Attention should be called to the omission of unaccented syllables in such words as history (not histry), valuable (not valuble), and to the substitution of unt for ent, id for ed, iss for ess, unce for ence, in for ing, in such words as moment, delighted, goodness, sentence, walking. Pupils should also learn to make such distinctions as appear between u long, as in duty, and u after r, as in rude; between a as in hat, a as in far, and a as in ask.

The above hints are suggestive only. The experienced teacher will devise for herself exercises fitting special cases which arise in her own work. It will be found that the best results are secured when the interest of the class is sustained and when the pupil who is reading aloud is made to feel that it is his personal duty and privilege to arouse and hold this interest by conveying to his fellow pupils, in an acceptable manner, the thought presented on the printed page.

CONTENTS

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The Straw, the Coal, and the BeanThe Brothers Grimm[9]
SeptemberHelen Hunt Jackson[12]
Robert Louis Stevenson[13]
TravelRobert Louis Stevenson[16]
Travelers' WondersDr. John Aikin[19]
Ants[24]
The Four Sunbeams[28]
Sifting Boys[30]
The FountainJames Russell Lowell[34]
Lewis Carroll[36]
What Alice Said to the KittenLewis Carroll[38]
The Kitten and the Falling LeavesWilliam Wordsworth[43]
The Snow ImageNathaniel Hawthorne[45]
Little by Little[63]
The House I Live In[63]
Jefferson's Ten Rules[70]
The Pet LambWilliam Wordsworth[71]
The Story of FlorindaAbby Morton Diaz[75]
The EagleAlfred, Lord Tennyson[90]
Psalm XXIII[91]
Tilly's ChristmasLouisa May Alcott[92]
Under the Greenwood TreeWilliam Shakspere[101]
Our First Naval Hero[102]
Hiawatha's SailingHenry Wadsworth Longfellow[108]
Shun Delay[114]
The Walrus and the CarpenterLewis Carroll[119]
Prince Ahmed"The Arabian Nights"[124]
The Planting of the Apple TreeWilliam Cullen Bryant[149]
NestsJohn Ruskin[153]
Sir Isaac NewtonNathaniel Hawthorne[153]
LucyWilliam Wordsworth[165]
To a SkylarkWilliam Wordsworth[167]
Tom Goes down to the SeaCharles Kingsley[167]
Psalm XXIV[181]
A Good SamaritanGeorge Macdonald[183]
The Spartan Three Hundred[184]
The Fairy LifeWilliam Shakspere[191]
Charles Dickens[192]
Little CharleyCharles Dickens[196]
TrayRobert Browning[207]
The Golden FleeceNathaniel Hawthorne[209]
The Star-Spangled BannerFrancis Scott Key[237]
My Native LandSir Walter Scott[241]
Hunting the GrizzlyTheodore Roosevelt[242]

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