"Let alone-let alone Club, brick-bat, and stone, Naughty boys! cruel boys! and pelt us not thus! Consider, I pray, Consider, your play, To you though a frolic, is murder to us. MORAL. No boy should forget that each boy is his brother, Or find pleasure in that which gives pain to another. Evening at home, after going to school. 1. When my father comes home in the evening from [work, Then will I get up on his knee, 2. He'll hear what a number I know how to count, 3. I'll say to him all the fine verses I know, 4. I'll tell him we always must try to please God, For God is the Father of all living things TABLE 36.-XXXVI. Words in which n has a sound like ng. TABLE 37.-ХХХVII. Words in which g has its hard sound before e and i. A Farmer came to a neighboring Lawyer, expressing great concern for an accident which he said had just happened. One of your Oxen, continued he, has been gored by an unlucky Bull of mine, and I should be glad to know how I am to make you reparation. Thou art a very honest fellow, replied the Lawyer, and wilt not think it unreasonable that I expect one of thy oxen in return. It is no more than justice, quoth the Farmer, to be sure; but what did I say?-I mistake-It is your Bull that has killed one of my Oxen. Indeed! says the Lawyer, that alters the case: I must inquire into the case; and if And if! said the Farmer-the business I find would have been concluded without an if, had you been as ready to do justice to others as to exact it from them. TABLE 38.-XXXVIII. Words in which a has the sound of short i as heard in village, pronounced vil lige. cord' age vin tage vil lage vis age Cab' bage bag' gage mes' sage car nage band age or ange cour age dam age pas sage crib bage lan guage pil lage im age man age til lage sau sage TABLE 39.-XXXVIII. Words in which i has the consonant sound of y when followed by another vowel; as filial, pronounced fil yal, &c. |