The Pacific Coast First [-fifth] Reader, Volume 3A. L. Bancroft, 1874 - Readers |
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... Fred . Do you believe that , Lizzie ? Lizzie . To be sure I do , and I'll prove it while I am mending your jacket . Didn't mother send you somewhere when you left the house ? Fred . Dear me , Lizzie ! she sent me to Mrs. Dobson's , and ...
... Fred . Do you believe that , Lizzie ? Lizzie . To be sure I do , and I'll prove it while I am mending your jacket . Didn't mother send you somewhere when you left the house ? Fred . Dear me , Lizzie ! she sent me to Mrs. Dobson's , and ...
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... Fred Sanborn and Henry Gray were on their way to school one day , Fred took out of his basket a nice large cake which his mother had given him for his dinner . Henry offered him a large red apple for it . " Is it a good apple ? " asked Fred ...
... Fred Sanborn and Henry Gray were on their way to school one day , Fred took out of his basket a nice large cake which his mother had given him for his dinner . Henry offered him a large red apple for it . " Is it a good apple ? " asked Fred ...
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... Fred , and you knew it , and you meant to do it . You are not an honest boy , and it was not a fair trade . I should not wonder if the cake should choke you when you eat it . 6. Mr. Bell went out to buy a horse . He found one that he ...
... Fred , and you knew it , and you meant to do it . You are not an honest boy , and it was not a fair trade . I should not wonder if the cake should choke you when you eat it . 6. Mr. Bell went out to buy a horse . He found one that he ...
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Page 121 - If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone ? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent ? or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion ? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him ? " And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb.
Page 37 - THE mountain and the squirrel Had a quarrel ; And the former called the latter " Little Prig. Bun replied, " You are doubtless very big ; But all sorts of things and weather Must be taken in together, To make up a year And a sphere. And I think it no disgrace To occupy my place. If I'm not so large as you, You are not so small as I, And not half so spry. I'll not deny you make A very pretty squirrel track ; Talents differ ; all is well and wisely put ; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither...
Page 192 - Humming-birds and honey-bees; For my sport the squirrel played, Plied the snouted mole his spade; For my taste the blackberry cone Purpled over hedge and stone; Laughed the brook for my delight Through the day and through the night...
Page 32 - Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home ; A charm from the skies seems to hallow us there, Which, seek through the world, is ne'er met with elsewhere. Home ! home ! sweet, sweet home ! There's no place like home...
Page 125 - What is it?" '' Beware! Beware! The rapids are below you!'' Now you see the water foaming all around. See how fast you pass that point! Up with the helm! Now turn. Pull hard! quick! quick!
Page 27 - Tis a lesson you should heed — Try, try again. If at first you don't succeed, Try, try again ; Then your courage should appear, For, if you will persevere, You will conquer, never fear : Try, try again...
Page 198 - My brother John and I. And when the ground was white with snow, And I could run and slide, My brother John was forced to go, And he lies by her side.
Page 170 - Dare they do it?" "Who is speaking?" "What's the news?" "What of Adams?
Page 192 - Laughed the brook for my delight Through the day and through the night, Whispering at the garden wall, Talked with me from fall to fall; Mine the sand-rimmed pickerel pond Mine the walnut slopes beyond, Mine, on bending orchard trees, Apples of Hesperides!
Page 193 - O'er me, like a regal tent, Cloudy-ribbed, the sunset bent, Purple-curtained, fringed with gold. Looped in many a wind-swung fold; While for music came the play Of the pied frogs' orchestra; And, to light the noisy choir, Lit the fly his lamp of fire.