The New McGuffey First Reader | Page 7

You want too much for your apples. We can not buy them
to-day. We can not give so much.
Well, then, children, I will tell you what I will do. I will give you as
many apples as you want.

Thank you, Frank. You are very kind. Will you give one of your sweet
apples to each of us?
Yes, here are three apples for each of you; and I have four to take home
to mother.
Can you tell how many apples Frank has?
Is he not a good, kind boy to give all his apples away?
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Come, Henry, let us take a walk this warm morning. Where would you
like to go?
Shall we go to the green woods?
Or shall we go down to the field and help the boys plant corn?
Tell me which way we shall go.
Oh, let us go out where the wild flowers grow.
Then we can see the birds in the trees, and the bees at their work.
Why do the bees fly from flower to flower? Do they like to work when
the sun is warm?
Tell me why the bees are so busy all the day.
I will tell you all about them when we have found one at work. But
come now, let us walk out to the green woods.
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set shines moon bright light night
These four children have gone out to see the sun set.
The sun is high in the sky now.
By and by it will set behind the hills.
The sun shines in the day time.
It helps to keep us warm.
It gives us light.
When it goes down we have night.
Then the stars come out and shine.
The moon shines at night, too.
But it is not so bright as the sun.
On some nights the moon does not shine at all.
Do you like to see the moon?
Yes, I like to see it.
I like to see its pretty light.
We can look at the moon; but we can not look at the sun.
It is too bright for us to look at.
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leaves should ripe eat wish
Let us sit here in the shade under our old apple tree.
You can look up and see the green leaves and the little green apples.
I should like to have one of the apples. I wish you would get it for me,
Frank.
Why do you want it? It is not ripe.
All the apples on the tree are green, and you must not eat them.
Do you see how little they are?
But the bright sun will shine on them day after day.
They will grow and grow; and after a time they will be ripe, and yellow,
and good to eat.
Then we will come and sit here in the shade, and you may have as
many apples as you can eat.
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This is what Henry can write:
My name is Henry. My name is Henry.
Can you write your name?
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listen hear wonder honey shut into
Come here, Lucy, and listen. What do you hear in this flower?

Oh, mother! I hear a bee. It goes buzz, buzz, buzz! I wonder how it
came to be shut up in the flower?
It went into the flower for some honey, and then the flower shut it in.
Shall we let it out, Lucy?
Oh yes, mother; then it can go to the other flowers and get honey.
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Little Robin Redbreast sat on a tree, Up went Pussy Cat, down went he;
Down came Pussy Cat, away Robin ran; Said little Robin Redbreast,
"Catch me if you can!"
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river fish line hook near
One warm day in June, Frank's father said to him: "Frank, I think I will
go down to the river and catch some fish."
"Oh, father," said Frank, "I wish I could go too. Will you let me go and
help you?"
"Yes, Frank. Run and; get your hook and line."
"Thank you, father, I am so glad that I may go."
Here is Frank at the river, with his hook and line.
How bright the sun shines on the water!
I wonder where all the fish have gone. Frank can not see them.
The fish are far down in the water.

Frank has let his hook down, and he wishes that a big fish would come
and take it.
But the fish do not wish him to catch them to-day. They will not come
near the hook.
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