The Gordon Readers: New series. Primer, [First-fifth reader], Volume 4D.C. Heath & Company, 1917 - Readers |
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asked baby beaver brook bumble-bee caught chackle chee cherries Chickle Cock-a-doodle-doo cooking cakes cowboy crying dragged drum ducks fairy Fanny fiddle fire flew fox came back gave her wood gave the butter give go to Squintum's Gold-skin gone grandmother grass Grasshopper green bay tree hare hen sings Hey diddle Jack Kickeree kind monkey king little birdie little boy Little Brown Mouse little dog laughed Little door slams little fish little girl Little White Mouse Manual meow monkey began morning Mother sang Mouse is drowned Nanny nose old woman Phonic Lesson picked plums queen rabbits roll rooster crows Silver Moon sleep Speckle-neck story teeny tiny dog tiny woman Tommy Thumb Toyman's tried wampum Wandering Star Wassamo wheel White Mouse weeps White Swan wife wigwam wise wish wolf woman was cooking woof
Popular passages
Page 21 - Hey diddle, diddle, The cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon. The little dog laughed to see such craft, And the dish ran away with the spoon.
Page 20 - Hey diddle, diddle, The cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon. The little dog laughed to see such craft!
Page 19 - Hey diddle, diddle, The cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon.
Page 41 - A birdie with a yellow bill Hopped upon my window sill, Cocked his shining eye, and said, Ain't you 'shamed, you sleepy head!
Page 1 - Oh look at the moon, She is shining up there; O mother, she looks Like a lamp in the air.
Page 45 - he said to the woman of the house, "May I leave my bag here while I go to Squintum's?" "Yes,
Page 42 - He said to the woman of the house, "May I leave my bag here while I go to Squintum's?" "Yes,
Page 34 - If the great man took the great ax, And cut down the great tree, And let it
Page 45 - The pig jumped out, and the ox ate him. After a while the fox came back. When he took up