Chambers's English readers, ed. by J.M.D. Meiklejohn, 2. könyvJohn Miller D. Meiklejohn 1878 |
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ball beautiful birdie Blackbird bright brings Buttercup Butterfly Buzz cellar cheese churn Clumsy cock Cowslip cried crow Cuckoo daisies Dandelion dear DICTATION.-Learn to spell donkey echoing green eggs EXERCISES.-1 Explain the following eyes farm-yard fast feathers feed flew flowers Flutterby fly away home following phrases following words frightened good-night Grandmamma green Harebell head hedge hole hopped kite kittens Lady-bird laugh Learn to spell leaves line rhymes lion little birds little sparrows live look Louisa meadows merry morning mother names of six nest nice nouns in sections nouns in verses pretty Primrose Queen Bee QUESTIONS.-1 Reynard round sentences shew sing sleep spell and write spell the following sweet taking Tell the difference Thrush told Tom Willis tree Twitter and Chirrup violets Wild Rose wind wings wood Write the names young mouse
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60. oldal - Boy's Song Where the pools are bright and deep, Where the gray trout lies asleep, Up the river and o'er the lea, That's the way for Billy and me. Where the blackbird sings the latest, Where the hawthorn blooms the sweetest, Where the nestlings chirp and flee, That's the way for Billy and me. Where the mowers mow the cleanest, Where the hay lies thick and greenest, There to trace the homeward bee, That's the way for Billy and me.
108. oldal - HOW doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower...
116. oldal - I HAD a dove, and the sweet dove died ; And I have thought it died of grieving : O, what could it grieve for ? Its feet were tied With a silken thread of my own hand's weaving...
26. oldal - Though she saw him there like a ball of light; For she knew he had God's time to keep All over the world and never could sleep.
60. oldal - BOY'S SONG. WHERE the pools are bright and deep, Where the gray trout lies asleep, Up the river and over the lea, That's the way for Billy and me.
25. oldal - A FAIR little girl sat under a tree Sewing as long as her eyes could see ; Then smoothed her work and folded it right, And said, " Dear work, goodnight, goodnight ! ' Such a number of rooks came over her head, Crying " Caw, caw ! " on their way to bed, She said, as she watched their curious flight, " Little black things, good night, good night ! ' The horses neighed, and the oxen lowed, The sheep's "Bleat!
96. oldal - Katy ; and corn will grow, And peaches redden for you to eat, When the South begins to blow. Which is the Wind that brings the rain? The East Wind, Arty ; and farmers know That cows come shivering up the lane When the East begins to blow. Which is the Wind that brings the flowers? The West Wind, Bessy ; and soft and low The birdies sing in the summer hours When the West begins to blow.
120. oldal - ... he had to make haste, for the water now began to boil in the pot, and he had still to grind the oatmeal. So he began to grind away; but while he was hard at it, down fell the cow off the housetop after all, and as she fell she dragged the man up the chimney by the rope. There he stuck fast; and as for the cow, she hung halfway down the wall, swinging between heaven and earth, for she could neither get down nor up.
26. oldal - And while on her pillow she softly lay, She knew nothing more till again it was day; And all things said to the beautiful sun, "Good morning, good morning! our work is begun.
68. oldal - I'm convinced have not any ill-will to a mouse ; And those tales can't be true you always are telling, For they've been at such pains to construct us a dwelling. The floor is of wood, and the walls are of wires, Exactly the size that one's comfort requires ; And I'm sure that we there should have nothing to fear, If ten cats, with their kittens, at once should appear.