For every child should understand
That letters from the first were planned
To guide us into Fairy Land.

So labor at your Alphabet,

For by that learning shall you get

To lands where fairies may be met.

A

THE

FOLK-LORE READERS

BOOK TWO

NONSENSE ALPHABET

was an ant,

Who seldom stood still,

And who made a nice house

In the side of a hill.

Nice little ant!

was a bat,

Bwa

Who slept all the day,

And fluttered about

When the sun went away.

Brown little bat!

Cwas a camel,

You rode on his hump,

And if you fell off,

You came down such a bump!

What a high camel!

D

was a duck,

With spots on his back,
Who lived in the water,
And always said "Quack!"
Dear little duck!

E

was an elephant,
Stately and wise;

He had tusks and a trunk,
And two queer little eyes.

Oh, what funny, small eyes! was a fish,

Fw

Who was caught in a net;

But he got out again,
And is quite alive yet.
Lively young fish!