&&000 CANADIAN SCHOOLBOOKS                                                                     CA502.TXT
GRADE 2, 1946-1959 ('50s)
Samples in Toronto by dph 9-10 Dec 2003
1st edited by dph 19 Dec 2003
RE-EDITED 20 JUNE 2005

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As they sat on the gate, =Jack and =Lucky were talking away and looking at a big picture.
Someone had put that picture in the letter box on the side of the big white gate. You could tell
that it was very exciting. =Jack said, "Look, look!" the minute he saw it, and =Lucky just about
fell from the gate. What do you think was in that picture? A baseball suit! The best-looking
baseball suit a boy could want!


"Come, now," he said. "Why not be good to your old friend? That wee
little fish at the side of the pan will just suit me." "No," said =Jerry. "That is my fish."
"Well, maybe you will sell me some. A penny for a little fish and two
pennies for a big one," said Mr =Carl. "Not for all the money in your pocket," 
laughed =FishermanJoe.
"You must work for your breakfast.
There is the boat and the river.
If you want fish for breakfast, you
must catch them, =FishermanCarl."
Just at this minute =FishermanJoe
took the pan from the fire. Oh, how
good the fish did smell!
For the next five minutes =Jack
talked and talked. He talked so
much and so fast that =FishermanJoe
could not make out a word he said.
So, just for fun, =FishermanJoe
took =Jack by the ear and walked him
over to a big tree.
"Sit down on that box," he said.
"Now keep still! Not a word out of
you for the next five minutes!"
=Jack was not still that long. The
news he had to tell was too good
for that. But when he started to
talk again, he did make =FishermanJoe 
know what he was talking about.



Every day from this time on,
=Jack went for a ride on Mr =Bones.
Before long, he did not go down
to the field to get that donkey.
Mr =Bones came walking up
to =HilltopFarm, looking for =Jack.
The bell on the big white gate
would go =ting-a-ling, =ting-a-ling.
Then =Jack could tell who was there.
"Mr =Bones is the wisest donkey
in the world," he said to Mother.
"He can open the gate by himself."


     No Ride Today
"How do you like Mr =Bones, =Jack?" laughed Mr =Woods.
But =Jack did not have time to talk about that.
"I want a ride!" he cried.
Before Mr =Woods could catch him, =Jack had jumped the fence and was off after the donkey.
"Come back here! Come back, I say! You will never ride Mr =Bones
if you do that," called Mr =Woods.
Poor =Whiskers! Now his tail
was not going, but his legs were.
All at once he saw a hole.
A hole under a fence!
He had to go somewhere.
So under the fence he went.
There in front of him
were many little pigs.
And there, coming right at him,
was a cross old mother pig.
It may be that =Whiskers
had never jumped a fence before.
But he jumped now.
"Is that so?" someone said.
"Maybe =Cap will have something
to say about that."
A man in blue overalls
walked out of the barn door.
He looked at =Jack with a big smile.
"=Billy! You are =Billy!"
said =Jack walking up to him.
"Father told me about you, too.
You work for him on =HilltopFarm."
Mac sang one jolly tune
and then another.
=Jack talked and talked
as the truck went on and on.
"You see how it is, =Mac,"
said =Jack, looking up at him.
"You are a man,
and this is your truck.
So you can move me
away out to =HilltopFarm.
Someday when I am big,
I am going to have a truck, too.
Then I will move you."
"Is that so?" laughed =Mac.
"What do you know about that?
I will be looking for you."
One man jumped down
from the back of the truck.
Another jumped down from the seat.
"Hello, farmer boy,"
they called to =Jack.
"Did the rooster get you
out of bed this morning?"
Then they went into the house.
It did not take them long
to get to work.
One man was =Andrew,
and the other man was called =Red.

"How are you on a pretty morning?" he asked when he saw them. "I let my dog keep just one
puppy, and that was one puppy too many. What has that puppy done now? Runaway with my
shoe! I saw the end of his tail as he ran out of this hole. I can't see in the dark, and I can't get into
this hole to find it."
"This will help. Light this!" cried =Paddy, as he took out the candle.
In a minute the candle was lighted. There, just where he could put in his hand and catch hold of
it, was Uncle =Dan's old shoe. What in the world would he have done without that candle?
"Now, if I had a few nails, I might mend this hole," said Uncle =Dan.
"Well, here is one to get started on," said =Paddy, and he took out the last important thing from
his last pocket.



Of course I did, laughed Mrs =Lee. "He thought bringing me a monkey was a great joke. Now the
joke is on him." 
"Maybe so!" chuckled the Captain. "Maybe so! But look, my dear, look!"
Mrs =Lee looked. There in his cage on the apple tree was the monkey.
"Well, of all things!" said Mrs =Lee. "Out of one thing, into something else! The minute my back
is turned, that man thinks he can have his own way. This monkey is going right straight back to
him. I will take him back right now."
"Wait until tomorrow," said the Captain. "It is too late to send him back today. The monkey can't
help what Captain =Sandy did. Look at him! How hungry and lonesome he looks!"
Now Mrs =Lee could not stand to see any animal hungry, not even a monkey.



words mean. But they sound well, and you like to say them over and over.
The word =Bobby and =Billy liked say was "discovery."
One day Mother told Mrs =Lee about someone who made a queer discovery. The twins wanted to
know what a discovery was. It sounded so big and exciting.
" said Mother. "When someone finds something he did not expect to find -well, that is a
discovery."
All day long =Bobby and =Billy said over and over again, "Discovery! Discovery!"
The next morning =Billy said to =Bobby, "We can make some kind of discovery. W e can find
something we did not expect to find. Hurry up, =Bobby. Come on!"



=RedDeer and his family lived in the hogan by the water hole. Several days before, they had gone
to the trading post of the white man to sell their blankets.
=SingingBoy was to take care of =RedDeer's sheep and cattle. Every day he took them to the best
grazing places and gave them water.
Now, after five days, =RedDeer and his family were at home again.
"You have cared well for my sheep and cattle," =RedDeer said to =SingingBoy. "Here is
something for you from the trading post of the white man."
Then he put into =Singing Boy's hand a lovely sky-blue turquoise. That is why the =Indian boy
sat by the door of the hogan singing softly to himself:
"Beautiful as the sky,
My lucky stones."



=Jack did not have time to answer. The rest of the cowboys crowded around him, and then a
voice called,
"COME AND GET IT!"
All the cowboys started to run, and =Jack went dashing after them. He did not know what they
were going to get. But whatever it was, he was going to get it, too.
They ran right into a long house not far from the corral.
As soon as =Jack was in the doorway, he knew what they were going to get.
There was the smell of good things in the air. =Jack saw a long table with a good supper ready
and waiting.
=Jack did not wait to be asked. Oh, my, no! That supper smelled too good. He just sat down with
the cowboys and ate and ate and ate.
=Dan went right on playing.
I guess it must have been the music. Anyway, Mr =Carl went on dancing faster and faster.
Nothing could stop him.
"Howdy! Keep it up!" called a voice from the door. "That is a gay tune!"
It was =PeddlerJack. His pack with all
his pans was on the doorstep. I
Mr =Carl stopped in a hurry. Even his
ears were red. What would the peddler I think of him? An old man dancing! How silly he must
have looked!
But Mr =Carl did not have to feel silly for very long. In another minute the peddler was right out
on the cabin floor dancing, too.
At last the tune was over.
"Smart boy!" said the peddler, with a twinkle in his eye. "You can fiddle as well as you can
riddle. Keep it up, =Dan."



"Oh, yes he can," cried =Dan. "Don't you help him, =Granny. Don't you help!"
"If there are pears on a tree and you don't take them, you have to leave them. Of course you do!"
the peddler went on.
"Oh, no you don't!" cried =Dan. "Do you give up? Do you?"
Poor =PeddlerJack! In the end, that is what he had to do. Give up!
"Now I can tell you the answer," cried =Dan. "The man had just one eye! An EYE, not EYES!
But he could see with it!"
"There were just two pears on that fruit tree. Now can you guess the rest?" asked =Granny, with a
twinkle in her eye.
"Yes, I can," laughed the peddler. "He took a pear-not pears. Then there was a pear-not pears-still
on the tree. I thought I was pretty good at riddles, but it took the letter S to catch me."


Now, you know how it is when you get cross. After you have said all you want to say, you feel
better. After you feel better, some of the things that happened are very, very funny.
All at once Mrs =Hill remembered how surprised she had been to see a white goat through her
cellar window. She remembered how funny it really was to have a goat in your kitchen. Then she
laughed until she cried.
Mr =Andrews remembered the runaway horse and the flying apples. The more he talked about
them, the more he laughed. In the end he had to hold his sides, they hurt so much.
By this time the man with the goat looked jolly, too. Just the way he was supposed to look!
It was Mr =Andrews, who had a store on =River Street. =Alice and =Jerry always liked to go to
that store for Mother.
"Is this your hole?" asked Jerry.
"We wanted to dig for treasure."
"Treasure!"
said Mr =Andrews.
there is treasure in my hole?" "No!" said =Alice. "Just worms!"


said Mr =Andrews.
"I was going to put truck into this hole. Truck from this old barn! But maybe there is treasure.
Give me the shovel!"
Mr =Andrews jumped down into the hole, and then what happened?
=Alice looked down and saw nothing. Mr Andrews looked down, and there was a new dime
shining right up at him. He looked again. There was one more dime for =Jerry.


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