THE

School Managers' Series

OF

READING BOOKS

ADAPTED TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF

THE NEW CODE OF 1871

EDITED BY

THE REV. A. R. GRANT, M.A.

RECTOR OF HITCHAM, AND HONORARY CANON OF ELY; LATE H.M. INSPECTOR OF
SCHOOLS; FORMERLY FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE

THIRD STANDARD

Capio

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LONDON:

LOCKWOOD & CO., 7, STATIONERS' HALL COURT,

The History of some Children who were their own Masters

Who stole the Bird's Nest? (poetry)

No turn for Housework

The Sailor Boy (poetry)

The Nursery Maid .

THIRD STANDARD.

THE PEDLAR'S CARAVAN.

I WISH I lived in a caravan,

With a horse to drive, like the pedlar-man!
Where he comes from nobody knows,

Or where he goes to, but on he goes!

His caravan has windows two,

And a chimney of tin that the smoke comes through;

He has a wife, with a baby brown,

And they go riding from town to town.

Chairs to mend, and delf to sell!

He clashes the basins like a bell,
Tea-trays, baskets, ranged in order,

Plates with the alphabet round the border!

The roads are brown, and the sea is green,
But his house is just like a bathing-machine;
The world is round, and he can ride,
Rumble and splash, to the other side!