THE EARTH.

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IV. THE EARTH.

1. Mamma says that the earth is round like a ball. It does not look round, but mamma knows about it, and so it must be round.

2. I know it is very large, and is made up of land and water. There are many little ponds and many large ponds, or lakes, on the earth.

3. There are five very large ponds, called oceans. There are some great lakes, but they are not so large as the oceans.

4. One day I went with papa to see the ocean. Oh, how large it was! I could not see across it.

5. Papa and I went into the water. It was very cold and very salt.

6. I got some of the salt water in my mouth, and did not like it.

7. The water in all the oceans is salt, but in almost all the lakes and ponds the water is fresh.

All the oceans are salt.

Some lakes are salt, too.

1. Lakes, oceans, fresh, does, salt, almost, land, ponds. 2. What ocean did this boy see? Did you ever see a lake or a pond? Where was it? What sound has ey in they? Is they silent? Then e sounds like what letter? La Can you tell what oceans touch the United States? Change to questions the first sentence in paragraph five, and the whole of seven. What words can you make from large (r, st)?

from call (ed, ing)?

V. THE OCEAN.

1. When I was down by the ocean I saw large ships sail on it. They go to places a long way off.

2. Papa says they go so far that the men on

them do not see land for many days. I can see in the picture the way they go. How can they find their way on the water in the night?

3. They look at the stars, and the stars tell them where to go. Then they have a little needle in a box. This needle always points to the north.

4. With this needle and the stars they find their way on the water as well as I can on the land.

5. I like to sail on the salt water. Papa and mamma and I went out on the ocean to sail. Mamma did not like it very well, and wanted papa to sail back to the land.

6. I saw many fish in the salt water, and men in boats were catching them.

I can row on salt water.

2. Can you point to the north? Do you know any salt water fish? What sound has a in any and many? It sounds like what other letter? Group the words in paragraph 5. When you speak of yourself and of some one else, which do you name first? Did they go in a boat? Did he see the fish? What words can you make from sail (ed, ing, or)? look? point?

NOTE. Words are sometimes given under 1 that have been previously put in the list of words. This is either because they are difficult or are used with a different meaning.

THE HOLIDAY.

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VI. THE HOLIDAY.

1. Put up your books and slates to-day;
This is the sunny first of June,
And we will go this afternoon
Over the hills and far away.

2. Hurrah! we'll have a holiday,

And through the wood and up the glade We'll go, in sunshine and in shade, Over the hills and far away.

3. The wild rose blooms on every spray, In all the sky is not a cloud,

And merry birds are singing loud,
Over the hills and far away.

4. Not one of us behind must stay,
But little ones and all shall go,
Where summer breezes gently blow,
Over the hills and far away.

1. Hurrah, holiday, glade, spray, behind, breezes.

2. What is a holiday? What words can you make from noon? Give the name-words in the first two stanzas. What is left out in We'll? What word means 66 a small branch or twig"? What other meaning can you give to the same word? Why does June begin with a capital? What sound has u in June? Mark the sound of oo in noon. What sound has ow

in blow?