep, where are you?” - -“Bow-wow, bow-wow, bow-wow-wow!” - -“Bo-peep, Bo-peep!” - -[Illustration] - -Little Bo-peep awoke with a start. She sat upright, her eyes wide open. -Not a sheep could she see. Her dog was not beside her. It was dark; the -stars were twinkling overhead. How frightened the little shepherdess was! - -“Bow-wow!” - -“Bo-peep, Bo-peep! Where are you, child?” Surely that was her mother’s -voice. - -“Here, mother, here I am, under the big oak tree!” called Bo-peep. - -Up rushed the dog, and mother followed close behind. - -“Where are my sheep, mother? I fear they are lost.” - -“Where is my little Bo-peep? I feared she was lost.” - -“Here is your Bo-peep, dear mother. How long I must have slept!” - -“Your sheep are all safe at home. Old Rover drove them in long ago.” - -This is the way Bo-peep lost her sheep; this is the way she found them. -And this is the way Bo-peep was lost; and this is the way she was found. - - -DISCONTENT - - (l azy) - cr azy - - swal lows - - to geth er - - pleas ant - - dull er - - (b ear) - w ear ing - - (g ave) - s ave - br ave ly - - June - - (g ather) - r ather - - per haps - - hon est - - pas sion - - col or - -[Illustration] - - Down in the field, one day in June, - The flowers all bloomed together, - Save one, who tried to hide herself, - And drooped—that pleasant weather. - - A robin, who had flown too high - And felt a little lazy, - Was resting near a buttercup, - Who wished she were a daisy. - - For daisies grow so trim and tall; - She always had a passion - For wearing frills around her neck, - In just the daisies’ fashion. - - And buttercups must always be - The same old, tiresome color, - While daisies dress in gold and white, - Although their gold is duller. - - “Dear robin,” said this sad young flower, - “Perhaps you’d not mind trying - To find a nice white frill for me - Some day, when you are flying.” - - “You silly thing,” the robin said, - “I think you must be crazy; - I’d rather be my honest self - Than any made-up daisy. - - You’re nicer in your own bright gown; - The little children love you; - Be the best buttercup you can, - And think no flower above you. - - Though swallows leave me out of sight, - We’d better keep our places. - Perhaps the world would go all wrong, - With one too many daisies. - - Look bravely up into the sky, - And be content with knowing - That God wished for a buttercup - Just here, where you are growing.” - - —SARAH ORNE JEWETT. - -[Illustration] - - -BELLING THE CAT - - sn ug - d ug - - aw oke - sp oke - - fam i ly - - life - - pounce - - h ole - st ole - - warn ing - - st eal - m eal - - g ood - st ood - - straight - -A family of rats had their home in a barn. - -They made many snug nests in the warm hay. - -They dug holes through the hay from nest to nest. - -They ran in and out and all about the barn. They had nothing to fear. - -When they were hungry they could always find nice grain in the stalls. -They became very fat. - -And they were as happy a family of rats as one could wish to see. - -But one day a big black cat found the rats’ barn. - -That was a sad day for the rat family! - -This cat was not fat and he was not happy. - -He was very thin, very cross, and very hungry. - -[Illustration] - -One thing he liked to eat best of all things in the world—rats. - -How he did love nice, fat, happy rats! At last he had found them, a whole -big family of them! - -This hungry, greedy cat now had rat for breakfast, rat for dinner, and -rat for supper. And sometimes he had rat between meals. - -Very soon this cat began to grow fat and happy. - -But happy cats make unhappy rats. While this cat grew fat, these rats -grew thin. - -[Illustration] - -Yet in the stalls there was just as much grain as ever. But it was only a -very hungry rat that dared go for it. For no rat could tell when the cat -might pounce upon him. - -That sly cat stole about without a sound. - -The most watchful rat could hear nothing, could see no living thing. - -Then, pounce! The wicked cat’s claws held him fast. - -So, many a poor rat went to the stall, and never came back. And the rat -family was growing smaller day by day. - -At last the wise old rats saw that something must be done. So they called -a meeting of the whole family of rats, as many as were still alive. - -When all had come together in a safe place and were still, the oldest and -wisest rat rose up on his hind legs. - -He stood up very straight, very tall, and very thin. - -“My dear brothers and sisters, my dear children and grandchildren!” began -the wise old rat. - -[Illustration] - -“You all know the one fear of our lives.” Every rat trembled. - -“That wicked cat has grown fat and sleek feeding on your brothers, your -mothers, your wives, and your children. - -No one of you knows when his turn may come to make a meal for that ever -hungry monster. - -He steals upon you without warning. - -He is never seen, he is never heard, until it is too late. - -But you were not called together to hear what you already know only too -well. - -[Illustration] - -You were called here to do something to make your lives safer and happier. - -What can be done? Who has a plan?” - -The old rat waited. - -All the other rats looked from one to another, but no one spoke. - -“Well, then,” said the wise old rat at last, “listen to me. - -If we only knew where the cat was, we could not be caught. If we could -only hear him coming, we might get out of his reach. - -Now, my plan is this. We will hang a bell to that cat’s neck.” - -“The very thing! Hurrah! Hurrah!” cried all the rats together. - -“Why haven’t we thought of that before? - -No more of us will go to make dinners for that old cat. - -Now, for all the corn we can eat!” - -And away sprang the hungry rats for the stalls. - -“Stop! Stop!” cried the wise old rat. “Back to your places! - -The bell isn’t on the cat’s neck yet.” - -Slowly and sadly the starving rats settled back. - -“Now,” the old rat went on, “who will tie the bell around the cat’s neck?” - -[Illustration] - -“Not I! Not I! Not I!” squeaked the poor frightened rats. - -And they trembled all over at the very thought. - -Then they sat very still and looked at each other. - -Oh! how hungry they were! How sweet that yellow corn in the stall would -taste. - -One by one they began to steal away softly. - -Where do you think they were going? - -Rat families still live in barns. - -Cats still feed upon them. - -But no rat has ever tried to make life safer by belling a cat. - -[Illustration] - - -THREE OF US KNOW - - bal lad - - se crets - -[Illustration] - - Who are my playfellows? - Wait, you shall see; - Sometimes a little bird, - Sometimes a bee. - All through the summer world - Gayly we go. - Where is the greenest close, - Where is the sweetest rose, - Three of us know. - - Bee seeks the rose’s heart, - Bird seeks the tree, - I seek a little brook - Clear as can be. - It singeth all day long - Sweetly and low, - Ballad of sun and star; - What its song secrets are - Three of us know. - - Bee takes the honey home - To the Queen bee; - Bird seeks a nest that hides - High in the tree; - I seek a little house - Where sweet vines grow. - What in God’s world is best— - Trees, flowers, home, and rest— - Three of us know. - - —MARIE VAN VORST - -[Illustration] - - -THE DANDELION - - gyp sy - - gild - - idle - -[Illustration] - - Little Gypsy dandelion, - Dancing in the sun, - Have you any curls to sell? - “Not a single one!” - - Little idle dandelion - Then I’ll mow you down. - What is it you’re good for, pray, - With your golden crown? - - “Ah! I gild the fields so green - In the pleasant spring, - Shining like the morning star - With the light I bring.” - - -THE MAGPIE’S LESSON - - ma ple - - mean - - learn - - hooted - - ea gle - - (en ough) - r ough - - (gr owl) - owl - - pa tient - - (h ome) - d ome - - (l eaves) - eaves - w eave - - o ri ole - - cov er - - troub le - - moun tain - - (b ud) - m ud - - yon der - - choose - - roofs - - build - - (afr aid) - p aid - -[Illustration] - -Years and years ago—ever so many years ago—only one bird in the whole -world knew how to build a nest. That wise bird was the magpie. - -One day all the other birds came to the magpie. They wanted to learn how -to build nests. They begged the magpie to teach them. - -“Indeed, I am glad to teach you,” said Mrs. Magpie. “Just listen and -watch me. First, you must choose a tall tree, like this great maple. Then -take sticks—” - -“A tree,” broke in the bold eagle, “a tree here in this valley! No trees -nor valleys for me! My nest shall be on the highest cliff of yonder -mountain.” - -[Illustration] - -And away flew the eagle without waiting to hear more of the magpie’s -lesson. To this day he puts together a few rough sticks on a rocky -mountain cliff, and calls them a nest. - -The magpie began again. “Take sticks like these,” she said, “to a high -branch.” - -[Illustration] - -“Are you a fool?” cried the lark. “Don’t you know that the first strong -wind will blow your nest to the ground?” “And the first boy who comes -this way will throw stones at it,” put in Mrs. Bob-o-link. - -“No high branches for us,” sang the lark and the bob-o-link together. And -down they flew into the tall grass of the meadow. There they have made -their nests ever since. - -Mrs. Magpie didn’t even look at the birds flying away. “Weave the sticks -together so, in and out,” said she cheerfully. “That will make the -bottom of the nest.” - -“I don’t mean to set my nest on a branch like that,” spoke up the oriole. -“The wind surely would blow it off, as the lark just said.” - -And the oriole flew away and hung her nest from little twigs. There you -may see it to-day swinging in the wind far out at the end of a long -branch. - -[Illustration] - -“Plaster the inside of your nest with mud,” Mrs. Magpie went on again. -“Then line it with soft grass, so.” - -“Dear, dear, so much work to make a nest!” yawned the whip-poor-will. -“I’m not going to take the trouble.” And that lazy bird hasn’t made a -nest from that day to this. She just lays her eggs in a hollow on the -ground, or perhaps on a log. - -“Who, who, who would go to all that trouble!” hooted the owl. “I think I -have a better plan.” - -She looked very wise, but said no more. You can guess what her plan was -when you find her eggs in a crow’s or a hawk’s old nest. - -“Now take more mud and sticks,” began the patient magpie once more. “You -need to build a dome over your nest. That is to hide the little ones and -to keep out the rain.” - -“Oh, never mind the dome,” said the robin. “I will cover my little ones -with my wings. I can hide them and keep off the rain.” - -[Illustration] - -“You are right, Mrs. Robin,” said the crow. “We have no use for domes.” -And to this day neither robins nor crows have built domes over their -nests. - -Mrs. Magpie paid no more heed to these birds than to the others who had -already left her. She went quietly on building her nest, just as she knew -it ought to be built. Soon it was done, dome and all. - -“Indeed, Mrs. Magpie,” said the swallows, “we like your nest. The dome -is a fine thing, but why should we build it? There are plenty of domes -already built; we need only to make our nests under them.” - -Ever since then some swallows have made their nests under banks. Others -have made theirs under roofs of open barns; and still others under eaves. - -So all the birds flew away and left Mrs. Magpie with never a “thank you.” -Each one built her nest as she pleased. And each one thought her way so -much better than the magpie’s. - -But the magpie still builds her nest in the top of a high tree. She makes -it of mud and sticks and covers it with a dome. - - -THE BLUEBIRD - - cro cus - - mer ry - - daf fo dils - -[Illustration] - -[Illustration] - - I know the song that the bluebird is singing— - Out in the apple tree where he is swinging. - Brave little fellow! the skies may be dreary; - Nothing cares he while his heart is so cheery. - - Hark! how the music leaps out from his throat. - Hark! was there ever so merry a note? - Listen a while and you’ll hear what he’s saying - Up in the apple tree swinging and swaying: - - “Dear little blossoms down under the snow, - You must be weary of winter, I know; - Hark! while I sing you a message of cheer: - Summer is coming, and springtime is here. - - Little white snowdrops! I pray you arise; - Bright yellow crocus! come, open your eyes; - Daffodils! Daffodils! say, do you hear? - Summer is coming, and springtime is here!” - - —MRS. EMILY HUNTINGTON MILLER. - -[Illustration] - - -THE WOLF AND THE STORK - -A greedy wolf got a bone stuck in his throat. Try as he would, he could -not get the bone out. At last he lay down to die, as he thought. But just -then a stork came that way. - -“Good day, Mr. Wolf,” said the stork, kindly. - -But the wolf could not answer a word. - -The stork soon saw what the matter was, and with his long beak pulled the -bone out of the wolf’s throat. Without a word, the greedy wolf sprang up -and went on with his dinner. - -The stork, who was very hungry, began to pick up a few morsels of meat. - -“Be off with you!” snapped the wolf. “How dare you touch my meat!” - -“Is that the thanks I get for saving your life?” said the stork. - -“Thanks!” answered the wolf, “did I not let you draw your bill out of my -jaws in safety? It is you who should be thankful.” - - -THE INDIAN MOTHER’S LULLABY - - roe buck - - pap poose - - Man i tou - - slum ber ing - - breezes - - prai rie - -[Illustration] - - Rock-a-by, hush-a-by, little pappoose, - The stars come into the sky; - The whip-po’-will’s crying, the daylight is dying, - The river runs murmuring by. - - The pine trees are slumbering, little pappoose, - The squirrel has gone to his nest; - The robins are sleeping, the mother bird’s keeping - The little ones warm with her breast. - - The roebuck is dreaming, my little pappoose, - His mate lies asleep at his side; - The breezes are pining, the moonbeams are shining - All over the prairies wide. - - Then hush-a-by, rock-a-by, little pappoose, - You sail on the river of dreams; - Dear Manitou loves you, and watches above you, - Till time when the morning light gleams. - - —CHARLES MYALL. - -[Illustration] - - - - -[Illustration: In Story Land] - -[Illustration] - - -HOW MRS. WHITE HEN HELPED ROSE - - (y ond er) - p ond - - (c atch) - scr atch - - ques tion - - sur prised - - (p ush) - b ush - - (ever) - cl ever - - si lent ly - - sud den ly - - (h ard) - y ard - - (for ward) - - earth - - worm - - chirped - -A beautiful rose tree grew in the garden. Every morning she smiled up at -the golden sun. But one morning when the sun rose, he was surprised to -see that his friend, the rose, drooped sadly. He sent one of his warm -rays down to earth to find out what the matter was. - -“Dear Rose,” said the bright sunbeam, “why do you droop and look so sad?” - -“Ah, me!” sighed the rose, “I am so unhappy! An ugly worm is eating my -leaves, and he will not crawl away.” - -[Illustration] - -The sun felt very sorry for the rose. “I will not shine,” he said, “until -Rose is happy.” So he hid behind a dark cloud. - -The wind came hurrying along. “Father Sun,” he cried, “why are you not -shining to-day?” - -“Ah, me!” answered the sun, “dear Rose is so unhappy! An ugly worm is -eating her leaves, and he will not crawl away. I will shine no more until -Rose is happy.” - -“I, too, am so sorry,” whispered the wind. “I will blow no more until -Rose is happy.” So saying he dropped to the earth and was still. - -A bird was surprised when the wind stopped. - -“Mr. Wind,” he called, “why have you stopped blowing?” - -“Ah, me!” sighed the wind. “Dear Rose is so unhappy! An ugly worm is -eating her leaves, and he will not crawl away. So Sun will shine no more -and I will blow no more until Rose is happy.” - -“I, also, love Rose,” sang the bird; “and I will sing no more until Rose -is happy.” He flew away silently to his nest in the oak tree. - -“It is not night,” said the old tree; “why are you not flying and -singing, little bird?” - -“Ah, me!” chirped the bird. “Dear Rose is so unhappy! An ugly worm is -eating her leaves, and he will not crawl away. So Sun will shine no more, -Wind will blow no more, and I will sing no more until Rose is happy.” - -[Illustration] - -[Illustration] - -“That is all very sad,” whispered the tree. “I shall drop no more acorns -until Rose is happy.” - -Soon the squirrel came to gather some nuts. But he could find very few. - -“Dear Tree,” he chattered, “please drop down some acorns.” - -“No,” answered the tree. “I cannot, now.” - -“Why not?” asked the squirrel. - -“Ah, me!” rustled the tree. “Dear Rose is so unhappy! An ugly worm is -eating her leaves, and he will not crawl away. So Sun will shine no more, -Wind will blow no more, Bird will sing no more, and I will drop no more -acorns until Rose is happy again.” - -“And I will work no more,” chirped the squirrel. “I will run away to my -nest in the old hollow tree.” - -On the way to his home the squirrel met Mrs. Brown Duck. - -“Good morning, Mr. Squirrel,” quacked the duck. “Why are you not working -this morning?” - -“Ah, me!” replied the squirrel. “Dear Rose is so unhappy! An ugly worm is -eating her leaves, and he will not crawl away. So Sun will shine no more, -Wind will blow no more, Bird will sing no more, Oak Tree will drop no -more acorns, and I will work no more till Rose is happy.” - -[Illustration] - -“Then I will swim no more,” said Mrs. Brown Duck. And she waddled off to -the barnyard. There she met Mrs. White Hen. - -“Why do you look so sad, Mrs. Duck?” said the hen. - -“Ah, me!” quacked the duck. “Dear Rose is so unhappy! An ugly worm is -eating her leaves, and he will not crawl away. So Sun will shine no more, -Wind will blow no more, Bird will sing no more, Oak Tree will drop no -more acorns, Squirrel will work no more, and I will swim no more until -Rose is happy again.” - -“Indeed! Indeed!” cackled Mrs. White Hen. “Pray tell me how stopping your -work will help Rose. If you wish Rose to be happy, you must do something -for her. Come with me.” - -Away hurried the hen and the duck until they came to the rose. The old -hen asked no questions. She did not even take time to say “Good morning.” -But she cocked her head first on one side, then on the other, searching -through the leaves of the rosebush with her bright little eyes. Suddenly -she darted forward. “Snap!” went her bill, and the worm was swallowed. - -“There, Mrs. Duck,” clucked the hen, “see how I have helped Rose and at -the same time got a nice breakfast for myself.” - -At once the rose looked up toward the sun and smiled. Thereupon the sun -began to shine. - -“If I had only thought,” said the sun, “I might have burned that worm -with my hot rays.” - -“And I might have blown him away,” whistled the wind, springing up -suddenly. - -[Illustration] - -[Illustration] - -“If I had only thought,” sang the bird, “I might have had a nice fat worm -for breakfast.” - -“And so might I,” quacked the duck as she waddled away toward the pond. - -The oak tree shook down a great shower of acorns, and the squirrel -hastened to gather them. They, too, wished they had thought of some way -to help Rose. - -But the clever old white hen said nothing at all. - - -THE SANDMAN - - truth - - shoes - - (oak) - cl oak - -[Illustration] - - The Sandman comes across the land, - At evening, when the sun is low: - Upon his back a bag of sand— - His step is soft and low. - I never hear his gentle tread, - But when I bend my sleepy head, - “The Sandman’s coming!” mother says, - And mother tells the truth, always! - - I guess he’s old, with silver hair, - He’s up so late! He has to go - To lots of children, everywhere, - At evening, when the sun is low. - His cloak is long, and green and old, - With pretty dreams in every fold— - His shoes are silken, mother says, - And mother tells the truth, always! - - He glides across the sunset hill, - To seek each little child, like me: - Our all-day-tired eyes to fill - With sands of sleep, from slumber’s sea. - I try my best awake to stay, - But I am tired out with play; - “I’ll never see him!” mother says, - And mother tells the truth—always! - - —MARIE VAN VORST - - -BILLY BINKS - - (d art) - st art le - - c ast les - - h urr y - p urr - - (f elt) - m elt - - pres ent ly - - en tered - - blazed - - di rect ly - - ter ri ble - - dis ap peared - - (pl ace) - f ace - - (eight) - n eigh ed - - (sm ile) - m ile - - waul - - trav eled - - fin ished - - hor ri ble - - front - - ter ri fied - - re mem ber - - (d ance) - pr ance - - (st ar) - f ar ther - - (r oof) - h oof - - (r oar) - s oar - - en e mies - - for tune - - sau cers - - prom ise - - broom - -Once upon a time a little boy named Billy Binks set out to seek his -fortune. He traveled alone for many a weary mile, but at last he met a -little gray pony. - -“Where are you going, Billy Binks?” neighed the pony. - -“I am going to seek my fortune,” said Billy Binks. - -“May I go, too?” - -“If I take you, will you help me win my fortune?” - -“Yes.” - -“How?” - -“I will carry you on my back and kick all your enemies with my hard -hoofs.” - -“Very well, you may come along.” - -Then they went on a little farther and met a cow. - -“Where are you going, Billy Binks?” mooed the cow. - -“I am going to seek my fortune,” answered Billy Binks. - -“May I go, too?” - -“If I take you, will you help me win my fortune?” - -[Illustration] - -“Yes.” - -“How?” - -“I will moo, and toss your enemies on my sharp horns.” - -“Very well, you may come.” - -When they had walked on a little farther they met a dog. - -“Where are you going, Billy Binks?” barked the dog. - -“I am going to seek my fortune,” answered Billy Binks. - -“May I go, too?” - -“If I take you, will you help me win my fortune?” - -“Yes.” - -“How?” - -“I will bark, and bite your enemies with my sharp teeth.” - -“Very well, you may come.” - -After walking a little farther they met a cat. - -“Where are you going, Billy Binks?” mewed the cat. - -“I am going to seek my fortune,” answered Billy Binks. - -“May I go, too?” - -“If I take you, will you help me win my fortune?” - -“Yes.” - -“How?” - -“I will purr, and scratch your enemies with my sharp claws.” - -“Very well, you may come.” - -They continued their journey and presently met a raven. - -“Where are you going, Billy Binks?” croaked the raven. - -“I am going to seek my fortune.” - -“May I go, too?” - -“If I take you, will you help me win my fortune?” - -“Yes.” - -“How?” - -“I will croak, and peck your enemies’ eyes out with my sharp beak.” - -“Very well, you may come.” - -On and on they walked till at last they entered a deep, dark wood. All -day they journeyed through this forest, which grew denser and darker as -night came on. - -“We are near a clearing in this wood,” croaked the raven, who had been -soaring above the treetops. “Let us keep right on.” - -Suddenly all were startled by a bright light, the brightest any of -them had ever seen. It flashed out through the trees directly in front -of them. It fairly dazzled and blinded them. Then it as suddenly -disappeared, and left them standing terrified in the pitch-black darkness -of the night. - -Again the light flashed out, and again disappeared. - -“What can it be?” asked Billy Binks, hoarsely, as soon as he could find -his voice. - -“Perhaps it is a lamp,” mewed the cat. - -“No, it is too bright for a lamp,” answered Billy Binks. - -“It might be a house on fire,” barked the dog. - -“No, if it were, we could see the light all the time; and besides, there -is no house here. I have flown this way before,” answered the raven. - -[Illustration] - -“It may be a lighthouse,” said Billy Binks. - -“No,” replied the raven, “the sea is miles from here. You all keep still -while I fly over the treetops and find out what it is.” - -Billy Binks and his animal friends kept ever so quiet, while the raven -flew up and quickly disappeared in the darkness. It seemed hours before -he returned. - -“Oh, my friends,” croaked the raven, alighting in their midst at last, -“you never saw such a sight! There’s the most horrible, monstrous -hob-goblin over there in the clearing. He has a nose as long as a -broomstick—” - -“Oh! Oh! Oh!” cried Billy Binks and his friends. - -“—Eyes as big as saucers and as green as the sea—” - -“Oh! Oh! Oh!” cried Billy Binks and his friends. - -“—And a mouth big enough to swallow us all!” - -“Oh! Oh! Oh!” cried Billy Binks and his friends. - -“He has a great fire blazing among some rocks. That is the light you saw. -When he walks in front of it you cannot see the light. That is why you -thought it disappeared.” - -[Illustration] - -“I see! I see! I see!” said Billy Binks and his friends. - -“He is busy melting gold, and he has piles of gold and jewels hidden in -his cave—” - -“Ah, ha!” laughed Billy Binks, as he climbed bravely upon his gray pony. - -“His cave is full of nice plump field mice—” - -“Mew! Mew!” cried the cat, as she scrambled up behind Billy Binks. - -“In the bushes back of the cave live many rabbits—” - -“Bow-wow!” barked the dog, as he bounded toward Billy Binks. - -“Near the cave is a large green meadow, with the sweetest grass and the -coolest brook in the world—” - -“Moo! Moo!” lowed the cow, as she, too, hurried up beside Billy Binks. - -“And there is a tall tree that will make a fine home for me,” finished -the raven, as she flew over Billy Binks’s head. - -“Come on, friends,” whispered Billy Binks, boldly. “It is time to win my -fortune. Remember you have all promised to help me.” - -“Yes, yes, I’ll help. And I think I see my fortune, too,” answered each -of the animals, now as bold as Billy Binks. - -Softly, quietly, and slowly they crept through the forest. Presently they -came to the clearing. There stood the ugly, black hob-goblin, bending -over his fire. His back was turned toward them. - -[Illustration] - -“Now!” shouted Billy Binks, and they all rushed at the terrible monster. - -The raven dashed into his face and pecked at his large green eyes. - -The cat scratched great gashes in his long nose. - -The dog bit him, and the horse kicked him. - -The enraged cow rushed upon him with lowered head, caught him on her -horns, and tossed him as high as the treetops. - -[Illustration] - -Then the cow began to bellow. - -The dog began to howl. - -The cat began to waul. - -The raven began to caw. - -The pony began to prance. - -And Billy Binks began to shout with all his might. - -Such a frightful din that old hob-goblin had never heard! He picked -himself up from the sharp rocks where he had fallen, and dashed away with -might and main through the forest. If he hasn’t stopped, he is running -still. - -“Ho, ho!” cried Billy Binks, springing from the gray pony and running to -the mouth of the cave. “This heap of gold and this pile of jewels will do -for my fortune. If you carry them safely home for me, Pony, I will build -you a beautiful stable, and you shall have a full crib of oats before you -all the rest of your life. That will be your fortune.” - -“This cave, full of good, plump mice, is my fortune,” called the cat, as -she pounced on the first unlucky mouse. - -“All these rabbits shall be my fortune,” barked the dog, as he set off in -hot haste after a fleeing bunny. - -“And this green meadow is my fortune,” mooed the cow, as she began to -crop the sweet grass. - -“Who could have a better fortune than this?” croaked the raven, flying to -the top of a tall tree. - -So Billy Binks said “Good-by” to his friends, and left them each with his -fortune. He quickly bagged the gold and jewels, threw them across the -pony’s back, and mounting, hurried off homeward. - -The pony smelled oats all the way, while Billy Binks saw castles and -lands on all sides. - -[Illustration] - - - - -[Illustration: Some Things to think About] - -[Illustration] - - -WHEN THE LITTLE BOY RAN AWAY - - (s ist er) - tw ist ed - - wan der ed - - aw ful - - (r oam) - f oam ing - - ech o - - (under) - th under - - par ents - - trun dle - -[Illustration] - -[Illustration] - - When the little boy ran away from home, - The birds in the tree-top knew, - And they all sang, “Stay!” but he wandered away - Under the skies of blue. - And the wind came whispering from the tree, - “Follow me, follow me!” - And it sang him a song that was soft and sweet - And scattered the roses before his feet - That day, that day, - When the little boy ran away. - - The violets whispered, “Your eyes are blue - And lovely and bright to see, - And so are mine, and I’m kin to you, - So dwell in the light with me.” - But the little boy laughed, while the wind in glee - Sang, “Follow, follow me!” - And the wind called the clouds from their home in the skies - And said to the violet, “Shut your eyes!” - That day, that day, - When the little boy ran away. - - Then the wind played leapfrog over the hills - And twisted each leaf and limb; - And all the rivers and all the rills - Were foaming mad with him; - And ’twas dark as the darkest night could be, - But still came the wind’s voice, “Follow me!” - And over the mountain and up from the hollow - Came echoing voices with, “Follow him; follow!” - That awful day, - When the little boy ran away. - - Then the little boy cried, “Let me go, let me go!” - For a scared, scared boy was he. - But the thunder growled from a black cloud, “No!” - And the wind roared, “Follow me!” - And an old gray owl from a tree-top flew, - Saying: “Who are you-oo? Who are you-oo?” - And the little boy sobbed, “I’m lost away! - And I want to go home where my parents stay.” - O, the awful day - When the little boy ran away! - - Then the moon looked out from a cloud and said: - “Are you sorry you ran away? - If I light you home to your trundle bed, - Will you stay, little boy, will you stay?” - And the little boy promised—and cried and cried— - He never would leave his mother’s side, - And the moonlight led him over the plain; - And his mother welcomed him home again. - But, O, what a day - When the little boy ran away! - -[Illustration] - -[Illustration] - - -HOW THE BEAN GOT ITS BLACK SEAM - - (ea gle) - ea ger - - (h ush) - cr ush - - mo ment - - quar rel - - coun try - - (r ope) - h ope - - (m ean) - b ean - - gur gling - - four - - pour ing - - sew ed - - hul lo - - cru el - - tor rent - - both er - - a las - - in stant ly - -Once upon a time there was a poor old woman living in a village of a far -country. She had gathered some beans and was making ready to cook them. -She built a fire of sticks, but, as these were damp, they did not burn -well. So she thrust in a handful of dry straw. Now the flames leaped up, -and the sticks snapped and crackled in the blaze. - -A live red coal flew out of the fire, fell on the ground beside a straw, -and lay there smoking. Just then a bean dropped from the pot which the -old woman was filling, rolled away, and came to rest close to the coal -and the straw. - -[Illustration] - -“Hullo, Mr. Coal,” said the straw. “How you smoke! Are you frightened? -Where did you come from?” - -“I just sprang out of that fire,” answered the coal. “Had I not jumped -just as I did, I should now be nothing but ashes. My, look at that -blaze!” - -[Illustration] - -“I, too, jumped in the nick of time,” spoke up the bean. “That cruel old -woman was just pouring me into the pot when I leaped over the edge, and -here I am.” - -“Yes, here you are, silly thing,” broke out the coal and the straw -together. “But what are you going to do? As soon as the old woman turns -around she will spy you, then back you’ll go into the pot. It’s hotter -now than when you left it.” - -“Don’t bother about me; think of yourselves,” answered the bean, angrily. -“When the old woman picks me up, she’ll tread on you, Mr. Coal, and crush -your life out. And you, Mrs. Straw, she’ll stick into the blaze. It’s -hotter there than in the pot.” - -“Come, come,” said the straw, softly, “let’s not quarrel. Let’s be -friends and stick together. Perhaps we can save ourselves yet.” - -“You are quite right, Mrs. Straw,” said the coal. - -The bean said nothing, but she listened eagerly to the plans of the two -others. These soon agreed to travel together to a far country, where they -hoped to find their fortune. They set out without delay, and the bean -rolled along behind. - -Soon the three travelers came to a little gurgling brook. It seemed to -them a mighty rushing and roaring torrent. - -“Oh, dear, what shall we do now?” asked the bean, speaking for the first -time since the journey began. “We can never get across these awful -waters. Hear them thunder down the rocky cliffs!” - -“Don’t worry, little Bean,” said the straw, proudly. “I’ll help you and -Mr. Coal across in a twinkling.” - -Thereupon the straw laid herself across the stream. She was just long -enough to reach from bank to bank. - -“Now walk over the bridge, Mr. Coal and Miss Bean,” called the straw. - -The coal hastened on to the straw bridge while the bean watched in -wonder. All went well until the middle of the stream was reached, when -the bridge bent so low under the weight of the coal and the waters -thundered so loudly that the coal stopped in fright. - -The coal stood still for only a moment. But, alas, that was a moment too -long. - -The dry straw smoked, burst into a tiny flame, and broke in two. Down -fell the coal into the water below and was instantly drowned. The burning -straw bridge also fell into the water, which put out the flames, and the -two pieces of straw went floating away down stream. - -[Illustration] - -All this the little bean saw, watching safely from the bank. And she -thought it the funniest thing that ever happened. So she laughed and she -laughed—until she burst! - -This would have been the end of little Miss Bean, had not a tailor passed -that way just then. He was sorry for the poor bean, so he picked up the -two parts tenderly, and quickly sewed them together. But the thread that -he used was black. And ever since that time some beans have a black seam -around them. - -[Illustration] - - -FRIENDS - - (tw ist) - wh ist ling - - ferns - - North - - com fort ed - - gent ians - - North Wind came whistling through the wood - Where the tender, sweet things grew— - The tall fair ferns and the maiden hair, - And the gentle gentians blue. - “It’s very cold! Are we growing old?” - They sighed, “What shall we do?” - - The sigh went up to the loving leaves. - “We must help,” they whispered low. - “They are frightened and weak, O brave old trees! - But we love you well, you know.” - And the trees said, “We are strong—make haste! - Down to the darlings go.” - - So the leaves went floating, floating down, - All yellow, and brown, and red, - And the frail little trembling, thankful things - Lay still, and were comforted. - And the blue sky smiled through the bare old trees, - Down on their soft warm beds. - - —L. G. WARNER. - -[Illustration] - - -HELP ONE ANOTHER - - (m outh) - s outh - - splen did - - (m ount ain) - f ount ain - - “Help one another,” the snowflakes said, - As they cuddled down in their fleecy bed. - “One of us here would not be felt, - One of us here would quickly melt; - But I’ll help you, and you help me, - And then what a splendid drift there’ll be.” - - “Help one another,” the maple spray - Said to its fellow leaves one day; - “The sun would wither me here alone, - Long enough ere the day is gone; - But I’ll help you, and you help me, - And then what a splendid shade there’ll be.” - - “Help one another,” the dewdrop cried, - Seeing another drop close to its side; - “The warm south wind would dry me away, - And I should be gone ere noon to-day; - But I’ll help you, and you help me, - And we’ll make a brook and run to the sea.” - - “Help one another,” a grain of sand - Said to another grain close at hand; - “The wind may carry me out to the sea, - And then, oh, what will become of me? - But come, my brother, give me your hand, - We’ll build a mountain and then we will stand.” - - And so the snowflakes grew to drifts; - The grains of sand to a mountain; - The leaves became a summer shade; - The dewdrops fed a fountain. - - - - -[Illustration: With our Feathered Friends] - -[Illustration] - - -THE DROWNING OF MR. LEGHORN - - (g irl) - wh irl - - point - - waul - - mat ter - - (s ea) - r ea son - - arm - f arm - - heav y - - (c ane) - v ane - - else - - horse - - perch - -[Illustration] - -One day Mr. Leghorn, the rooster, and Mrs. Leghorn, the hen, were out -walking. They came to a wide, deep brook. Mrs. Leghorn, who was light -and quick, flew safely across; but Mr. Leghorn, who was heavy and slow, -fell, splash! into the water. - -[Illustration] - -Mrs. Leghorn was sure Mr. Leghorn was drowned. So, without turning to -see, she flew screaming and cackling toward the farmyard. - -“What does ail you, Mrs. Leghorn? Why are you screaming and cackling so -loudly?” asked the Wind-Mill as Mrs. Leghorn flew past. - -“Mr. Leghorn has fallen into the brook and is drowned. That’s why I am -screaming and cackling so loudly,” replied Mrs. Leghorn. - -“What a pity! I’ll swing my arms and creak. That’s the best I can do -for poor Mr. Leghorn.” And the Wind-Mill fell to swinging his arms and -creaking with all his might. - -[Illustration] - -When the Big Barn Door heard the Wind-Mill creaking and saw him swinging -his long arms, he called out, “What ails you, Wind-Mill? Why do you swing -your arms and creak so?” - -“Why, Mr. Leghorn has fallen into the brook and is drowned, and Mrs. -Leghorn is screaming and cackling. That’s why I swing my arms and creak,” -answered the Wind-Mill. - -“Poor Mr. Leghorn, poor Mrs. Leghorn!” said the Big Barn Door. “I’ll -slam and bang. That’s the best I can do.” And the Big Barn Door fell to -slamming and banging with all his might. - -[Illustration] - -The Old Red Ox heard the Big Barn Door slamming and banging, and cried -out, “O, Big Barn Door, why are you slamming and banging so?” - -“Reason enough,” answered the Big Barn Door. “Mr. Leghorn has fallen into -the brook and is drowned; Mrs. Leghorn is screaming and cackling; and -Wind-Mill is swinging his arms and creaking. That’s why I am slamming and -banging so.” - -“How sorry I am,” said the Old Red Ox. “I’ll paw the ground and bellow. -What else can I do?” And he fell to pawing and bellowing with all his -might. - -“What is the matter, Old Red Ox?” asked the Watch Dog. “Why are you -pawing and bellowing so?” - -“Matter enough,” answered the Old Red Ox. “Mr. Leghorn has fallen into -the brook and is drowned; Mrs. Leghorn is screaming and cackling; -Wind-Mill is swinging his arms and creaking; and Big Barn Door is -slamming and banging. That’s why I am pawing and bellowing so.” - -“O dear me,” said the Watch Dog. “I’ll bark and whine. That’s all I can -do.” And he fell to barking and whining with all his might. - -The Old Gray Horse heard the Watch Dog barking and whining, and said, -“What is the matter with you, Watch Dog? Why do you bark and whine so?” - -“Wouldn’t you bark and whine if you could?” answered the Watch Dog. -“Mr. Leghorn has fallen into the brook and is drowned; Mrs. Leghorn is -screaming and cackling; Wind-Mill is swinging his arms and creaking; the -Big Barn Door is slamming and banging; and the Old Red Ox is pawing and -bellowing. That’s why I am barking and whining.” - -“The poor things!” said Old Gray Horse. “I’ll prance and neigh. What more -can I do?” And he fell to prancing and neighing with all his might. - -The Weather-Vane looked down from his high perch and saw the Old Gray -Horse prancing and neighing. “What’s the trouble, Old Gray Horse?” he -called out. “Why are you prancing and neighing so?” - -[Illustration] - -“Trouble indeed,” answered the Old Gray Horse. “Mr. Leghorn has fallen -into the brook and is drowned; Mrs. Leghorn is screaming and cackling; -Wind-Mill is swinging his arms and creaking; the Big Barn Door is -slamming and banging; the Old Red Ox is pawing and bellowing; and the -Watch Dog is barking and whining. That’s why I am prancing and neighing -so?” - -[Illustration] - -“O dear, O dear,” said the Weather-Vane, “what shall I do? I’ll whirl and -point. That’s all I can do.” And he fell to whirling and pointing with -all his might. - -Pussy Cat looked up and saw Weather-Vane whirling and pointing. “O, -Weather-Vane,” she cried out. “Why do you whirl and point so?” - -“Because I can do nothing else,” answered the Weather-Vane. “Mr. Leghorn -has fallen into the brook and is drowned; Mrs. Leghorn is screaming and -cackling; Wind-Mill is swinging his arms and creaking; the Big Barn Door -is slamming and banging; the Old Red Ox is pawing and bellowing; the -Watch Dog is barking and whining; and the Old Gray Horse is prancing and -neighing. That’s why I am whirling and pointing so.” - -“O, how sad!” said Pussy Cat. “I’ll waul and squall. That’s the best I -can do.” And she fell to wauling and squalling with all her might. - -At this moment, when Pussy Cat was wauling and squalling, when the -Weather-Vane was whirling and pointing, when the Old Gray Horse was -prancing and neighing, when the Watch Dog was barking and whining, -when the Old Red Ox was pawing and bellowing, when the Big Barn Door -was slamming and banging, when the Wind-Mill was swinging his arms and -creaking, when Mrs. Leghorn was screaming and cackling, Mr. Leghorn flew -to the highest rail on the fence and crew, - - “Cock-a-doodle-doo, - What’s the matter with you?” - -[Illustration] - - -THE STARVING OF MRS. LEGHORN - - po lite - - seized - - bun dle - - bas ket - - dis tance - - praise - - stretched - - of fer ing - - shrieked - - fi nal ly - - faint ly - - fierce ly - - doz en - - smart - - bunch - - wool - - eas y - - own - -Mr. and Mrs. Leghorn often went nutting. Mr. Leghorn was very polite and -kind to Mrs. Leghorn. He ran about searching everywhere for nuts. When he -found one he would call to Mrs. Leghorn, who would hasten to him. Then he -would pick up the nut, roll it over and over, lay it down, and pick it up -again a dozen times, all the time telling Mrs. Leghorn what a very nice -nut that was, what a good hen she was, and how smart he was to find nuts -for her. At last he would drop the nut before Mrs. Leghorn, who would -peck it once or twice to make sure that all Mr. Leghorn had said of it -was true, and then swallow it whole, without once offering to share it -with Mr. Leghorn. - -One day Mr. Leghorn found a very large nut, the largest nut he had ever -seen. How proudly he called to Mrs. Leghorn! It took him a long time -to tell all about that big nut and how he had found it, to praise Mrs. -Leghorn’s goodness, and to brag about his own smartness. But finally he -finished and turned the nut over to Mrs. Leghorn. She seized it greedily -and was about to swallow it, but—it wouldn’t go down! She tried again and -again, she stretched her beak wider and wider, but it was no use. The nut -was too large. - -[Illustration] - -Mr. Leghorn, who had been watching Mrs. Leghorn from a little distance, -became alarmed. - -[Illustration] - -“O, my poor Mrs. Leghorn,” he cried, “what shall I do? You can’t eat that -nut; you’ll surely starve. What shall I do?” - -“Run and ask Mr. Wise Owl,” said Mrs. Leghorn. “He can tell us what to -do.” - -So away ran Mr. Leghorn to the Wise Owl, screaming with all his might. - -“O, Mr. Wise Owl,” he cried, “my poor Mrs. Leghorn is starving. She can’t -swallow the big nut. What shall I do?” - -“Who, who, who?” hooted the Wise Owl, blinking his great round eyes. - -“Mrs. Leghorn, my Mrs. Leghorn, my own dear Mrs. Leghorn,” fairly -shrieked Mr. Cock. “She can’t swallow the big nut. She will starve. Can -you tell me what to do?” - -[Illustration] - -Mr. Wise Owl stared straight ahead a moment—it seemed an age to Mr. -Leghorn—then answered slowly, “Yes, Mr. Leghorn, I can tell you what to -do. But you must first bring me a mouse.” - -Away rushed Mr. Leghorn to Pussy Cat. “My good Miss Pussy Cat,” he cried, -“dear Mrs. Leghorn is starving. Will you please catch me a mouse? I want -it to take to Mr. Wise Owl, who is going to tell me what to do.” - -[Illustration] - -“Yes, Mr. Leghorn,” answered Pussy Cat, “I will catch you a mouse, but -you must first bring me a saucer of milk.” - -Off flew Mr. Leghorn to Mrs. Mooly Cow. - -“Dear, kind Mrs. Mooly Cow,” he said, “poor Mrs. Leghorn is starving. -Will you please give me a saucer of milk? I want it to take to Miss Pussy -Cat, who is going to catch me a mouse for Mr. Wise Owl, who is going to -tell me what to do.” - -[Illustration] - -“Yes, Mr. Leghorn,” answered Mrs. Mooly Cow, “I will give you a saucer of -milk, but you must first bring me a bundle of corn.” - -Away sped Mr. Leghorn to the Farmer. - -“O, Mr. Farmer,” said Mr. Leghorn, “Mrs. Leghorn is starving. Please -will you be so kind as to cut me a bundle of corn? I want it to take to -Mrs. Mooly Cow, who is going to give me a saucer of milk for Miss Pussy -Cat, who is going to catch me a mouse for Mr. Wise Owl, who is going to -tell me what to do.” - -[Illustration] - -“Yes, indeed, Mr. Leghorn,” said the Farmer, “I will cut you a bundle of -corn, but you must first bring me a new coat.” - -Off hastened Mr. Leghorn to the Tailor. - -“O, Mr. Tailor,” cried Mr. Leghorn, “Mrs. Leghorn is starving. Won’t you -please give me a new coat? I want it to take to Mr. Farmer, who is going -to cut me a bundle of corn for Mrs. Mooly Cow, who is going to give me a -saucer of milk for Miss Pussy Cat, who is going to catch me a mouse for -Mr. Wise Owl, who is going to tell me what to do.” - -“Yes, Mr. Leghorn,” answered Mr. Tailor, “I shall be very glad to give -you a new coat, but you must first bring me a pound of wool.” - -Away hurried Mr. Leghorn to Mrs. Sheep. - -[Illustration] - -“O, good Mrs. Sheep,” he said, “Mrs. Leghorn is starving. Do, please, -give me a pound of wool. I want it to take to Mr. Tailor, who is going -to give me a new coat for Mr. Farmer, who is going to cut me a bundle of -corn for Mrs. Mooly Cow, who is going to give me a saucer of milk for -Miss Pussy Cat, who is going to catch me a mouse for Mr. Wise Owl, who is -going to tell me what to do.” - -[Illustration] - -“To be sure, Mr. Leghorn,” said Mrs. Sheep, “I will give you a pound of -wool, but you must first bring me a bunch of clover.” - -Away ran Mr. Leghorn to the Farmer’s Wife. - -“O, good, kind Farmer’s Wife,” cried Mr. Leghorn, “Mrs. Leghorn is -starving. Won’t you, please, pull me a bunch of clover? I want it to take -to Mrs. Sheep, who is going to give me a pound of wool for Mr. Tailor, -who is going to give me a new coat for Mr. Farmer, who is going to cut me -a bundle of corn for Mrs. Mooly Cow, who is going to give me a saucer of -milk for Miss Pussy Cat, who is going to catch me a mouse for Mr. Wise -Owl, who is going to tell me what to do.” - -“Yes, yes,” answered the kind Farmer’s Wife, “I will gladly pull you a -bunch of clover, but you must first bring me a dozen eggs.” - -Mr. Leghorn fairly flew back to Mrs. Leghorn, who was still trying vainly -to swallow the large nut. He seemed to forget all his politeness. - -“Where’s your nest, Mrs. Leghorn, where’s your nest? Tell me this -instant!” he shrieked. - -Mrs. Leghorn had never told any one where her nest was. That was her -secret; and she would not have told her secret now—not even to keep -herself from starving—had she not been so frightened at Mr. Leghorn, who -stood glaring at her fiercely. She thought he had gone mad and would do -her harm. So she answered faintly, - -“Under the corner of the barn.” - -[Illustration] - -Away to the corner of the barn rushed Mr. Leghorn, where he found Mrs. -Leghorn’s nest full of eggs. He took a dozen in a basket and hurried off -to the Farmer’s Wife, who pulled him a bunch of clover, which he carried -to Mrs. Sheep, who gave him a pound of wool, which he took to Mr. Tailor, -who gave him a new coat, which he brought to Mr. Farmer, who cut him a -bundle of corn, which he carried to Mrs. Mooly Cow, who gave him a saucer -of milk, which he took to Miss Pussy Cat, who caught him a mouse, which -he carried to Mr. Wise Owl. - -“There, Mr. Wise Owl,” cried Mr. Leghorn, quite out of breath, “there’s a -nice fat mouse. Now tell me what I shall do for poor Mrs. Leghorn, who is -starving because she can’t swallow the big nut.” - -“Who, who, who?” cried Mr. Wise Owl, staring sleepily at the fat mouse. - -“Mrs. Leghorn, she is starving!” screamed Mr. Leghorn, now quite angry. -“She can’t swallow the big nut. You said you would tell me what to do.” - -[Illustration] - -“O, yes,” said Mr. Wise Owl, “to be sure, that’s easy. Just go and find -Mrs. Leghorn some smaller nuts.” - - -MR. AND MRS. LEGHORN TO THE RESCUE - - o cean - - chas ing - - urged - - (c atch) - scr atch - - (pl ace) - p ace - - (p ast) - m ast er - - (p ond) - be y ond - - (ch ild) - w ild ly - - scarce ly - - (f eel) - h eel - - (sm art) - st art - - (own) - un kn own - - af ter noon - -Mr. and Mrs. Leghorn went for a stroll one afternoon. They had never been -far from home and they soon came into unknown places. But they wandered -on and on, chasing grasshoppers and crickets, and now and then stopping -to scratch for a worm, until they finally came to the bank of a frog pond. - -“Look, Mrs. Leghorn,” said Mr. Leghorn, “there’s the ocean, the wide, -blue ocean that we have heard so much about.” - -[Illustration] - -“Indeed it is,” answered Mrs. Leghorn. “Could you believe we had come so -far!” - -Splash!... _Splash!_ - -“What was that?” cried Mrs. Leghorn. - -“What was that?” cried Mr. Leghorn. - -“Help me out! Help me out!” came a deep voice from the pond. - -“Me, too! Me, too!” came a little, peeping voice from the same place. - -“Why, that’s our good master and his little boy,” cried Mr. and Mrs. -Leghorn together. - -“They’ve fallen into the ocean!” - -[Illustration] - -“Help me out! Help me out! Me, too! Me, too!” came again from the pond. - -“Yes, good Master, yes,” screamed Mr. Leghorn, “we’ll help you. But what -shall we do?” - -“Bring a rope! A rope!” came the answer. - -“A rope, a rope!” cried Mr. Leghorn. “O, where shall we find one?” - -“Just beyond! Just beyond!” - -Mr. Leghorn ran wildly along the bank with Mrs. Leghorn following close -on his heels. They looked to the right, and they looked to the left; they -looked up, and they looked down; but no rope could they see. - -“Hurry up! Hurry up!” came from the water. - -“O dear, O dear!” cried Mrs. Leghorn. - -“O, where is that rope?” cried Mr. Leghorn. - -“Follow your nose! Follow your nose!” came the voice. - -At that, Mr. Leghorn flew along faster than ever. Mrs. Leghorn could -hardly keep in sight of him. But no rope could they find. - -“Hurry up! Hurry up!” came from the pond and urged them on, whenever they -began to slacken their pace. - -“Going down! Going down!” came the deep voice. - -“Me, too! Me, too!” came the peeping voice. - -“O, they are drowning, they are drowning!” screamed Mr. and Mrs. Leghorn. - -“Let ’em drown! Let ’em drown!” came the voice. - -“What!” cried Mr. Leghorn. - -“What!” cried Mrs. Leghorn. - -“Better go home! Better go home!” called the deep voice. - -Mr. and Mrs. Leghorn stood staring at each other. They could scarcely -believe their ears. - -“Go to roost! Go to roost!” came the voice. - -Mr. and Mrs. Leghorn began to look silly. The sun had set and it was -growing dark. They turned about and started off homeward. - -“You’re fooled! You’re fooled!” sounded after them as they left the banks -of the pond. - -“He told the truth that time, even if he is only a frog,” said Mrs. -Leghorn. - -[Illustration] - -[Illustration: GOOD-BYE] - - - - -Vocabulary - - -Most of the words used in the preceding books of the Aldine Series are -used frequently in this Second Reader. They are not listed in this -vocabulary, however; here are given only the words used for the first -time in this book. The number at the left of a word refers to the page on -which the story begins in which that word is first used. New words are -listed in the text immediately before the lesson in which they are used. - - A - - 36. about - 53. above - 163. across - 16. afraid - 172. afternoon - 21. age - 160. ahead - 151. ail - 151. alarmed - 138. alas - 65. already - 8. among - 8. angry - 36. animal - 46. ant - 151. arm - 5. ash - 77. astray - 133. awful - 16. awoke - - B - - 91. ballad - 115. bang - 16. bank - 26. bark - 84. barn - 160. basket - 138. bean - 26. bear - 160. became - 46. began - 12. begged - 21. believe - 26. bellow - 172. beyond - 6. black - 117. blazed - 160. blinking - 138. bother - 62. bow - 160. brag - 53. branch - 81. bravely - 26. breathes - 102. breeze - 138. bridge - 16. brook - 117. broom - 145. brown - 94. build - 160. bunch - 160. bundle - 26. burrowed - 107. bush - 138. burst - 46. buy - - C - - 151. cackling - 117. castle - 26. catch - 172. chasing - 77. cheek - 16. chicken - 107. chirped - 94. choose - 107. clever - 94. cliff - 26. climbed - 107. cloak - 138. coal - 46. cob - 151. cock - 81. color - 145. comforted - 160. corner - 138. country - 81. crazy - 26. creak - 117. crib - 6. croak - 100. crocus - 138. cruel - 138. crush - 46. crust - 36. curled - 160. cut - - D - - 100. daffodils - 12. dance - 16. dare - 12. dark - 145. darlings - 55. dash - 12. dead - 138. delay - 117. dense - 71. diamond - 12. die - 63. different - 117. directly - 117. disappeared - 160. distance - 3. doctor - 94. dome - 59. don’t - 3. door - 160. dozen - 26. drank - 65. dream - 26. drink - 26. drive - 8. drove - 36. drumikin - 81. duller - - E - - 16. each - 138. eager - 94. eagle - 3. ears - 107. earth - 160. easy - 94. eaves - 133. echo - 16. eight - 16. eleven - 151. else - 117. enemy - 12. enough - 117. enter - 8. envy - 16. even - - F - - 160. faintly - 160. fairly - 84. family - 151. farm - 117. farther - 68. father - 36. feared - 6. feathers - 151. fence - 145. ferns - 160. fiercely - 160. finally - 12. find - 172. fine - 117. finished - 46. fish - 55. flash - 133. foaming - 8. foolish - 117. forest - 160. forget - 117. fortune - 107. forward - 8. found - 147. fountain - 160. frightened - 36. frisked - 36. frolicked - 117. front - - G - - 36. gayly - 145. gentians - 93. gild - 117. gladly - 117. glaring - 60. goat - 117. grasshoppers - 117. gray - 117. greedily - 36. greedy - 12. growled - 16. guess - 138. gurgling - 93. gypsy - - H - - 160. harm - 107. hasten - 117. heap - 151. heavy - 172. heel - 60. height - 94. held - 117. hoarsely - 84. hole - 94. hollow - 36. home - 172. homeward - 81. honest - 94. hoot - 138. hope - 117. horrible - 151. horse - 36. hullo - 36. hump - 12. hungry - 107. hunt - 46. hurried - - I - - 93. idle - 138. immediately - 102. Indian - 138. instant - - J - - 117. jewel - 65. journey - 81. June - - L - - 63. ladies - 77. lamb - 37. lambikin - 77. large - 8. laughed - 81. lazy - 65. leaped - 94. learn - 16. least - 36. left - 94. lesson - 84. life - 26. lion - 12. lively - 46. lost - 8. lucky - - M - - 21. ma’am - 94. magpie - 102. Manitou - 94. maple - 46. marry - 172. master - 151. matter - 84. meal - 94. mean - 117. melt - 100. merry - 26. mice - 117. mile - 160. milk - 46. miss - 138. moment - 46. money - 84. monster - 36. morsel - 59. mossy - 94. mountain - 26. mouse - 36. mouth - 55. murmur - - N - - 21. naughty - 46. neck - 117. neigh - 62. neither - 55. noble - 12. noise - 77. noon - 62. nor - 145. 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Bryce</p> -<p style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Illustrator: Margaret Ely Webb</p> -<p style='display:block; text-indent:0; margin:1em 0'>Release Date: July 17, 2022 [eBook #68545]</p> -<p style='display:block; text-indent:0; margin:1em 0'>Language: English</p> - <p style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em; text-align:left'>Produced by: hekula03 and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)</p> -<div style='margin-top:2em; margin-bottom:4em'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ALDINE READERS: A SECOND READER ***</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_i"></a>[i]</span></p> - -<h1>A SECOND READER</h1> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_ii"></a>[ii]</span></p> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_iii"></a>[iii]</span></p> - -<div class="max30 box"> - -<p class="center"><i class="u">THE ALDINE READERS</i></p> - -<p class="titlepage larger">A SECOND READER</p> - -<p class="titlepage"><span class="smaller">By</span><br /> -Frank E. Spaulding<br /> -<span class="smaller">Superintendent of Schools, Newton, Mass.</span></p> - -<p class="center smaller">and</p> - -<p class="titlepage">Catherine T. Bryce<br /> -<span class="smaller">Supervisor of Primary Schools, Newton, Mass.</span></p> - -<p class="titlepage"><span class="smaller">With Illustrations by</span><br /> -Margaret Ely Webb</p> - -<p class="titlepage"><span class="smaller">NEW YORK</span><br /> -NEWSON & COMPANY, PUBLISHERS</p> - -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_iv"></a>[iv]</span></p> - -<div class="max30"> - -<p class="titlepage smaller"><i>Copyright, 1907, by</i><br /> -<span class="smcap">Newson and Company</span></p> - -<p class="center smaller"><i>All rights reserved</i></p> - -<p class="noindent">The authors and publishers desire to acknowledge -their obligation to Mr. <span class="smcap">Nathaniel L. Berry</span>, -Supervisor of Drawing in the Public Schools of -Newton, Massachusetts, for valuable assistance in -planning and arranging the illustrations in this book.</p> - -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_v"></a>[v]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak">PREFACE</h2> - -</div> - -<p>This Second Reader, like the two preceding books of -the Aldine Series, combines material and method in such -a way that the former does not suffer, while the latter -gains by the combination. That is, the subject-matter -of the book, both the text and the illustrations, is just -as suitable and just as interesting as it could be made were -there no such thing as method; indeed, the sole sign of -method, as one reads the book, is the parenthesis about -certain words preceding the stories. At the same time, -this subject-matter, both the text and the illustrations, -embodies in systematic arrangement the most effective -principles of mastering the mechanics of reading.</p> - -<p>Children who have read thoroughly the preceding books -of this Series have acquired independence, the habit of -self-reliance, and the power of self-help to such a degree -that they will be able to master this book with little or -no direct aid from the teacher. And when they have -thus mastered this book, they will be good readers. That -is, so far as the mechanics of reading is concerned, they -will be able to read unaided anything which they can<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_vi"></a>[vi]</span> -understand; so far as the subject-matter is concerned, -they will be able to understand from the printed page -anything which they can understand through the spoken -word. More than this, if the teacher has contributed her -part, most such children will have realized the utility and -tasted the real delights of reading to such an extent that -they will continue to read of their own accord; most of -them will also be good oral readers, reading with appropriate -expression and genuine enthusiasm.</p> - -<p>These statements are not mere predictions of the hoped-for -results of untried theories; they are simple, unexaggerated -expressions of facts which have been observed in -the work of thousands of children of a score of nationalities.</p> - -<p>To secure such results a complete mastery and intelligent -observation is necessary of the principles and plans -described in the authors’ <i>Manual for Teachers</i>, entitled -“Learning to Read.”</p> - -<p>The authors gratefully acknowledge their indebtedness -to Miss Marie Van Vorst for the use of “Three of us -Know” and “The Sandman”; to Mrs. Emily Huntington -Miller for “The Bluebird”; to Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin -& Co. for the use of the poem “Discontented,” by Sarah -Orne Jewett, and “Calling the Violet,” by Lucy Larcom; -to Messrs. Charles Scribner’s Sons for “The Wind,” by -Robert Louis Stevenson.</p> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_vii"></a>[vii]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak">CONTENTS</h2> - -</div> - -<table> - <tr> - <td></td> - <td></td> - <td class="tdpg smaller">PAGE</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td><span class="smcap">Out of Door Neighbors</span></td> - <td class="tdr"></td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#Out_of_Door_Neighbors">1</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdsub">The Cat and the Birds</td> - <td class="tdr"></td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#heading1">3</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdsub">Why Ravens Croak</td> - <td class="tdr"></td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#heading2">6</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdsub">The Proud Crow</td> - <td class="tdr"></td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#heading3">8</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdsub">The Wolf and the Kid</td> - <td class="tdr"></td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#heading4">12</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdsub">Queer Chickens</td> - <td class="tdr"></td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#heading5">17</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdsub">Little Ducks</td> - <td class="tdr"><i>Robert Mack</i></td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#heading6">21</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td><span class="smcap">Once Upon a Time</span></td> - <td class="tdr"></td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#Once_Upon_a_Time">23</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdsub">The Caterpillar</td> - <td class="tdr"></td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#heading7">25</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdsub">Who is Strongest?</td> - <td class="tdr"></td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#heading8">27</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdsub">Lambikin</td> - <td class="tdr"></td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#heading9">37</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdsub">The Ant and the Mouse</td> - <td class="tdr"></td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#heading10">46</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td><span class="smcap">Songs of Life</span></td> - <td class="tdr"></td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#Songs_of_Life">51</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdsub">The Brook</td> - <td class="tdr"></td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#heading11">53</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdsub">The Little Brook</td> - <td class="tdr"></td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#heading12">55</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdsub">Calling the Violet</td> - <td class="tdr"><i>Lucy Larcom</i></td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#heading13">59</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdsub">The Wind</td> - <td class="tdr"><i>Mary Lamb</i></td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#heading14">61</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdsub">The Wind</td> - <td class="tdr"><i>Christina Rossetti</i></td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#heading15">62</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdsub">The Wind</td> - <td class="tdr"><i>R. L. Stevenson</i></td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#heading16">63</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdsub">The Leaf’s Journey</td> - <td class="tdr"></td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#heading17">64</a><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_viii"></a>[viii]</span></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdsub">Sweet and Low</td> - <td class="tdr"><i>Tennyson</i></td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#heading18">69</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdsub">Sleep, Baby, Sleep!</td> - <td class="tdr"><i>From the German</i></td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#heading19">70</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdsub">Stars and Daisies</td> - <td class="tdr"></td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#heading20">71</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdsub">Lady Moon</td> - <td class="tdr"><i>Lord Houghton</i></td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#heading21">73</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td><span class="smcap">With Nature’s Children</span></td> - <td class="tdr"></td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#With_Natures_Children">75</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdsub">The Little Shepherdess</td> - <td class="tdr"></td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#heading22">77</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdsub">Discontent</td> - <td class="tdr"><i>Sarah Orne Jewett</i></td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#heading23">81</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdsub">Belling the Cat</td> - <td class="tdr"></td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#heading24">84</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdsub">Three of us Know</td> - <td class="tdr"><i>Marie Van Vorst</i></td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#heading25">91</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdsub">The Dandelion</td> - <td class="tdr"></td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#heading26">93</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdsub">The Magpie’s Lesson</td> - <td class="tdr"></td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#heading27">95</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdsub">The Bluebird</td> - <td class="tdr"><i>Mrs. Emily Huntington Miller</i></td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#heading28">100</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdsub">The Wolf and the Stork</td> - <td class="tdr"></td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#heading29">102</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdsub">The Indian Mother’s Lullaby</td> - <td class="tdr"><i>Charles Myall</i></td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#heading30">103</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td><span class="smcap">In Story Land</span></td> - <td class="tdr"></td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#In_Story_Land">105</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdsub">How Mrs. White Hen helped Rose</td> - <td class="tdr"></td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#heading31">107</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdsub">The Sandman</td> - <td class="tdr"><i>Marie Van Vorst</i></td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#heading32">115</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdsub">Billy Binks</td> - <td class="tdr"></td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#heading33">117</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td><span class="smcap">Some Things to think About</span></td> - <td class="tdr"></td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#Some_Things_to_think_About">131</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdsub">When the Little Boy ran Away</td> - <td class="tdr"></td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#heading34">133</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdsub">How the Bean got its Black Seam</td> - <td class="tdr"></td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#heading35">138</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdsub">Friends</td> - <td class="tdr"><i>L. G. Warner</i></td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#heading36">145</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdsub">Help One Another</td> - <td class="tdr"></td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#heading37">147</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td><span class="smcap">With our Feathered Friends</span></td> - <td class="tdr"></td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#With_our_Feathered_Friends">149</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdsub">The Drowning of Mr. Leghorn</td> - <td class="tdr"></td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#heading38">151</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdsub">The Starving of Mrs. Leghorn</td> - <td class="tdr"></td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#heading39">160</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdsub">Mr. and Mrs. Leghorn to the Rescue</td> - <td class="tdr"></td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#heading40">172</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td><span class="smcap">Vocabulary</span></td> - <td class="tdr"></td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#Vocabulary">179</a></td> - </tr> -</table> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_1"></a>[1]</span></p> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter" id="Out_of_Door_Neighbors"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_2"></a>[2]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp56" id="illus001" style="max-width: 32.8125em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus001.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak">Out of Door Neighbors</h2> - -</div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp30" id="illus002" style="max-width: 12.5em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus002.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_3"></a>[3]</span></p> - -<h3 id="heading1">THE CAT AND THE BIRDS</h3> - -<div class="center"> -<ul> -<li>(hap py)</li> -<li class="l1">rap</li> -</ul> -<ul> -<li>doc tor</li> -<li>words</li> -<li>door</li> -</ul> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp63" id="illus003" style="max-width: 26.5625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus003.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>An old cat lived near a bird house.</p> - -<p>Every day he saw the birds flying in and out.</p> - -<p>Every day he said to himself, “How I wish I -had one of those nice fat birds for my dinner!”</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_4"></a>[4]</span></p> - -<div class="figleft illowp60" id="illus004" style="max-width: 20.3125em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus004.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>One day he heard -that the birds were -ill.</p> - -<p>“Now is my time,” -he said. “I will get -a bird to eat to-day.”</p> - -<p>So he put on a tall -hat and a coat.</p> - -<p>He took a cane -in one hand and a -box of pills in the -other.</p> - -<p>Then he went to the bird house and rapped -at the door.</p> - -<p>“Who is there?” asked an old bird.</p> - -<p>“It is I, the doctor,” said the cat. “I heard -that you were ill. So I have come to see you. -I have some pills that will make you well. Open -the door.”</p> - -<p>The old bird looked out.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_5"></a>[5]</span></p> - -<p>“Your words are kind,” he said, “like the -words of the good doctor. Your hat, coat, cane, -and box of pills are like his. But your paws -are those of the old cat. Go away! We will not -let you in. We do not want your pills. We are -more likely to get well without your help than -with it.”</p> - -<p>Then all the birds flew at him.</p> - -<p>They pecked at his -eyes; they pecked at -his ears.</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp60" id="illus005" style="max-width: 20.3125em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus005.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>They tore his coat.</p> - -<p>Away flew his -high hat; away flew -his cane; away flew -his box of pills.</p> - -<p>Then away flew -the old cat himself, -and he never went -back.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_6"></a>[6]</span></p> - -<h3 id="heading2">WHY RAVENS CROAK</h3> - -<div class="center"> -<ul> -<li>wash es</li> -<li class="ifrst">wa ter</li> -<li class="ifrst">pret ty</li> -</ul> -<ul> -<li>(w eather)</li> -<li class="l1">f eather</li> -<li class="ifrst l2">(ought)</li> -<li>th ought</li> -</ul> -<ul> -<li class="l3">(am)</li> -<li>sw am</li> -<li class="ifrst">swan</li> -<li>use</li> -</ul> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp93" id="illus006" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus006.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>A raven was very unhappy because his feathers -were black.</p> - -<p>One day he saw a beautiful white swan swimming -in a lake.</p> - -<p>“How beautiful and white her feathers are,”<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_7"></a>[7]</span> -he thought. “It must be because she washes -them so much. Why, she almost lives in the -water. If I should wash my feathers all day -long, they might get white, too. I will try it.”</p> - -<p>So he flew from his nest in the woods, and -lived for days near the lake.</p> - -<p>Every day he washed his feathers from morning -to night.</p> - -<p>But his feathers did not get white.</p> - -<p>They were just as black as ever.</p> - -<p>But as the raven was not used to living in -water, he caught a very bad cold.</p> - -<p>So, at last, he flew back to his nest in the -wood.</p> - -<p>“It is no use,” he croaked. “I can never -be white. I do not want to be white. Black -feathers are pretty enough for me. Croak! -Croak!”</p> - -<p>All ravens have said “Croak! Croak!” ever -since.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_8"></a>[8]</span></p> - -<h3 id="heading3">THE PROUD CROW</h3> - -<div class="center"> -<ul> -<li>(p ea)</li> -<li>sp eak</li> -<li class="ifrst l1">l uck y</li> -<li>st uck</li> -<li class="ifrst">laughed</li> -<li>on ly</li> -</ul> -<ul> -<li>(l oud)</li> -<li>pr oud</li> -<li class="ifrst">(c ool)</li> -<li class="l1">f ool ish</li> -<li class="ifrst">a mong</li> -<li>steal</li> -</ul> -<ul> -<li class="l4">(r ock)</li> -<li>pea c ock</li> -<li class="ifrst">(n ot)</li> -<li class="l1">l ot</li> -<li class="ifrst">(f ull)</li> -<li class="l1">p ull ed</li> -</ul> -</div> - -<p>One day a crow found a lot of peacock feathers.</p> - -<p>“My,” cried the silly crow, “how lucky I am. -No other crow in the world will look as fine as I. -How all my old friends will envy me!”</p> - -<p>And the proud crow stuck the peacock feathers -all over his back.</p> - -<p>Then he flew away to show himself to his -friends.</p> - -<p>He strutted up and down before them.</p> - -<p>But they only laughed at him.</p> - -<p>“Just look at that silly bird!” they cried.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_9"></a>[9]</span> -“See him strut! Did you ever see anything so -proud? Caw, caw, caw!”</p> - -<p>The proud crow was now very angry.</p> - -<p>“Do not speak to me,” he said. “I have fine -feathers. I am a peacock. I will have nothing -to do with you crows.”</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus007" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus007.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>So off he strutted to the peacocks.</p> - -<p>“How do you do, my dear friends?” he said in -his sweetest voice.</p> - -<p>“Who are you?” cried the peacocks scornfully.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_10"></a>[10]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp88" id="illus008" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus008.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>“Do you not see that I am a peacock?” -answered the crow. “Look at my fine feathers.”</p> - -<p>“Fine feathers, indeed! We threw those old -feathers away long ago. You are no peacock. -Yon are just an old black crow.”</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_11"></a>[11]</span></p> - -<p>Then the peacocks fell upon the old crow, and -pulled off all his fine feathers.</p> - -<p>They tore out many of his own feathers, too.</p> - -<p>The foolish crow was a sight!</p> - -<p>He crept back to his old friends.</p> - -<p>He tried to steal in among them without being -seen.</p> - -<p>But they all cried out, “Who are you? What -do you want here?”</p> - -<p>“Don’t you see that I am your old friend?” -croaked the crow. “I am going to live with you -always.”</p> - -<p>“No, you are not,” answered a wise old crow. -“You are no friend of ours. A few old peacock -feathers made you think you were a peacock. So -you left your old friends. The peacocks saw you -were a cheat and drove you away. Hereafter you -must live alone. Be off with you!”</p> - -<p>And all the crows said, “Caw, caw, caw! Caw, -caw, caw!”</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_12"></a>[12]</span></p> - -<h3 id="heading4">THE WOLF AND THE KID</h3> - -<div class="center"> -<ul> -<li>(h ark)</li> -<li class="l1">d ark</li> -<li class="ifrst">(m uch)</li> -<li class="l1">s uch</li> -<li class="ifrst">noise</li> -<li>e nough</li> -<li>trot ted</li> -</ul> -<ul> -<li>(h ive)</li> -<li class="l1">l ive ly</li> -<li class="ifrst">(l eg)</li> -<li class="l1">b eg ged</li> -<li class="ifrst">(p ea)</li> -<li>pl ea se</li> -</ul> -<ul> -<li>(k ind)</li> -<li class="l2">find</li> -<li class="ifrst">hun gry</li> -<li>oft en</li> -<li>wolf</li> -<li class="ifrst">(n ow)</li> -<li>gr ow led</li> -</ul> -</div> - -<p>One day a little kid was lost in a dark wood.</p> - -<p>He ran on and on, but could not find his way -out.</p> - -<p>At last he became frightened and began to -bleat.</p> - -<p>A hungry wolf heard him.</p> - -<p>How glad the wolf was to find such a good -dinner!</p> - -<p>“Oh, Mr. Wolf!” cried the little kid, “please -show me the way home.”</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_13"></a>[13]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus009" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus009.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>“Show you the way home!” growled the wolf. -“I am hungry and I’m going to eat you.”</p> - -<p>“Oh, please, please, Mr. Wolf,” begged the -frightened kid, “please let me go!”</p> - -<p>“No, no, I’ll eat you,” growled the wolf.</p> - -<p>And he sprang at the kid, now almost dead with -fright.</p> - -<p>Just then a lucky thought came to the little kid.</p> - -<p>“Oh, Mr. Wolf,” said he, “I have heard that<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_14"></a>[14]</span> -you make very fine music. I love to dance. Will -you not sing for me, so that I may have one more -dance before I die? It is not much to ask.”</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus010" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus010.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>This pleased the wolf, for he was proud of his -voice.</p> - -<p>“Well,” he growled, “music is good before eating. -I often sing before my dinner. To-day I was -too hungry to think of it. But I will sing just one -song. Then I will eat you. Dance lively, now!”</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_15"></a>[15]</span></p> - -<p>So the wolf sang a song, and the kid danced his -best.</p> - -<p>When the wolf stopped, the kid cried, “That was -good. But you did not sing loud enough or fast -enough for me. Is that the best you can do?”</p> - -<p>“No,” said the wolf. “I can sing louder and -faster than any one in the woods. Listen!”</p> - -<p>So the wolf sang louder and faster.</p> - -<p>And the kid danced livelier and better than before.</p> - -<p>But the wolf made so much noise that the dogs -heard it.</p> - -<p>They came running into the woods to see what -the matter was.</p> - -<p>The wolf had to run for his life.</p> - -<p>But the wise little kid trotted safely home to his -mother.</p> - -<p>“I have to go without my dinner,” growled the -wolf. “I alone am to blame. I should kill and eat -kids, not sing for them.”</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_16"></a>[16]</span></p> - -<h3 id="heading5">QUEER CHICKENS</h3> - -<div class="center"> -<ul> -<li>(qu ick)</li> -<li class="l1">ch ick</li> -<li class="l1">ch ick en</li> -<li class="ifrst">(c are)</li> -<li class="l1">d are</li> -<li class="ifrst">(d eer)</li> -<li>qu eer</li> -<li class="ifrst">splash</li> -</ul> -<ul> -<li>(th ank)</li> -<li class="l2">b ank</li> -<li class="ifrst">(r ose)</li> -<li>th ose</li> -<li class="ifrst">each</li> -<li>e ven</li> -<li>sail</li> -<li class="ifrst">a fraid</li> -</ul> -<ul> -<li>(th en)</li> -<li class="l2">h en</li> -<li class="l2">t en</li> -<li class="ifrst">(t ook)</li> -<li>br ook</li> -<li class="ifrst l1">(east)</li> -<li>l east</li> -<li class="ifrst">stream</li> -</ul> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus011" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus011.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_17"></a>[17]</span></p> - -<p>An old hen found a nest behind the gate.</p> - -<p>It was full of eggs. Such beautiful eggs!</p> - -<p>They would make any old hen’s heart glad.</p> - -<p>“I will sit on these eggs. I will keep them -warm,” thought the hen. “Then a little chicken -will come out of each one.”</p> - -<p>So the old hen spread her wings over the eggs.</p> - -<p>How very wide she had to spread them!</p> - -<p>For many days she sat there waiting.</p> - -<p>One morning she awoke to find her nest full -of little ones.</p> - -<p>One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, -nine, ten, eleven, twelve, there were.</p> - -<p>“Cluck, cluck, what dear little chickens,” said -the hen.</p> - -<p>“Come and get breakfast. Cluck, cluck, cluck, -cluck! What hungry chickens!</p> - -<p>Now I will let you play in the meadow. Come -down to the brook first and get a drink.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_18"></a>[18]</span></p> - -<p>The water is clear and cool. Do not go too -near, or you will fall in.”</p> - -<p>Now, what do you think those little ones did?</p> - -<p>You never could guess, so I will tell you.</p> - -<p>As soon as they saw the brook they ran to -it. They ran as fast as ever they could go.</p> - -<p>They rushed right into the water.</p> - -<p>“Cluck, cluck! Cluck, cluck! Come back! -Come back!” called the old hen. “Come back, -come back to your mother!”</p> - -<p>But they did not come back.</p> - -<p>They did not even listen.</p> - -<p>They sailed clear across the stream.</p> - -<p>They sailed up stream and they sailed down -stream.</p> - -<p>But they did not come back to their mother.</p> - -<p>She could only run up and down the bank, looking -and calling.</p> - -<p>“What shall I do? What shall I do?” she -cried. “Come back! Come back, you naughty<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_19"></a>[19]</span> -chickens. You will drown, every one of you. I -know you will drown. O, why will you not mind -your mother?”</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus012" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus012.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>How frightened she was!</p> - -<p>She just knew all her dear chicks would drown.</p> - -<p>Still she did not dare to follow them into the -water. She never swam a stroke in all her life. -She never even waded in the water.</p> - -<p>But such fun as her little ones were having!</p> - -<p>They were not the least bit afraid.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_20"></a>[20]</span> -They swam and splashed around all day.</p> - -<p>All day the old mother hen ran up and down -the bank calling and begging, “Come back! Come -back! Come right back to your mother!”</p> - -<p>At last the little ones were tired.</p> - -<p>Then they came back to their frightened mother.</p> - -<p>One after another came up the bank and ran -to her.</p> - -<p>How glad she was to gather them again under -her warm wings.</p> - -<p>But what queer chickens they were.</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus013" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus013.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_21"></a>[21]</span></p> - -<h3 id="heading6">LITTLE DUCKS</h3> - -<div class="center"> -<ul> -<li>(who)</li> -<li class="l1">who se</li> -<li class="ifrst">sure</li> -</ul> -<ul> -<li>(c aught)</li> -<li class="l1">n aught y</li> -<li class="ifrst">be lieve</li> -</ul> -<ul> -<li>once</li> -<li>roam</li> -<li>Ma’am</li> -</ul> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus014" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus014.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“My dears, whatever are you at?</div> - <div class="verse indent2">You ought to be at home;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I told you not to wet your feet,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">I told you not to roam.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Oh, dear! I’m sure you will be drowned,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">I never saw such tricks;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Come home at once and go to bed,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">You naughty, naughty chicks!”</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_22"></a>[22]</span> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Now most of them were five days old,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">But one, whose age was six—</div> - <div class="verse indent0">“Please, ma’am,” said he, “I think we’re ducks;</div> - <div class="verse indent2">I don’t believe we’re chicks.”</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse right">—<span class="smcap">Robert Mack.</span></div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus015" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus015.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_23"></a>[23]</span></p> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter" id="Once_Upon_a_Time"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_24"></a>[24]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp56" id="illus016" style="max-width: 32.8125em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus016.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak">Once Upon a Time</h2> - -</div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp45" id="illus017" style="max-width: 18.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus017.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_25"></a>[25]</span></p> - -<h3 id="heading7">THE CATERPILLAR</h3> - -<div class="center"> -<ul> -<li>ugly</li> -<li>push</li> -</ul> -<ul> -<li>(w ise)</li> -<li class="l1">r ise</li> -</ul> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus018" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus018.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">I creep upon the ground, and the children say,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">“You ugly old thing!” and push me away.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">I lie in my bed, and the children say,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">“The fellow is dead; we’ll throw him away.”</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">At last I awake, and the children try</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To make me stay, as I rise and fly.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_26"></a>[26]</span></p> - -<h3 id="heading8">WHO IS STRONGEST?</h3> - -<div class="center"> -<ul> -<li class="l1">(age)</li> -<li>c age</li> -<li class="ifrst">(f ellow)</li> -<li class="l1">b ellow</li> -<li class="ifrst">(high)</li> -<li>s igh ed</li> -<li class="ifrst">breathes</li> -<li>bear</li> -</ul> -<ul> -<li>(h ouse)</li> -<li class="l1">m ouse</li> -<li class="ifrst">(sp eak)</li> -<li class="l1">cr eak</li> -<li>squ eak</li> -<li class="ifrst">climbed</li> -<li>roared</li> -<li>Tum tol lo</li> -</ul> -<ul> -<li class="l1">(ice)</li> -<li>m ice</li> -<li class="ifrst">(b ox)</li> -<li class="l3">ox</li> -<li class="ifrst">(th ink)</li> -<li class="l1">dr ink</li> -<li class="ifrst">uprooted</li> -<li>bur rowed</li> -</ul> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus019" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus019.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_27"></a>[27]</span></p> - -<p>Once upon a time Tumtollo climbed a tree.</p> - -<p>The wind blew hard and uprooted the tree.</p> - -<p>Tumtollo was thrown to the ground.</p> - -<p>“Oh, oh, oh!” he cried with pain, “oh, oh, -oh!”</p> - -<p>“My, isn’t the tree strong!” cried he; “it can -throw Tumtollo to the ground.”</p> - -<p>“You are wrong,” creaked the tree. “I am -not strong. If I were, could I be uprooted by the -wind?”</p> - -<p>“Ah, I see,” said Tumtollo, “it is the wind that -is strong.</p> - -<p>The wind uprooted the tree.</p> - -<p>The tree threw Tumtollo to the ground.”</p> - -<p>“No, friend, you are wrong,” sighed the -wind. “If I were strong, could I be stopped by -the hill?”</p> - -<p>“Oh, I see now,” said Tumtollo, “it is the hill -that is strong.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_28"></a>[28]</span></p> - -<p>The hill stopped the wind.</p> - -<p>The wind uprooted the -tree.</p> - -<p>The tree threw Tumtollo -to the ground.”</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp60" id="illus020" style="max-width: 20.3125em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus020.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>“Wrong again,” said the -hill. “I am not strong. If -I were, I should not be burrowed -by mice.”</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp60" id="illus021" style="max-width: 20.3125em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus021.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>“Oh,” said Tumtollo, “then it -is the mouse that is -strong.</p> - -<p>The mouse burrowed -the hill.</p> - -<p>The hill stopped -the wind.</p> - -<p>The wind uprooted the -tree.</p> - -<p>The tree threw Tumtollo -to the ground.”</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_29"></a>[29]</span></p> - -<p>“Still wrong,” squeaked the mouse. “It is -not I who am strong. If I were, could the cat -catch me?”</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp75" id="illus022" style="max-width: 12.5em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus022.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>“Well, then, it is the cat -that is strong,” said Tumtollo.</p> - -<p>“The cat caught the mouse.</p> - -<p>The mouse burrowed the -hill.</p> - -<p>The hill stopped the wind.</p> - -<p>The wind uprooted the tree.</p> - -<p>The tree threw Tumtollo to -the ground.”</p> - -<p>“No, Tumtollo, I am not -strong,” mewed the cat. “If I -were, could the dog frighten me?”</p> - -<div class="figcenter"> - -<div class="figmulti illowp100" id="illus023" style="max-width: 12.5em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus023.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<div class="figmulti illowp100" id="illus024" style="max-width: 12.5em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus024.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -</div> - -<p>“Then it is the dog who is -strong,” said Tumtollo.</p> - -<p>“The dog frightened the cat.</p> - -<p>The cat caught the mouse.</p> - -<p>The mouse burrowed the hill.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_30"></a>[30]</span></p> - -<p>The hill stopped the wind.</p> - -<p>The wind uprooted the tree.</p> - -<p>The tree threw Tumtollo to the ground.”</p> - -<p>“It is not I who am strong,” barked the dog. “If -I were, would the ox hook me with his horns?”</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus025" style="max-width: 12.5em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus025.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>“Then it must be the ox who is strong,” said -Tumtollo.</p> - -<p>“The ox hooked the dog.</p> - -<p>The dog frightened the cat.</p> - -<p>The cat caught the mouse.</p> - -<p>The mouse burrowed the hill.</p> - -<p>The hill stopped the wind.</p> - -<p>The wind uprooted the tree.</p> - -<p>The tree threw Tumtollo to the ground.”</p> - -<p>“No,” bellowed the ox, “I am not strong. If I -were, would the bee sting me?”</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus026" style="max-width: 12.5em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus026.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>“Ah, ha! it is the little bee -that is strong,” said Tumtollo.</p> - -<p>“The bee stung the ox.</p> - -<p>The ox hooked the dog.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_31"></a>[31]</span></p> - -<p>The dog frightened the cat.</p> - -<p>The cat caught the mouse.</p> - -<p>The mouse burrowed the hill.</p> - -<p>The hill stopped the wind.</p> - -<p>The wind uprooted the tree.</p> - -<p>The tree threw Tumtollo to the ground.”</p> - -<p>“No, no!” buzzed the bee, “it is not I who am -strong. If I were, would the bear steal my honey?”</p> - -<div class="figright illowp81" id="illus027" style="max-width: 18.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus027.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>“Indeed, then it is the bear who is strong,” said -Tumtollo.</p> - -<p>“The bear robbed the bee.</p> - -<p>The bee stung the ox.</p> - -<p>The ox hooked the dog.</p> - -<p>The dog frightened the cat.</p> - -<p>The cat caught the mouse.</p> - -<p>The mouse burrowed the hill.</p> - -<p>The hill stopped the wind.</p> - -<p>The wind uprooted the tree.</p> - -<p>The tree threw Tumtollo to the ground.”</p> - -<p>“You are wrong, Tumtollo,” growled the bear.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_32"></a>[32]</span></p> - -<p>“If I were strong, could the lion drive me away -from my dinner?”</p> - -<div class="figcenter"> - -<div class="figmulti illowp100" id="illus028" style="max-width: 12.5em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus028.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<div class="figmulti illowp100" id="illus029" style="max-width: 12.5em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus029.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -</div> - -<p>“Very well, then it is the lion who is strong,” -said Tumtollo.</p> - -<p>“The lion drove away the bear.</p> - -<p>The bear robbed the bee.</p> - -<p>The bee stung the ox.</p> - -<p>The ox hooked the dog.</p> - -<p>The dog frightened the cat.</p> - -<p>The cat caught the mouse.</p> - -<p>The mouse burrowed the hill.</p> - -<p>The hill stopped the wind.</p> - -<p>The wind uprooted the tree.</p> - -<p>The tree threw Tumtollo to the ground.”</p> - -<p>“It is not I who am strong,” roared the lion.</p> - -<p>“If I were, could the rope bind me?”</p> - -<p>“Just as you say,” -said Tumtollo, “then -it is the rope that is -strong.”</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_33"></a>[33]</span></p> - -<p>“The rope bound the lion.</p> - -<p>The lion drove away the bear.</p> - -<p>The bear robbed the bee.</p> - -<p>The bee stung the ox.</p> - -<p>The ox hooked the dog.</p> - -<p>The dog frightened the cat.</p> - -<p>The cat caught the mouse.</p> - -<p>The mouse burrowed the hill.</p> - -<p>The hill stopped the wind.</p> - -<p>The wind uprooted the tree.</p> - -<p>The tree threw Tumtollo to the ground.”</p> - -<p>“It is not I, indeed, that am strong,” said the -rope. “If I were, could the fire burn me?”</p> - -<p>“Well, well, then the fire must be strong,” said -Tumtollo.</p> - -<div class="figright illowp85" id="illus030" style="max-width: 12.5em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus030.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>“The fire burned the rope.</p> - -<p>The rope bound the lion.</p> - -<p>The lion drove away the -bear.</p> - -<p>The bear robbed the bee.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_34"></a>[34]</span></p> - -<p>The bee stung the ox.</p> - -<p>The ox hooked the dog.</p> - -<p>The dog frightened the cat.</p> - -<p>The cat caught the mouse.</p> - -<p>The mouse burrowed the hill.</p> - -<p>The hill stopped the wind.</p> - -<p>The wind uprooted the tree.</p> - -<p>The tree threw Tumtollo to the ground.”</p> - -<p>“No, no, Tumtollo,” snapped the fire, “I am -not strong. If I were, could the water put me -out?”</p> - -<p>“The water it is, then, that is strong,” said -Tumtollo.</p> - -<div class="figleft illowp75" id="illus031" style="max-width: 12.5em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus031.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>“The water put out the fire.</p> - -<p>The fire burned the rope.</p> - -<p>The rope bound the lion.</p> - -<p>The lion drove away the -bear.</p> - -<p>The bear robbed the bee.</p> - -<p>The bee stung the ox.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_35"></a>[35]</span></p> - -<p>The ox hooked the dog.</p> - -<p>The dog frightened the cat.</p> - -<p>The cat caught the mouse.</p> - -<p>The mouse burrowed the hill.</p> - -<p>The hill stopped the wind.</p> - -<p>The wind uprooted the tree.</p> - -<p>The tree threw Tumtollo to the ground.”</p> - -<p>“You are still wrong, Tumtollo,” sang the water -in a spring near by. “I am not strong. But I -will tell you who is truly strong. It is Man.</p> - -<div class="figright illowp60" id="illus032" style="max-width: 12.5em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus032.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>Man drinks the water.</p> - -<p>Man lights the fire.</p> - -<p>Man makes the rope.</p> - -<p>Man cages the lion.</p> - -<p>Man tames the bear.</p> - -<p>Man eats the bee’s honey.</p> - -<p>Man drives the ox.</p> - -<p>Man keeps the dog.</p> - -<p>Man feeds the cat.</p> - -<p>Man kills the mouse.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_36"></a>[36]</span></p> - -<p>Man digs the hill.</p> - -<p>Man breathes the wind.</p> - -<p>Man fells the tree.</p> - -<p>Man rises when he is thrown to the ground.”</p> - -<p>Tumtollo rose, drank deeply from the sweet -spring, and went on his way.</p> - -<h3 id="heading9">LAMBIKIN</h3> - -<div class="center"> -<ul> -<li>(who)</li> -<li class="l1">who m</li> -<li class="ifrst">mor sel</li> -<li>curled</li> -<li class="ifrst">(pl ant)</li> -<li class="l2">can’t</li> -<li class="ifrst">wad dle</li> -<li>reached</li> -</ul> -<ul> -<li>(t ip)</li> -<li>sk ip</li> -<li class="ifrst">(s eed)</li> -<li>gr eed y</li> -<li class="ifrst">(j ump)</li> -<li class="l1">h ump</li> -<li>pl ump</li> -<li class="ifrst">joy</li> -</ul> -<ul> -<li>(g ate)</li> -<li class="l3">ate</li> -<li class="ifrst l2">(out)</li> -<li>ab out</li> -<li class="ifrst">(cr ied)</li> -<li class="l2">d ied</li> -<li class="ifrst">mouth</li> -<li>breath</li> -</ul> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_37"></a>[37]</span></p> - -<p>Once upon a time there was a -wee, wee Lambikin.</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp56" id="illus033" style="max-width: 18.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus033.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>He frolicked about on his tottery -legs from morning to night.</p> - -<p>He was always happy.</p> - -<p>One day Lambikin set off to -visit his Granny.</p> - -<p>He was jumping with joy to -think of the good things he would get.</p> - -<p>As he frisked along, he met but a wolf!</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus034" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus034.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>The wolf howled, “Lambikin! Lambikin! I’ll -<i>eat</i> YOU!”</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_38"></a>[38]</span></p> - -<p>But with a hop and a skip, a hump and a jump, -Lambikin said,</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“No, no,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To Granny’s house I go,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Where I shall fatter grow,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then you can eat me so.”</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p>The wolf thought this wise and so let Lambikin -go.</p> - -<p>Away frisked Lambikin.</p> - -<p>He had not gone far, when whom should he -meet but a bear!</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus035" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus035.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>The bear growled, “Lambikin! Lambikin! I’ll -<i>eat</i> YOU!”</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_39"></a>[39]</span></p> - -<p>But with a hop and a skip, a hump and a jump, -Lambikin said,</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“No, no,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To Granny’s house I go,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Where I shall fatter grow,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then you can eat me so.”</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p>The bear thought this wise and so let Lambikin -go.</p> - -<p>Away frisked Lambikin.</p> - -<p>He had not gone far when whom should he meet -but a lion!</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus036" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus036.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>The lion roared, “Lambikin! Lambikin! I’ll -<i>eat</i> you!”</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_40"></a>[40]</span></p> - -<p>But with a hop and a skip, a hump and a jump, -Lambikin said,</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“No, no,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To Granny’s house I go,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Where I shall fatter grow,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then you can eat me so.”</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p>The lion thought this wise and so let Lambikin -go.</p> - -<p>Away frisked Lambikin.</p> - -<p>At last he reached his Granny’s house.</p> - -<p>“Granny dear,” he cried, all out of breath, -“I have said I would get fat. I ought to keep -my word. Please put me in the corn-bin at -once.”</p> - -<p>“You are a good Lambikin,” said his Granny.</p> - -<p>And she put him into the corn-bin.</p> - -<p>There the greedy little Lambikin stayed for -seven days and seven nights.</p> - -<p>He ate, and ate, and ate, and he ate until he -could hardly waddle.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_41"></a>[41]</span></p> - -<p>“Come, Lambikin,” said his Granny, “you are -fat enough. You should go home now.”</p> - -<p>“No, no,” said cunning little Lambikin, “that -will never do. Some animal would surely eat me -on the way, I am so plump and tender.”</p> - -<p>“Oh, dear! Oh, dear!” cried old Granny in a -fright.</p> - -<p>“Never fear, Granny dear,” said cunning -Lambikin. “I’ll tell you what to do. Just -make me a little drumikin out of the skin of my -little brother who died. I can get into it and roll -along nicely.”</p> - -<p>So old Granny made Lambikin a drumikin out -of the skin of his dead brother.</p> - -<p>And cunning Lambikin curled himself up into -a round ball in the drumikin.</p> - -<p>And he rolled gayly away.</p> - -<p>Soon he met the lion, who called out,</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“Drumikin! Drumikin!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Have you seen Lambikin?”</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_42"></a>[42]</span></p> -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus037" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus037.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>Lambikin answered sweetly as he rolled -along,</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“Fallen into the fire, and so will you!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">On, little Drumikin! Tum-pa, tum-too!”</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p>“Too bad, too bad,” sighed the lion, as he -thought of the sweet, fat morsel of a Lambikin.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_43"></a>[43]</span></p> - -<p>So away rolled Lambikin, laughing gayly to -himself and sweetly singing,</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“Tum-pa, tum-too;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tum-pa, tum-too!”</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p>Soon he met the bear, who called out,</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“Drumikin! Drumikin!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Have you seen Lambikin?”</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p>Lambikin answered sweetly as he rolled -along,</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“Fallen into the fire, and so will you!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">On, little Drumikin! Tum-pa, tum-too!”</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus038" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus038.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_44"></a>[44]</span></p> - -<p>“Too bad, too bad,” sighed the bear, as he -thought of the sweet, fat morsel of a Lambikin.</p> - -<p>So away rolled Lambikin, laughing gayly to -himself and sweetly singing,</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“Tum-pa, tum-too;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tum-pa, tum-too!”</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus039" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus039.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>Soon he met the wolf, who called out,</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“Drumikin! Drumikin!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Have you seen Lambikin?”</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p>Lambikin answered sweetly as he rolled -along,</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“Fallen into the fire, and so will you!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">On, little Drumikin! Tum-pa, tum-too!”</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_45"></a>[45]</span></p> -<p>“Oh, ho, little Lambikin, curled up snug in -your little drumikin,” said the wolf, “you can’t -fool me. I know your voice. So you have -become too fat to hop and to skip, to hump and -to jump. You can only roll along like a ball.”</p> - -<p>And the wolf’s mouth watered as he thought of -the sweet, fat morsel of a Lambikin.</p> - -<p>Little Lambikin’s heart went pit-a-pat, but he -cried out gayly,</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“Hark, hark! Hear the dogs bark!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Faster, roll faster, my little Drumikin!”</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p>The wolf was frightened and stopped to listen -for the dogs.</p> - -<p>And away rolled cunning Lambikin faster and -faster, laughing to himself and sweetly singing,</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“Tum-pa, tum-too;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tum-pa, tum-too!”</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_46"></a>[46]</span></p> - -<h3 id="heading10">THE ANT AND THE MOUSE</h3> - -<div class="center"> -<ul> -<li>(h oney)</li> -<li class="l1">m oney</li> -<li class="ifrst">(th is)</li> -<li class="l1">m iss</li> -<li class="ifrst">pieces</li> -<li>sharp</li> -</ul> -<ul> -<li>(w ish)</li> -<li class="l1">f ish</li> -<li class="ifrst">(r ob)</li> -<li class="l1">c ob</li> -<li class="ifrst">lost</li> -<li>buy</li> -</ul> -<ul> -<li>(c arry)</li> -<li class="l1">m arry</li> -<li class="ifrst">(r each)</li> -<li class="l1">p each</li> -<li class="ifrst">roost er</li> -<li>hur ried</li> -</ul> -</div> - -<p>There was once an ant.</p> - -<p>While sweeping her house one day, this ant -found three pieces of money.</p> - -<p>“What shall I buy?” said she.</p> - -<p>“Shall I buy fish?”</p> - -<p>“No, fish is full of bones. I can’t eat bones. -I’ll not buy fish.”</p> - -<p>“Shall I buy bread?”</p> - -<p>“No, bread has crust. I can’t eat crust. I’ll -not buy bread.”</p> - -<p>“Shall I buy peaches?”</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_47"></a>[47]</span></p> - -<p>“No, peaches have stones. I can’t eat stones. -I’ll not buy peaches.”</p> - -<p>“Shall I buy corn?”</p> - -<p>“No, corn grows on a cob. I can’t eat cobs. -I’ll not buy corn.”</p> - -<p>“Shall I buy apples?”</p> - -<p>“No, apples have seeds. I can’t eat seeds -I’ll not buy apples.”</p> - -<p>“Shall I buy a ribbon?”</p> - -<p>“Yes, that’s just what I want. I will buy a -ribbon.”</p> - -<p>And away ran Miss Ant to the store and bought -her a bright red ribbon.</p> - -<p>She tied the ribbon about her -neck and sat in her window.</p> - -<p>An ox came along and said, “How -pretty you are, Miss Ant! Will you -marry me?”</p> - -<p>“Sing,” said the ant, “so I may -hear your voice.”</p> - -<div class="figleft illowp45" id="illus040" style="max-width: 9.375em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus040.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_48"></a>[48]</span></p> - -<p>The ox was very proud of his voice and he -bellowed with all his might.</p> - -<p>“No, no,” cried the ant, “I’ll not marry you, -Mr. Ox. Your bellow frightens me. Go away.”</p> - -<p>Soon a lion came that way and said, “How -pretty you are, Miss Ant! Will you marry -me?”</p> - -<div class="figright illowp45" id="illus041" style="max-width: 9.375em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus041.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>“Sing,” said the ant, “so I may -hear your voice.”</p> - -<p>The lion was proud of his voice -and he roared with all his might.</p> - -<p>“No, no,” cried the ant, “I’ll -not marry you, Mr. Lion. Your -loud roar frightens me. It shakes -the very hills. Go away.”</p> - -<p>The lion had not been gone long when a proud -rooster came strutting along that way.</p> - -<p>“How pretty you are, Miss Ant! Will you -marry me?” said the rooster.</p> - -<p>“Sing,” said the ant, “so I may hear your voice.”</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_49"></a>[49]</span></p> - -<p>The rooster was very proud of his shrill voice -and he crowed with all his might.</p> - -<div class="figleft illowp50" id="illus042" style="max-width: 9.375em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus042.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>“No, no,” cried the ant, “I’ll not -marry you, Mr. Rooster. Your shrill -crow frightens me. Go away.”</p> - -<p>The rooster was hardly out of sight -when a big dog came trotting that way.</p> - -<p>“How pretty you are, Miss Ant! Will you -marry me?” said the dog.</p> - -<p>“Sing,” said the ant, “so I may hear your -voice.”</p> - -<div class="figright illowp32" id="illus043" style="max-width: 9.375em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus043.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>The dog was very proud of his voice -and he barked with all his might.</p> - -<p>“No, no,” cried the ant, “I’ll not -marry you, Mr. Dog. Your sharp bark -frightens me. Go away.”</p> - -<p>After a time a wee little mouse came -frisking that way.</p> - -<p>“How pretty you are, Miss Ant! Will you -marry me?” said the mouse.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_50"></a>[50]</span></p> - -<p>“Sing,” said the ant, “so I may hear your voice.”</p> - -<p>Now the wee little mouse was not at all proud -of his voice. But he squeaked as sweetly as he -could, “Wee, wee, wee!”</p> - -<p>“Yes, yes,” cried the ant, “I’ll marry you, -dear Mouse. Your sweet little voice pleases me. -Come right in.”</p> - -<p>In scampered the mouse.</p> - -<p>The ant gave him two pieces of money, for she -had spent only one for her ribbon.</p> - -<p>He hurried away to the store, and came quickly -back bringing apples and bread.</p> - -<p>Mrs. Ant Mouse now sat down to a feast.</p> - -<p>Mr. Mouse ate the crusts and the seeds, so -nothing was lost.</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus044" style="max-width: 25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus044.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_51"></a>[51]</span></p> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter" id="Songs_of_Life"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_52"></a>[52]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp56" id="illus045" style="max-width: 32.8125em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus045.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak">Songs of Life</h2> - -</div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp37" id="illus046" style="max-width: 15.625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus046.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_53"></a>[53]</span></p> - -<h3 id="heading11">THE BROOK</h3> - -<div class="center"> -<ul> -<li>(fl ies)</li> -<li class="l1">sk ies</li> -</ul> -<ul> -<li>branch es</li> -<li>riv er</li> -</ul> -<ul> -<li>(l ove)</li> -<li>ab ove</li> -</ul> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus047" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus047.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Down from the hillside,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Sparkling and bright,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Rushes the little brook,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">In the sunlight.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">On through the meadow,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Where the flowers hide,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With skies bright above it,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Now its waters glide.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_54"></a>[54]</span> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Tall trees beside the brook,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Their branches o’er it throw,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As through the quiet woodland,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">The sparkling waters flow.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">So it hurries down the hillside,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And across the meadow sweet,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And through the shady woodland,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Till the river it shall meet.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus048" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus048.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_55"></a>[55]</span></p> - -<h3 id="heading12">THE LITTLE BROOK</h3> - -<div class="center"> -<ul> -<li class="l2">(l ift)</li> -<li class="l1">sw iftly</li> -<li class="ifrst">(th is)</li> -<li>wh is per</li> -</ul> -<ul> -<li>(gr ass)</li> -<li class="l2">p ass</li> -<li class="ifrst">mur murs</li> -<li>talk</li> -</ul> -<ul> -<li>(spl ash)</li> -<li class="l2">d ash</li> -<li class="l2">fl ash</li> -<li class="l4">ash</li> -</ul> -</div> - -<p>See the little brook rushing down the steep -hillside!</p> - -<p>How it hurries!</p> - -<p>How it leaps over the falls!</p> - -<p>Hear it dash and splash among the rocks!</p> - -<p>See its waters flash and sparkle in the sun!</p> - -<p>“Stop, stop, little brook! Wait, I want to talk -with you.”</p> - -<p>“No, no, I must hurry on. I have a long way -to go.”</p> - -<p>“I will go with you, then. I will run along -your banks. Please do not hurry so. I can -hardly keep up with you.”</p> - -<p>Now we come to the wide meadow.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_56"></a>[56]</span></p> - -<p>Here the little brook flows more slowly and -quietly.</p> - -<p>But it never stops.</p> - -<p>It must flow ever on and on.</p> - -<p>Bright flowers are hiding along its banks.</p> - -<p>They peep out from the grass.</p> - -<p>They look into the clear flowing water.</p> - -<p>“Stay, little brook, play with us,” they -whisper.</p> - -<p>“Why do you always hurry so? Are you not -weary?”</p> - -<p>“No, no, I am never weary, never tired,” murmurs -the brook.</p> - -<p>“I never stop to play.</p> - -<p>It is play for me to rush swiftly down the -steep hill.</p> - -<p>It is fun to flow gently across the meadow.</p> - -<p>I like to see you peeping over my banks as I -pass.</p> - -<p>But I cannot stop.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_57"></a>[57]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus049" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus049.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>I must hurry on to meet the river.</p> - -<p>Good-by, sweet flowers, good-by.”</p> - -<p>Now the brook glides into the woodland.</p> - -<p>Here the sad willows droop over the gliding -waters.</p> - -<p>High above them tower the oak, the ash, and -the pine trees.</p> - -<p>“Do not hurry, little brook,” whisper their -leaves.</p> - -<p>“Are you not tired?</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_58"></a>[58]</span></p> - -<p>You have come a long way.</p> - -<p>Here the bright sun never comes.</p> - -<p>Stay with us, and we will shade you.</p> - -<p>Rest a while under our spreading branches.</p> - -<p>In the meadow the burning sun is so hot.</p> - -<p>But here it is cool.</p> - -<p>Why can you not stay with us?</p> - -<p>Why must you always hurry on?”</p> - -<p>“Because I have to meet the river.</p> - -<p>I love your wide spreading branches.</p> - -<p>I love the gentle murmur of your green leaves.</p> - -<p>I love your cool shade.</p> - -<p>You are very kind to me.</p> - -<p>But I cannot stay with you.</p> - -<p>The great river needs me.</p> - -<p>I shall have to hurry on.</p> - -<p>Good-by, noble trees.</p> - -<p>Good-by, drooping willows.”</p> - -<p>So the never resting brook rushes, and glides -and flows on forever.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_59"></a>[59]</span></p> - -<h3 id="heading13">CALLING THE VIOLET</h3> - -<div class="center"> -<ul> -<li>mos sy</li> -</ul> -<ul> -<li>don’t</li> -</ul> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp62" id="illus050" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus050.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Dear little Violet,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Don’t be afraid!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Lift your blue eyes</div> - <div class="verse indent2">From the rock’s mossy shade.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">All the birds call for you</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Out of the sky;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">May is here waiting,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And here, too, am I.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Come, pretty Violet,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Winter’s away;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Come, for without you</div> - <div class="verse indent2">May isn’t May.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Down through the sunshine</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Wings flutter and fly;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Quick, little Violet,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Open your eye!</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse right">—<span class="smcap">Lucy Larcom.</span></div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_60"></a>[60]</span></p> - -<h3 id="heading14">THE WIND</h3> - -<div class="center"> -<ul> -<li>(m oss y)</li> -<li class="l2">t oss es</li> -<li class="ifrst">height</li> -<li>up ward</li> -</ul> -<ul> -<li>(w hen)</li> -<li class="l1">w hen ce</li> -<li class="ifrst">(sh all)</li> -<li class="l2">v all ey</li> -</ul> -<ul> -<li>(c oats)</li> -<li class="l1">g oats</li> -<li class="ifrst">trav erse</li> -<li>whith er</li> -</ul> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus051" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus051.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_61"></a>[61]</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Which way does the wind blow,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And where does he go?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He rides o’er the water</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And over the snow;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">O’er wood and o’er valley,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And over the height—</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Where goats cannot traverse</div> - <div class="verse indent2">He taketh his flight.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">He rages and tosses,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And bare is the tree,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As when you look upward</div> - <div class="verse indent2">You plainly can see;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But from whence he comes,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Or whither he goes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">There is no one can tell you,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">There is no one who knows.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse right">—<span class="smcap">Mary Lamb.</span></div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_62"></a>[62]</span></p> - -<h3 id="heading15">THE WIND</h3> - -<div class="center"> -<ul> -<li>nei ther</li> -<li>trem bling</li> -</ul> -<ul> -<li>(h ow)</li> -<li class="l1">b ow</li> -</ul> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus052" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus052.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Who has seen the wind?</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Neither I nor you;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But when the leaves hang trembling,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">The Wind is passing through.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Who has seen the wind?</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Neither you nor I;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But when the trees bow down their heads,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">The Wind is passing by.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_63"></a>[63]</span></p> - -<h3 id="heading16">THE WIND</h3> - -<div class="center"> -<ul> -<li>dif fer ent</li> -<li>young</li> -</ul> -<ul> -<li>la dies</li> -<li>skirts</li> -</ul> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus053" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus053.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">I saw you toss the kites on high</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And blow the birds about the sky;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And all around I heard you pass,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Like ladies’ skirts across the grass—</div> - <div class="verse indent2">O wind, a-blowing all day long,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">O wind, that sings so loud a song!</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">I saw the different things you did,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But always you yourself you hid.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I felt you push, I heard you call,</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_64"></a>[64]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">I could not see yourself at all—</div> - <div class="verse indent2">O wind, a-blowing all day long,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">O wind, that sings so loud a song!</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">O you that are so strong and cold,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">O blower, are you young or old?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Are you a beast of field and tree,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Or just a stronger child than me?</div> - <div class="verse indent2">O wind, a-blowing all day long,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">O wind, that sings so loud a song!</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse right">—<span class="smcap">R. L. Stevenson</span></div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<h3 id="heading17">THE LEAF’S JOURNEY</h3> - -<div class="center"> -<ul> -<li>jour ney</li> -<li class="ifrst">(f ish)</li> -<li>w ish ed</li> -</ul> -<ul> -<li>eight</li> -<li class="ifrst">(l og)</li> -<li>fr og s</li> -</ul> -<ul> -<li>leaped</li> -<li class="ifrst">(st ream)</li> -<li class="l1">d ream ed</li> -</ul> -</div> - -<p>On the steep hillside grew a tall ash tree.</p> - -<p>Right on the bank of the rushing brook it grew.</p> - -<p>Its branches spread far out across the little -stream.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_65"></a>[65]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus054" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus054.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>Its leaves looked down into the flashing water.</p> - -<p>There, when the sun shone brightly, they saw -leaves looking up at them.</p> - -<p>They called these “water leaves.”</p> - -<p>The little tree leaves wished to go to the water -leaves.</p> - -<p>Many of them had already fluttered down.</p> - -<p>But one leaf, very young, could not let go her -hold of the twig.</p> - -<p>At last a raging wind tore away the little leaf.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_66"></a>[66]</span></p> - -<p>Over and over she turned.</p> - -<p>Down, down, down, she fell.</p> - -<p>She was so afraid the wind would carry her -away.</p> - -<p>But the friendly stream leaped up the rocks to -meet her.</p> - -<p>It bore her away, swiftly but gently.</p> - -<p>The little leaf was afraid. She was lonesome.</p> - -<p>The dear little “water leaves” were nowhere to -be seen.</p> - -<p>“Don’t be afraid, little leaf,” murmured the -kind brook.</p> - -<p>“I will give you a fine ride.</p> - -<p>And I’ll talk to you all the time.</p> - -<p>I’ll tell you all about the things we pass.</p> - -<p>Here we are, already in the meadow.</p> - -<p>Now I don’t have to hurry.</p> - -<p>See the pretty flowers peeping over my banks.</p> - -<p>They all love me.</p> - -<p>I give them cool water to drink.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_67"></a>[67]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus055" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus055.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>Here we go past the old mossy log.</p> - -<p>Just see the frogs on it!</p> - -<p>They are all in a row.</p> - -<p>One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, -of them!</p> - -<p>They love me, too.</p> - -<p>When anything makes them afraid, they leap -into me.</p> - -<p>They hide in some of my deep pools.</p> - -<p>Here is the shady woodland.</p> - -<p>Now I glide more slowly.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_68"></a>[68]</span></p> - -<p>Soon I shall meet the great river.</p> - -<p>I will not carry you into it.</p> - -<p>For there you would be afraid.</p> - -<p>I will land you here with lots of other leaves.”</p> - -<p>And the stream pushed her gently upon the low -bank of sand.</p> - -<p>“Good-by,” he murmured; “good-by, little -leaf.”</p> - -<p>And the little leaf lay quietly thinking.</p> - -<p>How many different things she had seen!</p> - -<p>She never dreamed there were so many things -in the whole world.</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus056" style="max-width: 18.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus056.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_69"></a>[69]</span></p> - -<h3 id="heading18">SWEET AND LOW</h3> - -<div class="center"> -<ul> -<li>west ern</li> -<li>roll ing</li> -<li>fa ther</li> -</ul> -<ul> -<li>(p ea)</li> -<li class="l1">s ea</li> -<li>br ea the</li> -</ul> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp85" id="illus057" style="max-width: 12.5em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus057.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Sweet and low, sweet and low,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Wind of the western sea,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Low, low, breathe and blow,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Wind of the western sea!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Over the rolling waters go,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Come from the dying moon and blow,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Blow him again to me;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">While my little one, while my pretty one, sleeps.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Sleep and rest, sleep and rest,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Father will come to thee soon;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Rest, rest, on mother’s breast,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Father will come to thee soon;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Father will come to his babe in the nest,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Silver sails all out of the west,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Under the silver moon;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sleep, my little one, sleep, my pretty one, sleep.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse right">—<span class="smcap">Tennyson.</span></div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus058" style="max-width: 12.5em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus058.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_70"></a>[70]</span></p> - -<h3 id="heading19">SLEEP, BABY, SLEEP!</h3> - -<div class="center"> -<ul> -<li class="l7">(dr ess)</li> -<li class="l8">gu ess</li> -<li>shep herd ess</li> -</ul> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus059" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus059.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent4">Sleep, baby, sleep!</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Thy father watches his sheep;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Thy mother is shaking the dreamland tree,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And down comes a little dream on thee.</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Sleep, baby, sleep!</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent4">Sleep, baby, sleep!</div> - <div class="verse indent4">The large stars are the sheep;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The little stars are the lambs, I guess;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The gentle moon is the shepherdess.</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Sleep, baby, sleep!</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse right">— <span class="smcap">From the German.</span></div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_71"></a>[71]</span></p> - -<h3 id="heading20">STARS AND DAISIES</h3> - -<div class="center"> -<ul> -<li>(t alk)</li> -<li class="l1">w alk</li> -</ul> -<ul> -<li>di a mond</li> -</ul> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus060" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus060.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Twinkle, twinkle, little star,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">How I wonder what you are,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Up above the world so high,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Like a diamond in the sky.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p>Do you know what daisies are?</p> - -<p>Do you know what stars are?</p> - -<p>I will tell you what I think.</p> - -<p>At night we see the stars shining in the sky.</p> - -<p>There are so very many of them, more than we -can count.</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus061" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus061.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_72"></a>[72]</span></p> - -<p>I think the sky is a beautiful meadow.</p> - -<p>And the stars are little white daisies growing -in the sky meadow.</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus062" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus062.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>Sometimes the moon comes into the meadow.</p> - -<p>She is a beautiful lady.</p> - -<p>All night she walks among the flowers.</p> - -<p>She gathers the little sky daisies.</p> - -<p>In the morning we cannot see the stars.</p> - -<p>Where are they?</p> - -<p>In the meadow near our home are many bright-eyed -daisies.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_73"></a>[73]</span></p> - -<p>There are so very many of them, more than we -can count.</p> - -<p>How did they get there?</p> - -<p>Where did they come from?</p> - -<p>Daisies look like stars, you know.</p> - -<p>So I think the lady moon threw them down -from the sky.</p> - -<h3 id="heading21">LADY MOON</h3> - -<div class="center"> -<ul> -<li>rov ing</li> -</ul> -<ul> -<li>pale</li> -</ul> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Lady Moon, Lady Moon, where are you roving?</div> - <div class="verse indent12">Over the sea.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Lady Moon, Lady Moon, whom are you loving?</div> - <div class="verse indent12">All that love me.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Are you not tired with rolling, and never</div> - <div class="verse indent12">Resting to sleep?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Why look so pale and so sad, as forever</div> - <div class="verse indent12">Wishing to weep?</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_74"></a>[74]</span> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Ask me not this, little child, if you love me;</div> - <div class="verse indent12">You are too bold;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I must obey my dear Father above me,</div> - <div class="verse indent12">And do as I’m told.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Lady Moon, Lady Moon, where are you roving?</div> - <div class="verse indent12">Over the sea.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Lady Moon, Lady Moon, whom are you loving?</div> - <div class="verse indent12">All that love me.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse right">—<span class="smcap">Lord Houghton.</span></div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp80" id="illus063" style="max-width: 25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus063.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_75"></a>[75]</span></p> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter" id="With_Natures_Children"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_76"></a>[76]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp56" id="illus064" style="max-width: 32.8125em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus064.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak">With Nature’s Children</h2> - -</div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp75" id="illus065" style="max-width: 12.5em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus065.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_77"></a>[77]</span></p> - -<h3 id="heading22">THE LITTLE SHEPHERDESS</h3> - -<div class="center"> -<ul> -<li>soft</li> -<li>taste</li> -</ul> -<ul> -<li>awoke</li> -<li>lost</li> -</ul> -<ul> -<li>(s eek)</li> -<li>ch eek</li> -</ul> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus066" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus066.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Little Bo-peep has lost her sheep</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And can’t tell where to find them;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Leave them alone and they’ll come home</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Bringing their tails behind them.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p>One morning a pretty little shepherdess drove -her flock of sheep to the meadow. There she<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_78"></a>[78]</span> -watched them while they ate the fresh, green -grass. How sweet it tasted to the hungry sheep!</p> - -<p>A large dog went with the shepherdess to help -care for the sheep. He was the shepherd.</p> - -<p>The shepherd let no lamb go astray. If one got -too far from the flock, Mr. Shepherd ran after -him.</p> - -<p>“Bow-wow! Go back!” cried the shepherd.</p> - -<p>The shepherdess took good care of her flock, too. -She led them where the grass was greenest and -sweetest.</p> - -<p>When noon came all the sheep had eaten -enough. So they lay down quietly in the cool -shade of some old oak trees. Little Bo-peep -lay down too, with her good shepherd dog beside -her.</p> - -<p>How cool and still it was there! Little -Bo-peep could hear only the gentle rustling of -the leaves overhead. She could feel only the -soft wind on her cheek.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_79"></a>[79]</span></p> - -<p>The wind blew more and more softly; the -leaves rustled more and more gently. Soon little -Bo-peep was fast asleep.</p> - -<p>“Bo-peep, Bo-peep, where are you?”</p> - -<p>“Bow-wow, bow-wow, bow-wow-wow!”</p> - -<p>“Bo-peep, Bo-peep!”</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus067" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus067.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>Little Bo-peep awoke with a start. She sat upright, -her eyes wide open. Not a sheep could she -see. Her dog was not beside her. It was dark;<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_80"></a>[80]</span> -the stars were twinkling overhead. How frightened -the little shepherdess was!</p> - -<p>“Bow-wow!”</p> - -<p>“Bo-peep, Bo-peep! Where are you, child?” -Surely that was her mother’s voice.</p> - -<p>“Here, mother, here I am, under the big oak -tree!” called Bo-peep.</p> - -<p>Up rushed the dog, and mother followed close -behind.</p> - -<p>“Where are my sheep, mother? I fear they -are lost.”</p> - -<p>“Where is my little Bo-peep? I feared she -was lost.”</p> - -<p>“Here is your Bo-peep, dear mother. How -long I must have slept!”</p> - -<p>“Your sheep are all safe at home. Old Rover -drove them in long ago.”</p> - -<p>This is the way Bo-peep lost her sheep; this is -the way she found them. And this is the way Bo-peep -was lost; and this is the way she was found.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_81"></a>[81]</span></p> - -<h3 id="heading23">DISCONTENT</h3> - -<div class="center"> -<ul> -<li>(l azy)</li> -<li>cr azy</li> -<li class="ifrst">swal lows</li> -<li class="ifrst">to geth er</li> -<li class="ifrst">pleas ant</li> -<li class="ifrst">dull er</li> -</ul> -<ul> -<li>(b ear)</li> -<li class="l1">w ear ing</li> -<li class="ifrst">(g ave)</li> -<li class="l1">s ave</li> -<li>br ave ly</li> -<li class="ifrst">June</li> -</ul> -<ul> -<li>(g ather)</li> -<li class="l1">r ather</li> -<li class="ifrst">per haps</li> -<li class="ifrst">hon est</li> -<li class="ifrst">pas sion</li> -<li class="ifrst">col or</li> -</ul> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp28" id="illus068" style="max-width: 9.375em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus068.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Down in the field, one day in June,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">The flowers all bloomed together,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Save one, who tried to hide herself,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And drooped—that pleasant weather.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">A robin, who had flown too high</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And felt a little lazy,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Was resting near a buttercup,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Who wished she were a daisy.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">For daisies grow so trim and tall;</div> - <div class="verse indent2">She always had a passion</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_82"></a>[82]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">For wearing frills around her neck,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">In just the daisies’ fashion.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">And buttercups must always be</div> - <div class="verse indent2">The same old, tiresome color,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">While daisies dress in gold and white,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Although their gold is duller.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“Dear robin,” said this sad young flower,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">“Perhaps you’d not mind trying</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To find a nice white frill for me</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Some day, when you are flying.”</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“You silly thing,” the robin said,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">“I think you must be crazy;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I’d rather be my honest self</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Than any made-up daisy.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">You’re nicer in your own bright gown;</div> - <div class="verse indent2">The little children love you;</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_83"></a>[83]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">Be the best buttercup you can,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And think no flower above you.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Though swallows leave me out of sight,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">We’d better keep our places.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Perhaps the world would go all wrong,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">With one too many daisies.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Look bravely up into the sky,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And be content with knowing</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That God wished for a buttercup</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Just here, where you are growing.”</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse right">—<span class="smcap">Sarah Orne Jewett.</span></div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus069" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus069.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_84"></a>[84]</span></p> - -<h3 id="heading24">BELLING THE CAT</h3> - -<div class="center"> -<ul> -<li>sn ug</li> -<li class="l1">d ug</li> -<li class="ifrst">aw oke</li> -<li>sp oke</li> -<li class="ifrst">fam i ly</li> -</ul> -<ul> -<li>life</li> -<li>pounce</li> -<li class="ifrst l1">h ole</li> -<li>st ole</li> -<li class="ifrst">warn ing</li> -</ul> -<ul> -<li>st eal</li> -<li>m eal</li> -<li class="ifrst l1">g ood</li> -<li>st ood</li> -<li class="ifrst">straight</li> -</ul> -</div> - -<p>A family of rats had their home in a barn.</p> - -<p>They made many snug nests in the warm hay.</p> - -<p>They dug holes through the hay from nest to nest.</p> - -<p>They ran in and out and all about the barn. -They had nothing to fear.</p> - -<p>When they were hungry they could always find -nice grain in the stalls. They became very fat.</p> - -<p>And they were as happy a family of rats as one -could wish to see.</p> - -<p>But one day a big black cat found the rats’ barn.</p> - -<p>That was a sad day for the rat family!</p> - -<p>This cat was not fat and he was not happy.</p> - -<p>He was very thin, very cross, and very hungry.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_85"></a>[85]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp37" id="illus070" style="max-width: 9.375em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus070.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>One thing he liked to eat best -of all things in the world—rats.</p> - -<p>How he did love nice, fat, happy -rats! At last he had found them, -a whole big family of them!</p> - -<p>This hungry, greedy cat now -had rat for breakfast, rat for dinner, -and rat for supper. And -sometimes he had rat between meals.</p> - -<p>Very soon this cat began to grow fat and happy.</p> - -<p>But happy cats make unhappy rats. While -this cat grew fat, these rats grew thin.</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus071" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus071.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>Yet in the stalls there was just as much grain -as ever. But it was only a very hungry rat that<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_86"></a>[86]</span> -dared go for it. For no rat could tell when the -cat might pounce upon him.</p> - -<p>That sly cat stole about without a sound.</p> - -<p>The most watchful rat could hear nothing, could -see no living thing.</p> - -<p>Then, pounce! The wicked cat’s claws held -him fast.</p> - -<p>So, many a poor rat went to the stall, and -never came back. And the rat family was growing -smaller day by day.</p> - -<p>At last the wise old rats saw that something -must be done. So they called a meeting of the -whole family of rats, as many as were still -alive.</p> - -<p>When all had come together in a safe place and -were still, the oldest and wisest rat rose up on his -hind legs.</p> - -<p>He stood up very straight, very tall, and very thin.</p> - -<p>“My dear brothers and sisters, my dear children -and grandchildren!” began the wise old rat.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_87"></a>[87]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus072" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus072.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>“You all know the one fear of our lives.” -Every rat trembled.</p> - -<p>“That wicked cat has grown fat and sleek feeding -on your brothers, your mothers, your wives, -and your children.</p> - -<p>No one of you knows when his turn may come -to make a meal for that ever hungry monster.</p> - -<p>He steals upon you without warning.</p> - -<p>He is never seen, he is never heard, until it is -too late.</p> - -<p>But you were not called together to hear what -you already know only too well.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_88"></a>[88]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus073" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus073.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>You were called here to do something to make -your lives safer and happier.</p> - -<p>What can be done? Who has a plan?”</p> - -<p>The old rat waited.</p> - -<p>All the other rats looked from one to another, -but no one spoke.</p> - -<p>“Well, then,” said the wise old rat at last, -“listen to me.</p> - -<p>If we only knew where the cat was, we could -not be caught. If we could only hear him coming, -we might get out of his reach.</p> - -<p>Now, my plan is this. We will hang a bell to -that cat’s neck.”</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_89"></a>[89]</span></p> - -<p>“The very thing! Hurrah! Hurrah!” cried -all the rats together.</p> - -<p>“Why haven’t we thought of that before?</p> - -<p>No more of us will go to make dinners for -that old cat.</p> - -<p>Now, for all the corn we can eat!”</p> - -<p>And away sprang the hungry rats for the stalls.</p> - -<p>“Stop! Stop!” cried the wise old rat. “Back -to your places!</p> - -<p>The bell isn’t on the cat’s neck yet.”</p> - -<p>Slowly and sadly the starving rats settled back.</p> - -<p>“Now,” the old rat went on, “who will tie the -bell around the cat’s neck?”</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus074" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus074.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_90"></a>[90]</span></p> - -<p>“Not I! Not I! Not I!” squeaked the poor -frightened rats.</p> - -<p>And they trembled all over at the very thought.</p> - -<p>Then they sat very still and looked at each -other.</p> - -<p>Oh! how hungry they were! How sweet that -yellow corn in the stall would taste.</p> - -<p>One by one they began to steal away softly.</p> - -<p>Where do you think they were going?</p> - -<p>Rat families still live in barns.</p> - -<p>Cats still feed upon them.</p> - -<p>But no rat has ever tried to make life safer by -belling a cat.</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus075" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus075.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_91"></a>[91]</span></p> - -<h3 id="heading25">THREE OF US KNOW</h3> - -<div class="center"> -<ul> -<li>bal lad</li> -</ul> -<ul> -<li>se crets</li> -</ul> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp60" id="illus076" style="max-width: 12.5em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus076.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Who are my playfellows?</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Wait, you shall see;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sometimes a little bird,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Sometimes a bee.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">All through the summer world</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Gayly we go.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Where is the greenest close,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Where is the sweetest rose,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Three of us know.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Bee seeks the rose’s heart,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Bird seeks the tree,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I seek a little brook</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Clear as can be.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">It singeth all day long</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Sweetly and low,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ballad of sun and star;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">What its song secrets are</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Three of us know.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_92"></a>[92]</span> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Bee takes the honey home</div> - <div class="verse indent2">To the Queen bee;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Bird seeks a nest that hides</div> - <div class="verse indent2">High in the tree;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I seek a little house</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Where sweet vines grow.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">What in God’s world is best—</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Trees, flowers, home, and rest—</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Three of us know.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse right">—<span class="smcap">Marie Van Vorst</span></div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus077" style="max-width: 12.5em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus077.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_93"></a>[93]</span></p> - -<h3 id="heading26">THE DANDELION</h3> - -<div class="center"> -<ul> -<li>gyp sy</li> -</ul> -<ul> -<li>gild</li> -</ul> -<ul> -<li>idle</li> -</ul> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp50" id="illus078" style="max-width: 12.5em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus078.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Little Gypsy dandelion,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Dancing in the sun,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Have you any curls to sell?</div> - <div class="verse indent2">“Not a single one!”</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Little idle dandelion</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Then I’ll mow you down.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">What is it you’re good for, pray,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">With your golden crown?</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“Ah! I gild the fields so green</div> - <div class="verse indent2">In the pleasant spring,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shining like the morning star</div> - <div class="verse indent2">With the light I bring.”</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_94"></a>[94]</span></p> - -<h3 id="heading27">THE MAGPIE’S LESSON</h3> - -<div class="center"> -<ul> -<li>ma ple</li> -</ul> -<ul> -<li>mean</li> -</ul> -<ul> -<li>learn</li> -</ul> -</div> -<div class="center"> -<ul> -<li class="ifrst">hooted</li> -<li class="ifrst">ea gle</li> -<li class="ifrst">(en ough)</li> -<li class="l2">r ough</li> -<li class="ifrst">(gr owl)</li> -<li class="l4">owl</li> -</ul> -<ul> -<li class="ifrst">pa tient</li> -<li class="ifrst">(h ome)</li> -<li class="l1">d ome</li> -<li class="ifrst">(l eaves)</li> -<li class="l2">eaves</li> -<li>w eave</li> -</ul> -<ul> -<li class="ifrst">o ri ole</li> -<li class="ifrst">cov er</li> -<li class="ifrst">troub le</li> -<li class="ifrst">moun tain</li> -<li class="ifrst">(b ud)</li> -<li class="l1">m ud</li> -</ul> -<ul> -<li class="ifrst">yon der</li> -<li class="ifrst">choose</li> -<li class="ifrst">roofs</li> -<li class="ifrst">build</li> -<li class="ifrst">(afr aid)</li> -<li class="l2">p aid</li> -</ul> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus079" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus079.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_95"></a>[95]</span></p> - -<p>Years and years ago—ever so many years -ago—only one bird in the whole world knew how -to build a nest. That wise bird was the magpie.</p> - -<p>One day all the other birds came to the magpie. -They wanted to learn how to build nests. They -begged the magpie to teach them.</p> - -<p>“Indeed, I am glad to teach you,” said Mrs. -Magpie. “Just listen and watch me. First, -you must choose a tall tree, like this great maple. -Then take sticks—”</p> - -<p>“A tree,” broke in the bold eagle, “a tree -here in this valley! No -trees nor valleys for me! -My nest shall be on the -highest cliff of yonder -mountain.”</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp70" id="illus080" style="max-width: 25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus080.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>And away flew the eagle -without waiting to hear -more of the magpie’s lesson.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_96"></a>[96]</span> -To this day he puts together -a few rough sticks on -a rocky mountain cliff, and -calls them a nest.</p> - -<p>The magpie began again. -“Take sticks like these,” she -said, “to a high branch.”</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp42" id="illus081" style="max-width: 14.0625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus081.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>“Are you a fool?” cried -the lark. “Don’t you know -that the first strong wind -will blow your nest to the -ground?” “And the first -boy who comes this way will -throw stones at it,” put in Mrs. Bob-o-link.</p> - -<p>“No high branches for us,” sang the lark and -the bob-o-link together. And down they flew -into the tall grass of the meadow. There they -have made their nests ever since.</p> - -<p>Mrs. Magpie didn’t even look at the birds flying -away. “Weave the sticks together so, in and<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_97"></a>[97]</span> -out,” said she cheerfully. “That will make the -bottom of the nest.”</p> - -<p>“I don’t mean to set my nest on a branch like -that,” spoke up the oriole. “The wind surely -would blow it off, as the lark just said.”</p> - -<p>And the oriole flew away and hung her nest -from little twigs. There you -may see it to-day swinging -in the wind far out at the -end of a long branch.</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp75" id="illus082" style="max-width: 12.5em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus082.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>“Plaster the inside of your -nest with mud,” Mrs. Magpie -went on again. “Then -line it with soft grass, so.”</p> - -<p>“Dear, dear, so much work to make a nest!” -yawned the whip-poor-will. “I’m not going to -take the trouble.” And that lazy bird hasn’t -made a nest from that day to this. She just lays -her eggs in a hollow on the ground, or perhaps on -a log.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_98"></a>[98]</span></p> - -<p>“Who, who, who would go to all that trouble!” -hooted the owl. “I think I have a better plan.”</p> - -<p>She looked very wise, but said no more. You -can guess what her plan was when you find her -eggs in a crow’s or a hawk’s old nest.</p> - -<p>“Now take more mud and sticks,” began the -patient magpie once more. “You need to build -a dome over your nest. That is to hide the little -ones and to keep out the rain.”</p> - -<p>“Oh, never mind the dome,” said the robin. -“I will cover my little ones with my wings. I -can hide them and keep off -the rain.”</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp60" id="illus083" style="max-width: 12.5em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus083.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>“You are right, Mrs. -Robin,” said the crow. “We -have no use for domes.” And -to this day neither robins nor -crows have built domes over -their nests.</p> - -<p>Mrs. Magpie paid no more<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_99"></a>[99]</span> -heed to these birds than to the others who had -already left her. She went quietly on building -her nest, just as she knew it ought to be built. -Soon it was done, dome and all.</p> - -<p>“Indeed, Mrs. Magpie,” said the swallows, “we -like your nest. The dome is a fine thing, but -why should we build it? There are plenty of -domes already built; we need only to make our -nests under them.”</p> - -<p>Ever since then some swallows have made their -nests under banks. Others have made theirs -under roofs of open barns; and still others under -eaves.</p> - -<p>So all the birds flew away and left Mrs. Magpie -with never a “thank you.” Each one built -her nest as she pleased. And each one thought -her way so much better than the magpie’s.</p> - -<p>But the magpie still builds her nest in the top -of a high tree. She makes it of mud and sticks -and covers it with a dome.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_100"></a>[100]</span></p> - -<h3 id="heading28">THE BLUEBIRD</h3> - -<div class="center"> -<ul> -<li>cro cus</li> -</ul> -<ul> -<li>mer ry</li> -</ul> -<ul> -<li>daf fo dils</li> -</ul> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus084" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus084.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp66" id="illus085" style="max-width: 12.5em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus085.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">I know the song that the bluebird is singing—</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Out in the apple tree where he is swinging.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Brave little fellow! the skies may be dreary;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Nothing cares he while his heart is so cheery.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Hark! how the music leaps out from his throat.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Hark! was there ever so merry a note?</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_101"></a>[101]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">Listen a while and you’ll hear what he’s saying</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Up in the apple tree swinging and swaying:</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“Dear little blossoms down under the snow,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">You must be weary of winter, I know;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Hark! while I sing you a message of cheer:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Summer is coming, and springtime is here.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Little white snowdrops! I pray you arise;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Bright yellow crocus! come, open your eyes;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Daffodils! Daffodils! say, do you hear?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Summer is coming, and springtime is here!”</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse right">—<span class="smcap">Mrs. Emily Huntington Miller.</span></div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp54" id="illus086" style="max-width: 12.5em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus086.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_102"></a>[102]</span></p> - -<h3 id="heading29">THE WOLF AND THE STORK</h3> - -<p>A greedy wolf got a bone stuck in his throat. -Try as he would, he could not get the bone out. -At last he lay down to die, as he thought. But -just then a stork came that way.</p> - -<p>“Good day, Mr. Wolf,” said the stork, kindly.</p> - -<p>But the wolf could not answer a word.</p> - -<p>The stork soon saw what the matter was, and -with his long beak pulled the bone out of the -wolf’s throat. Without a word, the greedy wolf -sprang up and went on with his dinner.</p> - -<p>The stork, who was very hungry, began to pick -up a few morsels of meat.</p> - -<p>“Be off with you!” snapped the wolf. “How -dare you touch my meat!”</p> - -<p>“Is that the thanks I get for saving your life?” -said the stork.</p> - -<p>“Thanks!” answered the wolf, “did I not let -you draw your bill out of my jaws in safety? It -is you who should be thankful.”</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_103"></a>[103]</span></p> - -<h3 id="heading30">THE INDIAN MOTHER’S LULLABY</h3> - -<div class="center"> -<ul> -<li>roe buck</li> -<li>pap poose</li> -</ul> -<ul> -<li>Man i tou</li> -<li>slum ber ing</li> -</ul> -<ul> -<li>breezes</li> -<li>prai rie</li> -</ul> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus087" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus087.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Rock-a-by, hush-a-by, little pappoose,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">The stars come into the sky;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The whip-po’-will’s crying, the daylight is dying,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">The river runs murmuring by.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The pine trees are slumbering, little pappoose,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">The squirrel has gone to his nest;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The robins are sleeping, the mother bird’s keeping</div> - <div class="verse indent2">The little ones warm with her breast.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The roebuck is dreaming, my little pappoose,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">His mate lies asleep at his side;</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_104"></a>[104]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">The breezes are pining, the moonbeams are shining</div> - <div class="verse indent2">All over the prairies wide.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Then hush-a-by, rock-a-by, little pappoose,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">You sail on the river of dreams;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dear Manitou loves you, and watches above you,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Till time when the morning light gleams.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse right">—<span class="smcap">Charles Myall.</span></div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp85" id="illus088" style="max-width: 25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus088.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_105"></a>[105]</span></p> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter" id="In_Story_Land"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_106"></a>[106]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp56" id="illus089" style="max-width: 32.8125em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus089.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak">In Story Land</h2> - -</div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus090" style="max-width: 18.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus090.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_107"></a>[107]</span></p> - -<h3 id="heading31">HOW MRS. WHITE HEN HELPED ROSE</h3> - -<div class="center"> -<ul> -<li>(y ond er)</li> -<li class="l1">p ond</li> -<li class="ifrst l1">(c atch)</li> -<li>scr atch</li> -<li class="ifrst">ques tion</li> -<li class="ifrst">sur prised</li> -</ul> -<ul> -<li>(p ush)</li> -<li class="l1">b ush</li> -<li class="ifrst l2">(ever)</li> -<li>cl ever</li> -<li class="ifrst">si lent ly</li> -<li class="ifrst">sud den ly</li> -</ul> -<ul> -<li>(h ard)</li> -<li class="l1">y ard</li> -<li class="ifrst">(for ward)</li> -<li class="ifrst">earth</li> -<li class="ifrst">worm</li> -<li class="ifrst">chirped</li> -</ul> -</div> - -<p>A beautiful rose tree grew in the garden. -Every morning she smiled up at the golden sun. -But one morning when the sun rose, he was surprised -to see that his friend, the rose, drooped -sadly. He sent one of his warm rays down to -earth to find out what the matter was.</p> - -<p>“Dear Rose,” said the bright sunbeam, “why -do you droop and look so sad?”</p> - -<p>“Ah, me!” sighed the rose, “I am so unhappy! -An ugly worm is eating my leaves, and -he will not crawl away.”</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_108"></a>[108]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus091" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus091.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>The sun felt very sorry for -the rose. “I will not shine,” -he said, “until Rose is happy.” -So he hid behind a dark cloud.</p> - -<p>The wind came hurrying -along. “Father Sun,” he cried, -“why are you not shining to-day?”</p> - -<p>“Ah, me!” answered the sun, “dear Rose is -so unhappy! An ugly worm is eating her leaves, -and he will not crawl away. I will shine no more -until Rose is happy.”</p> - -<p>“I, too, am so sorry,” whispered the wind. “I -will blow no more until Rose is happy.” So saying -he dropped to the earth and was still.</p> - -<p>A bird was surprised when the wind stopped.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_109"></a>[109]</span></p> - -<p>“Mr. Wind,” he called, “why have you stopped -blowing?”</p> - -<p>“Ah, me!” sighed the wind. “Dear Rose is so -unhappy! An ugly worm is eating her leaves, -and he will not crawl away. So Sun will shine -no more and I will blow no more until Rose is -happy.”</p> - -<p>“I, also, love Rose,” sang the bird; “and I -will sing no more until Rose is happy.” He flew -away silently to his nest in the oak tree.</p> - -<p>“It is not night,” said the old tree; “why -are you not flying and singing, -little bird?”</p> - -<p>“Ah, me!” chirped the bird. -“Dear Rose is so unhappy! An -ugly worm is eating her leaves, -and he will not crawl away. So -Sun will shine no more, Wind will -blow no more, and I will sing no -more until Rose is happy.”</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp42" id="illus092" style="max-width: 12.5em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus092.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_110"></a>[110]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus093" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus093.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>“That is all very sad,” whispered -the tree. “I shall drop no more -acorns until Rose is happy.”</p> - -<p>Soon the squirrel came to gather some nuts. -But he could find very few.</p> - -<p>“Dear Tree,” he chattered, “please drop down -some acorns.”</p> - -<p>“No,” answered the tree. “I cannot, now.”</p> - -<p>“Why not?” asked the squirrel.</p> - -<p>“Ah, me!” rustled the tree. “Dear Rose is so -unhappy! An ugly worm is eating her leaves, -and he will not crawl away. So Sun will shine no -more, Wind will blow no more, Bird will sing no -more, and I will drop no more acorns until Rose -is happy again.”</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_111"></a>[111]</span></p> - -<p>“And I will work no more,” chirped the -squirrel. “I will run away to my nest in the old -hollow tree.”</p> - -<p>On the way to his home the squirrel met -Mrs. Brown Duck.</p> - -<p>“Good morning, Mr. Squirrel,” quacked the -duck. “Why are you not working this morning?”</p> - -<p>“Ah, me!” replied the squirrel. “Dear Rose is -so unhappy! An ugly worm is eating her leaves, -and he will not crawl away. So Sun will shine no -more, Wind will blow no more, Bird will sing no -more, Oak Tree will drop no more acorns, and I -will work no more till Rose is happy.”</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus094" style="max-width: 25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus094.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_112"></a>[112]</span></p> - -<p>“Then I will swim no more,” said Mrs. Brown -Duck. And she waddled off to the barnyard. -There she met Mrs. White Hen.</p> - -<p>“Why do you look so sad, Mrs. Duck?” said -the hen.</p> - -<p>“Ah, me!” quacked the duck. “Dear Rose -is so unhappy! An ugly worm is eating her -leaves, and he will not crawl away. So Sun will -shine no more, Wind will blow no more, Bird will -sing no more, Oak Tree will drop no more acorns, -Squirrel will work no more, and I will swim no -more until Rose is happy again.”</p> - -<p>“Indeed! Indeed!” cackled Mrs. White Hen. -“Pray tell me how stopping your work will help -Rose. If you wish Rose to be happy, you must do -something for her. Come with me.”</p> - -<p>Away hurried the hen and the duck until they -came to the rose. The old hen asked no -questions. She did not even take time to say -“Good morning.” But she cocked her head first<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_113"></a>[113]</span> -on one side, then on the other, searching through -the leaves of the rosebush with her bright little -eyes. Suddenly she darted forward. “Snap!” -went her bill, and the worm was swallowed.</p> - -<p>“There, Mrs. Duck,” clucked the hen, “see -how I have helped Rose and at the same time got -a nice breakfast for myself.”</p> - -<p>At once the rose looked up toward the sun and -smiled. Thereupon the sun began to shine.</p> - -<p>“If I had only thought,” said the sun, “I -might have burned that worm with my hot rays.”</p> - -<p>“And I might have blown him away,” whistled -the wind, springing up suddenly.</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus095" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus095.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_114"></a>[114]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus096" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus096.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>“If I had only thought,” sang the bird, “I -might have had a nice fat worm for breakfast.”</p> - -<p>“And so might I,” quacked the duck as she -waddled away toward the pond.</p> - -<p>The oak tree shook down a great shower of -acorns, and the squirrel hastened to gather them. -They, too, wished they had thought of some way -to help Rose.</p> - -<p>But the clever old white hen said nothing at all.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_115"></a>[115]</span></p> - -<h3 id="heading32">THE SANDMAN</h3> - -<div class="center"> -<ul> -<li>truth</li> -<li>shoes</li> -</ul> -<ul> -<li class="l2">(oak)</li> -<li>cl oak</li> -</ul> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus097" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus097.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The Sandman comes across the land,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">At evening, when the sun is low:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Upon his back a bag of sand—</div> - <div class="verse indent2">His step is soft and low.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I never hear his gentle tread,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But when I bend my sleepy head,</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_116"></a>[116]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">“The Sandman’s coming!” mother says,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And mother tells the truth, always!</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">I guess he’s old, with silver hair,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">He’s up so late! He has to go</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To lots of children, everywhere,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">At evening, when the sun is low.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">His cloak is long, and green and old,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With pretty dreams in every fold—</div> - <div class="verse indent0">His shoes are silken, mother says,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And mother tells the truth, always!</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">He glides across the sunset hill,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">To seek each little child, like me:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Our all-day-tired eyes to fill</div> - <div class="verse indent2">With sands of sleep, from slumber’s sea.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I try my best awake to stay,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">But I am tired out with play;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">“I’ll never see him!” mother says,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And mother tells the truth—always!</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse right">—<span class="smcap">Marie Van Vorst</span></div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_117"></a>[117]</span></p> - -<h3 id="heading33">BILLY BINKS</h3> - -<div class="center"> -<ul> -<li>(d art)</li> -<li>st art le</li> -<li class="ifrst">c ast les</li> -<li class="ifrst">h urr y</li> -<li>p urr</li> -<li class="ifrst">(f elt)</li> -<li>m elt</li> -<li class="ifrst">pres ent ly</li> -<li class="ifrst">en tered</li> -<li class="ifrst">blazed</li> -<li class="ifrst">di rect ly</li> -<li class="ifrst">ter ri ble</li> -<li class="ifrst">dis ap peared</li> -</ul> -<ul> -<li>(pl ace)</li> -<li class="l2">f ace</li> -<li class="ifrst l1">(eight)</li> -<li>n eigh ed</li> -<li class="ifrst">(sm ile)</li> -<li class="l2">m ile</li> -<li class="ifrst">waul</li> -<li class="ifrst">trav eled</li> -<li class="ifrst">fin ished</li> -<li class="ifrst">hor ri ble</li> -<li class="ifrst">front</li> -<li class="ifrst">ter ri fied</li> -<li class="ifrst">re mem ber</li> -</ul> -<ul> -<li>(d ance)</li> -<li>pr ance</li> -<li class="ifrst">(st ar)</li> -<li class="l2">f ar ther</li> -<li class="ifrst">(r oof)</li> -<li class="l1">h oof</li> -<li class="ifrst">(r oar)</li> -<li class="l1">s oar</li> -<li class="ifrst">en e mies</li> -<li class="ifrst">for tune</li> -<li class="ifrst">sau cers</li> -<li class="ifrst">prom ise</li> -<li class="ifrst">broom</li> -</ul> -</div> - -<p>Once upon a time a little boy named Billy -Binks set out to seek his fortune. He traveled -alone for many a weary mile, but at last he met a -little gray pony.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_118"></a>[118]</span></p> - -<p>“Where are you going, Billy Binks?” neighed -the pony.</p> - -<p>“I am going to seek my fortune,” said Billy -Binks.</p> - -<p>“May I go, too?”</p> - -<p>“If I take you, will you help me win my -fortune?”</p> - -<p>“Yes.”</p> - -<p>“How?”</p> - -<p>“I will carry you on my back and kick all -your enemies with my hard hoofs.”</p> - -<p>“Very well, you may come along.”</p> - -<p>Then they went on a little farther and met a cow.</p> - -<p>“Where are you going, Billy Binks?” mooed -the cow.</p> - -<p>“I am going to seek my fortune,” answered -Billy Binks.</p> - -<p>“May I go, too?”</p> - -<p>“If I take you, will you help me win my -fortune?”</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_119"></a>[119]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus098" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus098.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>“Yes.”</p> - -<p>“How?”</p> - -<p>“I will moo, and toss your enemies on my -sharp horns.”</p> - -<p>“Very well, you may come.”</p> - -<p>When they had walked on a little farther they -met a dog.</p> - -<p>“Where are you going, Billy Binks?” barked -the dog.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_120"></a>[120]</span></p> - -<p>“I am going to seek my fortune,” answered -Billy Binks.</p> - -<p>“May I go, too?”</p> - -<p>“If I take you, will you help me win my -fortune?”</p> - -<p>“Yes.”</p> - -<p>“How?”</p> - -<p>“I will bark, and bite your enemies with my -sharp teeth.”</p> - -<p>“Very well, you may come.”</p> - -<p>After walking a little farther they met a cat.</p> - -<p>“Where are you going, Billy Binks?” mewed -the cat.</p> - -<p>“I am going to seek my fortune,” answered -Billy Binks.</p> - -<p>“May I go, too?”</p> - -<p>“If I take you, will you help me win my -fortune?”</p> - -<p>“Yes.”</p> - -<p>“How?”</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_121"></a>[121]</span></p> - -<p>“I will purr, and scratch your enemies with -my sharp claws.”</p> - -<p>“Very well, you may come.”</p> - -<p>They continued their journey and presently -met a raven.</p> - -<p>“Where are you going, Billy Binks?” croaked -the raven.</p> - -<p>“I am going to seek my fortune.”</p> - -<p>“May I go, too?”</p> - -<p>“If I take you, will you help me win my -fortune?”</p> - -<p>“Yes.”</p> - -<p>“How?”</p> - -<p>“I will croak, and peck your enemies’ eyes out -with my sharp beak.”</p> - -<p>“Very well, you may come.”</p> - -<p>On and on they walked till at last they entered -a deep, dark wood. All day they journeyed -through this forest, which grew denser and darker -as night came on.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_122"></a>[122]</span></p> - -<p>“We are near a clearing in this wood,” croaked -the raven, who had been soaring above the treetops. -“Let us keep right on.”</p> - -<p>Suddenly all were startled by a bright light, -the brightest any of them had ever seen. It -flashed out through the trees directly in front -of them. It fairly dazzled and blinded them. -Then it as suddenly disappeared, and left them -standing terrified in the pitch-black darkness of -the night.</p> - -<p>Again the light flashed out, and again disappeared.</p> - -<p>“What can it be?” asked Billy Binks, hoarsely, -as soon as he could find his voice.</p> - -<p>“Perhaps it is a lamp,” mewed the cat.</p> - -<p>“No, it is too bright for a lamp,” answered -Billy Binks.</p> - -<p>“It might be a house on fire,” barked the -dog.</p> - -<p>“No, if it were, we could see the light all<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_123"></a>[123]</span> -the time; and besides, there is no house here. -I have flown this way before,” answered the -raven.</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus099" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus099.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>“It may be a lighthouse,” said Billy Binks.</p> - -<p>“No,” replied the raven, “the sea is miles from -here. You all keep still while I fly over the treetops -and find out what it is.”</p> - -<p>Billy Binks and his animal friends kept ever so -quiet, while the raven flew up and quickly disappeared<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_124"></a>[124]</span> -in the darkness. It seemed hours before -he returned.</p> - -<p>“Oh, my friends,” croaked the raven, alighting -in their midst at last, “you never saw such a -sight! There’s the most horrible, monstrous hob-goblin -over there in the clearing. He has a nose -as long as a broomstick—”</p> - -<p>“Oh! Oh! Oh!” cried Billy Binks and his -friends.</p> - -<p>“—Eyes as big as saucers and as green as -the sea—”</p> - -<p>“Oh! Oh! Oh!” cried Billy Binks and his -friends.</p> - -<p>“—And a mouth big enough to swallow us all!”</p> - -<p>“Oh! Oh! Oh!” cried Billy Binks and his -friends.</p> - -<p>“He has a great fire blazing among some rocks. -That is the light you saw. When he walks in -front of it you cannot see the light. That is why -you thought it disappeared.”</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_125"></a>[125]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus100" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus100.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>“I see! I see! I see!” said Billy Binks and -his friends.</p> - -<p>“He is busy melting gold, and he has piles of -gold and jewels hidden in his cave—”</p> - -<p>“Ah, ha!” laughed Billy Binks, as he climbed -bravely upon his gray pony.</p> - -<p>“His cave is full of nice plump field mice—”</p> - -<p>“Mew! Mew!” cried the cat, as she scrambled -up behind Billy Binks.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_126"></a>[126]</span></p> - -<p>“In the bushes back of the cave live many rabbits—”</p> - -<p>“Bow-wow!” barked the dog, as he bounded -toward Billy Binks.</p> - -<p>“Near the cave is a large green meadow, with -the sweetest grass and the coolest brook in the -world—”</p> - -<p>“Moo! Moo!” lowed the cow, as she, too, hurried -up beside Billy Binks.</p> - -<p>“And there is a tall tree that will make a fine -home for me,” finished the raven, as she flew over -Billy Binks’s head.</p> - -<p>“Come on, friends,” whispered Billy Binks, -boldly. “It is time to win my fortune. Remember -you have all promised to help me.”</p> - -<p>“Yes, yes, I’ll help. And I think I see my fortune, -too,” answered each of the animals, now as -bold as Billy Binks.</p> - -<p>Softly, quietly, and slowly they crept through -the forest. Presently they came to the clearing.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_127"></a>[127]</span> -There stood the ugly, black hob-goblin, bending -over his fire. His back was turned toward them.</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus101" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus101.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>“Now!” shouted Billy Binks, and they all -rushed at the terrible monster.</p> - -<p>The raven dashed into his face and pecked at -his large green eyes.</p> - -<p>The cat scratched great gashes in his long nose.</p> - -<p>The dog bit him, and the horse kicked him.</p> - -<p>The enraged cow rushed upon him with lowered<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_128"></a>[128]</span> -head, caught him on her horns, and tossed him as -high as the treetops.</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus102" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus102.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>Then the cow began to bellow.</p> - -<p>The dog began to howl.</p> - -<p>The cat began to waul.</p> - -<p>The raven began to caw.</p> - -<p>The pony began to prance.</p> - -<p>And Billy Binks began to shout with all his -might.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_129"></a>[129]</span></p> - -<p>Such a frightful din that old hob-goblin had -never heard! He picked himself up from the -sharp rocks where he had fallen, and dashed away -with might and main through the forest. If he -hasn’t stopped, he is running still.</p> - -<p>“Ho, ho!” cried Billy Binks, springing from -the gray pony and running to the mouth of the -cave. “This heap of gold and this pile of jewels -will do for my fortune. If you carry them safely -home for me, Pony, I will build you a beautiful -stable, and you shall have a full crib of oats before -you all the rest of your life. That will be -your fortune.”</p> - -<p>“This cave, full of good, plump mice, is my fortune,” -called the cat, as she pounced on the first -unlucky mouse.</p> - -<p>“All these rabbits shall be my fortune,” barked -the dog, as he set off in hot haste after a fleeing -bunny.</p> - -<p>“And this green meadow is my fortune,”<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_130"></a>[130]</span> -mooed the cow, as she began to crop the sweet -grass.</p> - -<p>“Who could have a better fortune than this?” -croaked the raven, flying to the top of a tall tree.</p> - -<p>So Billy Binks said “Good-by” to his friends, -and left them each with his fortune. He quickly -bagged the gold and jewels, threw them across the -pony’s back, and mounting, hurried off homeward.</p> - -<p>The pony smelled oats all the way, while Billy -Binks saw castles and lands on all sides.</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus103" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus103.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_131"></a>[131]</span></p> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter" id="Some_Things_to_think_About"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_132"></a>[132]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp56" id="illus104" style="max-width: 32.8125em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus104.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak">Some Things to think About</h2> - -</div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp66" id="illus105" style="max-width: 12.5em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus105.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_133"></a>[133]</span></p> - -<h3 id="heading34">WHEN THE LITTLE BOY RAN AWAY</h3> - -<div class="center"> -<ul> -<li>(s ist er)</li> -<li>tw ist ed</li> -<li class="ifrst">wan der ed</li> -<li class="ifrst">aw ful</li> -</ul> -<ul> -<li>(r oam)</li> -<li class="l1">f oam ing</li> -<li class="ifrst">ech o</li> -</ul> -<ul> -<li class="l2">(under)</li> -<li>th under</li> -<li class="ifrst">par ents</li> -<li class="ifrst">trun dle</li> -</ul> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus106" style="max-width: 25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus106.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus107" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus107.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">When the little boy ran away from home,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">The birds in the tree-top knew,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And they all sang, “Stay!” but he wandered away</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Under the skies of blue.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And the wind came whispering from the tree,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">“Follow me, follow me!”</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And it sang him a song that was soft and sweet</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And scattered the roses before his feet</div> - <div class="verse indent2">That day, that day,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">When the little boy ran away.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_134"></a>[134]</span> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The violets whispered, “Your eyes are blue</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And lovely and bright to see,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And so are mine, and I’m kin to you,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">So dwell in the light with me.”</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But the little boy laughed, while the wind in glee</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sang, “Follow, follow me!”</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And the wind called the clouds from their home in the skies</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And said to the violet, “Shut your eyes!”</div> - <div class="verse indent2">That day, that day,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">When the little boy ran away.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_135"></a>[135]</span> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Then the wind played leapfrog over the hills</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And twisted each leaf and limb;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And all the rivers and all the rills</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Were foaming mad with him;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And ’twas dark as the darkest night could be,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But still came the wind’s voice, “Follow me!”</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And over the mountain and up from the hollow</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Came echoing voices with, “Follow him; follow!”</div> - <div class="verse indent2">That awful day,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">When the little boy ran away.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_136"></a>[136]</span> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Then the little boy cried, “Let me go, let me go!”</div> - <div class="verse indent2">For a scared, scared boy was he.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But the thunder growled from a black cloud, “No!”</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And the wind roared, “Follow me!”</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And an old gray owl from a tree-top flew,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Saying: “Who are you-oo? Who are you-oo?”</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And the little boy sobbed, “I’m lost away!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And I want to go home where my parents stay.”</div> - <div class="verse indent2">O, the awful day</div> - <div class="verse indent2">When the little boy ran away!</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_137"></a>[137]</span> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Then the moon looked out from a cloud and said:</div> - <div class="verse indent2">“Are you sorry you ran away?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">If I light you home to your trundle bed,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Will you stay, little boy, will you stay?”</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And the little boy promised—and cried and cried—</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He never would leave his mother’s side,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And the moonlight led him over the plain;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And his mother welcomed him home again.</div> - <div class="verse indent2">But, O, what a day</div> - <div class="verse indent2">When the little boy ran away!</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus108" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus108.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus109" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus109.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_138"></a>[138]</span></p> - -<h3 id="heading35">HOW THE BEAN GOT ITS BLACK SEAM</h3> - -<div class="center"> -<ul> -<li>(ea gle)</li> -<li class="l1">ea ger</li> -<li class="ifrst">(h ush)</li> -<li>cr ush</li> -<li class="ifrst">mo ment</li> -<li class="ifrst">quar rel</li> -<li class="ifrst">coun try</li> -</ul> -<ul> -<li>(r ope)</li> -<li class="l1">h ope</li> -<li class="ifrst">(m ean)</li> -<li class="l1">b ean</li> -<li class="ifrst">gur gling</li> -<li class="ifrst">four</li> -<li class="ifrst">pour ing</li> -</ul> -<ul> -<li>sew ed</li> -<li class="ifrst">hul lo</li> -<li class="ifrst">cru el</li> -<li class="ifrst">tor rent</li> -<li class="ifrst">both er</li> -<li class="ifrst">a las</li> -<li class="ifrst">in stant ly</li> -</ul> -</div> - -<p>Once upon a time there was a poor old woman -living in a village of a far country. She had -gathered some beans and was making ready to -cook them. She built a fire of sticks, but, as -these were damp, they did not burn well. So -she thrust in a handful of dry straw. Now the -flames leaped up, and the sticks snapped and -crackled in the blaze.</p> - -<p>A live red coal flew out of the fire, fell on the -ground beside a straw, and lay there smoking.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_139"></a>[139]</span> -Just then a bean dropped from the pot which the -old woman was filling, rolled away, and came to -rest close to the coal and the straw.</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus110" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus110.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>“Hullo, Mr. Coal,” said the straw. “How you -smoke! Are you frightened? Where did you -come from?”</p> - -<p>“I just sprang out of that fire,” answered the -coal. “Had I not jumped just as I did, I should -now be nothing but ashes. My, look at that -blaze!”</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_140"></a>[140]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus111" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus111.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>“I, too, jumped in the nick of time,” spoke up -the bean. “That cruel old woman was just pouring -me into the pot when I leaped over the -edge, and here I am.”</p> - -<p>“Yes, here you are, silly thing,” broke out the -coal and the straw together. “But what are you -going to do? As soon as the old woman turns -around she will spy you, then back you’ll go -into the pot. It’s hotter now than when you -left it.”</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_141"></a>[141]</span></p> - -<p>“Don’t bother about me; think of yourselves,” -answered the bean, angrily. “When the old -woman picks me up, she’ll tread on you, Mr. -Coal, and crush your life out. And you, Mrs. -Straw, she’ll stick into the blaze. It’s hotter -there than in the pot.”</p> - -<p>“Come, come,” said the straw, softly, “let’s not -quarrel. Let’s be friends and stick together. -Perhaps we can save ourselves yet.”</p> - -<p>“You are quite right, Mrs. Straw,” said the coal.</p> - -<p>The bean said nothing, but she listened eagerly -to the plans of the two others. These soon agreed -to travel together to a far country, where they -hoped to find their fortune. They set out without -delay, and the bean rolled along behind.</p> - -<p>Soon the three travelers came to a little gurgling -brook. It seemed to them a mighty rushing -and roaring torrent.</p> - -<p>“Oh, dear, what shall we do now?” asked the -bean, speaking for the first time since the journey<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_142"></a>[142]</span> -began. “We can never get across these awful -waters. Hear them thunder down the rocky -cliffs!”</p> - -<p>“Don’t worry, little Bean,” said the straw, -proudly. “I’ll help you and Mr. Coal across in a -twinkling.”</p> - -<p>Thereupon the straw laid herself across the -stream. She was just long enough to reach from -bank to bank.</p> - -<p>“Now walk over the bridge, Mr. Coal and Miss -Bean,” called the straw.</p> - -<p>The coal hastened on to the straw bridge -while the bean watched in wonder. All went -well until the middle of the stream was reached, -when the bridge bent so low under the weight -of the coal and the waters thundered so loudly -that the coal stopped in fright.</p> - -<p>The coal stood still for only a moment. But, -alas, that was a moment too long.</p> - -<p>The dry straw smoked, burst into a tiny flame,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_143"></a>[143]</span> -and broke in two. Down fell the coal into the -water below and was instantly drowned. The -burning straw bridge also fell into the water, -which put out the flames, and the two pieces of -straw went floating away down stream.</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus112" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus112.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>All this the little bean saw, watching safely -from the bank. And she thought it the funniest -thing that ever happened. So she laughed and -she laughed—until she burst!</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_144"></a>[144]</span></p> - -<p>This would have been the end of little Miss -Bean, had not a tailor passed that way just then. -He was sorry for the poor bean, so he picked up -the two parts tenderly, and quickly sewed them -together. But the thread that he used was black. -And ever since that time some beans have a black -seam around them.</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus113" style="max-width: 18.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus113.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_145"></a>[145]</span></p> - -<h3 id="heading36">FRIENDS</h3> - -<div class="center"> -<ul> -<li>(tw ist)</li> -<li class="l1">wh ist ling</li> -</ul> -<ul> -<li>ferns</li> -<li>North</li> -</ul> -<ul> -<li>com fort ed</li> -<li>gent ians</li> -</ul> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">North Wind came whistling through the wood</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Where the tender, sweet things grew—</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The tall fair ferns and the maiden hair,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And the gentle gentians blue.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">“It’s very cold! Are we growing old?”</div> - <div class="verse indent2">They sighed, “What shall we do?”</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The sigh went up to the loving leaves.</div> - <div class="verse indent2">“We must help,” they whispered low.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">“They are frightened and weak, O brave old trees!</div> - <div class="verse indent2">But we love you well, you know.”</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And the trees said, “We are strong—make haste!</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Down to the darlings go.”</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">So the leaves went floating, floating down,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">All yellow, and brown, and red,</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_146"></a>[146]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">And the frail little trembling, thankful things</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Lay still, and were comforted.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And the blue sky smiled through the bare old trees,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Down on their soft warm beds.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse right">—<span class="smcap">L. G. Warner.</span></div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus114" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus114.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_147"></a>[147]</span></p> - -<h3 id="heading37">HELP ONE ANOTHER</h3> - -<div class="center"> -<ul> -<li>(m outh)</li> -<li class="l1">s outh</li> -</ul> -<ul> -<li>splen did</li> -</ul> -<ul> -<li>(m ount ain)</li> -<li class="l1">f ount ain</li> -</ul> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“Help one another,” the snowflakes said,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As they cuddled down in their fleecy bed.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">“One of us here would not be felt,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">One of us here would quickly melt;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But I’ll help you, and you help me,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And then what a splendid drift there’ll be.”</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“Help one another,” the maple spray</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Said to its fellow leaves one day;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">“The sun would wither me here alone,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Long enough ere the day is gone;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But I’ll help you, and you help me,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And then what a splendid shade there’ll be.”</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“Help one another,” the dewdrop cried,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Seeing another drop close to its side;</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_148"></a>[148]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">“The warm south wind would dry me away,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And I should be gone ere noon to-day;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But I’ll help you, and you help me,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And we’ll make a brook and run to the sea.”</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“Help one another,” a grain of sand</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Said to another grain close at hand;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">“The wind may carry me out to the sea,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And then, oh, what will become of me?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But come, my brother, give me your hand,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">We’ll build a mountain and then we will stand.”</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">And so the snowflakes grew to drifts;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The grains of sand to a mountain;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The leaves became a summer shade;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The dewdrops fed a fountain.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_149"></a>[149]</span></p> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter" id="With_our_Feathered_Friends"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_150"></a>[150]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp69" id="illus115" style="max-width: 40.625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus115.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak">With our Feathered Friends</h2> - -</div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus116" style="max-width: 18.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus116.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_151"></a>[151]</span></p> - -<h3 id="heading38">THE DROWNING OF MR. LEGHORN</h3> - -<div class="center"> -<ul> -<li>(g irl)</li> -<li>wh irl</li> -<li class="ifrst">point</li> -<li class="ifrst">waul</li> -<li class="ifrst">mat ter</li> -</ul> -<ul> -<li>(s ea)</li> -<li class="l1">r ea son</li> -<li class="ifrst l2">arm</li> -<li>f arm</li> -<li class="ifrst">heav y</li> -</ul> -<ul> -<li>(c ane)</li> -<li class="l1">v ane</li> -<li class="ifrst">else</li> -<li class="ifrst">horse</li> -<li class="ifrst">perch</li> -</ul> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus117" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus117.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>One day Mr. Leghorn, the rooster, and Mrs. -Leghorn, the hen, were out walking. They came -to a wide, deep brook. Mrs. Leghorn, who was -light and quick, flew safely across; but Mr. Leghorn,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_152"></a>[152]</span> -who was -heavy and slow, -fell, splash! into -the water.</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp65" id="illus118" style="max-width: 21.875em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus118.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>Mrs. Leghorn -was sure Mr. Leghorn -was drowned. -So, without turning -to see, she flew -screaming and -cackling toward -the farmyard.</p> - -<p>“What does ail you, Mrs. Leghorn? Why are -you screaming and cackling so loudly?” asked -the Wind-Mill as Mrs. Leghorn flew past.</p> - -<p>“Mr. Leghorn has fallen into the brook and is -drowned. That’s why I am screaming and cackling -so loudly,” replied Mrs. Leghorn.</p> - -<p>“What a pity! I’ll swing my arms and creak. -That’s the best I can do for poor Mr. Leghorn.”<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_153"></a>[153]</span> -And the Wind-Mill -fell to swinging -his arms and -creaking with all -his might.</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp92" id="illus119" style="max-width: 25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus119.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>When the Big -Barn Door heard -the Wind-Mill -creaking and saw him swinging his long arms, -he called out, “What ails you, Wind-Mill? Why -do you swing your arms and creak so?”</p> - -<p>“Why, Mr. Leghorn has fallen into the brook -and is drowned, and Mrs. Leghorn is screaming -and cackling. That’s why I swing my arms and -creak,” answered the Wind-Mill.</p> - -<p>“Poor Mr. Leghorn, poor Mrs. Leghorn!” said -the Big Barn Door. “I’ll slam and bang. That’s -the best I can do.” And the Big Barn Door -fell to slamming and banging with all his -might.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_154"></a>[154]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus120" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus120.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>The Old Red Ox heard the Big Barn Door -slamming and banging, and cried out, “O, Big -Barn Door, why are you slamming and banging -so?”</p> - -<p>“Reason enough,” answered the Big Barn Door. -“Mr. Leghorn has fallen into the brook and is -drowned; Mrs. Leghorn is screaming and cackling; -and Wind-Mill is swinging his arms and creaking. -That’s why I am slamming and banging so.”</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_155"></a>[155]</span></p> - -<p>“How sorry I am,” said the Old Red Ox. “I’ll -paw the ground and bellow. What else can I -do?” And he fell to pawing and bellowing with -all his might.</p> - -<p>“What is the matter, Old Red Ox?” asked the -Watch Dog. “Why are you pawing and bellowing -so?”</p> - -<p>“Matter enough,” answered the Old Red Ox. -“Mr. Leghorn has fallen into the brook and is -drowned; Mrs. Leghorn is screaming and cackling; -Wind-Mill is swinging his arms and creaking; -and Big Barn Door is slamming and banging. -That’s why I am pawing and bellowing so.”</p> - -<p>“O dear me,” said the Watch Dog. “I’ll bark -and whine. That’s all I can do.” And he fell to -barking and whining with all his might.</p> - -<p>The Old Gray Horse heard the Watch Dog barking -and whining, and said, “What is the matter -with you, Watch Dog? Why do you bark and -whine so?”</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_156"></a>[156]</span></p> - -<p>“Wouldn’t you bark and whine if you could?” -answered the Watch Dog. “Mr. Leghorn has -fallen into the brook and is drowned; Mrs. -Leghorn is screaming and cackling; Wind-Mill -is swinging his arms and creaking; the Big Barn -Door is slamming and banging; and the Old Red -Ox is pawing and bellowing. That’s why I am -barking and whining.”</p> - -<p>“The poor things!” said Old Gray Horse. “I’ll -prance and neigh. What more can I do?” And he -fell to prancing and neighing with all his might.</p> - -<p>The Weather-Vane looked -down from his high perch -and saw the Old Gray -Horse prancing and neighing. -“What’s the trouble, -Old Gray Horse?” he -called out. “Why are -you prancing and neighing -so?”</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp62" id="illus121" style="max-width: 15.625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus121.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_157"></a>[157]</span></p> - -<p>“Trouble indeed,” answered the Old Gray -Horse. “Mr. Leghorn has fallen into the brook and -is drowned; Mrs. Leghorn -is screaming and -cackling; Wind-Mill -is swinging his arms -and creaking; the Big -Barn Door is slamming -and banging; the -Old Red Ox is pawing -and bellowing; -and the Watch Dog is -barking and whining. -That’s why I am -prancing and neighing -so?”</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp56" id="illus122" style="max-width: 18.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus122.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>“O dear, O dear,” said the Weather-Vane, “what -shall I do? I’ll whirl and point. That’s all I -can do.” And he fell to whirling and pointing -with all his might.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_158"></a>[158]</span></p> - -<p>Pussy Cat looked up and saw Weather-Vane -whirling and pointing. “O, Weather-Vane,” she -cried out. “Why do you whirl and point so?”</p> - -<p>“Because I can do nothing else,” answered the -Weather-Vane. “Mr. Leghorn has fallen into the -brook and is drowned; Mrs. Leghorn is screaming -and cackling; Wind-Mill is swinging his arms and -creaking; the Big Barn Door is slamming and -banging; the Old Red Ox is pawing and bellowing; -the Watch Dog is barking and whining; and -the Old Gray Horse is prancing and neighing. -That’s why I am whirling and pointing so.”</p> - -<p>“O, how sad!” said Pussy Cat. “I’ll waul and -squall. That’s the best I can do.” And she fell -to wauling and squalling with all her might.</p> - -<p>At this moment, when Pussy Cat was wauling -and squalling, when the Weather-Vane was whirling -and pointing, when the Old Gray Horse was -prancing and neighing, when the Watch Dog was -barking and whining, when the Old Red Ox was<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_159"></a>[159]</span> -pawing and bellowing, when the Big Barn Door -was slamming and banging, when the Wind-Mill -was swinging his arms and creaking, when Mrs. -Leghorn was screaming and cackling, Mr. Leghorn -flew to the highest rail on the fence and crew,</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“Cock-a-doodle-doo,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">What’s the matter with you?”</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp80" id="illus123" style="max-width: 25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus123.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_160"></a>[160]</span></p> - -<h3 id="heading39">THE STARVING OF MRS. LEGHORN</h3> - -<div class="center"> -<ul> -<li>po lite</li> -<li class="ifrst">seized</li> -<li class="ifrst">bun dle</li> -<li class="ifrst">bas ket</li> -<li class="ifrst">dis tance</li> -<li class="ifrst">praise</li> -</ul> -<ul> -<li>stretched</li> -<li class="ifrst">of fer ing</li> -<li class="ifrst">shrieked</li> -<li class="ifrst">fi nal ly</li> -<li class="ifrst">faint ly</li> -<li class="ifrst">fierce ly</li> -</ul> -<ul> -<li>doz en</li> -<li class="ifrst">smart</li> -<li class="ifrst">bunch</li> -<li class="ifrst">wool</li> -<li class="ifrst">eas y</li> -<li class="ifrst">own</li> -</ul> -</div> - -<p>Mr. and Mrs. Leghorn often went nutting. Mr. -Leghorn was very polite and kind to Mrs. Leghorn. -He ran about searching everywhere for -nuts. When he found one he would call to Mrs. -Leghorn, who would hasten to him. Then he -would pick up the nut, roll it over and over, lay -it down, and pick it up again a dozen times, all -the time telling Mrs. Leghorn what a very nice -nut that was, what a good hen she was, and how -smart he was to find nuts for her. At last he -would drop the nut before Mrs. Leghorn, who -would peck it once or twice to make sure that all<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_161"></a>[161]</span> -Mr. Leghorn had said of it was true, and then -swallow it whole, without once offering to share it -with Mr. Leghorn.</p> - -<p>One day Mr. Leghorn found a very large nut, -the largest nut he had ever seen. How proudly -he called to Mrs. Leghorn! It took him a long -time to tell all about that big nut and how he -had found it, to praise Mrs. Leghorn’s goodness, -and to brag about his own smartness. But -finally he finished and turned the nut over to Mrs. -Leghorn. She seized it greedily and was about -to swallow it, but—it -wouldn’t go -down! She tried -again and again, she -stretched her beak -wider and wider, but -it was no use. The -nut was too large.</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus124" style="max-width: 18.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus124.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>Mr. Leghorn, who had been watching Mrs.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_162"></a>[162]</span> -Leghorn from a -little distance, -became alarmed.</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp75" id="illus125" style="max-width: 25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus125.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>“O, my poor -Mrs. Leghorn,” -he cried, “what -shall I do? You -can’t eat that -nut; you’ll surely -starve. What -shall I do?”</p> - -<p>“Run and ask Mr. Wise Owl,” said Mrs. Leghorn. -“He can tell us what to do.”</p> - -<p>So away ran Mr. Leghorn to the Wise Owl, -screaming with all his might.</p> - -<p>“O, Mr. Wise Owl,” he cried, “my poor Mrs. -Leghorn is starving. She can’t swallow the big -nut. What shall I do?”</p> - -<p>“Who, who, who?” hooted the Wise Owl, -blinking his great round eyes.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_163"></a>[163]</span></p> - -<p>“Mrs. Leghorn, my Mrs. Leghorn, my own dear -Mrs. Leghorn,” fairly shrieked Mr. Cock. “She -can’t swallow the big nut. She will starve. Can -you tell me what to do?”</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp56" id="illus126" style="max-width: 18.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus126.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>Mr. Wise Owl stared straight ahead a moment—it -seemed an age -to Mr. Leghorn—then -answered -slowly, “Yes, Mr. -Leghorn, I can -tell you what to -do. But you -must first bring -me a mouse.”</p> - -<p>Away rushed -Mr. Leghorn -to Pussy Cat. -“My good Miss -Pussy Cat,” he -cried, “dear Mrs.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_164"></a>[164]</span> -Leghorn is starving. Will you please catch me a -mouse? I want it to take to Mr. Wise Owl, who -is going to tell me what to do.”</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp93" id="illus127" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus127.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>“Yes, Mr. Leghorn,” answered Pussy Cat, “I -will catch you a mouse, but you must first bring -me a saucer of milk.”</p> - -<p>Off flew Mr. Leghorn to Mrs. Mooly Cow.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_165"></a>[165]</span></p> - -<p>“Dear, kind Mrs. -Mooly Cow,” he -said, “poor Mrs. -Leghorn is starving. -Will you -please give me a -saucer of milk? -I want it to take -to Miss Pussy Cat, -who is going to -catch me a mouse -for Mr. Wise Owl, -who is going to -tell me what to -do.”</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp56" id="illus128" style="max-width: 18.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus128.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>“Yes, Mr. Leghorn,” answered Mrs. Mooly -Cow, “I will give you a saucer of milk, but you -must first bring me a bundle of corn.”</p> - -<p>Away sped Mr. Leghorn to the Farmer.</p> - -<p>“O, Mr. Farmer,” said Mr. Leghorn, “Mrs. Leghorn<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_166"></a>[166]</span> -is starving. -Please will you be -so kind as to cut -me a bundle of -corn? I want it -to take to Mrs. -Mooly Cow, who -is going to give -me a saucer of -milk for Miss Pussy Cat, who is going to catch -me a mouse for Mr. Wise Owl, who is going to -tell me what to do.”</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp92" id="illus129" style="max-width: 25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus129.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>“Yes, indeed, Mr. Leghorn,” said the Farmer, -“I will cut you a bundle of corn, but you must -first bring me a new coat.”</p> - -<p>Off hastened Mr. Leghorn to the Tailor.</p> - -<p>“O, Mr. Tailor,” cried Mr. Leghorn, “Mrs. Leghorn -is starving. Won’t you please give me a -new coat? I want it to take to Mr. Farmer, who -is going to cut me a bundle of corn for Mrs. Mooly<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_167"></a>[167]</span> -Cow, who is going to give me a saucer of milk for -Miss Pussy Cat, who is going to catch me a mouse -for Mr. Wise Owl, who is going to tell me what to -do.”</p> - -<p>“Yes, Mr. Leghorn,” answered Mr. Tailor, “I -shall be very glad to give you a new coat, but -you must first bring me a pound of wool.”</p> - -<p>Away hurried Mr. Leghorn to Mrs. Sheep.</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus130" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus130.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>“O, good Mrs. Sheep,” he said, “Mrs. Leghorn<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_168"></a>[168]</span> -is starving. Do, -please, give me -a pound of wool. -I want it to take -to Mr. Tailor, who is -going to give me a -new coat for Mr. Farmer, -who is going to cut -me a bundle of corn for Mrs. Mooly Cow, -who is going to give me a saucer of milk for Miss -Pussy Cat, who is going to catch me a mouse for -Mr. Wise Owl, who is going to tell me what to do.”</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp93" id="illus131" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus131.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>“To be sure, Mr. Leghorn,” said Mrs. Sheep, -“I will give you a pound of wool, but you must -first bring me a bunch of clover.”</p> - -<p>Away ran Mr. Leghorn to the Farmer’s Wife.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_169"></a>[169]</span></p> - -<p>“O, good, kind Farmer’s Wife,” cried Mr. Leghorn, -“Mrs. Leghorn is starving. Won’t you, -please, pull me a bunch of clover? I want it to -take to Mrs. Sheep, who is going to give me a -pound of wool for Mr. Tailor, who is going to give -me a new coat for Mr. Farmer, who is going to -cut me a bundle of corn for Mrs. Mooly Cow, who -is going to give me a saucer of milk for Miss -Pussy Cat, who is going to catch me a mouse -for Mr. Wise Owl, who is going to tell me what -to do.”</p> - -<p>“Yes, yes,” answered the kind Farmer’s Wife, -“I will gladly pull you a bunch of clover, but you -must first bring me a dozen eggs.”</p> - -<p>Mr. Leghorn fairly flew back to Mrs. Leghorn, -who was still trying vainly to swallow the large -nut. He seemed to forget all his politeness.</p> - -<p>“Where’s your nest, Mrs. Leghorn, where’s -your nest? Tell me this instant!” he shrieked.</p> - -<p>Mrs. Leghorn had never told any one where her<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_170"></a>[170]</span> -nest was. That was her -secret; and she would -not have told her secret -now—not even to keep -herself from starving—had -she not been so frightened at Mr. Leghorn, -who stood glaring at her fiercely. She -thought he had gone mad and would do her harm. -So she answered faintly,</p> - -<p>“Under the corner of the barn.”</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus132" style="max-width: 12.5em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus132.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>Away to the corner of the barn rushed Mr. -Leghorn, where he found Mrs. Leghorn’s nest full -of eggs. He took a dozen in a basket and hurried -off to the Farmer’s Wife, who pulled him a bunch -of clover, which he carried to Mrs. Sheep, who -gave him a pound of wool, which he took to Mr. -Tailor, who gave him a new coat, which he -brought to Mr. Farmer, who cut him a bundle of -corn, which he carried to Mrs. Mooly Cow, who -gave him a saucer of milk, which he took to Miss<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_171"></a>[171]</span> -Pussy Cat, who caught him a mouse, which he -carried to Mr. Wise Owl.</p> - -<p>“There, Mr. Wise Owl,” cried Mr. Leghorn, quite -out of breath, “there’s a nice fat mouse. Now tell -me what I shall do for poor Mrs. Leghorn, who is -starving because she can’t swallow the big nut.”</p> - -<p>“Who, who, who?” cried Mr. Wise Owl, staring -sleepily at the fat mouse.</p> - -<p>“Mrs. Leghorn, she is starving!” screamed Mr. -Leghorn, now quite angry. “She can’t swallow the -big nut. You said -you would tell -me what to do.”</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp60" id="illus133" style="max-width: 12.5em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus133.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>“O, yes,” said -Mr. Wise Owl, -“to be sure, -that’s easy. Just -go and find Mrs. -Leghorn some -smaller nuts.”</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_172"></a>[172]</span></p> - -<h3 id="heading40">MR. AND MRS. LEGHORN TO THE RESCUE</h3> - -<div class="center"> -<ul> -<li>o cean</li> -<li class="ifrst">chas ing</li> -<li class="ifrst">urged</li> -<li class="ifrst">(c atch)</li> -<li>scr atch</li> -<li class="ifrst">(pl ace)</li> -<li class="l1">p ace</li> -</ul> -<ul> -<li>(p ast)</li> -<li>m ast er</li> -<li class="ifrst l2">(p ond)</li> -<li>be y ond</li> -<li class="ifrst">(ch ild)</li> -<li class="l1">w ild ly</li> -<li class="ifrst">scarce ly</li> -</ul> -<ul> -<li>(f eel)</li> -<li class="l1">h eel</li> -<li class="ifrst">(sm art)</li> -<li class="l2">st art</li> -<li class="ifrst l6">(own)</li> -<li>un kn own</li> -<li class="ifrst">af ter noon</li> -</ul> -</div> - -<p>Mr. and Mrs. Leghorn went for a stroll one -afternoon. They had never been far from home -and they soon came into unknown places. But -they wandered on and on, chasing grasshoppers -and crickets, and now and then stopping to -scratch for a worm, until they finally came to -the bank of a frog pond.</p> - -<p>“Look, Mrs. Leghorn,” said Mr. Leghorn, -“there’s the ocean, the wide, blue ocean that -we have heard so much about.”</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_173"></a>[173]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus134" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus134.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>“Indeed it is,” answered Mrs. Leghorn. “Could -you believe we had come so far!”</p> - -<p>Splash!... <i>Splash!</i></p> - -<p>“What was that?” cried Mrs. Leghorn.</p> - -<p>“What was that?” cried Mr. Leghorn.</p> - -<p>“Help me out! Help me out!” came a deep -voice from the pond.</p> - -<p>“Me, too! Me, too!” came a little, peeping -voice from the same place.</p> - -<p>“Why, that’s our good master and his little -boy,” cried Mr. and Mrs. Leghorn together.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_174"></a>[174]</span></p> - -<p>“They’ve fallen into -the ocean!”</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus135" style="max-width: 18.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus135.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p>“Help me out! -Help me out! Me, -too! Me, too!” came -again from the pond.</p> - -<p>“Yes, good Master, yes,” screamed Mr. Leghorn, -“we’ll help you. But what shall we do?”</p> - -<p>“Bring a rope! A rope!” came the answer.</p> - -<p>“A rope, a rope!” cried Mr. Leghorn. “O, -where shall we find one?”</p> - -<p>“Just beyond! Just beyond!”</p> - -<p>Mr. Leghorn ran wildly along the bank with -Mrs. Leghorn following close on his heels. They -looked to the right, and they looked to the left; -they looked up, and they looked down; but no -rope could they see.</p> - -<p>“Hurry up! Hurry up!” came from the -water.</p> - -<p>“O dear, O dear!” cried Mrs. Leghorn.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_175"></a>[175]</span></p> - -<p>“O, where is that rope?” cried Mr. Leghorn.</p> - -<p>“Follow your nose! Follow your nose!” came -the voice.</p> - -<p>At that, Mr. Leghorn flew along faster than -ever. Mrs. Leghorn could hardly keep in sight -of him. But no rope could they find.</p> - -<p>“Hurry up! Hurry up!” came from the pond -and urged them on, whenever they began to -slacken their pace.</p> - -<p>“Going down! Going down!” came the deep -voice.</p> - -<p>“Me, too! Me, too!” came the peeping voice.</p> - -<p>“O, they are drowning, they are drowning!” -screamed Mr. and Mrs. Leghorn.</p> - -<p>“Let ’em drown! Let ’em drown!” came the -voice.</p> - -<p>“What!” cried Mr. Leghorn.</p> - -<p>“What!” cried Mrs. Leghorn.</p> - -<p>“Better go home! Better go home!” called the -deep voice.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_176"></a>[176]</span></p> - -<p>Mr. and Mrs. Leghorn stood staring at each -other. They could scarcely believe their ears.</p> - -<p>“Go to roost! Go to roost!” came the voice.</p> - -<p>Mr. and Mrs. Leghorn began to look silly. The -sun had set and it was growing dark. They -turned about and started off homeward.</p> - -<p>“You’re fooled! You’re fooled!” sounded after -them as they left the banks of the pond.</p> - -<p>“He told the truth that time, even if he is -only a frog,” said Mrs. Leghorn.</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="illus136" style="max-width: 25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus136.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_177"></a>[177]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp64" id="illus137" style="max-width: 37.5em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/illus137.jpg" alt="" /> - <p class="caption">GOOD-BYE</p> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_178"></a>[178]</span></p> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_179"></a>[179]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="Vocabulary">Vocabulary</h2> - -</div> - -<p>Most of the words used in the preceding books of the Aldine Series are used -frequently in this Second Reader. They are not listed in this vocabulary, -however; here are given only the words used for the first time in this book. -The number at the left of a word refers to the page on which the story begins in -which that word is first used. New words are listed in the text immediately -before the lesson in which they are used.</p> - -<table> - <tr> - <td colspan="2" class="tdc">A</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_36">36.</a></td> - <td>about</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_53">53.</a></td> - <td>above</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_163">163.</a></td> - <td>across</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_16">16.</a></td> - <td>afraid</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_172">172.</a></td> - <td>afternoon</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_21">21.</a></td> - <td>age</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_160">160.</a></td> - <td>ahead</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_151">151.</a></td> - <td>ail</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_151">151.</a></td> - <td>alarmed</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_138">138.</a></td> - <td>alas</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_65">65.</a></td> - <td>already</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_8">8.</a></td> - <td>among</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_8">8.</a></td> - <td>angry</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_36">36.</a></td> - <td>animal</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_46">46.</a></td> - <td>ant</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_151">151.</a></td> - <td>arm</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_5">5.</a></td> - <td>ash</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_77">77.</a></td> - <td>astray</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_133">133.</a></td> - <td>awful</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_16">16.</a></td> - <td>awoke</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td colspan="2" class="tdc">B</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_91">91.</a></td> - <td>ballad</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_115">115.</a></td> - <td>bang</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_16">16.</a></td> - <td>bank</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_26">26.</a></td> - <td>bark</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_84">84.</a></td> - <td>barn</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_160">160.</a></td> - <td>basket</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_138">138.</a></td> - <td>bean</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_26">26.</a></td> - <td>bear</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_160">160.</a></td> - <td>became</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_46">46.</a></td> - <td>began</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_12">12.</a></td> - <td>begged</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_21">21.</a></td> - <td>believe</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_26">26.</a></td> - <td>bellow</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_172">172.</a></td> - <td>beyond</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_6">6.</a></td> - <td>black</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_117">117.</a></td> - <td>blazed</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_160">160.</a></td> - <td>blinking</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_138">138.</a></td> - <td>bother</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_62">62.</a></td> - <td>bow</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_160">160.</a></td> - <td>brag</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_53">53.</a></td> - <td>branch</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_81">81.</a></td> - <td>bravely</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_26">26.</a></td> - <td>breathes</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_102">102.</a></td> - <td>breeze</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_138">138.</a></td> - <td>bridge</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_16">16.</a></td> - <td>brook</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_117">117.</a></td> - <td>broom</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_145">145.</a></td> - <td>brown</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_94">94.</a></td> - <td>build</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_160">160.</a></td> - <td>bunch</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_160">160.</a></td> - <td>bundle<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_180"></a>[180]</span></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_26">26.</a></td> - <td>burrowed</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_107">107.</a></td> - <td>bush</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_138">138.</a></td> - <td>burst</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_46">46.</a></td> - <td>buy</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td colspan="2" class="tdc">C</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_151">151.</a></td> - <td>cackling</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_117">117.</a></td> - <td>castle</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_26">26.</a></td> - <td>catch</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_172">172.</a></td> - <td>chasing</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_77">77.</a></td> - <td>cheek</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_16">16.</a></td> - <td>chicken</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_107">107.</a></td> - <td>chirped</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_94">94.</a></td> - <td>choose</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_107">107.</a></td> - <td>clever</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_94">94.</a></td> - <td>cliff</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_26">26.</a></td> - <td>climbed</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_107">107.</a></td> - <td>cloak</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_138">138.</a></td> - <td>coal</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_46">46.</a></td> - <td>cob</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_151">151.</a></td> - <td>cock</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_81">81.</a></td> - <td>color</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_145">145.</a></td> - <td>comforted</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_160">160.</a></td> - <td>corner</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_138">138.</a></td> - <td>country</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_81">81.</a></td> - <td>crazy</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_26">26.</a></td> - <td>creak</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_117">117.</a></td> - <td>crib</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_6">6.</a></td> - <td>croak</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_100">100.</a></td> - <td>crocus</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_138">138.</a></td> - <td>cruel</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_138">138.</a></td> - <td>crush</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_46">46.</a></td> - <td>crust</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_36">36.</a></td> - <td>curled</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_160">160.</a></td> - <td>cut</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td colspan="2" class="tdc">D</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_100">100.</a></td> - <td>daffodils</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_12">12.</a></td> - <td>dance</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_16">16.</a></td> - <td>dare</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_12">12.</a></td> - <td>dark</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_145">145.</a></td> - <td>darlings</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_55">55.</a></td> - <td>dash</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_12">12.</a></td> - <td>dead</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_138">138.</a></td> - <td>delay</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_117">117.</a></td> - <td>dense</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_71">71.</a></td> - <td>diamond</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_12">12.</a></td> - <td>die</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_63">63.</a></td> - <td>different</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_117">117.</a></td> - <td>directly</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_117">117.</a></td> - <td>disappeared</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_160">160.</a></td> - <td>distance</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_3">3.</a></td> - <td>doctor</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_94">94.</a></td> - <td>dome</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_59">59.</a></td> - <td>don’t</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_3">3.</a></td> - <td>door</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_160">160.</a></td> - <td>dozen</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_26">26.</a></td> - <td>drank</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_65">65.</a></td> - <td>dream</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_26">26.</a></td> - <td>drink</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_26">26.</a></td> - <td>drive</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_8">8.</a></td> - <td>drove</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_36">36.</a></td> - <td>drumikin</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_81">81.</a></td> - <td>duller</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td colspan="2" class="tdc">E</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_16">16.</a></td> - <td>each</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_138">138.</a></td> - <td>eager</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_94">94.</a></td> - <td>eagle</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_3">3.</a></td> - <td>ears</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_107">107.</a></td> - <td>earth</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_160">160.</a></td> - <td>easy</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_94">94.</a></td> - <td>eaves</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_133">133.</a></td> - <td>echo</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_16">16.</a></td> - <td>eight</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_16">16.</a></td> - <td>eleven</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_151">151.</a></td> - <td>else</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_117">117.</a></td> - <td>enemy</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_12">12.</a></td> - <td>enough</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_117">117.</a></td> - <td>enter</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_8">8.</a></td> - <td>envy</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_16">16.</a></td> - <td>even</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td colspan="2" class="tdc">F</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_160">160.</a></td> - <td>faintly</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_160">160.</a></td> - <td>fairly</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_84">84.</a></td> - <td>family</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_151">151.</a></td> - <td>farm<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_181"></a>[181]</span></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_117">117.</a></td> - <td>farther</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_68">68.</a></td> - <td>father</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_36">36.</a></td> - <td>feared</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_6">6.</a></td> - <td>feathers</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_151">151.</a></td> - <td>fence</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_145">145.</a></td> - <td>ferns</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_160">160.</a></td> - <td>fiercely</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_160">160.</a></td> - <td>finally</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_12">12.</a></td> - <td>find</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_172">172.</a></td> - <td>fine</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_117">117.</a></td> - <td>finished</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_46">46.</a></td> - <td>fish</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_55">55.</a></td> - <td>flash</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_133">133.</a></td> - <td>foaming</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_8">8.</a></td> - <td>foolish</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_117">117.</a></td> - <td>forest</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_160">160.</a></td> - <td>forget</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_117">117.</a></td> - <td>fortune</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_107">107.</a></td> - <td>forward</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_8">8.</a></td> - <td>found</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_147">147.</a></td> - <td>fountain</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_160">160.</a></td> - <td>frightened</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_36">36.</a></td> - <td>frisked</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_36">36.</a></td> - <td>frolicked</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_117">117.</a></td> - <td>front</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td colspan="2" class="tdc">G</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_36">36.</a></td> - <td>gayly</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_145">145.</a></td> - <td>gentians</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_93">93.</a></td> - <td>gild</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_117">117.</a></td> - <td>gladly</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_117">117.</a></td> - <td>glaring</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_60">60.</a></td> - <td>goat</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_117">117.</a></td> - <td>grasshoppers</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_117">117.</a></td> - <td>gray</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_117">117.</a></td> - <td>greedily</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_36">36.</a></td> - <td>greedy</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_12">12.</a></td> - <td>growled</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_16">16.</a></td> - <td>guess</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_138">138.</a></td> - <td>gurgling</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_93">93.</a></td> - <td>gypsy</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td colspan="2" class="tdc">H</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_160">160.</a></td> - <td>harm</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_107">107.</a></td> - <td>hasten</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_117">117.</a></td> - <td>heap</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_151">151.</a></td> - <td>heavy</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_172">172.</a></td> - <td>heel</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_60">60.</a></td> - <td>height</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_94">94.</a></td> - <td>held</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_117">117.</a></td> - <td>hoarsely</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_84">84.</a></td> - <td>hole</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_94">94.</a></td> - <td>hollow</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_36">36.</a></td> - <td>home</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_172">172.</a></td> - <td>homeward</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_81">81.</a></td> - <td>honest</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_94">94.</a></td> - <td>hoot</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_138">138.</a></td> - <td>hope</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_117">117.</a></td> - <td>horrible</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_151">151.</a></td> - <td>horse</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_36">36.</a></td> - <td>hullo</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_36">36.</a></td> - <td>hump</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_12">12.</a></td> - <td>hungry</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_107">107.</a></td> - <td>hunt</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_46">46.</a></td> - <td>hurried</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td colspan="2" class="tdc">I</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_93">93.</a></td> - <td>idle</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_138">138.</a></td> - <td>immediately</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_102">102.</a></td> - <td>Indian</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_138">138.</a></td> - <td>instant</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td colspan="2" class="tdc">J</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_117">117.</a></td> - <td>jewel</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_65">65.</a></td> - <td>journey</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_81">81.</a></td> - <td>June</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td colspan="2" class="tdc">L</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_63">63.</a></td> - <td>ladies</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_77">77.</a></td> - <td>lamb</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_37">37.</a></td> - <td>lambikin</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_77">77.</a></td> - <td>large</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_8">8.</a></td> - <td>laughed</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_81">81.</a></td> - <td>lazy</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_65">65.</a></td> - <td>leaped</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_94">94.</a></td> - <td>learn</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_16">16.</a></td> - <td>least<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_182"></a>[182]</span></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_36">36.</a></td> - <td>left</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_94">94.</a></td> - <td>lesson</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_84">84.</a></td> - <td>life</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_26">26.</a></td> - <td>lion</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_12">12.</a></td> - <td>lively</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_46">46.</a></td> - <td>lost</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_8">8.</a></td> - <td>lucky</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td colspan="2" class="tdc">M</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_21">21.</a></td> - <td>ma’am</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_94">94.</a></td> - <td>magpie</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_102">102.</a></td> - <td>Manitou</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_94">94.</a></td> - <td>maple</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_46">46.</a></td> - <td>marry</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_172">172.</a></td> - <td>master</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_151">151.</a></td> - <td>matter</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_84">84.</a></td> - <td>meal</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_94">94.</a></td> - <td>mean</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_117">117.</a></td> - <td>melt</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_100">100.</a></td> - <td>merry</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_26">26.</a></td> - <td>mice</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_117">117.</a></td> - <td>mile</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_160">160.</a></td> - <td>milk</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_46">46.</a></td> - <td>miss</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_138">138.</a></td> - <td>moment</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_46">46.</a></td> - <td>money</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_84">84.</a></td> - <td>monster</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_36">36.</a></td> - <td>morsel</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_59">59.</a></td> - <td>mossy</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_94">94.</a></td> - <td>mountain</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_26">26.</a></td> - <td>mouse</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_36">36.</a></td> - <td>mouth</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_55">55.</a></td> - <td>murmur</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td colspan="2" class="tdc">N</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_21">21.</a></td> - <td>naughty</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_46">46.</a></td> - <td>neck</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_117">117.</a></td> - <td>neigh</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_62">62.</a></td> - <td>neither</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_55">55.</a></td> - <td>noble</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_12">12.</a></td> - <td>noise</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_77">77.</a></td> - <td>noon</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_62">62.</a></td> - <td>nor</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_145">145.</a></td> - <td>North</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_100">100.</a></td> - <td>note</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td colspan="2" class="tdc">O</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_172">172.</a></td> - <td>ocean</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_160">160.</a></td> - <td>offering</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_12">12.</a></td> - <td>often</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_21">21.</a></td> - <td>once</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_8">8.</a></td> - <td>only</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_94">94.</a></td> - <td>oriole</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_172">172.</a></td> - <td>owl</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_160">160.</a></td> - <td>own</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td colspan="2" class="tdc">P</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_172">172.</a></td> - <td>pace</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_94">94.</a></td> - <td>paid</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_73">73.</a></td> - <td>pale</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_102">102.</a></td> - <td>pappoose</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_133">133.</a></td> - <td>parents</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_55">55.</a></td> - <td>pass</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_81">81.</a></td> - <td>passion</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_138">138.</a></td> - <td>past</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_94">94.</a></td> - <td>patient</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_46">46.</a></td> - <td>peach</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_8">8.</a></td> - <td>peacock</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_3">3.</a></td> - <td>peck</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_151">151.</a></td> - <td>perch</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_81">81.</a></td> - <td>perhaps</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_46">46.</a></td> - <td>pieces</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_117">117.</a></td> - <td>pitch</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_138">138.</a></td> - <td>pity</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_60">60.</a></td> - <td>plainly</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_94">94.</a></td> - <td>plaster</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_81">81.</a></td> - <td>pleasant</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_12">12.</a></td> - <td>please</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_36">36.</a></td> - <td>plump</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_151">151.</a></td> - <td>point</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_160">160.</a></td> - <td>polite</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_107">107.</a></td> - <td>pond</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_138">138.</a></td> - <td>poor</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_84">84.</a></td> - <td>pounce</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_160">160.</a></td> - <td>pound</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_138">138.</a></td> - <td>pouring</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_102">102.</a></td> - <td>prairie<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_183"></a>[183]</span></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_160">160.</a></td> - <td>praise</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_117">117.</a></td> - <td>prance</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_117">117.</a></td> - <td>presently</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_6">6.</a></td> - <td>pretty</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_8">8.</a></td> - <td>proud</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_8">8.</a></td> - <td>pulled</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_117">117.</a></td> - <td>purr</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_25">25.</a></td> - <td>push</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td colspan="2" class="tdc">Q</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_138">138.</a></td> - <td>quarrel</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_16">16.</a></td> - <td>queer</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_107">107.</a></td> - <td>question</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_138">138.</a></td> - <td>quite</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td colspan="2" class="tdc">R</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_117">117.</a></td> - <td>rabbits</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_151">151.</a></td> - <td>rail</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_3">3.</a></td> - <td>rapped</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_81">81.</a></td> - <td>rather</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_6">6.</a></td> - <td>raven</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_36">36.</a></td> - <td>reach</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_151">151.</a></td> - <td>reason</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_117">117.</a></td> - <td>replied</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_160">160.</a></td> - <td>rescue</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_46">46.</a></td> - <td>ribbon</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_25">25.</a></td> - <td>rise</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_53">53.</a></td> - <td>river</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_21">21.</a></td> - <td>roam</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_26">26.</a></td> - <td>roared</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_26">26.</a></td> - <td>robbed</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_102">102.</a></td> - <td>roebuck</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_68">68.</a></td> - <td>roll</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_94">94.</a></td> - <td>roof</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_46">46.</a></td> - <td>rooster</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_26">26.</a></td> - <td>rope</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_94">94.</a></td> - <td>rough</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_73">73.</a></td> - <td>roving</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_77">77.</a></td> - <td>rustling</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td colspan="2" class="tdc">S</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_16">16.</a></td> - <td>sail</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_117">117.</a></td> - <td>saucer</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_81">81.</a></td> - <td>save</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_46">46.</a></td> - <td>scampered</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_172">172.</a></td> - <td>scarcely</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_8">8.</a></td> - <td>scornfully</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_117">117.</a></td> - <td>scramble</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_107">107.</a></td> - <td>scratching</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_147">147.</a></td> - <td>screaming</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_91">91.</a></td> - <td>secret</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_160">160.</a></td> - <td>seized</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_63">63.</a></td> - <td>self</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_16">16.</a></td> - <td>seven</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_138">138.</a></td> - <td>sewed</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_16">16.</a></td> - <td>shall</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_160">160.</a></td> - <td>share</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_46">46.</a></td> - <td>sharp</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_70">70.</a></td> - <td>shepherdess</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_115">115.</a></td> - <td>shoes</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_160">160.</a></td> - <td>shrieked</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_26">26.</a></td> - <td>sighed</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_107">107.</a></td> - <td>silently</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_115">115.</a></td> - <td>silken</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_172">172.</a></td> - <td>silly</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_115">115.</a></td> - <td>silver</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_46">46.</a></td> - <td>since</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_93">93.</a></td> - <td>single</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_84">84.</a></td> - <td>sister</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_53">53.</a></td> - <td>skies</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_36">36.</a></td> - <td>skip</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_63">63.</a></td> - <td>skirts</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_172">172.</a></td> - <td>slacken</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_151">151.</a></td> - <td>slam</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_147">147.</a></td> - <td>slow</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_102">102.</a></td> - <td>slumbering</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_84">84.</a></td> - <td>smaller</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_160">160.</a></td> - <td>smart</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_117">117.</a></td> - <td>soar</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_77">77.</a></td> - <td>soft</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_107">107.</a></td> - <td>sorry</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_147">147.</a></td> - <td>South</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_8">8.</a></td> - <td>speak</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_160">160.</a></td> - <td>sped</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_16">16.</a></td> - <td>splash</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_84">84.</a></td> - <td>spoke<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_184"></a>[184]</span></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_12">12.</a></td> - <td>sprang</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_151">151.</a></td> - <td>squall</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_26">26.</a></td> - <td>squeak</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_84">84.</a></td> - <td>stall</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_160">160.</a></td> - <td>stared</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_172">172.</a></td> - <td>started</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_117">117.</a></td> - <td>startle</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_84">84.</a></td> - <td>starving</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_8">8.</a></td> - <td>steal</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_115">115.</a></td> - <td>step</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_84">84.</a></td> - <td>stole</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_84">84.</a></td> - <td>stood</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_84">84.</a></td> - <td>straight</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_16">16.</a></td> - <td>stream</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_160">160.</a></td> - <td>stretched</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_172">172.</a></td> - <td>stroll</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_36">36.</a></td> - <td>strong</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_8">8.</a></td> - <td>strutted</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_8">8.</a></td> - <td>stuck</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_12">12.</a></td> - <td>such</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_107">107.</a></td> - <td>suddenly</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_84">84.</a></td> - <td>supper</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_21">21.</a></td> - <td>sure</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_107">107.</a></td> - <td>surprised</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_81">81.</a></td> - <td>swallow</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_6">6.</a></td> - <td>swam</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_55">55.</a></td> - <td>swiftly</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_6">6.</a></td> - <td>swimming</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_151">151.</a></td> - <td>swing</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td colspan="2" class="tdc">T</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_77">77.</a></td> - <td>tail</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_138">138.</a></td> - <td>tailor</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_55">55.</a></td> - <td>talk</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_77">77.</a></td> - <td>taste</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_117">117.</a></td> - <td>teeth</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_36">36.</a></td> - <td>tender</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_117">117.</a></td> - <td>terrified</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_16">16.</a></td> - <td>those</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_6">6.</a></td> - <td>thought</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_133">133.</a></td> - <td>thunder</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_36">36.</a></td> - <td>timid</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_138">138.</a></td> - <td>tiny</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_81">81.</a></td> - <td>together</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_3">3.</a></td> - <td>tore</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_138">138.</a></td> - <td>torrent</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_60">60.</a></td> - <td>toss</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_36">36.</a></td> - <td>tottery</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_107">107.</a></td> - <td>toward</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_55">55.</a></td> - <td>tower</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_117">117.</a></td> - <td>traveled</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_60">60.</a></td> - <td>traverse</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_62">62.</a></td> - <td>trembling</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_21">21.</a></td> - <td>tricks</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_12">12.</a></td> - <td>trotted</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_94">94.</a></td> - <td>trouble</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_133">133.</a></td> - <td>trundle</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_115">115.</a></td> - <td>truth</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_16">16.</a></td> - <td>twelve</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_138">138.</a></td> - <td>twice</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_133">133.</a></td> - <td>twisted</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td colspan="2" class="tdc">U</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_25">25.</a></td> - <td>ugly</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_172">172.</a></td> - <td>unknown</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_37">37.</a></td> - <td>until</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_26">26.</a></td> - <td>uprooted</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_60">60.</a></td> - <td>upward</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_172">172.</a></td> - <td>urged</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_6">6.</a></td> - <td>use</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td colspan="2" class="tdc">V</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_60">60.</a></td> - <td>valley</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_145">145.</a></td> - <td>vane</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td colspan="2" class="tdc">W</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_36">36.</a></td> - <td>waddle</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_16">16.</a></td> - <td>wade</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_71">71.</a></td> - <td>walk</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_133">133.</a></td> - <td>wandered</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_84">84.</a></td> - <td>warning</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_6">6.</a></td> - <td>washes</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_70">70.</a></td> - <td>watch</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_6">6.</a></td> - <td>water</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_151">151.</a></td> - <td>waul</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_81">81.</a></td> - <td>wearing</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_94">94.</a></td> - <td>weave</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_138">138.</a></td> - <td>weight<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_185"></a>[185]</span></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_68">68.</a></td> - <td>western</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_60">60.</a></td> - <td>whence</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_151">151.</a></td> - <td>whine</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_151">151.</a></td> - <td>whirl</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_55">55.</a></td> - <td>whisper</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_145">145.</a></td> - <td>whistling</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_60">60.</a></td> - <td>whither</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_36">36.</a></td> - <td>whom</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_21">21.</a></td> - <td>whose</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_151">151.</a></td> - <td>wide</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_160">160.</a></td> - <td>wife</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_172">172.</a></td> - <td>wildly</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_46">46.</a></td> - <td>window</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_8">8.</a></td> - <td>wise</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_33">33.</a></td> - <td>wish</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_151">151.</a></td> - <td>without</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_12">12.</a></td> - <td>wolf</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_160">160.</a></td> - <td>wool</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_3">3.</a></td> - <td>words</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_107">107.</a></td> - <td>worm</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_26">26.</a></td> - <td>wrong</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td colspan="2" class="tdc">Y</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_107">107.</a></td> - 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