A Third Reader of a Grade Between the Second and Third Readers of the School and Family Series

Marcius Willson

Harper & Brothers, 1865 - Children - 216 pages

Contents

• ELEMENTS OF GOOD READING: 7
• AOCENT AND EMPHASIS: 13
• READING LESSONS: 19
• The Snowstorm: 30
• A Bargain is a Bargain: 37
• Lesson Pago XV The Laughing Happy Man: 41
• The Angry Unhappy Man: 42
• The Things I Love: 44
• Little Dick and the Giant An Allegory: 45
• Нутп: 47
• The Goldfinch: 48
• The Old Slate: 49
• Business First and then pleasure: 52
• Fickle Weather: 53
• Meditation: 54
• The Ant and the Cricket A Fable in Prose: 55
• The Ant and the Cricket A Fable in Verse: 57
• A Grain of Corn: 58
• Jack Frost and the South Wind: 59
• Why should we Fear?: 61
• The Blind Boy Prose and Poetry: 62
• Resentment and Forgiveness: 63
• What shall w Build ?: 64
• Trust and Try Prose and Poetry: 66
• I Can and I Will: 68
• How Beautiful the World is Prose and Poetry: 70
• The Echo: 71
• A Peep at the Birds: 73
• would I were a Little Bird: 79
• Old Wondereyes: 81
• Father and Daughter: 85
• A Fathers Blessing: 87
• The Daisys Social Circle: 88
• The Selfish Boy: 89
• The Lost Camel: 92
• The Captive Birds Complaint: 94
• The Crickets on the Hearth: 95
• Leon and Clara: 98
• The Little Marquis and his Sister: 100
• Their Adventures on the River: 101
• Their Adventures on the Island: 103
• Time: 107
• The Schoolroom: 109
• The Farmers Life: 110
• The Farmer in Spring: 112
• The Pearl of Truth: 113
• Spring is Coming: 114
• The Farmer in Springcontinued: 115
• Labor: 117
• The Chestnutbur: 118
• The Freed Butterfly: 124
• Lesson Page LVI The Farmer in Summer: 125
• The Farmer in Summercontinued: 128
• Give to the Poor: 130
• The Music of Insects: 133
• The Katydid Prose and Poetry: 137
• The Goodness of God: 139
• Courage and Presence of Mind: 140
• Who is my Neighbor ?: 145
• The Uses of Insects: 146
• The Spider and the Fly A Fable: 152
• Keep to the Right: 154
• LXVIIL The Gold Sovereign: 155
• The Gold Sovereign_continued: 158
• Praise the Lord: 162
• The Bible: 163
• Caterpillars and Butterflies: 164
• The Worm and the Butterfly: 170
• The HummingBird and the Butterfly A Fable: 171
• Dare and Do: 172
• Bees and their Dwellings: 173
• Honeyball and Violetta or the Hivebee and the Carpenterbee: 176
• The Thrushs Song: 182
• Kindly: 183
• The Farmer in Autumn: 184
• Bad Thought: 187
• The Farmer in Autumncontinued: 188
• Autumni: 190
• The Waterrat: 191
• Gentle Words and Kind Deeds: 192
• What are Living Objects: 193
• ByandBy: 195
• The Crows and the Windmill: 196
• Better than Pearls Goid and Diamonds: 199
• Words and Acts of Kindness: 200
• The Farmer in Winter: 201
• May Morning: 204
• The Child and the Skeptic In Prose: 205
• The Child and the Skeptic In Verse: 206
• The Ants in the Garden: 208
• The Wonders of Antlife: 211
• The Childs Prayer: 215
• The Record of Life: 216

Popular passages

Page 18 - Fear came upon me and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up : it stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof : an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice saying, Shall mortal man be more just than God ? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?

Page 15 - ... as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

Page 130 - Cast thy bread upon the waters : for thou shall find it after many days.

Page 16 - I would not live alway; I ask not to stay Where storm after storm rises dark o'er the way; The few lurid mornings that dawn on us here Are enough for life's woes, full enough for its cheer. 2 I would not live alway...

Page 152 - Oh no, no," said the little Fly, "to ask me is in vain; For who goes up your winding stair can ne'er come down again." " I'm sure you must be weary, dear, with soaring up so high; Will you rest upon my little bed?

Page 153 - Oh no, no," said the little Fly, "kind sir, that cannot be, I've heard what's in your pantry, and I do not wish to see!

Page 17 - Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly ; and, but for these vile guns. He would himself have been a soldier.

Page 145 - Tis the fainting poor, Whose eye with want is dim ; 0 enter thou his humble door, With aid and peace for him. 3 Thy neighbor? He who drinks the cup When sorrow drowns the brim ; With words of high, sustaining hope, Go thou and comfort him. 4 Thy neighbor?

Page 163 - From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the Lord's name is to be praised.

Page 25 - If a man smite thee on the one cheek, turn to him the other.

Bibliographic information

• Title: A Third Reader of a Grade Between the Second and Third Readers of the School and Family Series; Intermediate series, Marcius Willson; Volume 1 of Willson's intermediate series
• Author: Marcius Willson
• Publisher: Harper & Brothers, 1865
• Original from: the University of California
• Digitized: Nov 16, 2007
• Length: 216 pages