All this day thy hand hath led me, Thou hast kept, and clothed, and fed me: Let my sins be all forgiven, Bless the friends I love so well, Take me, when I die, to heaven, Happy there with thee to dwell. Write Script Exercise. 1st, The names of articles of food. 2nd, The names of articles used by a farmer. 3rd, The names of games. 4th, The names of boys and girls in your class. 5th, The names of places in the parish you live in. LVI.-THE POINTER. One day a pointer was attacked by a little terrier, but the pointer made off as fast as he could, and went home. He soon came back again having bull-dog with him. a The terrier, on seeing the pointer, again rushed at him, but the bull-dog caught hold of the terrier, and turned him over and over to the joyous bark of the pointer. PARROTS are very pretty birds, which are brought from abroad. They are much valued from their being able to learn to speak or utter words like a human being. One of the Kings of Eng-land, Henry the Seventh, had a fine parrot, of which he was very fond. This king lived at West-min-ster, close by the river Thames; G and as the windows of the house opened out upon the water, the bird learned many words from the persons who came to take boat there, and from those who were sailing up or down the river. One day the parrot, sporting on his perch at the window, fell into the water; and, as he fell, he called out, "A boat! a boat! twenty pounds for a boat!" A wa-ter-man, who heard him, rowed his boat to the spot where he was floating, picked him up, and took him to the king, who was glad to find that his pet was safe. The wa-ter-man said that he should be paid, not so much ac-cord-ing to his trouble, which was very little, as ac-cord-ing to the value that the king put on the bird. He said that as the parrot himself had offered twenty pounds, the king was bound to pay that sum. The king refused, and said that he would refer the matter to the parrot; on which the bird cried out, "Give the knave a groat. |