A First Reader

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C. Scribner's Sons, 1914 - Readers - 136 pages
 

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Page 110 - The Swing How do you like to go up in a swing, Up in the air so blue? Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing Ever a child can do!
Page 136 - WHO HAS SEEN THE WIND? Who has seen the wind ? Neither I nor you ; But when the leaves hang trembling The wind is passing through. Who has seen the wind ? Neither you nor I ; But when the trees bow down their heads The wind is passing by.
Page 12 - I saw it with my eyes, I heard it with my ears.
Page 82 - The mulberry bush, the mulberry bush. Here we go round the mulberry bush, So early in the morning.
Page 24 - I'll give you no hay, till you go to the butcher and fetch me some meat." First she leapt, and then she ran, Till she came to the butcher, and thus began :
Page 1 - Once I saw a little bird Come hop, hop, hop. So I cried, "Little Bird, Will you stop, stop, stop?
Page 23 - First she leapt, and then she ran, Till she came to the cow, and thus began, — Pray, Cow, give me milk, that T may give cat milk, that cat may give me my own tail again.
Page 84 - Saturday morning. This is the way we go to church, Go to church, Go to church. This is the way we go to church So early Sunday morning.
Page 17 - Little Boy Blue Come, blow your horn. The sheep are in the meadow, The cows are in the corn.
Page 71 - While they were gone a little girl named Golden Hair came to the house. First she looked in at the window. Then she peeped in at the door.

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