[The Poetical Extracts are designated by Italic Letters]

LessonPage
Preface[v]
1.The Author's Address to the Pupil[9]
2.Same subject, continued[13]
3.Same subject, continued[17]
4.The Discontented Pendulum,Jane Taylor[19]
5.Address of the Author to the Pupil, continued[23]
6.Address of the Author to the Pupil, concluded[26]
7.How to find out the Meaning of Words,Original[29]
8.Same subject, continuedOriginal[31]
9.Same subject, concludedOriginal[34]
10.WordsOriginal[38]
11.DefinitionsOriginal[42]
12.Reading and SpellingOriginal[48]
13.Importance of Learning to Spell,Original Version[51]
14.Demosthenes,Original[53]
15.Hard Words,Original[57]
16.Fire: a Conversation,Original[63]
17.Same subject, continuedOriginal[67]
18.Same subject, concludedOriginal[73]
19.The Lark and her Young Ones,Altered from Æsop[79]
20.Dogs,Original[82]
21.Same subject, concludedOriginal[85]
22.Frogs and Toads,Bigland[87]
23.Maida, the Scotch Greyhound,Altered from Bigland[90]
24.Gelert,Altered from Bigland[94]
25.Knock againChild's Companion[96]
26.Same subject, continued,Child's Companion[98]
27.Same subject, concluded,Child's Companion[100]
28.Make Good Use of Time,Emma C. Embury[102]
29.Same subject, continued,Emma C. Embury[107]
30.Same subject, concluded,Emma C. Embury[111]
31.Verse, or Poetry,Original[116]
32.A Morning Hymn,Anonymous[121]
33.Evening Hymn,Anonymous[122]
34.The Gardener and the Hog,Gay[123]
35.The Hare and many Friends,Gay[125]
36.Maxims,Selected[128]
37.How to be Happy,Child at Home[129]
38.Obedience and Disobedience,Child's Companion[133]
39.Obstinacy,Lessons without Books[139]
40.King Edward and his Bible,L.H. Sigourney[144]
41.What does it Mean to be Tempted?Rose-bud[147]
42.Same subject, continued,Rose-bud[151]
43.Same subject, continued,Rose-bud[154]
44.Same subject, concluded,Rose-bud[157]
45.Mary Dow,H.F. Gould[163]
46.It Snows,H.F. Gould[165]
47.The Dissatisfied Angler Boy,H.F. Gould[166]
48.The Violet: a Fable, Children's Magazine[168]
49.Captain John Smith,Juvenile Miscellany[170]
50.Same subject, continued,Juvenile Miscellany[173]
51Same subject, continued,Juvenile Miscellany[176]
52.Same subject, concluded,Juvenile Miscellany[179]
53.John Ledyard,Juvenile Miscellany[180]
54.Same subject, concluded,Juvenile Miscellany[183]
55.Learning to Work,Original[185]
56.Same subject, continued,Abbott[187]
57.Same subject, concluded,Abbott[189]
58.The Comma,Parker's Rhetorical Reader[193]
59.The Semicolon,Parker's Rhetorical Reader[199]
60.The Colon,Parker's Rhetorical Reader[202]


PARKER'S SECOND READER.

LESSON I.

The Author's Address to the Pupil.

1. I present to you, my little friend, a new book, to assist you in learning to read. I do not intend that it shall be a book full of hard words, which you do not understand.

2. I do not think it proper to require children to read what they cannot understand. I shall, therefore, show you how you may understand what is in this book, and how you may be able, with very little assistance from your teacher, to read all the hard words, not only in this book, but also in any book which you may hereafter take up.