Category: MCGUFFEY’S SECOND ECLECTIC READER
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McGuffey’s Second Eclectic Reader: The Little Star
Lesson 4: The Little Star Words: Lesson: How I wonder what you are, Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky! And the grass with dew is wet, Then you show your little light; Twinkle, twinkle, all the night. I would thank you for your spark. I could not see which…
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MCGUFFEY’S SECOND ECLECTIC READER
“McGuffey’s Second Eclectic Reader” is a mid-19th century educational book for children, promoting literacy and moral values through engaging prose, poetry, and vocabulary exercises.
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McGuffey’s Second Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey Lesson 41: The Fishhawk
Words: Lesson: 1. The fishhawk, or osprey, is not so large as the eagle; but he has, like the eagle, a hooked bill and sharp claws.2. His color is a dark brown, with black and white spots, and his length is from twenty to twenty-two inches. His breast is mostly white. His tail and wings…
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McGuffey’s Second Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey Lesson 40: The Little Harebell
Words: Lesson:‘Tell me, little harebell,Are you lonely here.Blooming in the shadowOn this rock so drear?’‘Clinging to this bit of earth,As if in mid-air,With your sweet face turned to me,Looking strangely fair?’‘Lady’ said the harebell,Nodding low its head,‘Though this spot seem dreary,Thought the sunlight’s fled. ‘Know that I’m not lonely That I ne’er despair. God is…
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McGuffey’s Second Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey Lesson 39: The Bear and the Children
Words: Lesson:1. In the parlor of an inn in a small town, sat a man who had been going about with a bear. He was waiting for his supper, and the bear was tied up in the yard. 2. Up in the attic, three little children were playing together. The eldest might have been six…
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McGuffey’s Second Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey: The New Scales
Lesson 38: The New Scales Words: Lesson:
