The New McGuffey First Reader | Page 6

at school.

Soon you may take your book to school.
See this picture, Henry.
It is a picture of a little bird.
I think it is a yellow bird.
The bird has a pretty nest in the woods.
Would you not like to see the little ones in it?
By and by, they will come out and try to fly.
Very soon you may see them as they fly from bush to bush.
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WRITING LESSON.
I have a book. I learn to read in it. I can write my name.
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bee busy buzz sing work
We fly about from flower to flower.
We sing as we work.
Would you like to know what we sing?
We sing, "Buzz, buzz."
You will say, "What a funny way to sing!"
But we do not care what you say.

We are too busy to think about it.
You must not keep us from our work.
What is as busy as a bee?
All day it sings as it works, "Buzz, buzz, buzz!"
How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour? It gathers
honey all the day From every bud and flower.
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A B C SONG. [musical notation omitted]
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Q R S T U V W
X... Y... Z, O dear me! I can not say my A B C.
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when warm walk these
One morning when the sun was warm these children went out to take a
walk.
Do you know who they are?
I see May and Rose and little Lucy.
There are two other girls with them, but I do not know their names.
They took a little wagon with them, and went up the hill.
They went to the field on the hill to find some violets.
They found some sunflowers in the field, but violets do not grow there.

They saw a wild rose, but a busy bee was on it.
"Now," said Lucy, "let us go to the well and see if it has water in it."
"Yes," said one of the other girls, "the sun is too hot here. But if we go
to the well, you must take care not to fall in."
"Oh, I will not fall in," said Lucy.
"I will look at the water far down in the well; but I will not fall."
The girls will go home when the sun goes down.
a warm walk water fall a
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star garden sky time could
I see you, little star.
Do you see me?
I am in the garden.
My name is Lucy.
I see you far up in the sky.
How very high you are!
If you will look down, you can see me.
You can see the flowers, too.
If you would come in the day time, you could see all the children.
You could see us going to school.
But it is time for me to go in now.

Take care, little star, and do not fall
a star far garden are a
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green that shade thank plant [Missing part of page 65]
They grow in the shade.
Rose found three little yellow flowers.
They are not so pretty as the violets.
"I think that all wild flowers are pretty," said Rose.
"Well, then'" said Frank, "you may have these violets that I found.
In June I will find you some roses."
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been help done corn behind
These boys have been in the field all the morning.
What do you think they do in the field?
They do not go out there to play.
They go to the field to work.
They help their father plant corn.
They are now on their way home.
One of the boys rides on the horse.

The other two walk behind.
Do you think that these boys like to work?
They will like to play when their work is done.
Do you know what corn is?
Would you like to see how it grows in the field?
This is the way it looks.
It is very green and pretty.
It grows to be as tall as a tall man.
Do you know what corn is good for?
th these they there their father
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much went each cents more to-day
Would you like to buy some apples to-day? I have some very good
ones here.
How much do you want for your apples, Frank?
I will sell you the green ones for three cents each. But I must have more
for these yellow ones. They are sweet apples.
I think I must have four cents each for these.
Oh, Frank!