"She had seen something in the woods that frightened her. Without speaking, she went to the door, closed and fastened it, then turned and looked out of the window. She never told mo what she saw.
"Father came home early that day; he looked anxious, and I knew that something troubled him. Without waiting to eat his supper, he went out, and very soon most of the men of the colony had gathered round him at the spring."
Directions for Reading.—With what tone of voice should this lesson be read?
What other lessons before this, have been read with the same tone of voice?
Name two emphatic words in the following exclamation:
"O, this was a beautiful country!"
Language Lesson.—Change the exclamation given above to a statement. What word would be omitted? How would the punctuation be changed?
Syllabify, accent, and mark sounds of letters in the following words: Delaware, thinner, Susquehanna, grinding.