heartily when she saw what had happened that she burst her skin.

Now she was almost as badly off as her comrades. But just then a tailor came to rest by the 5 brook, and saw her lying on the bank.

10

So he took a

needle and thread out of his pocket, and taking the bean up from the sand, he sewed the broken skin together.

When he had finished, she thanked him very much. But he had nothing but black thread to

SONG

sew with. So since that time some beans have a

black stripe on one side.

GRIMM: Household Tales.

wisp, a thin bunch, a small handful; es cape', to get away from; ex claim', to cry out; man'age, to do, to bring a thing about; scorch, to burn slightly.

Rule. A statement is a sentence which tells something.

Copy five statements from this lesson. With what kind of letter does each statement begin? What mark is placed at the end of each? (A period.)

Write a statement about each of these words: woman, bean, fire, coal, straw.

SONG

UNDER the greenwood tree,
Who loves to lie with me,

And tune his merry note

Unto the sweet bird's throat,

Come hither, come hither, come hither;

Here shall he see

No enemy

But winter and rough weather.

-WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

5

4

MY BED IS A BOAT

My bed is like a little boat;

Nurse helps me in when I embark;
She girds me in my sailor's coat
And starts me in the dark.

Good night to all my friends on shore;

I shut my eyes and sail away

And see and hear no more.

And sometimes things to bed I take,
As prudent sailors have to do;
Perhaps a slice of wedding cake,
Perhaps a toy or two.

All night across the dark we steer;
But when the day returns at last,
Safe in my room, beside the pier,

I find my vessel fast.

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON.

em bark', to go on a boat; gird, to dress; pru'dent, careful; pier, a place on the water's edge where boats stop..

Who is saying this? What is his "sailor's coat"? Across what sea does the little child sail ? What lands does he visit? How long is he gone? Read the stanza that tells this. Tell some of the things he sees.

A birdie with a yellow bill
Hopped upon the window sill,
Cocked his shining eye, and said,
"Ain't you shamed, you sleepy-head?

- ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON.

5

5

THE FROG AND THE OX

"OH, father," said a little Frog to the big one sitting by the side of a pool, "I have seen such a terrible monster! It was as big as a mountain, with horns on its head, and a long tail, and it 5 had hoofs divided in two."

"Tush, child, tush," said the old Frog; "that was only Farmer White's Ox. It isn't so big either; he may be a little taller than I, but I could easily make myself quite as broad; just 10 you see." So he blew himself out, and blew himself out, and blew himself out. "Was he as big as that?" asked he.