The Gordon Readers, Book 3D.C. Heath & Company, 1910 - Readers |
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ABBY MORTON DIAZ Anna apple Apple-seed John Arabella Araminta asked baby BEATRIX POTTER began bell bird branch bread and milk Bunny butter cakes Carl CHRISTINA G climbed clock cluck cried danced doll Dustman Equivalent Charts eyes fairy father feet floor frightened gave geese grass HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN hare heard hole horse hunter hurt Jack jack-o'-lanterns Jimmyjohns JOSEPH JACOBS jumped king of Erin Lambikin land crabs lassie lion live looked Matt McGregor meadow morning mother mouse nest night Nils parrot Peter Phonic Drill poor queen Review rich ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON rode Rollo Rosa ROSSETTI sheep silver sing sleep Sound words squirrel stars stood thing THIRD BOOK thought three wishes tions toll took tree frog tuffet vowels walked wheat window wood woodchuck words from Sec words from Sections ZACHRIS TOPELIUS
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Page 199 - HOW doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower...
Page 133 - Who has seen the wind? Neither I nor you: But when the leaves hang trembling, The wind is passing through. Who has seen the wind ? Neither you nor I : But when the trees bow down their heads, The wind is passing by.
Page 8 - Hey, diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon. The little dog laughed to see such sport, And the dish ran away with the spoon!
Page 154 - Where Go the Boats? Dark brown is the river, Golden is the sand. It flows along for ever, With trees on either hand. Green leaves a-floating, Castles of the foam, Boats of mine a-boating Where will all come home? On goes the river And out past the mill, Away down the valley, Away down the hill. Away down the river, A hundred miles or more, Other little children Shall bring my...
Page 99 - He slightly frowned, and with his eye He looked me through and through. "I'm quite as big for me," said he, "As you are big for you.
Page 32 - FOR every evil under the sun, There is a remedy, or there is none. If there be one, try and find it; If there be none, never mind it.
Page 111 - T was coming fast to such anointing, When piped a tiny voice hard by, Gay and polite, a cheerful cry, Chic-chic-a-dee-dee! saucy note Out of sound heart and merry throat, As if it said, 'Good day, good sir! Fine afternoon, old passenger! Happy to meet you in these places, Where January brings few faces.
Page 195 - Of arbours filled with dainty scents From lovely flowers that never fade ; Bright flies that glitter in the sun, And glow-worms shining in the shade : And talking birds with gifted tongues, For singing songs and telling tales, And pretty dwarfs to show the way Through fairy hills and fairy dales.
Page 54 - Thank you, pretty cow, that made Pleasant milk to soak my bread, Every day, and every night, Warm, and fresh, and sweet, and white. Do not chew the hemlock rank, Growing on the weedy bank ; But the yellow cowslips eat, They will make it very sweet.
Page 38 - WHOLE DUTY OF CHILDREN A CHILD should always say what's true And speak when he is spoken to, And behave mannerly at table; At least as far as he is able.