&&000 CANADIAN SCHOOLBOOKS                                                              CA703.TXT
GRADE 3, 1970s
Samples from OISE Ontario schoolbook archive OISE/UT Toronto by DPH 9-10 Dec 2003
            With help of Kathy Imrie reference librarian, knowledgeable of Ontario collection
1st edited by dph 22 Dec 2003
re-edited 21 June 2005

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=Bobby climbed down the ladder as fast as he could and ran across the yard after his sisters.
"=Penny ! =Susan!" he called. "Wait a minute ! I have something to ask you." The girls stopped
and waited for him. "Do you want to come into our tree-house?" he asked.
"Oh, yes," said =Penny. "Will =Susan be able to climb up?"
"=Billy is up in the tree-house now. We'll both help her," replied her brother.
The boys were very careful with =Susan. She was only five, and not used to climbing
rope ladders. The girls were very excited to be in the tree-house. =Bobby showed them all the
things they had up there. They looked through the lookout, which was an opening in the tree.
From it, they could see right into a bird's nest. The boys helped the girls down.
"Thank you, =Bobby," brother.
"Thank you, both," said =Penny. "Would you like to come to the party we're having?"
"Are you having a party?" asked =Billy, as if he didn't know anything about it.
said =Susan to her 


"Hurrah for =Susan's turtle!" shouted the children. "=Susan's turtle wins the race."
Uncle =Jack was taking pictures all this time. =Susan was so excited she didn't even notice him.
"I have a prize for you, =Susan," he said. "It's something for your turtle."
Susan opened the big box. In it, there was another box. =Susan took the paper and string off that
box and opened it. Inside was another box, and there was a smaller box in that one. =Susan was
so excited she had trouble getting the string off the smallest box. When she got it open, she took
out a tiny toy duck to put in the turtle's dish. The children laughed.
=Bobby said to =Billy, "I know now what =Susan and =Penny were whispering to the girls. They
were telling them to bring their turtles to the party."


"I don't want to skip," said the other girl. "I want to play catch with my ball. I like that best."
=Penny was surprised. "I thought you would like to play with my skipping-rope," she said, "but if
you want to, we'll play catch."
The two girls played catch. Then =Penny's friend threw the ball high in the air, and =Penny ran to
get it. She didn't watch where she, was going, so she tripped and fell. Her friend ran over to her.
"Are you hurt?" she asked.
When =Penny got up she saw that there was a large hole in her dress. "I'm not hurt," she said,
"but look what I've done to my dress ! I've torn it! I'll have to go home and ask my mother to fix
it."
Her friend was sorry that she had to leave. "Will you meet me here tomorrow?" she asked.
"Yes, I will," said =Penny. "Then we can play catch."
The next day, =Penny walked down the street to the park. When she got there, she looked for her
friend. She passed the pond, she passed the swings, she passed the teeter-totters, and the slides.


At exactly seven o'clock, =Bobby was waiting in front of the =Potters' house. Mr and Mrs
=Potter came out. They all climbed into the =Potters' car.
Bobby wanted to find out all about helicopters. On the way to the airport he asked, "Do you fly
the helicopter yourself?"
"No," said Mr =Potter. "There's a pilot who flies it for me. His name is =Stan. He'll meet us at the
airport."
"How many people can the helicopter carry?" asked =Bobby.
"This one can carry three people," replied Mr =Potter.
"Can a helicopter go very fast? Can it really stay still up in the air?" asked =Bobby.
"Wait and see," laughed Mr =Potter. "We're nearly at the airport now." =Bobby saw a big
airplane coming in for a landing.
When they arrived at the airport, =Stan was waiting for them. He was standing beside the
helicopter. Mr =Potter and =Bobby and =Stan climbed in. =Bobby and Mr =Potter sat beside the
pilot.


"I don't think I should let you in," said the woman. "Once before a boy came here and I gave him
food. When he left he took a bag of gold with him."
"Oh, please let me come in," said =Jack. "All I want is a little food."
"Very well," said the woman, "but you will have to be quick about it because the giant will be
home soon. If he catches sight of you, he will eat you."
=Jack went into the house and the woman gave him some bread and cheese. He had not finished
eating when he heard the giant coming. =Thump! =Thump! =Thump
"Quickly," exclaimed the woman. "Jump into the oven!"
=Jack jumped into the oven just in time. The giant shouted in a terrible voice that made the
whole room shake and quake,
"=Fee-fi-fo-f um !
I smell the blood of an =Englishman."
"Don't be silly," said his wife. "Perhaps you smell the meat I am cooking for your lunch. Now sit
down and eat."

=RushCape sat beside the old man. "Don't you remember me?" she asked.
The old man shook his head but did not speak. =RushCape talked to him about her childhood.
She spoke of their home in the kingdom of =Candledown. The old. man shook his head again. He
could not remember anything that had happened to him. He did not recognize his own daughter.
"What shall we do now?" asked the prince. "We must take care of him," said =RushCape. "Let us
give him some food."
The prince sent for the cook and told him to prepare the finest food in the house. =RushCape
whispered to the cook, "Don't put any salt on the meat."
The cook went to the kitchen and prepared some food. He brought it to the dining-room.
=RushCape asked the old man to sit down at the table. She gave him the food. The old man was
very hungry. He had not eaten for a long time. He tasted one thing after another. When he came
to the meat, he stopped eating.
"Don't you like the food?" =RushCape asked.



All week the boys had been talking about the coming event, The =WildWestRodeo. On Saturday
morning, after the boys had groomed and fed their horses, they hurried to the corral. They
climbed up on the top rails of the fence, and waited for the rodeo to start.
=Dan, the youngest of the ranch-hands, rode into the corral. On the front of his saddle he had a
rope. As he rode round the corral he swung the rope over his head. He let it go. It whistled
through the air and dropped over one of the posts of the corral.
=Tommy's friend =Ken was sitting beside him on the rail. "Watch =Dan's next trick," he said.
"He rides around the corral with a blindfold over his eyes and ropes one of the posts. It's his best
trick." =Dan put on the blindfold and rode by. Again he swung the rope over his head. Again it
whistled through the air. It dropped over a fence post a few feet from where =Ken and =Tommy
were sitting.


When the dogs had done their act, =Bimbo came out. He still had his arms full of balloons. He
dropped them on the ground and began to run after them. As he picked up each balloon, it went
off with a bang. Then =Bimbo did the broom act the children had seen in the circus tent.
=Wonderman did magic tricks and =HandyAndy finished the show with his juggling act.
Everyone
clapped and shouted for more. =Paul had to tell them that the show was over. He thanked
=Gloria, =Wonderman, and =HandyAndy, and of course, =Bimbo, since the birthday party circus
had been his idea.
"It's the most wonderful birthday present I've ever had," said =Mother.
As =Paul and =Ann walked back to the car with the circus people =Ann said, "And you know,
=Paul, this would never have happened if you hadn't lost that dollar."
"That's right," laughed =Bimbo. "This was a dollar circus."
"It's the best dollar's worth I have ever had," said =Paul. "If it had cost a hundred dollars it
couldn't have been more fun!"


Just then they heard a tapping on the glass. They turned and saw =Percy sitting on the
windowsill. He hopped up and down, whistled, and said, "Boy, bring me my coffee. Here doggy,
nice doggy."
The waiter and the man looked at each other and they began to laugh.
"I didn't know that parrots drank coffee," said the man in the grey suit.
=Percy looked at the two men. He cocked his head to one side, ruffled his feathers and flew off
towards home.
As he was flying over a garden he saw some ladies having a garden party. They were wearing
brightly-colored dresses, and hats with flowers on them. =Percy was interested. He wanted to get
a better look at what was going on. He landed on the roof of the house and looked down at the
ladies. They were drinking tea, and talking. There was a lot of noise. =Percy hopped around on
the roof and ruffled his feathers. Then he whistled. All of the ladies stopped talking. They looked
around to see who had whistled.


"I guess so," said =Billy. "Come on, =Peter. Let's go and play ball in my yard."
"All right," said =Peter.
The boys started walking slowly down the street. As they did they saw a big green car pull up in
front of the old house. The driver got out and opened the back door. A fat little man dressed in
grey stepped out. Mr =Winters went to meet him.
"I wonder who he is," said =Peter.
"I don't know," said =Billy, "but look at Mr =Winters."
Mr. Winters was talking to the man in grey and pointing to the bird's nest in the old house. The
little man smiled and said something to Mr =Winters who suddenly looked very happy.
"=Peter! =Billy! Come here for a minute," called Mr =Winters.
=Peter and =Billy ran back up the street to the two men.
"Boys," Mr =Winters said, "I'd like you to meet Mr =Carter. Mr =Carter, this is =Peter, and this
is =Billy. Do you boys know who Mr =Carter is?"

door banged shut and the trapper locked it tight. Then he wrote a message to his mother on the
floor and table with wet footprints and other things. It said
"I have been in the woods. I am safe now. I
have been to the cupboard for. peanut butter
and jelly, and to the refrigerator for milk. I have    I I taken off my coat and boots, and I am in
my room admiring the soft, twitching face and bright eyes of this little wild thing I have' brought
from the forest."
Chief =Half-an-Ear was placed in a fine cage filled with cotton, water, and food. He settled down
happily to house building. Then he tasted his new exciting foods, and hopped in and out of his
nest without a worry in his head. Here there was no fox, no raccoon, no skunk, no weasel. He
looked forward to the ripe old age of four or even five.
At dawn the snow circled out of the sky and fell silently on the woodland floor. By seven o'clock
in the morning, it had erased the story in the snow. The new snow lay smooth, like white paper,
over the land.

 He followed his mother as she dived under the water. When he stayed underwater for ten or
fifteen minutes =YoungBlue held his breath. Then he came back to the surface and let out a puff
of moist air that rose like a fountain above his head.
When =YoungBlue was able to swim well his mother took him out far into the ocean. There he
saw many other whales. Some of them looked just like himself but some were quite different.
There were young dolphins that played about like puppies. There were shiny black whales with
square faces and sharp teeth. =YoungBlue and his mother joined a pack of blue whales that
traveled together. This pack moved around the ocean looking for food.
For the first six or seven months of his life =YoungBlue didn't have to look for his own food at
all. When he was hungry he bumped his mother with his big nose. She gave him milk just as a
cow feeds her baby calf. When he was old enough =YoungBlue began to get food for himself. He
learned to open his big jaws and take a huge mouthful of tiny sea plants and

The Picnic Basket
One cool summer morning =Andrewshek's Auntie =Katushka said, "=Andrewshek, I think I will
put some sandwiches and some cottage cheese and some poppy seed cakes and two eggs in our
picnic basket. Then we will go to the park and eat our lunch there, near the water."
"May I go with you, Auntie =Katushka?" said =Andrewshek.
"Of course you may go to the park with me," said Auntie =Katushka. "But first we have a great
many things to do, before we can start to the park. I must go into the garden and catch the brown
goat. I will tie her up so she will not run away. Please find the kitten, =Andrewshek, and put her
in the cellar, so she will not worry the chickens while we are gone."
"Yes, indeed, I will find the kitten and put her in the cellar," said =Andrewshek, "so she will not
worry the chickens while we are gone."
But all =Andrewshek really did was to lift up the red-and-white napkin that Auntie =Katushka
had laid over the picnic basket and look.



"What kind of a boat do you need?" asked the pack pedlar.
"I need a boat suitable for me and my geese and rats to use in traveling to and fro on water," said
the =LittleOldWoman. "If you do not have such a boat, perhaps you can tell me where to find
one." "I have seen many boats in my time," said the pack pedlar. "There was the big boat that
brought me here from the old country, for one."
"Would you say it was big enough. to hold me, my rats and geese, and all our baggage?" she
asked.
"I would say it was big enough and more," the pack pedlar replied.
"Good enough!" said the =LittleOldWoman. "And now, if you will be so kind as to fetch it here,
I will gladly pay you for your trouble."
"That I cannot do," the pack pedlar said, "for this boat I speak of is far off on the shores of the
ocean."
"But how are my rats and geese and I to travel on this boat if it cannot be fetched to us?" cried
the =LittleOldWoman.


were hungry and wanted their supper," she said. "All I needed to do was to sit in the boat and let
them pull it behind them. And as I did just that, it is as plain as day that I was using my head,
even when I slept."
The =LittleOldWoman fed her geese and rats and cooked her own supper. As she was eating, she
thought, "This has been a great day indeed. I have traveled to and fro on water, and, thanks to the
geese pulling the boat, I was spared the bother of rowing. I have brought home many pine cones
and pine knots for my fire, a bouquet to brighten my house, and enough thimble berries to make
me a fine batch of jam. And, best of all, by dozing off in the boat, I have found out that I can use
my head when I am sound asleep every bit as well as when I am awake."

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=Jeffie replied, "I can't answer all those questions, because you asked me too many of them
together." Then he ran off sideways after a green frog.
"Come back, =Jeffie!" said the boy-next-door. "I promised that I'd look after you. =Jeffie. =Jeffie 
where are you?" He ran down a small winding hill, up a pathway, and he peered under bushes
and shrubs. But there was no sign of =Jeffie. "Oh, my goodness, where on earth can he be?" he
thought. "If anything has happened to =Jeffie, it will be my fault for not watching him, and for
asking too many questions at one time. =Jeffie! =JEFFIE! =JEFFIE!" he called through his
hands, making a trumpet of them.
Down by the pond, which was so small that it looked like a splash of blue paint, came an answer.
It wasn't =Jeffie's voice at all. It went "=Bronk-gronk, =up-gronk, =grup-gronk."
The boy-next-door ran down to the pond and squinted his eyes through the brown bulrushes.
"=Jeffie  where are you? Are you all right? What are you doing?" he called.
"You're doing it again," came =Jeffie's voice.



"Tickie-mouse sandwiches," said the frogs together.
"What on earth are they made of?" asked the boy-next-door.
"Oh dear," sighed =Jeffie, "you do ask a lot of questions. Why don't you just go ahead and try
one? I'm going to have one."
They both took sandwich-shaped sandwiches and bit into them. They tasted a little like checked
gingham. That was mainly because they were made of checked gingham. Then the funniest
things happened to the boys as they started to chew on them. Their tongues tickled, and their
teeth tickled, and they began to laugh and laugh. =Jeffie had another checked gingham
tickie-mouse sandwich, and the frogs each had one. Soon everyone was laughing, and the ferns
waved like tall trees with all that laughter, and it sounded very happy and good.
"Shouldn't they be called tickle-mouth sandwiches?" gasped the boy-next-door.
"Of course not!" said one of the frogs. "They're tickie-mouse sandwiches. They're specially made
in the =MouseHouse around the


"So it is," said the lady. "And here is something for rescuing me from that ox." She gave =Pierre
a dollar.  When he had stopped looking hard at the dollar and had said thank you, he gave =Henri
a warm slap, and ran off down the road to the village.
When he reached Mr =LeClerc's store, =Pierre stopped short just outside the door. Suppose
someone else had bought the boat-in-the-bottle! His heart beat three times as fast as it usually
did, as he walked in the door. And then his heart beat even faster than that - the boat-inthe-bottle
was still there
"Good afternoon, Mister =Pidgeon," said Mr =LeClerc, smiling at him. "Have you come for
another look at your boat?" Pierre nodded and looked at it speechlessly. The bottle shone in the
afternoon sunlight, and the boat inside looked as if it were sailing along on a good stiff breeze.
=Pierre felt the dollar in his hand and then he walked all around the store. There were the big
round balls of colored candy that his little sister liked, and the silky skeins of embroidery


He tied a piece of string to the fish-hook and dangled it inside the bottle until the prong caught
lightly in one of the little sails. Then he pulled until the masts stood up, as firm and straight as
ever. He tugged gently until the fishhook came out, and then the little boat looked just as if it
were sailing along on a good stiff breeze inside the bottle.
=Pierre called out, "Oh!" and ran to the house as fast as he dared. =Father jumped up to keep
=Genvieve away, and his mother came running downstairs with the baby in her arms.
"Look!" cried =Pierre. "It's really my own boat-in-the-bottle now!"
They put it over the mantelpiece in the house, where =Genvieve couldn't reach it, and =Pierre
looked at it proudly. He ran to the front door, but his mother called, "Pierre, where are you
going? It's time for bed."
"Oh, please!" cried =Pierre. "I want to tell Mr =LeClerc how to grow a boat-in-a-bottle !"
=Pierre's mother smiled. "All right," she said,
and =Pierre ran off down the road as fast as he could.

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