Chambers's narrative series of standard reading books, Book 2W. & R. Chambers, 1863 - Readers |
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... jumped the little girl , and as she could not get out at the door , she jumped through a hole in the wall , down into the wood . She fell on the soft moss , so she was not hurt and while the bears were walk- ing down the stairs she ran ...
... jumped the little girl , and as she could not get out at the door , she jumped through a hole in the wall , down into the wood . She fell on the soft moss , so she was not hurt and while the bears were walk- ing down the stairs she ran ...
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... jumped , right , young , watch , grew , warm , caught , thorns , shade , fault , heard , brought , pulled , outside . All the sheep and lambs in the fold went to sleep , but the lamb in the field outside ran and jumped in the light of ...
... jumped , right , young , watch , grew , warm , caught , thorns , shade , fault , heard , brought , pulled , outside . All the sheep and lambs in the fold went to sleep , but the lamb in the field outside ran and jumped in the light of ...
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... jumped over a wide brook that flowed through it . Silver - tail put his head on one side , and looked after her . Then he thought if the mare could jump it , so could he . Down the field he went as fast as he could , but when he tried to ...
... jumped over a wide brook that flowed through it . Silver - tail put his head on one side , and looked after her . Then he thought if the mare could jump it , so could he . Down the field he went as fast as he could , but when he tried to ...
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... jumping , broken , ended . 1 . A little lamb , as white as snow , Was playing in the clover ; Now it danced , and now it leaped , And then went rolling over . 6 2 . Hop and jump , o'er stick and STANDARD II . - PART II . 41 XIX.
... jumping , broken , ended . 1 . A little lamb , as white as snow , Was playing in the clover ; Now it danced , and now it leaped , And then went rolling over . 6 2 . Hop and jump , o'er stick and STANDARD II . - PART II . 41 XIX.
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Chambers W. and R., ltd. 6 2 . Hop and jump , o'er stick and stone , Never looking where ; Child , ' said its mother ... jumping o'er a large hard stone , That on the hillside lay ; Down it fell , with broken leg , And ended all its play ...
Chambers W. and R., ltd. 6 2 . Hop and jump , o'er stick and stone , Never looking where ; Child , ' said its mother ... jumping o'er a large hard stone , That on the hillside lay ; Down it fell , with broken leg , And ended all its play ...
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Alfred Annie Arithmetic beast Beauty billy-goat Gruff bright eyes bright summer day cheese Cinderella clock strikes cock cried crow dancing dear dear father English Language exercises in numbers fat mouse father flew flowers fold garden glad glass slipper Good-morning grandmother heard hundred Infant Education INFANT SCHOOL PRIMER Jenny Wren jumped kittens lady Lessons little girl little lamb Little Red-Ridinghood lived Long-tail looked merchant merry month mice mother mouse NARRATIVE SERIES never night old sheep play pleasant Poor babes Poor Cinderella poor little Post Copy-Books pretty prince READING BOOKS Reduced roared the Troll Robin rose round Ruled Paper SCOTLAND Short-tail silly Silver-tail sisters snow Sophy Spell and write STANDARD stood stool swallow tail thousand three bears Tick-tock-tick-tock told took trees TRIP TRAP voice walk wolf wood
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Page 81 - The Sheep. LAZY sheep, pray tell me why In the pleasant fields you lie, Eating grass and daisies white, From the morning till the night ? Every thing can something do, But what kind of use are you...
Page 22 - ONCE I saw a little bird Come hop, hop, hop ; So I cried, little bird, Will you stop, stop, stop? And was going to the window To say, how do you do ? But he shook his little tail, And far away he flew.
Page 34 - I'm going up to the hill-side to make myself fat," said the billygoat, with such a small voice. " Now, I'm coming to gobble you up,
Page 81 - True, it seems a pleasant thing Nipping daisies in the spring; But what chilly nights I pass On the cold and dewy grass, Or pick my scanty dinner where All the ground is brown and bare ! Then the farmer comes at last, When the merry spring is past, Cuts my woolly fleece away, For your coat in wintry day. Little master, this is why In the pleasant fields I lie.
Page 64 - To the tree saw her fly, And to share in the prize made a vow; For having just dined, He for cheese felt inclined, So he went and sat under the bough. She was cunning, he knew, But so was he too, And with flattery adapted his plan ; For he knew...
Page 65 - Reynard, not tired, Her plumage admired, ' How charming ! how brilliant its hue ! The voice must be fine, Of a bird so divine, Ah, let me just hear it, pray do. ' Believe me, I long To hear a sweet song...
Page 34 - Now, I'm coming to gobble you up," said the Troll. "Oh, no! don't take me. Wait a little till the big billy-goat Gruff comes; he's much bigger." "Very well! be off with you," said the Troll. But just then up came the big billy-goat Gruff. ''TRIP, TRAP! TRIP, TRAP!
Page 63 - THE fox and the crow, In prose, I well know, Many good little girls can rehearse : Perhaps it will tell Pretty nearly as well, If we try the same fable in verse. In a dairy a crow Having ventured to go, Some food for her young ones to seek, Flew up in the trees, With a fine piece of cheese, Which she joyfully held in her beak. A fox, who lived...
Page 33 - ONCE on a time there were three Billy-goats, who were to go up to the hill-side to make themselves fat, and the name of all three was " Gruff." On the way up was a bridge over a burn they had to cross; and under the bridge lived a great ugly Troll, with eyes as big as saucers, and a nose as long as a poker. So first of all came the youngest billy-goat Gruff to cross the bridge. " Trip, trap ; trip, trap ! " went the bridge. " Who's that tripping over my bridge? " roared the Troll. " Oh! it is only...
Page 11 - DEAR mother/' said a little fish, " Pray is not that a fly? I'm very hungry, and I wish You'd let me go and try." " Sweet innocent," the mother cried, And started from her nook, " That horrid fly is put to hide The sharpness of the hook.