The standard first[-fifth] reader - Tapa blanda

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 Excerpt: ... to touch. 2. "You need not be a-fraid," said one of his compan'ions, "for, if your fath'er should find out that you had taken the cher'ries, he is so kind that he would not hurt you." An exclamatory question, or one to which the answer is anticipated, takes generally the falling inflection. See page 80. 3. "That is the very reason," re-plied the boy, "why I should not touch the cher'ries. It is true, my fath'er would not hurt me; yet my dis-o-be'di-ence would grieve him, and that would be worse to me than if he were to whip me." 4. The boy who will re-frain from do'ing wrong from a mo'tive of love, is bet'ter than he who is withheld mere'ly by fear. The thought of grieving a par'ent or teach'er should keep us from do'ing wrong, more than the fear of be'ing punished. LI.--THE GIRL WHO TRIED TO MAKE A BIRDS' NEST. 1. A Little girl, who had seen a birds' nest, thought she would try to make one. So she took some hay and shaped it as much like a nest as she could. If birds could laugh, I think they would have laughed at this nest. 2. She then put a piece of silk in it, to make it soft for the birds to lie on; and she asked her moth'er to hang it on the branch of a tree, so that the birds might come and live in it. 3. "I am a-fraid," said her moth'er, "that it will not do any good. The birds have nests of their own, and much better ones than this of yours." 4. "But, mother," said the little girl, "may there not be some little beg'gar birds a-bout, who would be glad to have such a nest as this? " The divisions of the prose lessons we call paragraphs; of the poetical, stun'zas. Both are numbered in this work. A single line of poetry is properly called a verse. (60-7, 176, 247, 308, 332...

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