A FIRST READER

By

Frank E. Spaulding

Superintendent of Schools, Minneapolis, Minn.

and

Catherine T. Bryce

Assistant Superintendent of Schools, Minneapolis, Minn.

With Illustrations by

Margaret Ely Webb

NEW YORK

NEWSON & COMPANY, PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1906, by

Newson and Company

All rights reserved

1648–13

The authors and publishers desire to acknowledge their obligation to Mr. Nathaniel L. Berry, Supervisor of Drawing in the Public Schools of Newton, Massachusetts, for valuable assistance in planning and arranging the illustrations in this book.