5. That is because it is a "new year" to me. I am in my tenth year, but have had only nine birthdays.

6. We always say on the first day of the year, "I wish you a Happy New Year," because the year is new then.

7. At New Year's I always try to wish papa and mamma "A Happy New Year!" before they can wish me one. But on my birthday I can not do this, as it is not a "new year to them.

8. Last New Year's day mamma gave me these lines to learn, and told me that, when I wished any one "A Happy New Year," I must try to make the year a pleasant

one.

9. I am trying hard this year, "by smiling and doing my best," to make this a happy year for papa and mamma.

A "Happy New Year"

You

can make it, my dear,

By doing your very best;

Be cheery and true
The whole year through,

So will the "new" be blest.

1. Smiling, already, cheery, blest, arithmetic.

2. Give the describing-words in the first line. Write two sentences containing a noun, a verb, and an adjective. Emma has what? What can she do? How old is she? What does her father say on her birthday? Does he say the same at any other time? What did her mother tell her? Learn the stanza. How old are you? How many birthdays have you had? Put un before true. What does it mean? What word means the opposite of happy?

XLVIII. THE ROCKING-CHAIR.

1. When Fanny came home from school one day, she found in the sitting-room a nice easy rocking-chair.

2. Where it came from she could not guess, but before she tried to find out she thought she would sit down in it just a minute.

3. She was very tired with her long walk, and, almost as soon as she sat down, fell asleep.

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4. Pussy thought Fanny's lap looked quite inviting, and she climbed up there and was soon fast asleep, too.

5. When Fanny awoke and opened her eyes, there

asleep?"

And kitty

opened her eyes and looked round, as if to

say, "Have I been asleep, too?"

77. "Where were you, mamma, when I came home? I thought that I thought that you would be back soon, and that I would sit here and rest just a minute; but I do not know how kitty got into my lap."

8. "I have been over to uncle's," said Mrs. Hope, "to thank him for his good present, which I am glad you found so nice and easy.

9. "And now, if my tired little daughter is rested, we will take off our things and get ready for dinner."

10. "I am not so very tired now, now, mamma, for kitty and I have had a good nap."

1. Rocking-chair, easy, found, inviting, awoke, daughter. 2. What is a "sitting-room"? What is a "rockingchair"? Make sentences containing the words inviting, quite, asleep, awoke. How many vowel sounds in opened? Tell or write the story from the outline. What word is left out after uncle's? What is the sound of ai in chair?

Jannie sees new rock

ing chair,-gets asleep in it,-mamma finds her,

she awakes.

1. Fred's dog Prince likes the water. Fred says that Prince is a water dog. When Fred throws a stick into the water, the dog leaps after it, and, as soon as he finds the stick, he brings it to Fred.

2. Prince holds the stick in his mouth as he swims to the shore. I should think he would get his mouth full of water.

3. A dog never learns to swim. He can swim as soon as he can walk. Some dogs like to go into the water, and some dogs dislike to swim.