The Kensington series of lesson books (ed. by J.W. Laurie). Primer, pt, Bind 4 |
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acres Æsop Africa animal barons beautiful Becket bird boys brave Britain British Britons brother called Great Britain castle creature DICTATION LESSON Duke of Normandy earth eighteen elephant ELLIPTICAL LESSON Empress Matilda England Europe feet field flax flowers four France Gelert Gibraltar grain grass grow half happy Harry hear Henry houses hundredweights Ireland island Julius Cæsar KENSINGTON BOOK kind king land leaves live look lovely miles mother nest night nine nineteen Normans pennyweights plant pleasant poor pounds Queen river Romans root round Scotland SEDGE WARBLER seed seven sevenpence halfpenny seventeen shillings and ninepence shillings and sevenpence ships sing song soon stalk stones suck tell things Thomas à Becket thought thousand three farthings tiger town Transitive Verbs tree trunk Wales water-cresses wild William William the Norman wind wonderful wood words yards young
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Side 58 - The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands ; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. His hair is crisp, and black, and long, His face is like the tan ; His brow is wet with honest sweat, He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man.
Side 132 - And bends the gallant mast; And bends the gallant mast, my boys, While, like the eagle free, Away the good ship flies, and leaves Old England on the lee. "O for a soft and gentle wind!
Side 145 - What time the daisy decks the green, Thy certain voice we hear ; Hast thou a star to guide thy path, Or mark the rolling year I Delightful visitant ! with thee I hail the time of flowers, And hear the sound of music sweet From birds among the bowers.
Side 59 - He goes on Sunday to the church, And sits among his boys; He hears the parson pray and preach, He hears his daughter's voice, Singing in the village choir, And it makes his heart rejoice.
Side 132 - A WET sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast And fills the white and rustling sail And bends the gallant mast...
Side 59 - And children coming home from school, Look in at the open door ; They love to see the flaming forge, And hear the bellows roar, And catch the burning sparks that fly Like chaff from a threshing-floor.
Side 29 - THE WIND IN A FROLIC. The wind one morning sprang up from sleep, Saying, " Now for a frolic ! Now for a leap ! Now for a madcap galloping chase ! I'll make a commotion in every place !" So it swept with a bustle right through a great town, Creaking the signs and scattering down Shutters, and whisking with merciless squalls, Old women's bonnets and gingerbread stalls. There never was heard a much lustier shout, As the apples and oranges...
Side 145 - Thou fliest thy vocal vale An annual guest in other lands Another Spring to hail. Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear ; Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, No Winter in thy year...
Side 1 - For she has treasures greater far Than east or west unfold ; And her rewards more precious are Than all their stores of gold.
Side 31 - ... the hens crept to roost in a terrified crowd; There was rearing of ladders, and logs laying on Where the thatch from the roof threatened soon to be gone. But the wind had passed on, and had met in a lane With a schoolboy, who panted and struggled in vain; For it tossed him and twirled him, then passed, and he stood With his hat in a pool and his shoe in the mud.