Figure XVI—Completion Test—“Joe and the Fourth of July”
JOE AND THE FOURTH OF JULY
Joe ran[6] errands for his mother and took care of the baby until by the Fourth of July his penny grew to be a dime. The day before the Fourth, he went down town all by himself to get his fire works. There were so many kinds he hardly knew which to buy. The clerk knew that it takes a long time to decide, for he had been a boy himself not very long ago. So he helped Joe to select the very best kinds. “When are you going to fire them off?” asked the clerk. “I will fire them very early to-morrow,” said the boy. So that night Joe set the alarm clock, and the next morning got up early to fire his firecrackers.
[6] The italicized words and letters are left blank in the test sheets.
Figure XVII—Completion Test—“The Trout”