PREFACE.

THIS Standard begins with lessons as easy as those which conclude Standard I. The lessons gradually increase in difficulty-dissyllables being sparingly introduced in the earlier portions of the book. As in Standard I., so in this volume, more difficult words are admitted into verse than into prose, for the obvious reason, that when the verse is really adapted to the infantine capacity, the rhythm and rhyme carry children easily over difficulties otherwise insuperable. The editor has also thought it advisable occasionally to insert an easy lesson among more difficult ones, as a relief and encouragement to the pupil.

The Arithmetical exercises extend somewhat

further than the requirements of the Revised Code. This is necessary to enable the master to bring his pupils up to Standards III. and IV. in the years that follow.

In Writing, the pupil is introduced to capital letters and the connecting of letters into words in the First Part. In the Parts which follow, he is amply exercised in copying lines as well as words; and, towards the conclusion, sentences and verses.

REQUIREMENTS OF REVISED CODE UNDER STANDARD II.

READING: One of the narratives next in order after Monosyllables in an elementary Reading Book used in the school.

WRITING: Copy in manuscript character a line of print.

ARITHMETIC: A sum in simple addition or subtraction, and the Multiplication table.

STANDARD II.

PART FIRST.

THE BABES IN THE WOOD.

sad-ly

sum-mer sighed straw-ber-ry

chil-dren stol-en soft-ly robins

1.

My dear, you must know,
That a long time ago,

There were two little children

Whose names I don't know;

Who were stolen away
On a fine summer day,
And lost in a wood,

As I've heard the folk say.

Poor babes in the wood!
Poor babes in the wood!
Oh have you not heard
Of the babes in the wood?