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Common terms and phrases
abbreviated Abraham Lincoln Æsop aloud American answer apostrophe arranged arrow birds Brer Fox Brer Rabbit business letters called capital letter carefully CHAPTER child comma Correct correctly Dabrunka Dear DICTATION EXERCISE dictionary Edward Eggleston envelope express fable father fish flag following sentences give interesting interrogative invitation James Baldwin Joel Chandler Harris kind of letter lesson Lincoln Longfellow look means mother Notice nouns show possession ORAL EXERCISES P. K. ENG paragraph patriots person picture play pledge of allegiance plural nouns poem predicate pronounce PROVERB punctuation mark pupil question quotation marks Remember ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON rural free delivery singular nouns song speaking spelling stanza star-spangled banner suggested syllable Talk Tell the story tence things thought told tree verb wind Write a letter WRITTEN EXERCISES
Popular passages
Page 144 - Not as the conqueror comes, They, the true-hearted, came ; Not with the roll of the stirring drums, And the trumpet that sings of fame ; Not as the flying come, In silence and in fear ; They shook the depths of the desert gloom With their hymns of lofty cheer.
Page 343 - O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave ! And where is that band who so vauntingly swore That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion A home and a country should leave us no more ? Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps
Page 201 - HALF a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. " Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns," he said: Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.
Page 203 - Then they rode back, but not — Not the six hundred. Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon behind them Volley'd and thunder'd...
Page 326 - AY, tear her tattered ensign down ! Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky; Beneath it rung the battle shout, And burst the cannon's roar; — The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more. Her deck once red with heroes...
Page 12 - BOY'S SONG. WHERE the pools are bright and deep, Where the gray trout lies asleep, Up the river and o'er the lea, That's the way for Billy and me. Where the blackbird sings the latest, Where the hawthorn blooms the sweetest, Where the nestlings chirp and flee, That's the way for Billy and me.
Page 145 - What sought they thus afar ? Bright jewels of the mine ? The wealth of seas, the spoils of war ? — They sought a faith's pure shrine ! Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod: They have left unstained what there they found, — Freedom to worship God...
Page 177 - Hats off ! Along the street there comes A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums; And loyal hearts are beating high : Hats off! The flag is passing by!
Page 324 - THE SEA THE Sea! the Sea! the open Sea! The blue, the fresh, the ever free! Without a mark, without a bound, It runneth the earth's wide regions 'round; It plays with the clouds; it mocks the skies; Or like a cradled creature lies.
Page 343 - O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave? On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses? Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam, In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream.