The Beacon First-sixth Reader, Volume 1Ginn, 1913 - Readers |
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୧୧ ୧୯ beat dog Big Billy Goat Billy Goat Gruff bite pig bridge burn stick Chicken Licken Cock Lock Crab dead and Tatty digraph Dog won't bite door jars Drake Lake drive the goats Duck Luck English Folk Tale Fire won't burn Gander Lander Goose Loose grandmother's house home to-night house that Jack huge bear Jack built jumped killed the rat LELAND STANFORD Licken was going Little Billy Goat little farther little gingerbread boy little Half-chick little old woman little red hen little voice malt middle-sized bear old bench OLD MOTHER HUBBARD Pig won't go poor little head porridge Red Riding Hood ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Silver Locks sky fell sly old fox Stick won't beat stile stool hops stop Tatty Mouse Tatty weeps tell the king three bears Titty is dead tossed the dog trip-trap Turkey Lurkey turnip field wicked dwarf window creaks wolf woods worried the cat
Popular passages
Page 25 - That lay in the house that Jack built. This is the farmer sowing his corn That kept the cock that crowed in the morn That waked the priest all shaven and shorn That married the man all tattered and torn That kissed the maiden all forlorn That milked the cow with the crumpled horn That tossed the dog That worried the cat That killed the rat That ate the malt That lay in the house that Jack built.
Page 105 - The Swing How do you like to go up in a swing, Up in the air so blue? Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing Ever a child can do!
Page 130 - COW THE friendly cow all red and white, I love with all my heart: She gives me cream with all her might To eat with apple-tart. She wanders lowing here and there, And yet she cannot stray, All in the pleasant open air, The pleasant light of day; And blown by all the winds that pass And wet with all the showers, She walks among the meadow grass And eats the meadow flowers.
Page 40 - OLD Mother Hubbard Went to the cupboard, To get her poor dog a bone: But when she got there The cupboard was bare, And so the poor dog had none.
Page 69 - I love little Pussy, Her coat is so warm; And if I don't hurt her She'll do me no harm. So I'll not pull her tail, Nor drive her away, But Pussy and I Very gently will play.
Page 90 - Run! run! as fast as you can! "You can't catch me, I'm the Gingerbread Man!
Page 23 - This is the dog, That worried the cat, ' That killed the rat, • That ate the malt, ' That lay in the house that Jack built. This is the cow with the crumpled horn, That tossed the dog, That worried the cat, That killed the rat, That ate the malt, That lay in the house that Jack built.
Page 28 - This little pig went to market. This little pig stayed at home. This little pig had roast beef. This little pig had none. This little pig cried, "Wee, wee!
Page 24 - THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT This is the farmer sowing his corn, That kept the cock that crowed in the morn, That waked the priest all shaven and shorn, That married the man all tattered and torn, That kissed the maiden all forlorn, That milked the cow with the crumpled horn, That tossed the dog That worried the cat That killed the rat That ate the malt That lay in the house that Jack built.
Page 84 - Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are! Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky.