McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader
Produced by Don Kostuch
Welcome to the schoolroom of 1900. The moral tone is plain. She is kind to the old blind man.
The exercises are still suitable, and perhaps more helpful than some contemporary alternatives. Much is left to the teacher. Explanations given in the text are enough to get started teaching a child to read and write. Counting in Roman numerals is included as a bonus in the form of lesson numbers.
The form of contractions includes a space. The contemporary word don't was rendered as do n't .
The author, not listed in the text, is William Holmes McGuffey.
Passages using non-ASCI characters are approximately rendered in this text version. See the PDF or DOC versions for the original images.
The section numbers are decimal in the Table of Contents but are in Roman Numerals in the body.
Page headings are removed, but section titles are followed by the page on which they appear.
Don Kostuch end transcriber's note]
MCGUFFEY'S (Registered) FOURTH ECLECTIC READER.
McGuffey Edition and Colophon are Trademarks of
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
William Holmes McGuffey
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ECLECTIC EDUCATIONAL SERIES.
INTRODUCTORY MATTER. SUBJECT. PAGE
PUNCTUATION MARKS. (7)
ARTICULATION. (9)
VOCALS.
TABLE.
SUBVOCALS AND ASPIRATES.
COGNATE SOUNDS.
TABLE OF SUBSTITUTES.
VOCALS.
SUB VOCALS.
ASPIRATES.
SUBVOCALS COMBINED.
EXERCISES IN ARTICULATION.
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SENTENCES FOR PRACTICE
ACCENT.
INFLECTION.
MCGUFFEY'S FOURTH READER.
I. PERSEVERANCE. (25)
II. TRY, TRY AGAIN. (28)
III. WHY THE SEA IS SALT. (29) A FAIRY TALE.
V. POPPING CORN. (34)
VI. SMILES. (35)
VII. LAZY NED. (38)
VIII. THE MONKEY. (39)
IX. MEDDLESOME MATTY. (42)
X. THE GOOD SON. (44)
XI. TO-MORROW. (45)
XII. WHERE THERE IS A WILL THERE IS A WAY. (47)
XIII. PICCOLA. (48)
XIV. TRUE MANLINESS. (50)
XVI. THE BROWN THRUSH. (54)
XVII. A SHIP IN A STORM. (55)
XVIII. THE SAILOR'S CONSOLATION. (58)
XX. FREAKS OF THE FROST. (63)
XXI. WASTE NOT, WANT NOT. (64)
XXIII. THE LION. (69)
XXIV. STRAWBERRIES. (71)
XVV. HARRY'S RICHES. (74)
XXVI. IN TIME'S SWING. (77)
XXVII. HARRY AND HIS DOG. (79)
XXIX. THE EAGLE. (84)
XXX. THE OLD EAGLE TREE. (86)
XXXII. CIRCUMSTANCES ALTER CASES. (89)
XXXIII. THE NOBLEST REVENGE. (94)
XXXIV. EVENING HYMN. (97)
XXXVI. THE CHILD'S WORLD. (103)
XXXVII. SUSIE'S COMPOSITION. (104)
XXXVIII. THE SUMMER SHOWER. (109)
XXXIX. CONSEQUENCES OF IDLENESS. (110)
XL. ADVANTAGES OF INDUSTRY. (113)
XLI. THE FOUNTAIN. (116)
XLII. COFFEE. (117)
XLIII. THE WINTER KING. (120)
XLIV. THE NETTLE. (121)
XLV. THE TEMPEST. (125)
XLVI. THE CREATOR. (126)
XLVII. THE HORSE. (128)
XLVIII. EMULATION. (132)
L. THE RIGHT WAY. (136)
LI. THE GOLDEN RULE. (139)
LIII. ROBINSON CRUSOE'S HOUSE. (144)
LIV. ROBINSON CRUSOE'S DRESS. (147)
LV. SOMEBODY'S DARLING. (150)
LVI. KNOWLEDGE IS POWER. (151)
LVIII. A CHINESE STORY. (156)
LXX. THE WAY TO BE HAPPY. (159)
LX. THE GIRAFFE, OR CAMELOPARD. (162)
LXI. THE LOST CHILD. (165)
LXIII. THE PET FAWN. (172)
LXIV. ANNIE'S DREAM. (175)
LXV. MY GHOST. (178)
LXVI. THE ELEPHANT. (180)
LXVII. DARE TO DO RIGHT. (183)
LXIX. THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS. (190)
LXX. ANECDOTES OF BIRDS. (193)
LXXI. THE RAINBOW PILGRIMAGE. (197)
LXXII. THE OLD OAKEN BUCKET. (202)
LXXIII. THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT. (204)
LXXV. KING SOLOMON AND THE ANTS. (211)
LXXVI. RIVERMOUTH THEATER. (213)
LXXVII. ALFRED THE GREAT. (217)
LXXVII. LIVING ON A FARM. (220)
LXXIX. HUGH IDLE AND MR. TOIL. (221)
LXXXI. BURNING THE FALLOW. (227)
LXXXII. THE DYING SOLDIERS. (230)
LXXXIII. THE ATTACK ON NYMWEGEN. (233)
LXXXIV. THE SEASONS. (237)
LXXXV. BRANDYWINE FORD. (239)
LXXXVII. THE BEST CAPITAL (245)
LXXXVIII. THE INCHCAPE ROCK.
LXXXIX. MY MOTHER'S GRAVE. (253)
XC. A MOTHER'S GIFT-THE BIBLE. (255)