Reading with Expression (Volume 6); First-- Reader - Tapa blanda

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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1911. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... GIBBIE'S FIRST DAY OUT1 I Gibbie was a little street waif, without a home. He had had a whole city for his dwelling. Every street had been to him as another hall in his own house, every lane as a passage from one room to another. Great was his delight in freedom, and yet he had never thought that it reached beyond the city -- he had never longed for larger space, for wider outlook. But at length there came a day when he decided to leave his old familiar haunts and try what he might find in the unknown, unexplored regions known indefinitely as the country. He told no one of his intentions, for he had no friends in whom to confide. He asked no one's permission to go, for he was his own master. He started on his journey before daybreak, having no thought of whither he was going, but impelled only by an unaccountable desire to be in motion, to see new things. Soon he had put the city behind him, and as he ran along the silent road, a red pall seemed to fall between him and it, hiding away all of the world that had hitherto been known to him. For the first time in his life, the fatherless, motherless, brotherless, sisterless waif of the streets felt himself alone. 1 Abridged from "Sir Gibbie," by George Macdonald, a Scottish author (1824-1905). II The morning advanced, and by and by he began to meet fellow-creatures on the road. But these country folk seemed somehow of a different kind from those in town, and they did not look friendly as they passed. He was so uncomfortable at length from the way they scrutinized him that, when he saw any one coming, he would instantly turn aside and take the covert of thicket or hedge or stone wall until the bearer of eyes had passed. His accustomed trot, which he kept up for several hours, made him look the more suspicious; and hi...