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... clothes , nor swallow any of the soap- suds . 2. These three children were one day playing , as you see them in the picture . The sun shone bright on the bubbles , and made every bubble show all the colors of the rainbow . 3. James blew ...
... clothes , nor swallow any of the soap- suds . 2. These three children were one day playing , as you see them in the picture . The sun shone bright on the bubbles , and made every bubble show all the colors of the rainbow . 3. James blew ...
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... slept all day , like Carlo . " 3. That is true , " said James ; " but Ho you not know , that Carlo watches the house all night , so that we may sleep afely ? " 4. All the children saw that James was right ;. SPOILING THE CLOTHES . 79.
... slept all day , like Carlo . " 3. That is true , " said James ; " but Ho you not know , that Carlo watches the house all night , so that we may sleep afely ? " 4. All the children saw that James was right ;. SPOILING THE CLOTHES . 79.
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... clothes . " 2. " O , I know a very fine way , " said Charles . " I will walk topsy - turvy , as they call it ; and then I am sure my pantaloons will not be torn . " 3. So he raised his feet up in the air , and walked about on his hands ...
... clothes . " 2. " O , I know a very fine way , " said Charles . " I will walk topsy - turvy , as they call it ; and then I am sure my pantaloons will not be torn . " 3. So he raised his feet up in the air , and walked about on his hands ...
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... are some plays which are not proper . It hurts your head to hold it down in this manner ; and a boy looks more decent , when walking on his feet . " three spoil foot same went clothes feet hold out way STANDING TOPSY - TURVY . 83.
... are some plays which are not proper . It hurts your head to hold it down in this manner ; and a boy looks more decent , when walking on his feet . " three spoil foot same went clothes feet hold out way STANDING TOPSY - TURVY . 83.
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Samuel Worcester. three spoil foot same went clothes feet hold out way strange next torn would held droll care will hands saw steps head bred love just hands none see midst learn think which their street came look this . were would looks ...
Samuel Worcester. three spoil foot same went clothes feet hold out way strange next torn would held droll care will hands saw steps head bred love just hands none see midst learn think which their street came look this . were would looks ...
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a-bout a-ny a-way articulation aunt avoided Berkeley birds brook field cake called catch Charles CHARLES BELL Clara clothes common errors consonant corn cows Cup and Ball David Dick diphthong e-nough Ellen Elocution Emily and Frances English language ev-e-ry father fault fields flax garden give glad grass grow happy heard hill Howard and Francis Hundredth hurt inflection Jane John John Holt John Reed Joseph kind labial lambs LESSON letter LIBRARY little girl live look Lord ma-ny Moon mother never Orthoepy Ostrich oth-er parents Peggy play pretty pronunciation Reading and Spelling Samuel Worcester scholars seeds series of Reading sheep sister SOAP BUBBLES sometimes soon sorry sport spring teacher tell things thought told tree true sound UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA ver-y vowel wagon walk Walker's notation warm wicked William wood WORCESTER'S words
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Page 9 - This vowel is not what it would, at first sight, appear to be, — a perfectly simple sound: it consists in reality of two sounds, — that which, in common pronunciation, commences the name of the letter, (a) and that which, in a prolonged utterance, is heard at its close, and which approaches to the name sound of the vowel e. A clear and just articulation of the name sound of a has regard to this complexity of its nature, and closes with a very slight and delicate approach to the sound of e, so...
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Page 74 - ... Spelling (Boston, 1830). It is a letter written by Lucy Turner, a country girl, thirteen years old, to her mother, who was spending a month in Boston at the home of Lucy's aunt, Mrs. White. This letter serves as a dreadful example to all children who, like Lucy, "never take any pains to learn to spell.
Page 9 - The grave accent, or falling inflection, (*) denotes the downward slide of voice, as heard at a period; the acute accent, or rising inflection, (') denotes the upward slide, usually heard at a comma. The application of these inflections, is not necessary to practice in articulation, and, if found embarrassing, may be omitted. The early acquisition of them, however, will save much time in future lessons ; and since the words in these exercises must all be articulated with one inflection or other,...
Page 9 - Avle ace age, aim day bail, dale fail say, pave tape hail, haze may gaze, late maid nay, vail make fame, tail pay lade, jade gay sail, fate faith daily, fade make gate, take mail sale. A, as in Far : Au, as in Launch. Marked as the ' second ' sound of a, in Walker's notation.
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