&&000 CANADIAN SCHOOLBOOKS CA602.TXT GRADE 2, from the 1960s SAMPLES TAKEN FROM U. OF TORONTO LIBRARY (OISE) 9-10 DEC BY DPH 1st edited by dph 20 dec 2003 re-edited 21 June 2005 &&111 the bridge today and up to the green, green garden to eat my dinner." So away he went over the bridge and up to the garden to get fat. When he went over the bridge some one called out, "Who is going over my bridge?" "It is I, =LittleBillyGoatGruff, going up to the green, green garden to get fat," said the =LittleBillyGoatGruff. "Well, I am coming to eat you up," called out a funny old man who was looking out at him. The old man was under the bridge. "Now," said =HatRat, "you take my tail in your paws. Then you take the egg and me to our nest in the barn." Away they went. =FatRat worked like a beaver. He tried to get =HatRat and the egg to the barn. He wanted to live to eat the egg. He worked like two beavers. The fox saw all these things. He was all eyes. This was a new thing for him. He said to himself, "There is something funny, here. I shall let them think they can get away with it. When they stop looking, I shall catch them. Then I shall have two rats and a big egg to eat. That will be a good dinner." All this time the rats were going to the barn. The barn was not far away now. So the funny old wife sat on her hands. The butter was put on a string in the water. The eggs were in the box. The hen was on the nest. The pig was on the garden gate. All was well. The farmer went to get the wagon. He put the funny old cow in the farm wagon. He took her to Doctor =Brown. Doctor =Brown let the funny old man and his funny old cow into the house. He looked all over the cow. He looked at her eyes. He looked at her teeth. He looked at her long, long tail. "Old man," said the =Doctor, "your morning a dog had lived in it. The house was by a barn "Let us live here," cried the cat. "This is a good house." "Are you trying to be funny?" asked Mrs =Pig. "Can you see me getting into that little house?" So they went on down the road. Soon it was time to go to sleep. They did not want to sleep on the side of the road. There was a woods next to the road. They ran into the woods. There was a house in the woods. No one was in the house so the animals went in. "Well," said =Buttons. "There is no one here to put us out. This is the home for us. Let us have a good sleep. We can plan what we want to do in the "Goodbye, Mrs =Cow," called back Mrs =Hen. "There are two more animals that may help me. I must find someone." Off she went, down the road. Far down the road, she saw Mr =Dog. He was running and running. "Stop, Mr =Dog!" called Mrs =Hen. "I have a wheat seed to plant. Will you please come and show me what to do?" =Bow-wow, =bow-wow, I have no time now," cried Mr =Dog. "See that fat ;little pig. He ran away. All his family is looking for him. I am trying to catch him and take him back." "Oh me!" said Mrs =Hen. "Then Mr =Pig and his wife cannot stop to help me. They will be running, too. It was a fine day. The sun was out. Breakfast was over. =Ted had a ball in one pocket and cookies in another, but he was not happy. He sat upon his tricycle at the side of the road on =Church Street. It was an old tricycle, but =Ted liked it. He called it =OldBlueJay. Once the tricycle was =Bill's toy and then =Ted had had a little trike. Now =Bill had a new bicycle with two wheels. "When I am bigger, I shall have a iwo wheel bike, too," said =Ted to him self. "Then I shall go fast. I shall go all around the town. I shall keep up with =Bill. Now =Bill is at school and I have to play by myself. I wish I had someone to play with me." There were bicycles and tricycles in the window. There were wagons and trains. There were games to be played. There were talking dolls, sleeping dolls, and dolls that cried. There were king and queen dolls and clown dolls, too. There were many story books. One book was about =PeterPeter and his pumpkin. Another was about =LittleRedHen and her wheat seed. Best of all the toys was a fine red fire truck. =Jim was on the walk, looking in the window. He said, "I wish I had that truck. I would like it more than a bike or a trike. It would make me so happy. I wish I had more money, so that I could get it." "We must go by rocket. We cannot go by airplane. We do not need tickets. We just put on our space hats and our space boots. The hats are as clear as water and the boots are as big as can be. We cannot walk very well in them. Then we get aboard our rockets. That is, we hop on our trikes. The wheels on our trikes go faster than a bird and faster than an airplane. "=Don is the pilot. He calls, `Time to fire ! Fire, rocket one!' We count to ten. Then I say, Time to fire the next rocket, pal. Fire, rocket two!' "By that time, we are far up in space. It would be very cool, but there is the fire from the rocket. It is hot. "Well, well, is it time for =Bill's visit?" asked Mr= Black. "I guess it is. He likes to come in October. A letter will ask him to come." Mr =Black went on eating breakfast. Then he said, "This is a good time for him to come to visit us. Summer is over. His farm garden took all his time this summer. Now his apples will be in baskets. His Hallowe'en pumpkins will be in. I think that =Bill will be happy to come. This is October." "I will get a letter off to =Bill today," said Mr =Black's wife, who was =Bill's aunt. "That was a good story that I saw on television," said =BobBrown to his mother one day. "It was a story about a rabbit," he went on. "Now I can tell a rabbit when I see one. His tail may be so little that you cannot see it very well, but his ears are long. He can go hop, hop, hop, too." "Oh yes," said Mrs. =Brown. "All rabbits have long ears and little tails. You have told me what a rabbit is like very well. What did the rabbit do in your television story?" "Well," said =Bob, "there were a rabbit and a turtle. The rabbit and the turtle ran and ran. They went a long way. They had a race in the woods. "Oh no!" cried =Lynne. "=Mother and I went to the store. We did all that. We did not forget one thing. I came out of the store with my arms full. Mother had her arms full, too." "Guess," said =Father. "Guess what we do first in the fall so that our garden flowers can be safe all the time when it is cool outside?" "Do you take up the flowers out of the ground? Do you put them back when it is not so cool outside?" asked =Doug. "No," said =Father. "Sometimes men are willing to take the leaves away in a big truck," said =Lynne. "Do you take all the leaves off the grass and off the garden to make it look neat and clean for fall?" "Hello, =Jack," he said as he saw Jack coming down the sidewalk by his house. Ted did not stop. He had an errand to do for his father. =Jack was going some place, too. =Ted saw him go down the street. =Jack did not have a bike, so he went more slowly. =Ted was happy that he had a bike to help him go quickly. Down the street a little way, he saw =Billy. =Billy was six. He had started to school this fall. He was going along o4 his tricycle. "Hello, =Billy," called =Ted. "I have never seen you go faster on your tricycle than you are doing now. Where are you going? Are you going to the store?" =Jack and =JoyBall each had a pair of skates. =Joy had a pair of white figure skates. =Jack had a pair of black hockey skates. One cold winter morning, the =Ball children put on their play clothes and left for =StillWaterPond. Once there, they sat down on a sled and pulled on their skates. Soon some other children came down the hill with a toboggan. They each had a pair of skates with them. The girls, like =Joy, had figure skates, but the boys had hockey skates. The girls went to one side of the pond. They started to skate. They went around and around like flying saucers. Sometimes they would skate in a row. Sometimes they went in pairs. Up and down the ice they went on their skates. The Bus Ride "Please get up quickly, =Anne and =Andy," called Mother. "This is Saturday and we are going to visit the stores in =GardenCity." =Anne jumped up at once. "I'm up, =Andy," she called to her brother. "I did not forget that this is the day we go. I shall be ready soon." Andy got up more slowly. He really wanted to sleep, but he wanted to go to the city, too. So he tried to get ready as quickly as =Anne. Breakfast was ready. They sat down at the table. All the food looked so good. "We must not forget to say thank you for a fine breakfast," said =Anne. "May we go, =Father?" he asked at the breakfast table. "May we go to the airport and see the flying club?" "Well," was =Father's answer. "This is the day for the airport visit. Mr =Brothers, down the street, and his boy =Mark are going, too. Mr Brothers will take us in his car. This is a visit for men, today. =Mother and =Anne have other plans." Mr =Brothers stopped his car at the =Browns' home just as the clock said nine. "Goodbye! Goodbye!" =Andy called to =Mother and his sister, =Anne. The two boys had so much to talk about. They were planning what they wanted to see at the airport. Each day the boys worked with their father, the woodcutter. They went far into the woods to cut down the big trees. The woodcutter's little donkey would help them pull the trees out of the woods and along the path. Then the woodcutter could cut up the trees. Each day the girls worked with their mother in the little house. They helped to keep the house neat. They liked washing the dishes. They would clean the floors and windows, too. At dinner time the woodcutter and the boys would come in quickly. There would be just enough good food for them all to eat. The king looked at the poor man as he tried to find wood for his family's fire. The king thought of how much he had and of how little the poor man had. The king called his page to his side. "Come here," the king called. "Look out this window. Watch the man who is getting the wood." The page did as he was asked. He looked at the poor man who pulled and pushed the wood out from under the snow. The page was thinking of how fine it was in the king's house and of how; cold it was out in the deep white snow. "Who is that man?" asked the king. "Oh, good king," said the page, "that man is a woodcutter. I Now to be a queen, a girl had to be a child of a king and queen. Many girls tried to make out that they were the right ones. They would come and talk and laugh to show off to the new king and to his mother and father. Many girls came from far and near, but the king and queen did not know what one was fit to be the new queen. One day the new king went slowly over to his old family home. When he got there, he sat down. He said to his mother and father, the old queen and king, "I have had time to do some thinking. Can we make a plan? If it is a good plan, it will help me find a queen for myself. I will know if she is really the right one for me to have as a wife." "Oh, dear me!" said the pretty little lady. "It is raining and I have lost my way. You know my father is a king, too. I am going to visit my grandmother. Will you take me in? Will you let me stay for the night?" "Why, yes," said the old king. "My wife will show you to a place where you may sleep to-night. In the morning, after breakfast, you can find your way in the clear morning light." "Thank you," said the pretty little lady, with a happy laugh. "That will be just fine for me." The next morning, at the breakfast table, the new king said, "How did you sleep last night? Was it soft enough?" &&000