Cassell's Readable readers, Livre 21885 |
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Autumn bad company bad shilling BAD SHILLING.-Part began big eagle birds blow bright Brown Kate Cassell's Modern School claws cliff climb cloth boards blue cloth boards red cried Donald crown diamond Duncan Mac Ian eagle eagle's nest EAGLE'S NEST.-Part Englishman father fell Florin gave gentleman give glad grocer Half-crown hand happy HAWTREY hear Hush INFANT READER John Morse king knife laughed limp cloth boards little dog little girl little Rosie looked loved lovely dog LUCY LARCOM Mayne milk mother mother-eagle mountain mouse nail narrow ledge neighbour never nice night nuts so brown once piece pretty Prince Beryl princess quickly ring the bells Robin dear Robin Redbreast rock Rosie round sharp singing soon sovereign stiff cloth boards STORY thing to-day took tree turned valley walk White Cat WHITE CAT.-Part wings wooden horse young
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Page 73 - In his bed at night. Up the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We daren't go a-hunting For fear of little men ; Wee folk, good folk, Trooping all together; Green jacket, red cap, And white owl's feather!
Page 11 - THE cock is crowing, The stream is flowing, The small birds twitter, The lake doth glitter, The green field sleeps in the sun ; The oldest and youngest Are at work with the strongest ; The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising ; There are forty feeding like one ! Like an army defeated The Snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hill...
Page 2 - ANSWER TO A CHILD'S QUESTION. Do you ask what the birds say ? The sparrow, the dove, The linnet and thrush say, " I love, and I love ! " In the winter they're silent — the wind is so strong ; What it says, I don't know, but it sings a loud song. But green leaves, and blossoms, and sunny warm weather, And singing, and loving — all come back together.
Page 73 - They stole little Bridget For seven years long ; When she came down again Her friends were all gone. They took her lightly back, Between the night and morrow, They thought that she was fast asleep, But she was dead with sorrow.
Page 111 - It was not in the battle; No tempest gave the shock ; She sprang no fatal leak, She ran upon no rock.
Page 110 - TOLL for the brave! The brave that are no more ! All sunk beneath the wave, Fast by their native shore ! Eight hundred of the brave, Whose courage well was tried, Had made the vessel heel, And laid her on her side. A land breeze shook the shrouds, And she was overset; Down -went the Royal George, "With all her crew complete.
Page 110 - Toll for the brave! Brave Kempenfelt is gone; His last sea-fight is fought; His work of glory done. It was not in the battle; No tempest gave the shock; She sprang no fatal leak...
Page 80 - So the merry brown thrush sings away in the tree, To you and to me, to you and to me; And he sings...
Page 117 - And there came the Beetle, so blind and so black, Who carried the Emmet, his friend, on his back ; And there was the Gnat, and the Dragon-fly too ; With all their relations, green, orange, and blue.
Page 118 - Snail, with his horns peeping out from his shell, Came from a great distance — the length of an ell. A mushroom their table, and on it was laid A water-dock leaf, which a table-cloth made ; The viands were various, to each of their taste, And the Bee brought his honey to crown the repast. There, close on his haunches, so solemn and wise, The Frog from a corner looked up to the skies ; And the Squirrel, well pleased such diversion to see, Sat cracking his nuts overhead in a tree.