web, and flies can-not? I think there must be some dif-fer-ence in their feet. The spiders can move a-bout very ea-si-ly in-deed, but the poor flies get en-tan-gled as soon as they try to walk upon the web, and then the spiders catch the flies and eat them. I think, if I were a fly, I should be very care-ful to keep out of the way of spiders' webs.-J. Abbott. LESSON XXVIII.—BUTTERCUPS AND DAISIES. But-ter-cups and dai-sies, Lit-tle har-dy flowers, Like to chil-dren poor, Yet a-lert and bold; What to them is weath-er! Are these hu-man flowers! And a life of care, Gave them like-wise hard-y strength, And pa-tient hearts to bear. Wel-come, yel-low but-ter-cups, Who do-eth all things well.—Mrs. Howitt. LESSON XXIX.-TREES. A tree has roots that go un-der the ground a great way. The roots are like its legs: the tree could not stand with-out them. Then the tree has a trunk; a large, thick, straight trunk. That is its bod-y. Then the tree has branch-es. Those are like arms; they spread out very far. Then there are boughs; and up-on the boughs leaves and blos-soms. Here is a blos-som up-on the ap-ple-tree. Will the blos-som be al-ways up-on the tree? No, it will fall off soon: per-haps it will fall off to-night. But then do you know what comes in-stead of the blos-som? What? The fruit. After the ap-ple blos-soms there will be ap-ples. Then, if the blos-soms fall off to-night, shall I come here and get an ap-ple to-mor-row? No, you must have pa-tience; there will not be ripe ap-ples a great while yet. There will be first a lit-tle, lit-tle thing, hard-ly big-ger than a pin's head: that will swell and grow big-ger ev-er-y day, and hard-er, till at last it will come to be a great ap-ple. But you must not eat it yet: you must let it hang till the sun has made it red, and till you can pull it off ea-si-ly. Now it is ripe; it is as red as your cheeks. Now gath-er it and eat it. Has the flower roots too? Yes: here is a cow-slip; web, and flies can-not? I think there must be some dif-fer-ence in their feet. The spiders can move a-bout very ea-si-ly in-deed, but the poor flies get en-tan-gled as soon as they try to walk upon the web, and then the spiders catch the flies and eat them. I think, if I were a fly, I should be very care-ful to keep out of the way of spiders' webs.-J. Abbott. LESSON XXVIII.—BUTTERCUPS AND DAISIES. But-ter-cups and dai-sies, Lit-tle har-dy flowers, Like to chil-dren poor, Yet a-lert and bold; Are these hu-man flowers! And a life of care, Gave them like-wise hard-y strength, And pa-tient hearts to bear. Wel-come, yel-low but-ter-cups, Who do-eth all things well.—Mrs. Howitt. LESSON XXIX.-TREES. A tree has roots that go un-der the ground a great way. The roots are like its legs: the tree could not stand with-out them. Then the tree has a trunk; a large, thick, straight trunk. That is its bod-y. Then the tree has branch-es. Those are like arms; they spread out very far. Then there are boughs; and up-on the boughs leaves and blos-soms. Here is a blos-som up-on the ap-ple-tree. Will the blos-som be al-ways up-on the tree? No, it will fall off soon: per-haps it will fall off to-night. But then do you know what comes in-stead of the blos-som? What? The fruit. After the ap-ple blos-soms there will be ap-ples. Then, if the blos-soms fall off to-night, shall I come here and get an ap-ple to-mor-row? No, you must have pa-tience; there will not be ripe ap-ples a great while yet. There will be first a lit-tle, lit-tle thing, hard-ly big-ger than a pin's head: that will swell and grow big-ger ev-er-y day, and hard-er, till at last it will come to be a great ap-ple. But you must not eat it yet: you must let it hang till the sun has made it red, and till you can pull it off ea-si-ly. Now it is ripe; it is as red as your cheeks. Now gath-er it and eat it. Has the flower roots too? Yes: here is a cow-slip; we will pull it up. See, here are roots like strings; here is the stem of the cow-slip; here is the foot-stool; here is the flower cup; here are the leaves of the flower; and a pret-ty flower it is; fine yel-low with crim-son spots. Here are the seeds. If the seeds are put in the ground when they are ripe, an-oth-er flower will grow up.-Mrs. Barbauld. LESSON XXX.-THE CREATION-FIFTH DAY. God had made a great many things; but none of these things were a-live. At last He made some liv-ing things. He spoke, and the wa-ter was filled with fish-es, more than could be count-ed. Some were very small, and some were very large. Have you heard of the great whale? Fish-es are cold, and they have no feet, and they can-not sing, nor speak. God made some crea-tures more beau-ti-ful than fish, to fly out of the wa-ter. The birds-they perched up-on the trees, and sang a-mong the branch-es. Birds have wings, and are cov-ered with feath-ers of all colours. The rob-in has a red breast; the goldfinch has some yel-low feath-ers; and the jay some blue ones: but the pea-cock is the most beau-ti-ful of birds. It has a lit-tle tuft up-on its head, and a long train that sweeps be-hind; some-times it spreads out its feath-ers, and they look like a large fan. The thrush, the blackbird, and the lin-net, can sing sweet-ly; but there is one bird that can sing more sweet-ly still-it is the night-ingale. At night, when all the other birds have left off sing-ing, the night-in-gale may be heard in the woods. Some birds swim up-on the wa-ter; such as geese, and ducks, and the swan with its long neck, and its feath-ers like the snow. |