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We can

We should all try to read well.

learn to do a thing only by doing our best. If we try hard, we will soon learn to read and write very well.

If we are good boys and girls, we may grow up to be good men and women.

If we learn while we are at school, when we grow up we may be wise and good. Then all our friends will love us.

BIRDIE.

Birdie, birdie, quickly come!
Come and take this little crumb;
Go, and fetch your little brother,
And be kind to one another.

Birdie, sing a song to me,
I will very quiet be;
Yes, my birdie-yes, I will,
Be so quiet and so still.

Oh! so still, you shall not hear me,
Fear not birdie, fear not me;
Tell me in your pleasant song,
What you're doing all day long.
How do you pass the rainy days?
Tell me all about your plays.
Have you lessons, birdie ? tell-
Do you learn to read and spell?

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Do you see the tree in the field?

It is

an oak tree. The roots are deep in the earth, and they keep the tree alive.

The oak is a very strong tree, and we use the wood to make ships, and wagons, and many other things.

There are many kinds of trees, such as the ash, the elm, the beech, the pine, the fir, the apple, the pear, and many others.

The parts of a tree are: the roots, the trunk, the branches, the leaves, and the fruit. Can you name them without looking at the book?

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A teeny-tiny woman once lived in a teeny-tiny house in a teeny-tiny village. Now, one day this teeny-tiny woman put on her teeny-tiny bonnet, and went out of her teeny-tiny house to take a teeny-tiny walk.

And when this teeny-tiny woman had gone a teeny-tiny way, she came to a teeny-tiny gate. So the teeny-tiny woman open'd the teeny-tiny gate and went into a teeny-tiny church-yard,

And when this teeny-tiny woman had got into the teeny-tiny church-yard, she saw a teeny-tiny bone on a teeny-tiny grave. So the teeny-tiny woman said to her teeny-tiny self:-"This teeny-tiny bone will make me some soup for my teeny-tiny supper." Then the teeny-tiny woman put the teeny-tiny bone into her teeny-tiny pocket, and she went home to her teeny-tiny house.

Now, when the teeny-tiny woman got to her teeny-tiny house, she was a teeny-tiny tired. So she went up her teeny-tiny stairs to her teeny-tiny bed, and she put the teeny-tiny bone into a teeny-tiny cupboard.

When this teeny-tiny woman had been asleep a teeny-tiny time, she was awaken'd by a teenytiny voice from the teeny-tiny cupboard. And the teeny-tiny voice said, 'Give me my bone!'

So the teeny-tiny woman was a teeny-tiny, frighten'd, and she hid her teeny-tiny head under the teeny-tiny clothes and went to sleep again.

When she had slept again a teeny-tiny time, the teeny-tiny voice cried out louder than before, ¿ Give me my bone!'

This made the teeny-tiny woman a teeny-tiny more frighten'd; so she hid her teeny-tiny head

a teeny-tiny further under the teeny-tiny clothes.

When the teeny-tiny woman had slept again a teeny-tiny longer, the teeny-tiny voice from the teeny-tiny cup board, said a teeny-tiny louder than before, GIVE ME MY BONE!'

Well, this teeny-tiny woman was a teeny-tiny bit more frighten'd, but she put her teeny-tiny head out of the teeny-tiny clothes, and said in her loudest teeny-tiny voice, 'TAKE IT.'*

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With the sun-rise the day dawns. Light then begins to spread over the earth. When it is quite light, the morning has come and it is time to get up. Noon is at twelve

o'clock. Before noon is the fore-noon. After noon is the after-noon. In the evening you can see the sun set, that is, go out of sight. It then begins to grow dark. It is then dusk. By and by it is quite dark. it is night, and it is time to go to bed.

Then

* [Should be said with a start].-Halliwell's Popular Rhymes,

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See the sun rise! It will be a fine day. The hens have left the roost. The birds are singing, and flying from tree to tree. Every thing looks so fresh and cheerful! Does it not?

The men have gone to the field; some to plough and some to hoe. Look at the shepherd with his dog. He is going to the hills to bring home the sheep.

The smithy begins to clink, clink. The shutters are all taken down, one by one, for every one is awake.

THE TOAD AND THE FROG.

Croak, croak, said the toad, I'm hungry I think,
To-day I've had nothing to eat or to drink,
I'll crawl to a garden and jump through the pales,
And there I'll dine nicely on slugs and on snails

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