The American School Readers: Primer-, Book 2Macmillan, 1911 - Readers |
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The American School Readers: Third Reader (Classic Reprint) Kate Forrest Oswell No preview available - 2017 |
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Æsop ants apple Baby Ray baby's bath Babyland beans beanstalk bird Blackbird Blacky blew blow bramble bushes brook Brother Wolf Browny cabbage climbed Cloth Cock Robin corn creep cried door Elephant Esther Peck EUDORA BUMSTEAD eyes Frog GEORGE MACDONALD Giant Go Sleep Story grasshoppers grind ground grow harp heard History of Education Hocus pocus hoppity kick Jack jumped King little Drumikin Little Goat Bruse little Half Chick little kitty cats little pig little white pig Mamma McMurry meat mill morning Nicholas Murray Butler night North Wind orchard path Gave palace parlor peep Ph.D play poor Primer Professor puffed pump R. L. Stevenson rain Ray was asleep ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON School sheep shoemaker sing softer soup Special Method TALE three little pigs thump trap tree Troll twinkle Wake Up Story walk wee lambikin wife WILLIAM CANTON window
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Page 70 - I," said the Sparrow, "With my bow and arrow, I killed Cock Robin." Who saw him die? "I," said the Fly, "With my little eye, I saw him die.
Page 20 - I HAVE, a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see. He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head; And I see him jump before me, when I jump into my bed. The funniest thing about him is the way he likes to grow — Not at all like proper children, which is always very slow ; For he sometimes shoots up taller like an india rubber ball, And he sometimes gets so little that there's none of him at all.
Page 14 - BLOCK CITY. WHAT are you able to build with your blocks Castles and palaces, temples and docks. Rain may keep raining, and others go roam, But I can be happy and building at home.
Page 122 - Said the cunning Spider to the Fly, "Dear friend, what can I do To prove the warm affection I've always felt for you? I have within my pantry, good store of all that's nice; I'm sure you're very welcome— will you please to take a slice?" "Oh no, no," said the little Fly, "kind sir, that cannot be, I've heard what's in your pantry, and I do not wish to see!
Page 65 - THE SWING How do you like to go up in a swing, Up in the air so blue? Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing Ever a child can do! Up in the air and over the wall, Till I can see so wide, Rivers and trees and cattle and all Over the countryside — Till I look down on the garden green, Down on the roof so brown — Up in the air I go flying again, Up in the air and down!
Page 20 - He hasn't got a notion of how children ought to play, And can only make a fool of me in every sort of way. He stays so close beside me, he's a coward you can see; I'd think shame to stick to nursie as that shadow sticks to me!
Page 21 - I'd think shame to stick to nursie as that shadow sticks to me! One morning, very early, before the sun was up, I rose and found the shining dew on every buttercup; But my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head, Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed.
Page 91 - 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!
Page 42 - Twinkle, twinkle, little star ; How I wonder what you are ! Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky.
Page 100 - Where did you get your eyes so blue? Out of the sky as I came through. What makes the light in them sparkle and spin? Some of the starry spikes left in. Where did you get that little tear? I found it waiting when I got here.