The school managers' series of reading books. Standard 1-6. Intr. primer [and] Standard 1-6, Volume 2Alexander Ronald Grant 1874 |
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... Girl . The Concert in the Wood ( poetry ) The Cleverest Girl in the School The Woman and the Bird ( poetry ) The Whales ' Ball 5 11 12 20 • 21 24 • · • 25 31 · • 35 The History of some Children who were their own Masters 38 ...
... Girl . The Concert in the Wood ( poetry ) The Cleverest Girl in the School The Woman and the Bird ( poetry ) The Whales ' Ball 5 11 12 20 • 21 24 • · • 25 31 · • 35 The History of some Children who were their own Masters 38 ...
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... land , and I stone them to make them go back , and they don't know which they like —to be stoned or drowned . Will Jones . Well , I don't know . Isn't it rather cruel ? Tim Larkins . You are just like a girl ; SECOND STANDARD . 17.
... land , and I stone them to make them go back , and they don't know which they like —to be stoned or drowned . Will Jones . Well , I don't know . Isn't it rather cruel ? Tim Larkins . You are just like a girl ; SECOND STANDARD . 17.
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Alexander Ronald Grant. Tim Larkins . You are just like a girl ; girls are always so spooney about beasts . I don't see why we mayn't do as we like with them ; besides father says they must be drowned , he won't keep them . Will Jones ...
Alexander Ronald Grant. Tim Larkins . You are just like a girl ; girls are always so spooney about beasts . I don't see why we mayn't do as we like with them ; besides father says they must be drowned , he won't keep them . Will Jones ...
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... . I have a secret I would like The little girls to know ; But I won't tell a single boy , They rob the poor birds so . We have four pretty little nests , We watch them 20 SECOND STANDARD . Robin Redbreast's Secret (poetry)
... . I have a secret I would like The little girls to know ; But I won't tell a single boy , They rob the poor birds so . We have four pretty little nests , We watch them 20 SECOND STANDARD . Robin Redbreast's Secret (poetry)
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... GIRL . BETTY Baker was born nobody knows where , and was brought up nobody knows how . Poor people are often very good to each other , and Betsy's friends were especially so to her , because she was an orphan child , who , as they said ...
... GIRL . BETTY Baker was born nobody knows where , and was brought up nobody knows how . Poor people are often very good to each other , and Betsy's friends were especially so to her , because she was an orphan child , who , as they said ...
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Alice arithmetic prize aunt baby battle of Waterloo beasts beautiful Bessie better bird Bob-o-link brings called Charles child clean clever clothes coo-coo cried dear dress drink drowned Emly England English father fish flowers fond garden girl give head heard hope horse hovel Jones Julia keep king kissing and crying land Letty little Robin Redbreast little schooner live look master mistress mother Musgrove nest never night Norris nosegays Number Pat Maloney Patty Larkins plants plenty poor pretty red cook roots round Russia Ruth sail sang schooner Scotland servant shillings sing slate Smith Spain speak stole sums sure tell there's things thought Tim Larkins to-morrow to-whit told town tuberous root Turkey turn for house-work Whale William the Norman Williams Willie woman wonder word
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Page 92 - You friendly Earth! how far do you go With the wheat-fields that nod and the rivers that flow, With cities and gardens, and cliffs, and isles And people upon you for thousands of miles? "Ah, you are so great, and I am so small, I...
Page 91 - January brings the snow, Makes our feet and fingers glow. February brings the rain, Thaws the frozen lake again. March brings breezes loud and shrill, Stirs the dancing daffodil. April brings the primrose sweet, Scatters daisies at our feet. May brings flocks of pretty lambs Skipping by their fleecy dams. June brings tulips, lilies, roses, Fills the children's hands with posies. Hot July brings cooling showers, Apricots and gillyflowers. August brings the sheaves of corn, Then the harvest home is...
Page 46 - To-whit! to-whit! to-whee! Will you listen to me? Who stole four eggs I laid, And the nice nest I made"?" " Not I," said the the cow, " Moo-oo! Such a thing I'd never do. I gave you a wisp of hay, But didn't take your nest away. Not I,
Page 48 - I think I never heard Of anything so mean." "It is very cruel, too," Said little Alice Neal; "I wonder if he knew How sad the bird would feel?
Page 47 - oh, no! I wouldn't treat a poor bird so. I gave wool the nest to line, But the nest was none of mine. Baa ! Baa !" said the sheep ; " oh, no I wouldn't treat a poor bird so.
Page 118 - The children of Holland take pleasure in making, What the children of England take pleasure in breaking;" I believe their bijouterie and nouveautes are chiefly manufactured for the foreign markets.
Page 103 - WALES is a pretty little country, like England's baby brother. It was conquered long ago by a king of England, who promised the people that they should have a prince to govern them who could not speak a word of English. He then told them his own son, a baby, who could not speak any language at all, should be their prince. Since that time the eldest son of the King of England has been called the Prince of Wales. Wales is very mountainous, and numbers of little sheep graze on the green hills. Welsh...
Page 149 - Africa is bounded on the north by the Mediterranean Sea ; on the west, by the Atlantic Ocean ; on the east, by the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean...
Page 91 - Apricots and gillyflowers. August brings the sheaves of corn, Then the harvest home is borne. Warm September brings the fruit, Sportsmen then begin to shoot.
Page 72 - Dip for it, grope for it — Tis such a loss! Jane finds a drop of dew, Fan finds a stone; I find the thimble, Which is mother's own! Run with it, fly with it — Don't let it fall; All did their best for it — Mother thanks all. Just as we give it her, — Think what a shame! — Ned says he's sure That it isn't the same!