Dictation Day by Day: A Modern SpellerMacmillan Company, 1909 - Spellers |
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64-66 FIFTH AVENUE ALBERT BUSHNELL HART ALFRED TENNYSON Alice ALICE CARY arrows Aunt BAKER bee buzz'd berries birds boughs brown thrush CARPENTER CHICAGO SAN FRANCISCO Christmas Columbus Dear deer drink eagle eyes fairy father February Flag Day flax flower forest fruit GEORGE girl grass green groweth heart Hiawatha Horace Mann School ladies gay lamb Language Reader leaf leave lesson letter lily little Hiawatha live look lords and ladies LUCY LARCOM MARGARET SANGSTER MARY HOWITT Memorial Day merry MISS moon morning mother night o'clock Poems and Ballads pretty Pussy quills rabbit Reader By FRANKLIN red deer REVIEW river robin sail SAN FRANCISCO ATLANTA seeds SELECTIONS FOR MEMORIZING shining singing sister sleep song STEVENSON.¹ stories sweet Teachers TENNYSON things thou Tuesday Waken William bent WILLIAM WORDSWORTH wind yellow YORK BOSTON CHICAGO YORK CITY
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Page 39 - ... the dusk of evening, With the twinkle of its candle Lighting up the brakes and bushes, And he sang the song of children, Sang the song Nokomis taught him : " Wah-wah-taysee, little fire-fly, Little, flitting, white-fire insect, Little, dancing, white-fire creature, Light me with your little candle, Ere upon my bed I lay me, Ere in sleep I close my eyelids ! " Saw the moon rise from the water Rippling, rounding from the water, Saw the flecks and shadows on it, Whispered,
Page 42 - Then, upon one knee uprising, Hiawatha aimed an arrow ; Scarce a twig moved with his motion, Scarce a leaf was stirred or rustled, But the wary roebuck started, Stamped with all his hoofs together, Listened with one foot uplifted, Leaped as if to meet the arrow ; Ah ! the singing, fatal arrow, Like a wasp it buzzed and stung him...
Page 97 - Drink, pretty creature, drink," she said in such a tone That I almost received her heart into my own.
Page 91 - Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse ; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there. The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads...
Page 44 - Hiawatha!" With his knife the tree he girdled; Just beneath its lowest branches, Just above the roots, he cut it, Till the sap came oozing outward; Down the trunk, from top to bottom, Sheer he cleft the bark asunder, With a wooden wedge he raised it, Stripped it from the trunk unbroken. "Give me of your boughs, 0 Cedar! Of your strong and pliant branches, My canoe to make more steady, Make more strong and firm beneath me!
Page 97 - What is it thou wouldst seek? What is wanting to thy heart ? Thy limbs are they not strong ? And beautiful thou art: This grass is tender grass; these flowers they have no peers...
Page 103 - MY fairest child, I have no song to give you; No lark could pipe to skies so dull and grey: Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you For every day. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long: And so make life, death, and that vast for-ever One grand, sweet song.
Page 42 - Laughed, and said between his laughing, "Do not shoot me, Hiawatha!" And the rabbit from his pathway Leaped aside, and at a distance Sat erect upon his haunches, Half in fear and half in frolic, Saying to the little hunter, "Do not shoot me, Hiawatha!
Page 42 - There he waited till the deer came, Till he saw two antlers lifted, Saw two eyes look from the thicket, Saw two nostrils point to windward, And a deer came down the pathway, Flecked with leafy light and shadow. And his heart within him fluttered, Trembled like the leaves above him, Like the birch-leaf palpitated, As the deer came down the pathway.
Page 39 - Mudway-aushka!"' said the water. Saw the fire-fly, Wah-wah-taysee, Flitting through the dusk of evening, With the twinkle of its candle Lighting up the brakes and bushes, And he sang the song of children, Sang the song Nokomis taught him : "Wah-wah-taysee, little fire-fly, Little, flitting, white-fire insect, Little, dancing, white-fire creature, Light me with your little candle, Ere upon my bed I lay me, Ere in sleep I close my eyelids!