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GRADE 3, 1960s
samples from OISE/UT IN TORONTO DEC 9-10 2003 by dph
1st edit by dph 20 dec 2003
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"How did you find us so quickly?" asked =Doug in surprise.
"Well," laughed =OldBill, "I could see the colors of your clothes. If you want to hide well, you
must hide like the animals and birds."
"What do they do?" asked =Peter.
"Well, there is one kind of rabbit I know," =OldBill replied as he started his story. "Nature looks
after that rabbit. In the summer his color is brown. Why?"
"So you can't see the rabbit in the brown grass," replied =Tim.
"Right," answered =OldBill. "What color should the rabbit be to hide in winter?"
"White," cried =Don, "so you can't see it in the snow. When a fox tries to catch the rabbit, the fox
can't find it."



One night, just as the sun went down, the =Page family was watching a picture on television.
There was a big crash at the back door. The family ran to see what it was.
Just as they got to the door, there was another, bigger crash.
"The garbage can has been pushed over!" cried =AndyPage. "The top has been pulled off, too.
That's what made the first crash. The  other crash was when the garbage can went over."
"Look at the garbage," said Mrs =Page. "There is garbage all over the place. Who pushed over
the garbage can?"
"I know," laughed Mr =Page. "I think he is out there in the apple tree.



"If you like to sing so much," said the old witch, "you should be a bird. I will turn you into a big
black bird."
Then the witch made a funny figure with her hand. At once the princess started to turn into a
bird. As soon as the princess was a big black bird, the witch went off, laughing as she went.
Summer went by and fall came. Princess =May flew all around and did all the things birds do.
She wanted to be a princess once more, but no one came to help her.
At last a young man named =Paul came.
Princess =May cried, "Help me. Please help me. I'm really a princess. An old witch has made me
into a bird. Please help me to be a princess once more."
The young man was surprised, when the bird talked to him.


After that, big =Angus would laugh and put =TomThumb into his giant's pocket. =TomThumb
and =Angus were the best of  friends.
"One night when the circus was in a city by the water, =BigAngus went down to the dock. As he
showed some men there what big things he could lift, =Angus hurt himself.
"After that, =Angus had to leave the circus. He went back to the =CapeBretonHighlands and ran
a store. "This was long ago. =Angus, the =CapeBretonGiant, is no longer alive.
"The good people of =CapeBreton put their giant to rest in the ground. If, some day, you visit the
=CapeBreton =HighlandsPark, you may see where =BigAngus is at rest."
"Well," said =BillWalker. "He is the one giant we know of in =Canada. We must not
miss seeing his last resting place." 


"It's the top of an old kind of ship," replied her brother =Bob. "Don't try to climb up here. You
aren't big enough. Just big boys should climb into crow's-nests."
One Saturday the tree house was a rocket bridge. The children had some fireworks. It was a good
thing that the big old apple tree was right at the side of the orchard. Then the fireworks rockets
could shoot away up over the gardens.
=Bob liked to think they were really space rockets. He would start a count down as Father got
ready to light a rocket. He ;would count from ten to one. Then he would shout, "Fire!"
Off would go the rocket up into the sky. Then from the fireworks you could see many beautiful
stars of all colors in the night sky.
The squirrels would come to her, too, when she put food at her feet. =Pauline called the squirrels
her sisters.
One baby deer was her pet. =Pauline called the little deer her brother. =Pauline watched for
=LittleBrotherDeer each morning. She wanted no one to shoot an arrow at him.
As =Pauline grew bigger, it was time for her to go away to school. She did not want to leave her
happy home, but her father told her that an Indian princess must know many things.
At school she made many friends. She found out how to read and count and sing. Best of all, she
found out how to make beautiful songs and stories. One of her songs that boys and girls like, tells
how an =Indian mother sings her baby to sleep.


Now the time had come for them to go to their winter village.
Many sleeps ago the other =Eskimo families had left the summer village. They had made their
way to a more northern winter village. =Nuka's grandmother had been sick and they had not left
with the other families.
"Soon," laughed the father, "soon we will go. We do not want the snow to get so deep that we
can't find =Kingmik in the snowdrifts."
"=Kingmik is our pet," cried =Nuka. "=Palea and I will not let anything happen to her."
"=Kingmik must work," replied their father. "She has been trained to make
trail for the other huskies. An =Eskimo family does not keep an animal just for fun.
"Take away that ugly old picture book," cried =Kay. "Who wants to look at that ugly thing?"
=Kay did not want to play with =Gerda any more. When he called her ugly names, tears came to
her eyes. At last =Kay took his little sled and went into town to play. There he saw a great sledge
that was going through town. =Kay tied his sled to the back of the big sledge. Away they went.
Soon =Kay asked the man to stop. The man did not listen. The big sledge went faster and faster.
It really flew through the air.
At last the great sledge stopped and the man got out. How surprised =Kay was to see that it was
not a man, but a lady ! =Kay knew at once that she must be the beautiful =SnowQueen.



The huskies were tied to the sledges with long lines. All the people of the village called
good-bye. =Nalook ran along at the side of the sledge. The dogs were happy to be working after
their long rest. It was a good thing that their lines were good lines or the dogs would have run off.
By and by the first day was over. An igloo was put up. A little of the food they had with them
was eaten. The dogs had some food thrown to them. Soon all were in a deep sleep.
In the morning they were up and away with the sun. =Nalook, and his father went to the place
where there was one great piece of ice over the water of the sea. As soon as they got there,
=Nalook was told that he was to look after the sledge dogs.



Many boys and girls raced around it, shouting and saying to one another, "What a tree ! It is as
pretty as can be. What a beautiful picture it makes. Let's sing some =Christmas songs and then
take all the toys off the tree. What fun we'll have!"
The little fir tree thought, "Who would ever want to stay on a far hillside when it could be here?
They like me. They watch me. They enjoy my beautiful dark green branches."
Soon the children's songs were over. .Then each child took a pretty toy off a branch. The tree saw
that now no one even looked at it. Its branches were almost bare. It missed its gay time.
The tree stayed there all night. No one came by. It was very still in the big room.


Now big animals and little ones ran with the horses. All the animals were running for their lives.
Even toads hopped along. Buffaloes and deer tried to keep up to the horses. Everyone was trying
his best to get away from the fire.
The colt couldn't see his mother. He couldn't even be heard as he called for help. He ran a long,
long way. He could not go any more. He was going to have to stop. He thought that he was going
to fall at each step he tried to take. He didn't know what would happen to him if he did stop.
Just as he fell, he knew that something new was happening.  He went down, down; down. At last
he splashed into cool water. He found out that the air was better there. His head started to clear.
He saw many other animals around. 


`Now,' said the great one, `we shall go far across the bay where there is a deep mine full of silver.
The silver shall belong to your tribe. You may do with it what you wish. One thing you must
never do. You must never show the white men where the silver mine is. If you should do that, f,
=Nanna =Bijou, would be turned into stone. If I were stone, I should no longer take care of your
tribe. Soon your tribe would be no more.
"We shall take great care never to show the white man, answered the chief. Thank you for being
so kind to our tribe.
"Then Nanna =Bijou took the chief many miles across the harbor to the mine. The chief marked
the place, then went to tell the men of the =Ojibway tribe all that =Nanna =Bijou had told him.


 
From one roller to the next, in and out, over and under went the stream of pulp. These rollers
were about twenty feet wide. As they rolled they made such a roar that the boys could not hear
another thing. After going through many rollers, the wide sheet of white paper went over great
round knives. These cut the twenty foot sheets into five foot ones. The sheets were now rolled
on big spools. When these spools were full, the young men watching cut the paper across.


Thunder liked the sound of that. He raced to the man who was over by the fence. It was Mr
=Churchill and with him was =Tim. =Thunder forgot to be frightened when he smelled people.
He went right up to Mr =Churchill. The man put his hand on the colt's head. He talked to
=Thunder. Then =Tim took a piece of sugar out of his pocket and gave it to the young horse.
From that time on =Thunder and Mr =Churchill were friends. Soon =Thunder knew that
=CowboyPeter and =Tim could be friends too. He let =Tim be his teacher and show him how to
do many fine things. At last, Mr =Churchill and =Tim could say, "=Thunder might be one of the
very best horses on the ranch. He might be the pet, too. He tries to be so  friendly."



"That's the light," called =Ted "See, it's at the very top."
"What a tall, tall lighthouse!" replied =Susan, looking up and up.
Soon the three of them were at the island.
Ted looked up to the very top of the lighthouse. He said, "The lighthouse is just as tall as I
thought it would be."
"It must have a hundred stories inside it," cried =Susan.
"Oh, no," laughed Uncle =Jim, "not that many."
It was a long walk over the rocks from the
boat dock to the door of the lighthouse. Aunt
=May was there. The children, with their
uncle, came near and everyone talked at once.
After some time their uncle took them
inside. They went up and around, up and
around, up, up, up inside the lighthouse.


Now, when the rich brother saw all this, he was greatly put out. He said, "How can you have so
much when you didn't have anything three days ago? Now you give a party as if you were both a
count and a king. Tell me, brother, where did you get your riches? I am greatly surprised."
"From behind the door," laughed the brother. He went on and told him about the mill. He showed
him all that it could do. He nearly told him how to stop its magic.
The rich brother wanted it. After a time his brother told him that for some golden pieces of
money, he could buy it after the hay-making was over. He thought to himself, "If I keep the mill
that long, I will have enough of everything to last me many a long year."



A Totem Pole Story
On the west coast of =Canada are found many Indian villages. As you go up or down the coast
you'll see many clearings in the forest. As you come up to the clearings by boat or by land you'll
see the houses and the totem poles of the Indians. You may count as many as eight or nine houses
in a village. Each house will have its own totem pole near the front door.
Totem poles are interesting. They always tell a story or even many stories. A totem pole may
have just one figure at the top or it may have many figures carved all the way down.
Even if most of the Indians along the coast could carve figures in the wood they would always
ask another Indian to come in to do

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