The Third Reader for Primary SchoolsBrewer and Tileston, 1874 |
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Alice apples asked aunt Mary Bandy bantam bantam chickens basket beautiful blackberries bright called chaffinch Charles chickens clock clothes-pins creeping everywhere cried dear doll Ellen emeu eyes Fanny father fear feel finches Fred Frisk frog George George Mills give glad goat Good-morning good-night hair happy hard Harry hear horse hour hour-glass Jack Jemmy Jenny Jocko John John Grant kind Lady Moon LESSON Let me fly little girl live looked Lucy Mark Warner mean minute-hand minutes morning mother nerves nest never night Nonesuch nuts old bear old bird orange ostrich play poor pretty round sails sheep shine ship short hand silver trouts sleep smell snow everywhere soon sorry stop taught Teacher tell thing Thomas thought tired took tree trout Uncle walk Willie wind wish
Popular passages
Page 150 - THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm; A creature of heroic blood, A proud though childlike form.
Page 151 - And shouted but once more aloud, "My father! must I stay?" While o'er him fast, through sail and shroud, The wreathing fires made way. They...
Page 73 - Though she saw him there like a ball of light; For she knew he had God's time to keep All over the world and never could sleep.
Page 151 - Speak, Father!" once again he cried, "If I may yet be gone!" —And but the booming shots replied, And fast the flames rolled on.
Page 24 - What does little birdie say In her nest at peep of day ? Let me fly, says little birdie, Mother, let me fly away. Birdie, rest a little longer, Till the little wings are stronger. So she rests a little longer, Then she flies away. What does little baby say, In her bed at peep of day ? Baby says, like little birdie, Let me rise and fly away.
Page 152 - There came a burst of thunder sound — The boy — Oh, where was he ? Ask of the winds that far around With fragments strewed the sea ! With mast, and helm, and pennon fair, That well had borne their part — But the noblest thing that perished there Was that young faithful heart.
Page 141 - INTO the sunshine, Full of the light, Leaping and flashing From morn till night ; Into the moonlight, Whiter than snow, Waving so flower-like When the winds blow ; Into the starlight Rushing in spray, Happy at midnight, Happy by day ; Ever in motion, Blithesome and cheery, Still climbing heavenward, Never aweary ; Glad of all weathers, Still seeming best, Upward or downward, Motion thy rest ; Full of a nature Nothing can tame, Changed every moment, Ever...
Page 199 - So she pushed her soft leaves through the hard frozen ground, Quite up to the surface, and then she looked round.
Page 54 - 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.
Page 193 - His feet quite covered up the small and fearful platform that he stood upon, and beneath that, a long smooth, naked spar, which seemed to bend with his weight, was all that upheld him from destruction. An attempt to get down from "that bad eminence...