Reading-literature: Primer, First-[sixth] reader, Volume 1Row, Peterson and Company, 1912 - Literature |
Common terms and phrases
ADA BUDELL Æsop answer asked beautiful begin with capitals birds brother brownies called capital letter castle child Christina G comma cried crow Dark Sage door elephant exact words fable Fairy Queen father Finish the story flew forest garden gift give gold Grand Tusk Gretel Hansel heard ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Ivan kind of letter lassie lesson to study lion little boy little girl little plant little red hen lived Look spry Mabel maiden monkey moon mother mouse night oak tree Peter PICTURE STORIES playing the story poem poor princess question mark quotation marks Robert Louis Stevenson second sentence sleep speak spell squirrel stanza STORIES On page STUDYING THE STORY sunshine fairies teacher tell the story things Tin Soldier Tiny told Tusk and Nimble white flower witch woods write
Popular passages
Page 269 - tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing; Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrims' pride, From every mountain side, Let freedom ring!
Page 269 - Let music swell the breeze, And ring from all the trees Sweet freedom's song! Let mortal tongues awake; Let all that breathe partake; Let rocks their silence break, The sound prolong! Our fathers...
Page 278 - Little Jack Horner Sat in a corner Eating a Christmas pie; He put in his thumb, And pulled out a plum, And said, "What a good boy am I!
Page 21 - The mountain and the squirrel Had a quarrel, And the former called the latter 'Little Prig; Bun replied, 'You are doubtless very big; But all sorts of things and weather Must be taken in together, To make up a year And a sphere. And I think it no disgrace To occupy my place. If I'm not so large as you, You are not so small as I, And not half so spry. I'll not deny you make A very pretty squirrel...
Page 67 - AUTUMN FIRES IN the other gardens And all up the vale, From the autumn bonfires See the smoke trail! Pleasant summer over And all the summer flowers, The red fire blazes, The gray smoke towers. Sing a song of seasons! Something bright in all! Flowers in the summer, Fires in the fall!