Flies have wings and legs. God made this little fly.

1. Baby-bye, goes, given, walls, crawls, such, pairs, tickling. 2. A fly crawls up what walls? Has a fly six legs? Do you believe you could walk on eggs? Did a fly ever tickle your nose? How many pairs of shoes do you wear? Do they wear out? Do a fly's shoes wear out? What do you talk and sing with? What sound has o in shoes? Has it the sound of o in do? Give the name-words in the second stanza. In the second line of the poem, why in "you and I" is I last? Do you find the same words used again in the poem? Are they always in this order? What words can you make from watch (es, ing, ed, un, ful)? from go?

X. ABOUT COWS.

1. In the winter time, when there is no grass in the field, the cows are given hay and grain to eat.

2. But as soon as the sun and rain make the green grass grow again, the cows are put out to feed on it. They like the new grass better than the old, dry hay.

3. I can see seven cows in the picture. Four of them have horns, and three have no horns.

4. It is time for the men to milk the cows, and John is calling them home.

6. When milk is put into pans, the cream comes to the

top of it. Then the cream is

taken off the milk and is made into butter.

Some cows have horns, and others do not have them. Butter is made of cream. Cheese is made from milk.

THE OLD CLOCK.

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1. Rain, field, grain, again, calling, grass, horns, butter, cheese, cream, taken, seven.

2. Do you know how butter is made? When does the green grass grow? What is done with cows in the winter ? What is grain? What animals eat grass? Group the second paragraph. What words can you make from milk (s, ed, ing, un)? What is the sound of å in gråss? fäst? ask? å ȧ

XI. THE OLD CLOCK.

1. There is a large old clock on the stairs at my house. It never stops, but goes "tick, tick, tick!" all the time, day and night.

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2. Every hour it strikes. Hear it! 'Ding, ding, ding, ding!" It is four o'clock.

3. I can tell the time by looking at its hands. The long hand points to XII., and the short hand points to IIII.

4. The short hand is the hour hand, and tells what hour it is. The long hand is the minute hand, and it tells the minutes.

5. Where do the hands point at noon? Where do they point when you get up?

6. Before clocks and watches were made, there were many ways of telling the time.

7. My father has a sun-clock, a waterclock, and a sand-glass. I can tell the time

by the sun-clock from the shadow of a little pin. This shadow points to the hour.

8. Father says that this way of finding the time is told of in the Bible, and has been known for thousands of years.

9. The water-clock is a little bottle, with the hours marked on the side. To "wind up this clock" you fill the bottle with water. There is a little hole in the bottom of the bottle, and, as the water runs out, the top of the water shows the hours.

10. The sand-glass looks like two halves of an egg, fastened together at the ends.

One glass is filled with sand, which runs into the other glass through a little hole.

11. The one father has is called an hour

glass, because it takes an hour for all the sand to run out; but there are three-minute and five-minute glasses, and I do not know how many others.

A clock

goes tick, tick.

It's hands tell the time. It is now four o'clock.

1. Fastened, shadow, thousands, bottle, marked, hour, ding, short, tick, stairs, noon.

2. What is left out in o'clock? How many minutes in an hour? When the clock strikes, how can you tell the hour? What word in the third paragraph tells what the long hand does? Words that tell the action of anything are actionwords. Points is what kind of a word? Name three other action-words in the lesson. What letters are silent in fastened? What words can you make from old? stop? run? fasten? What sound has u in minute? Has it the same sound as u in busy? Is it the same as i in minute?

XII. MONEY.

1. When I was a very little boy, mother sent me down to the store to buy something for her.