The Character Building Readers: First reader, part one-[eighth year], Part 2Hinds, Noble & Eldredge, 1910 - Readers |
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acorns apple trees barn beautiful began bicycle boat BRAVE BOBBY bright BROOKLET cat has bitten Charles Goodyear Chick-a-biddy child Chipmunk coat cried dear Dicky bird Dragon Fly drown earth Edith ENDLESS STORY eyes father flowers frog grass green happy Helen Keller Hurrah JINGLE Joe Fox Jonas knew lamp larvæ laughed leaves leaves of glass legs lighthouse little bird little girl little pine tree little voices little water-drops lived Lizzie looked Luke master MAYPOLE merry monkey morning MOTHER RED-CAP mouse never nice fresh hay nice long tail night noble papa peep play rain ROBERT BROWNING Rollo round rubber Saint Valentine SANTA CLAUS saucer of milk Selected shining ship shouted sing sleigh smiled soft song soon South Wind stars things thought tortoise true princess unless I bring Valentine walk warm waves white kitten Willie yellow Yellow-wing
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Page 82 - LULLABY. Hush ! the waves are rolling in, White with foam, white with foam ; Father toils amid the din ; But baby sleeps at home. Hush ! the winds roar hoarse and deep, — On they come, on they come ! Brother seeks the wandering sheep ; But baby sleeps at home.
Page 172 - ... for lost. 6. At last, they heard a splash on the left side of the ship. " Pull on, quick ! quick !
Page 26 - BEHOLD a little baby boy, A happy babe is he ; His face how bright, His heart how light, His throne his mother's knee. Now in her face with laughing eye I see him gaily peep ; And now at rest Upon her breast He gently sinks to sleep. His lips are red, his teeth like pearls ; The rogue ! he has but two ; His golden hair How soft and fair, His eyes how bright and blue ! His tiny hands are white and plump ; And, waking...
Page 7 - There are many flags in many lands, There are flags of every hue, But there is no flag, however grand, Like our own "Red, White and Blue.
Page 159 - For if I love my country, I'll try to be a man My country may be proud of; And if I try, I can. She wants men brave and noble, She needs men brave and kind ; My country needs that I should be The best man she can find.
Page 16 - She does not care — not much, I mean — If a fellow's face is not always clean ; And if your trousers are torn at the knee, She can put in a patch that you'd never see.
Page 174 - A shark! a shark!" sounded from the boat to the ship. Bobby swam right and left, and dived and doubled, showing his teeth, and never allowing the shark time to turn on his back, without doing which the monster could not bite him.
Page 33 - My little white kitten now wants to go out And frolic, with no one to watch her about; " Little kitten," I say, "Just an hour you may stay, And be careful in choosing your places to play.