&&000 AMERICAN BOOK CO. (1936) 2ND GRADE AMR9362N.ASC INDOOR AND OUT by Ullin W. Leavell, et al Source: Columbia TC: xerox, scan, edit by DPH 1-9-93 &&111 We are in need of water, he said, but we have no jar which we can lower into the well. You may have a drink from my jar, said =Rebekah. She lowered her jar into the well. She brought it up filled with water and handed it to the men. They drank gladly and thanked her for helping them. You may stay in my father's house, said =Rebekah. There is room for both of you and we will find a place for your camels, too. Have you straw for the camels? asked the men. We have straw, said =Rebekah. The men thanked her and prepared to follow her to her home. =Rebekah hurried away to tell her father that they were coming. Little =Bear frowned. He wished he had been up early to go hunting with his father. He, had already learned to hunt the smaller animals. He thought he was old enough to hunt deer. Little =Bear picked up his small bow and his fine new arrows. I shall bring back birds for our dinner, he said to his mother. Then he walked away so softly that even the birds did not hear him coming. Then she pulled hot stones out of the fire and dropped them one at a time into the deerskin bag. The water in the bag heated quickly and soon began to boil. =Bright =Flower stirred the water into corn and then helped her mother shape the cakes of corn bread. These cakes were wrapped in clean leaves. =PRINCE. =Mother ! =Mother ! Here iS your Jar of rosemary. He hands the jar to the =Queen. =NURSE. Where did you get it ? =PRINCE. I gave the old woman my magic ball for it. You should have seen her sick grandson when she gave him the ball. The =Queen draws the =Prince to her knee. =QUEEN. I would rather have this jar of rosemary than all the other beautiful gifts in the world. Sometimes the children divide their play into parts. They call each part of the play a scene. The children make a list of all the different scenes. This list tells where each scene takes place. The list of scenes may look like this: Scene =1. The boy's house. Scene =2. The forest. Scene =3. The boy's house. The next thing that the children have to do is to make a list of all the people in the play. These people are called the characters. The children choose a child to play the part of each of the characters. They write the name of the child beside the name of the character. The list of characters and children may look like this: The children make everything they use in their plays, and they make the costumes for the characters. Here are some of their plays. =Father reached down into the water and brought up some frog eggs for the children to take home. The eggs looked like jelly with black spots in it. =Patty caught some tadpoles and put them in a can. Shall I catch the little frog, or shall we leave him here? she asked. =Peter was very sorry for the ants when he saw how troubled they were. They ran back and forth trying to build up the ant hill again. =Peter sat down on the grass to watch them at their work. Up and down, and back and forth they ran. Each ant was bringing something needed for the work on the ant hill. Come, =Jerry ! said =Peter. He lifted the big black cat down from the lid of the trunk and put him in an old bird cage. =Mew, =mew =me-e-ew! said =Jerry. for he did not like to be in a cage. Louder, =Jerry ! Remember that you are a tiger! said the ringmaster. No one will be afraid of you if you make such a little noise. =Peter gave =Patty her ticket and then showed her to a good seat in front of the ring of boxes. Sit right here, =Lady ! he said . The circus will begin at once. Here you see a wild tiger. He is a very wild animal, but he cannot hurt you because he is in a cage. =Mew, =mme-e-ew! said =Jerry. &&000 GINN & CO. (1929) 2ND GRADE GIN9292N.ASC THE NEW PATH TO READING by Anna D. Cordts BOOK TWO Source: Columbia TC: xerox, scan, edit by DPH 1-11-93 &&111 The old man raised his head. I thought I heard footsteps, he said. Tread, tread, tread! The old man looked up. A maiden stood in the doorway. She was a beautiful maiden. Her cheeks were painted red, and her long black hair fell almost to her feet. Flowers covered her head. Her robe was made of sweet grasses, and her moccasins of lily leaves. The old man frowned. But he asked the maiden to come in. Come and tell me who you are, he said. I am old =Winter =Man. I bring the snow and cold. The maiden smiled and came into the wigwam. I am the =Spring =Maiden. I bring the warm winds and the sweet flowers, she said. Go away, said the old man, or I shall frighten you with my cold. He lighted his pipe and blew little clouds of smoke into the air. Then he spoke: When I blow out my breath the white frost falls. The lakes and rivers are covered with ice. His mother told him that something would happen to them, and it did. One night =Jimmy forgot again. He left his toys out all night. The moon; was shining, and it was very cold. All at once =Jumping =Jack stood up on his two feet. This is not right, he said. Why do we stay out here in the cold ? I have two good legs and I am going to use them. I am going to jump up into the sky. Come with me. There is room in my pockets for you all. All the toys were glad to go. =Jumping =Jack tucked the circus drum into his right pocket. The big rubber ball and the little horn were peeking out of his left pocket. Then up jumped =Jumping =Jack. He landed on the top of =Jimmy's house. Up he jumped again. This time he stood on the top of the tallest tree. Now up to the peak of the highest mountain, said =Jumping =Jack. And there he stood, smiling in the moonlight. Then up he jumped again. This time he lit on the wing of an airplane. Old =Jack =Frost may peek at me, And =Old =North =Wind may storm; But my soft woolly blanket Will surely keep me warm. This is my soft woolly blanket. Some sheep gave their wool to make my blanket. A man cut the wool off the sheep's backs. He is called the sheep shearer, and he clipped off the wool with electric shears. The wool that is cut off is called fleece. Many things were done to the fleece before it looked like my blanket. First it was washed in warm soapsuds in a big tank. This is called scouring the fleece. When the fleece was clean it was dyed this pretty color. Then a machine, with big strong combs, pulled the tangles out. The wool was made into yarn by other machines, with big wheels turning round and round. And then big shuttles going back and forth, back and forth, wove the yarn into cloth. This is called blanket cloth. It was from a big piece of this cloth that my woolly blanket was made. Can you =Tell? In what stories did you see these words? See if you can tell. fleece beady, black eyes big strong combs made into yarn cousin, the frog four short legs =Peggy's Beautiful Pet =Peggy is coming to school with one of her pets. It is in this little cage. Can you guess what it is? It is a soft little creature. It is about one inch long. Its body is bright colored. It crawls. =Peggy found it on a milkweed leaf It is not a worm. Some day it will be a butterfly. What is it ? If you cannot guess, look on the next page. It will tell you. The Milkweed Caterpillar =Peggy's pet is a caterpillar. There are many kinds of caterpillars, but =Peggy's is a milkweed caterpillar. =Peggy took the caterpillar to school in a cage, so that all the boys and girls could see it. She put some fine earth in the cage. She set a milkweed plant in the cage and kept fresh milkweed leaves in it all the time. =Peggy knew that the milkweed caterpillar did not eat any other kind of leaves. Every day the boys and girls found out something new about the caterpillar. They counted the rings on its body. The Raccoon The bear has a very interesting cousin, the coon. His real name is raccoon. Once when =Sammy and his big brother =Dick were out playing they saw a raccoon fishing at a brook. The raccoon was sitting on a log near the water. He caught a fish with his front feet. Then he dipped it into the water again and again. What a clean little fellow he is! said =Sammy. He washes his food before he eats it. That is an interesting habit he has, said =Dick. But dipping his food into the water doesn't always make it clean. Once I saw a pet coon eat a lump of sugar. He held it in his front paws and dipped it up and down in a pan of dirty water. The white sugar was all gray. Then he put it into his mouth and ate it. The raccoon's little black eyes kept watch all around as he washed his fish in the water. Then he held it up in his little paws, tore o~ bits with his sharp teeth, and ate it. After the coon had run away, =Dick =John =Jo's Kite Before the Wind Came the sky was gray. The rain was coming down. =Little =John =Jo looked out the window. I wanted to play in the garden, said =John =Jo. And now it is raining. But I know what I will do. I will make me a kite. =Grandmother smiled with her bright blue eyes. Should you like some strong paper, =John =Jo? I know where there is a big brown sheet of it. =Grandfather looked up from his reading. Bring me that cracker box, =JohnJo. You will need some strong sticks for your kite. I'll see what I can do. =John =Jo ran for his own little scissors. He brought his own bottle of paste from the kitchen shelf. =Grandmother helped him spread out all his things on the kitchen table. Another Accident Now who is having an accident ? His name is =Blacky. =Blacky was running, too, just as =Jimmy was. But =Blacky wasn't playing tag at school. Then how do you think he got hurt? The next story will tell you. It is called =Little =Black =Colt. Find out how =Blacky got hurt. Then read the story to some one. Can you whinny like =Blacky? =Little =Black =Colt =Little =Black =Colt lived with his mother. They lived in =Farmer =Day's pasture. =Little =Black =Colt was so black that the children named him =Blacky. =Blacky was very happy. He frolicked about from morning till night. He had such good times ! But =Blacky had one bad fault. He was careless. He ran and he jumped. He jumped and he ran. But he never stopped to think where he was going. =Blacky's mother loved her baby. And she was afraid something would happen to him. He was so careless! =Blacky's mother talked to him. She talked in a &&000 D.C. HEATH (1927) 2ND GRADE HEA9272N.ASC BOOK TWO (HORTON-CAREY READERS) by E. Horton and A. Carey Source: Columbia TC xerox, scan, edit by DPH 1-6-93 &&111 The doves begged so hard for help at last the crow said, I will ask the rat to come and help you. So the crow went after the rat. The rat came and gnawed at the =ls until the net broke and the =es were freed. There was great rejoicing among the birds. All thanked the rat for his kindness. Now the crow saw what a good friend the rat had been to the dove. He too, often needed a friend. So he said Come, live with me, friend. But the rat answered: =Oh, no, Mr =Crow. You live in the air; I live on the land. We are so far apart we can never be friends. Then the wise old crow said: That is no bar to our friendship. You can tell me the secrets of the land and I will tell you the secrets of the air. We can be the best of friends. At last the rat was won over, and blue as the sky. In her hand she carried a wand with a star at its top. Her voice was soft and sweet as she spoke to him. Young brave, I love your land. I love its flowers, its trees, its birds, its rivers, its lakes, and its mountains. I have left my sisters in the sky to live upon the earth. Young brave, ask your wise men where I can live. Ask them what I can do to make your race love me. After she had spoken thus, she disappeared. The young =Indian awoke. He stepped out of his lodge and looked up at the sky. There was the beautiful star shining more brightly than ever. The wise men met again after hearing the young man's dream. They said that the dream meant that the star had fallen in love with the children of the =Earth. It wanted to live among them. So five tall, handsome braves were sent to bring the star to =Earth. They put on their magic shirts of leather and many necklaces of beads. On their heads they wore the feathers of the eagle. Then taking with them the pipe of peace and presents of sweet grasses, they sought the stranger. All felt happy when the star in the form of a bird accepted the presents. When the young braves returned to their village the star followed them. It stayed until morning, shining brightly over their wigwams. The next night in a dream the star him all about his beautiful princess. The =Wall did not answer the =CatKing at once. At last, sadly, he spoke: Yes, I am strong. The sun, the rain, the wind cannot harm me. Yet the rats and the mice scratch me and nibble at my roots. Some day I must crumble and fall. You and your people kill these rats and mice. You therefore are stronger and more powerful than I am. Go back to =CatLand, =O =King, and find among your own people a young prince for your lovely daughter. Together they went in. The king told them all about his journeys. When he had finished, the princess went up to her father and said: O my father, if you love me, if you wish me to be happy, let me marry my own =Maltese =Prince from =Malta. The =Prince of =Malta was sent for. He was a handsome, young cat. He had soft gray fur and big green eyes which shone in the dark like fire. His great long tail waved like a fan as he walked. The =Cat King gazed at the handsome prince with surprise. In all my journeys I have seen no prince like him. He comes of my own race of the royal line of =CatKings. Then turning to his daughter he said: My beautiful child, willingly I give my the tree with their sharp teeth, till it falls to the ground. Then they bite off the branches, and after that cut the logs into lengths that they can easily drag into the water. They dam up small streams and hidden little rivers. Then they build on the edge of the pond their little mudplastered log cabins. At the beginning of winter, their fur becomes thick, silky, and very beautiful. It is for the sake of this beautiful fur that they are hunted far and wide. It seems too bad to hunt these clever little forest folk, who are so quiet and yet such busy workers. Dear little friend in fur, busy, happy, contented. Always willing to help others, never cross and fierce like the wildcats, wolves, and bears. Where did you learn to be busy and happy? Was it from the bees? =BILLIE BEAVER Two =Indians, =Fleet =Foot and =Sharp =Eye, walked quietly through the forest. So soft were their footfalls that not even the birds could hear a sound. No wonder that =Billie =Beaver, working with all his might to cut down a birch tree, failed to hear them. Besides, the wind was blowing from the opposite direction and he could not even smell them. Suddenly =Fleet =Foot and =Sharp =Eye stood still. Crash ! and the birch tree fell across the trail just in front of the =Indians. =Billie waited for nothing. He just =Pine =Tree =Hill on the first night of the full moon. I shall be there, =Peter. So good-by and safe journey home. =Peter was alone again in the green pine woods. He was tired and sleepy, but he must hurry on. Said he to himself, =Mother will be worried if I do not get home soon. The sun was now high in the sky. All was still in the green pine woods. Only the buzz of the bees as they flew from flower to flower could be heard. If only I could find a short cut home, said =Peter to himself. Just then he spied an open road and jumped down to the edge of it. On and on he ran. All at once he saw a strange little person coming down the road toward him. I wonder who this is, thought =Peter. It was an acorn walking down the other side of the road. =Peter stopped, made a polite bow, and said, =Good day to you, =Acorn. The acorn smiled and bowed to =Peter. Then =Peter asked the acorn to tell him a short cut to =Pine =Tree =Hill. The acorn shook its head and said I am a stranger in this part of the land. I am on my way home from the =Wishing =Gate, and I am sure if you would go to the =Wishing =Gate you would be told how to get home. The gate is at the end of this road. You can reach it in a short time. Thank you, thank you, said =Peter. &&000 D.C. HEATH (1928) 2ND GRADE HEA9282N.ASC THE AMERICAN SECOND READER for Catholic Schools By Rev. James Higgins et al Source: Columbia TC : xerox, scan edit by DPH 1-11-93 &&111 Then we can live in a beautiful house, and be very happy. As =Wolfgang finished talking, he heard some one laughing. The boy turned around and saw a gentleman on horseback. Good afternoon, children, said the gentleman. Good afternoon, sir, replied the children. The gentleman then asked many, many questions. The little girl answered every one of them. What is this little fellow going to be when he becomes a man? asked the gentleman. He hopes to be a great musician, replied the little girl. Then he can earn much money, and we shall be poor no longer. He may do that when he has learned to play well enough, said the gentleman. He plays well now, sir. No, no; that cannot be, said the gentleman. Come and see us, sir, and shall play for you, said =Wolfgang. I shall call on you this very evening, said the gentleman. The children went home and told their father and mother about the gentleman they met in the forest. Soon some one knocked at the door. Come in, said Mr =Mozart. =AMERICA My country, tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty! Of thee I sing; Land where my fathers died, Land of the =Pilgrim's pride, From every mountain side Let Freedom ring ! Our =Father =God! to =Thee, Author of Liberty, To Thee we sing; Long may our land be bright with Freedom's holy light; Protect us by Thy might, Great =God, our =Klng. HOW =ROSE LEARNED THE COLORS =Little =Rose had yellow hair, red lips, and blue eyes. One day, =SisterMaryAgnes, her teacher, showed the children some pretty yellow balls. Oh grandmother, what long teeth you have ! The better to eat you up. =Little =Red =Riding =Hood ran from the room as fast as she could. The wolf ran after her. He was just about to catch her, when a wood-cutter came along. He aimed his gun and fired. The =Wolf turned and ran away. Just then out ran the grandmother. Kind sir, said she to the =Woodcutter, I thank you for saving =Little =Red =Riding =Hood's life. =Red =Riding =Hood also thanked the man and told him that she would never forget his kindness. THE SHADOWS All up and down in shadow town The shadow children go; In every street you're sure to meet Them running to and fro. They move around without a sound, They play at hide-and-seek, But none yet that I have met Has ever heard them speak. Beneath the tree you often see Them dancing in and out, And in the sun there's always one To follow you about. Go where you will, he follows still, Or sometimes runs before, And, home at last, you'll find him fast Beside you at the door. On the front of the house near a window, I saw a cage. In the cage was a dear little bird. The little bird seemed so happy. He was singing a wonderful song I did not understand what the bird said, but it was beautiful. I never heard a song so sweet. Then I began to think why the little bird was so happy. Was it because he had a new cage ? Was it because he was in the sun? Was it because he had had a good breakfast ? It is hard to say why the little bird was happy. He did not tell me, so I cannot tell you. Who makes these happy little creatures ? I'm sure you know that =God makes them for us. Men make many things. They make houses, automobiles, airships, and other wonderful things, but only =God can make things that have life. He gave life to you, and =He gave life to me. He gave life to all living things in the =world. =God lives in heaven. We cannot see Him, but He can see us. He can see in the dark. He sees us all the time. One day =Little =Mouse said to =Big =White =Cat: Oh, =Big =White =Cat, why do you always try to catch me? I never did you any harm. I will not hurt you. Let us be friends. =Big =White =Cat said to =Little =Mouse: Cats must have food to eat, =Little =Mouse. You try to get corn for your dinner. I try to get you for my dinner. Is not that fair? =LittleMouse did not know what to say. So she thought and thought and thought. Then she said to =Big =White =Cat: Oh, =BigWhiteCat, what you say is quite true. You need food for your dinner as well as I do. Once upon a time =BigWhiteCat lived in a barn. Little =Mouse lived in a hole under the barn. When the mouse was hungry, she had to come out of the hole to get something to eat. Every time =LittleMouse came out, =BigWhiteCat tried to catch her. I do not like the cat, said =LittleMouse, because he will not let me get my dinner. Û&&000 HOUGHTON MIFFLIN (1949) 2ND GRADE HM19492N.ASC COME ALONG by Paul McKee et al Source: Columbia TC xerox, scan edit by DPH June 2, 1993 &&111 How do these banks work ? asked =Penny. Look ! said =Jack. Here is a place for a nickel and here is a place for a penny. First, put a penny or a nickel in the right place. Then push this thing. Each time you put money in, a new number comes up here. These numbers show how much money is in the bank. =Penny put a nickel in her bank. Look, she said. Number five came up. If you put a penny in now, number six will come up, said =Jack. Are you sure ? asked =Penny. Yes, I'm sure, said =Jack. A nickel is five cents and a penny is one cent. Five and one make six. Let's put in all our nickels. And that is what they did. Have you ever seen an owl? You may have seen one in a zoo. It is hard to find owls. They don't fly around in fields in daytime as many other birds do. They can see at night. On dark days owls come out before night to look for things to eat. But at other times they wait for night. Some people are afraid of owls. Look at the pictures of owls. Owls look strange and make strange sounds. But don't be afraid of owls. They are not so bad as they look and sound. Owls are good birds for farmers to have in their fields. Owls look as if they know everything but they don't know more than other birds. =Sam put a string on the leg of lamb. He went off pulling it behind him. As he pulled, he whistled to it to come along. A dog heard =Sam whistle and came running. The dog was glad to find the leg of lamb, and he began to eat it. =Sam kept right on whistling. Soon all the dogs in town were running along behind =Sam. Every dog tried to get some of the lamb for himself. When =Sam got home, the leg of lamb was about gone. You would never guess that it had been a leg of lamb. When Mrs =Banks saw what had been a leg of lamb, =Sam was really in trouble. My leg of lamb! she cried. I'll hit your silly head with my broom! Don't hit him, said Mr =Banks. He has been good. He tried to get the lamb for you. I think he will learn. I don't believe it, said Mrs =Banks. But we can find out. =Sam, run to town and get a bag of sugar. I'll be glad to, said =Sam. And this time don't let animals eat what you should eat, said Mrs =Banks. On the day before =Andy =White's birthday his =Uncle =Dick called from the city. This is your =Uncle =Dick, he said. I want to go to the circus tomorrow. Your mother says you may go with me if I will come for you. How about it? I'll go! said =Andy. And thank you. Good! said his uncle. I'll see you tomorrow. I'll do a trick for you too. The next day =Andy had three things to be happy about. It was his birthday. He was going to the circus. He would see Uncle =Dick's new trick. =Daddy, Uncle =Dick has a new trick, said =Andy. What do you think it is? Don't ask me ! said Mr =White. No one could guess what his next trick will be. Uncle =Dick's trick was not really new, but =Andy had never seen him do it. He could make anyone or anything sound =Tommy wanted Uncle =Jack to stop, but his uncle kept right on going. Something had to be done right away. Uncle =Jack! =Tommy cried. I'd like to tell you something. That dog wasn't as big as an elephant. It wasn't bigger than a cow. I guess it wasn't as big as a calf Uncle =Jack did not turn around, but he waited for =Tommy to come up to him. =Tommy, it is a good thing you told me that, said Uncle =Jack. Here is where the bridge begins. They had come to the turn in the road. =Tommy saw the bridge right before him. How high over the water it stood ! What if it went down with him ! What would Uncle =Jack tell his mother? Uncle =Jack was on the bridge now. He was really going across it. =Tommy got more and more afraid. Why had he ever told that story? Uncle =Jack was across the bridge now. Come on, =Tommy! he called. You are not afraid, are you? Once upon a time there was a =Little =Old =Woman. She lived in a little yellow house with a blue door and two blue window boxes. Pretty flowers were growing in both window boxes. All around her neat and tidy house was a blue fence. Inside the fence was the =Little =Old =Woman's garden. All kinds of good things to eat were growing there. It seemed as if anything the =Little =Old =Woman's fingers touched was sure to grow. People said that her fingers were like magic in a garden. The =Little =Old =Woman could do more than just grow things in her garden. She could think. She called this thinking using her head. She often said, What is the good of having a head if you don't use it? Whenever the =Little =Old =Woman had any trouble, she would use her head to find out what to do. She didn't think in the same way that you or I would. Not at all! She had a very different way of thinking. =Bob gave =Chief some peanuts. Then =Chief went back to sleep. There's nothing to that! said =Freddy. That old elephant will stand on his hind legs for me, too. =Freddy called, Hello, =Chief! =Chief did not even seem to hear. =Chief! called =Freddy again. Still =Chief slept on. See! said =Bob. He's my elephant Now the boys were sure that =Bob was right and that he really owned =Chief Who gave him to you? asked =Andy. I got him on my birthday from =Mother, said =Bob. The next day =Bob's mother was called to the school. The teacher told her that all the boys were very unhappy because they did not have anything so fine as =Bob's elephant. What shall I do? asked =Bob's mother. Tell =Bob who really owns the elephant, said the teacher. So =Bob's mother took =Bob out of the room to tell him who really owned =Chief She told him that =Chief really belonged to all the people who lived in the city. Am I one of the people? asked =Bob. Yes, said =Mrs.Wise. Then =Chief really belongs to me, said =Bob. At last all the work was done. The dishes were washed, the house was clean, and the baby was sleeping soundly. The patient old man and his wife and the son and his wife sat down to rest. Hasn't this house grown! said the old woman. The judge was right. You kept your promise and the house really has grown larger. It seems like magic. We don't need to build a new house. When you see the wise judge, thank him. Tell him that we are glad that we waited patiently for the house to grow. Never again were the old man and his good wife unhappy.~ =Oswald =Read prized two things very highly. One was =Agnes, his wife. The other was his magic. =Agnes prized =Oswald highly, too, but sometimes she found it hard to live with his magic Things in her house didn't stay where they belonged. =Oswald was always surprising her. Soon the ragged hurdy-gurdy man came to a store that was open. The woman who owned the store was out in front of it cleaning the windows. Good morning! May I get breakfast in your store, my good woman? asked the =hurdy-gurdy man. I have walked a long way this spring morning, and I am very hungry. The woman looked him over from head to foot. His clothes were ragged, but still he might have money to buy things. The woman was about to say, Yes, very politely. Then she saw a funny little monkey looking at her from behind the ragged =hurdy-gurdy man. The monkey didn't make a sound. He just looked at the woman with his two black eyes. I will sell you something, but you can't eat or drink anything in my store, said the woman. I can't stand monkeys! Well, thank you! said the man, very politely. I'm sure someone else will sell us what we want. He walked away whistling. On this fine spring morning he just had to whistle. Mr =Long finished the story as quickly as he could. Then he and =Betty went into the kitchen. They did the dishes and cleaned up the oatmeal on the burner. You give the goldfish something to eat and I'll throw out this burned toast, said Mr =Long. That will finish the work. You'll have to milk =Sally, said =Betty. Can you milk a goat? I've never seen a goat I couldn't milk, said Mr =Long. I won't have any trouble milking our good little =Sally. Mr =Long got a rope. He put one end of it around =Sally's neck and the other end around a post. Then he tried to milk the goat. =Sally would not let him milk her. She jumped around, pulled the rope off the post, and ran away. Mr =Long ran after her. Just as he got hold of the rope, =Sally turned and ran between his legs. Then she ran around and around him. Down he went with the rope all around his feet and legs. Stop her! Hold her! he cried. Don't let her cut my legs off! =Betty helped to hold =Sally while Mr =Long got the rope off his legs. One leg had a little cut on it. =Betty took care of that. =Noodle stretched himself again. I want to keep the size and shape that I have now, he said, wagging his tail. Does that surprise you, Miss, Miss =Fairy? Not at all, said the fairy. Dogs and people are too much alike. They are always wishing for things that they really don't want. All fairies know that. Off she went on her white wings. I guess I'd better not make any more silly wishes, said =Noodle. Then he took another good stretch and went back to sleep. =Betty =Long liked to go to school. Whatever she learned, she learned well. Almost every day she would bring home something to show to her twin brothers. They were only four years old. One day =Betty came home from school with a big surprise. She had the mumps. &&000 MACMILLAN (1930) 2ND GRADE MAC9302N.ASC FRIENDLY STORIES by Arthur I. Gates, eet al Source: Columbia TC: xerox, scan, edit by DPH 1-10-93 &&111 You would never find a nice green field or cool woods playing a mean trick like that on a little girl. What's your name? =Jean, said the little girl. well, said =Jupie, mine is =Jupie. I live in this little red house. I am glad there are not any oceans around here! Of course, there is a little river down at the bottom of this hill. But it stays in its place pretty well, even when there is a storm. What are you going to do do, =Jean ? I don't know, said =Jean. I just don't know at all. She looked very sad. =Squirrel =Jupie, =Jean asked, how did you get this sweet little house to live in ? Well, I guess it really began with =Squirrel, said =Jupie. Who is =Squirrel? said =Jean. Oh, a friend of mine, said =Jupie. =Squirrel is a funny fellow! He sits and talks to me for hours about the hard time he has. Why does he have a hard time? said =Jean. =Oh, =Squirrel has a hard time getting enough food to last through the winter, said =Jupie. I have no dog, but it must be Somewhere there's one belongs to me, A little chap with wagging tail, And dark brown eyes that never quail, But look you through, and through, and through with love unspeakable, but true. THE FOUR BEARS Bright =Eyes Is Caught Once there were four =Indian brothers who were hunters. They lived in the mountains where the hunting was good. They had their little sister with them. They called her =Bright =Eyes. She ground the corn and made the cakes. She went far into the forest to get nuts for her sisters to eat. The four sisters had beautiful blankets to wear, but =Little =Ugly =Face's blanket was in rags. One day she said, Sisters, I need a new blanket. See how ragged this one is. May I have a new bright red one? A new blanket for an ugly child like you ! You would even make the blanket look ugly. No, you can wear rags, said her sisters. They only laughed when =Little =Ugly =Face began to cry. The Feast The time came for the great feast and dance. For many days the women made good things to eat. Little =Ugly =Face wanted so much to be there! They will not let me go, she said. A girl in rags can not go to a feast and dance. Early on the morning of the feast day the four sisters began to get ready. They put on their brightest blankets. They wanted to look very fine. =Little =Ugly =Face, cried one of them, come and comb my hair. A Surprise for the Elves The next day the good wife said to the shoemaker, These little elves have made us rich. We must do something for them. That will be fine. What shall we do? said he. I do not like to see them run about as they do, said the wife. They have nothing on their backs to keep out the cold. They need some clothes. I'll tell you what we can do. I will make each of them a little suit and a little cap, and you make each of them a little pair of shoes. The old shoemaker was very much pleased. So they set to work. The good wife made two little brown suits and two little brown caps. In each cap she put a red feather. The old shoemaker made two pairs of little red boots like those the elves had once made to help him. The Bear and the Turtle The big brown bear came to a lake. He put his nose in the cool, soft mud. What is the matter, brown bear? asked a small voice near him. The bear lifted his nose out of the mud and looked around. He saw a turtle beside him. I found a tree full of honey, said the bear, but when I tried to take some, a bee stung me on the nose. What is honey? asked the turtle. What is honey ! said the bear. Have you never eaten honey? It is the finest thing in the world. I can not tell you how good it is. You must eat it yourself to know. I should like to eat some, said the turtle. But the bees will never let you have any, said the bear. See what they did to my nose. Bees, indeed! said the turtle, bees are nothing to me. There is not a bee alive that could hurt me. The bear looked at the turtle. He looked at the turtle again. Then a big, new thought came into his head. LITTLE JACK RABBIT The Farmer's Garden One night the moon was shining bright. At the door of each dug-out you could see a little pink nose. Then you could see two bright eyes and two long ears. Soon a rabbit jumped out into the moon-light. Then from all the dug-outs came rabbits. There were little rabbits and big rabbits. They were glad to see the moonlight. They ran and jumped about in the grass. Soon the rabbits began to be hungry. They looked for grass that they could eat. A very old rabbit called the others to him. My friends, he said, I know here there is something good. I have found a garden and there is no one to watch it. Come with me. The can toppled right over ! It banged =Bingo on the head! And the flour fell all over him! =Bingo did not want to climb any more. He jumped off the table and ran out of the kitchen. He went into a bedroom and hid under the bed. =Bingo's Spots Soon =Bingo heard the door open. He heard =Charlie's voice. =Charlie and his =Mother and his =Auntie had come home. =Charlie said, Oh, =Mother, look at those funny white tracks all over the floor. What can they be? His =Mother and his =Auntie looked. They said, They look like =Bingo's foot-prints. Where has he been? Then =Bingo came running out. He jumped up and barked, =Yap =Yap, =Yap! because he was so glad to see =Charlie. &&000 SCRIBNER'S (1926) 2ND GRADE SCR9262N.ASC GOOD READING--Second Reader by John M. Manly et al Source: Columbia TC xeroxed, scanned edited by DPH 1-11-93 INVOKED THE 5X/1000 RULE on "rooster' &&111 To play the grocery game you must look on page =257. Read all the names in the squares, from a apples to y yellow turnips . When you have finished, look again and choose three things that you would like best to have for your breakfast. Write on a piece of paper the word breakfast and after it these three names. Then look at the list again and find three things that you would like to have for dinner. Write those names after the word Dinner on the same piece of paper. Look a third time and find three things that you would like to have for supper, and write these names as you did the others. You must not have the same things more than once on your list. Now make a list of for the grocer, telling how much of each of these things you want. Shall you order by the dozen, pound, head, glass, tin, sack, box, loaf, Quart? The postman. Soon the postman will carry a bag full of valentines down the street. But you can play postman at home. You make make your own valentines for =Mother and =Father and for your sisters and brothers. You can make envelopes for the valentines. At dinner time you play postman, and leave a valentine at each plate. Inside of your valentine or at the back you can write something like this, Be my valentine, To my valentine, To =Mother from her valentine. Perhaps for =Father, you would like to make a calendar for a month. Perhaps for =Mother, you would make a blotter valentine with decorations on it. You may wish you could make: =1 fold your paper and paint a leaf on it; cut out the leaf. =2 make a picture of a paper white narcissus. =3 Draw a little rabbit. He is not better, said =MotherRabbit. All =GrandmotherRabbit's medine does not make him feel better. Then I shall go for Doctor =Owl, said =FatherRabbit. So =GranbdmotherRabbbit took her umbrella and went home. Her glasses were on her nose all the time. Doctor =Owl was very fat and very wise. He had long tails and he carried a big black bag. he looked at =BillyRabbit over the top of his glasses and he said, =Hum. =BillyRabbit felt a little afraid. =Hum, said Doctor =Owl. Let me see your tongue, young man. So =Billy put out his tongue. =Hum, said Doctor =Owl and he shook his head, this way and that way. Let me feel your pulse, young man. Butter making. =Dash, =dash, splash! =Chug-Chug-a-chug! =Ann is making mutter in one kind of churn. =Mother us making butter in another kind of churn. Who will butter first? This is the song =Ann sings as she churns: Evening light on the pasture land, Twinkling, twinkling; Down we go with our pails in hand, =Mary , =Molly and I. Cowbells, ringing a sleepy chime, =Tinkling =Tinkling. While we're having a happy time. =Mary, =Molly and I. Sweet and warm is the milk we take every morning; When the children begin to wake =Mary, =Molly and I. Making butter is best of fun, churning, churning; Oh! we're sorry when summer's done, =Mary, =Molly and I. See the little broom with red and green rings! Let us run up the handle and sit on the broom straw. Up the handle ran three field mice. They sat on the stiff broom straw, and squeaked, and chattered and squeaked. How kind of you to come, said the little broom! I like to have you sit on my straw. This is good of you, said the mice. We like to sit up here. It feels safer than being on the floor. Next time we come, we'll bring our food with us. And they did. Every night the mice ran up the broom handle. Sometimes they brought nuts and other seeds. Sometimes they brought roots. What have you brought tonight, the little broom would ask? Seeds, the mice would squeak. Nuts. Roots. News. Then they would tell what happened outdoors. That winter the little broom had no time to be lonely. Sometimes the sun peeped through the cracks. Often the moon peeped in. The wind blew in. Sometimes the snow drifted in. The mice came and went. One night near spring three hungry mice ran up the broom handle. What have you brought tonight, asked the little broom? Nothing, squeaked the mice. Nothing but news. =RedSquirrel stole the last nuts we had, said one. We have eaten all the food we stored, seeds and everything, said another. Tonight we must go hungry, said the third. little brown paper bag. What do you think was in the bags? =Arabella bounced up and down on the seat. She said at each bounce, Oh =goody =goody =goody! =Araminta bounced up and down on the seat. She said at each bounce, Oh =Goody =Goody =goody! There were cows, and horses, and sheep, and donkeys, and dogs, and other animals in those little paper bogs! =Arabella said, Oh, I like animals crackers! I can eat them all. I can eat all these animals. I know I can. =Araminta said, Oh, I like animal crackers! I can eat them all. I can eat all these animals. I know I can. =Arabella ate a cow, and =Araminta ate a sheep. =Arabella ate a horse, and =Araminta ate a dog. =Arabella ate a camel and =Araminta ate a donkey. =Arabella ate another cow and =Araminta ate another donkey. They ate all the animals in the paper pags! Their mother said, Well, for little girls who couldn't eat any breakfast, I think you have done very well, dears. I think you will get along now until dinner. What =Papa said and =Mamma said. Then their =Papa gave a little jump, and said, Don't eat me, =Arabella@ Don't eat me, =Araminta! If you can eat a donkey, I'm afraid you'll eat me, too! The Game of Rooster. One day when it was raining and the children could not go out, =George said, Let us play the game of rooster. Shall we? How do you play it, =Nell and =Sam asked. I will tell you, said =George. Once there were a hen and a rooster. They found a pumpkin in a field, and they did not know what it was. They walked round and round it. Wee will put a chair in the middle of the room for the pumpkin. One of you must walk round and round the chair like this. As you are going round you must say, Rooster, rooster, without the hen. Let =Nell try it. =Nell walked round the chair and said, Rooster, rooster, without the hen. No, No, cried =George. I said you were to walk round and round the chair like this and say =Roosetr, =rooster, without the hen. So =Nell walked round and round, and said =Rooster, =rooster, without the hen. =Rooster =Rooster, without the hen. But that is not what I told you to do. You were to walk round the chair and say =Rooster, =rooster without the hen. &&000 CHARKES SCRIBNER'S SONS (1930) 2ND GRADE SCR9302M.ASC TALES AND TRAVELS by Cora M. Martin Source: Columbia TC: xeroxed, scanned, edited by DPH 1-10-92 &&111 Far out from the town they passed a row of box cars, standing on a railroad. There was a little burro by one of the cars. Why, people are living in that train! cried =Betty. Each car looks like a house. I see some flowers at one of the windows. Yes, people live there, said =Father. Sometimes people who work on the railroad live in box cars. We must drive fast, said =Mother. The sky looks gray and the wind is coming up. I think it is going to storm. We must get to the next town before the sand begins to blow. We do not want to be out in a sandstorm. =Father drove fast. They reached the town just as the sand began to blow. Not many years ago there were no airplanes and no automobiles. There were no trains. People had to travel on horseback or in carriages and wagons. Many people went on long trips across the country in covered wagons. I saw one today, cried =Jack. It was going very slowly. But that was much faster than the wagons used to go, said =Father. Many of them were drawn by oxen, and oxen travel very slowly. Some were drawn by mules, and some by horses. There were no good roads here in those days. There were only a few trails. The trails had been made by cattle and Indians. On such roads it took many days to travel as far as we have come today. Indian Children Where we walk to school each day =Indian children used to play All about our native land, Where the shops and houses stand. And the trees were very tall, And there were no streets at all, Not a church and not a steeple, Only woods and =Indian people. Only wigwams on the ground, And at night bears prowling round. What a different place today Where we live and work and play! GRANDFATHER'S STORIES The Cricket's Supper One afternoon a little cricket came out of his hiding place. He was looking for something to eat. Suddenly, =pow! came a lizard and caught him. The cricket said, Oh, please let me go just this time, and I'll never come here any more. =Ben took =Jack on his sack, and =Becky took =Betty on hers. They rode to the wagon. The sacks were all weighed. =Betty had two pounds and =Jack had three pounds. All the cotton pickers laughed at them. =Jack and =Betty laughed, too. They knew that they were not good cotton pickers. =Ben's sack weighed more tkan any of the others. =Grandfather gave =Ben some money for being the best cotton picker. How much did he give =Betty and =Jack? The Land of Cotton Along the rows of cotton plants The negroes move and sing; They love to chop the cotton fields, All shining in the spring. And when the long, slow summer days Slip over, one by one, They pull their cotton sacks along And chuckle in the sun. =Grandfather's Home =Grandfather's home was an old white house. There was a porch across the front of it. There were trees all around it. =Grandfather's father had lived there when he was a little boy. =Grandfather had lived there when he was a ittle boy. =Father had lived there when he was a little boy. It was the old family home. Behind the big house were some small cabins. They were built of logs. The negroes who lived in them worked for =Grandfather and =Grandmother. There were some negroes who took care of the horses and cows. Some worked in the fields. Aunt =Mattie cooked for =Grandmother. Uncle =Mose helped about the house and garden. They had worked for =Grandfather and =Grandmother when =Father was a little boy. =Captain =Joe carried a bucket of crab bait. He carried the fishing lines, and a big bag, too. =Jack carried the dip net. They went out on the jetties. That is a good place to catch crabs. The jetties are made of rock. They go away out into the water. They break up the big waves. That makes it easy for big ships to come into port. Captain =Joe and the children tied the bait on their lines. Then they dropped the lines into the water to catch crabs. Soon =Jack cried, =Oh, Captain =Joe, Captain =Joe, I have something on my line ! Captain =Joe put the dip-net under =Jack's line. He lifted up a big crab. Oh, look, look ! cried =Jack. I caught a crab ! I caught a crab ! =Jack has made the first catch, said Captain =Joe. The conductor did take good care of =Betty and =Jack. He showed them where to get paper cups and water. The conductor gave =Jack his ticket punch. =Jack went to the man in the next seat, and said, Tickets, please ! I am a conductor. I must punch your ticket. Everybody laughed at =Jack. Some of the people gave him pieces of paper. =Jack punched the papers and gave them back. It was fun to play conductor. After a while a man came through the car. He had a basket of fruit. Fresh fruit ! he called. Apples ! Nice apples ! =Betty and =Jack got some big red apples. They each gave the man ten cents. They ate their apples and looked out of the window. &&000 CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS (1933) 2ND GRADE SCR9332N.ASC STORIES FOR EVERY DAY by William E. Grady et al from Childhood Readers series Source: Columbia TC: xerox, scan, edit by DPH 1-10-93 &&111 STORY =TIME =Peter, =Paul and =Espen, the =Cinder =Lad There was once a man who had three sons. Their names were =Peter and =Paul and =Espen, the =Cinder =Lad. The man said to his sons one day: You are now old enough to go out into the world and make your own living. I shall miss you, but all young men must make their way in the world. So the three boys set out to make their way in the world. They had not gone far when they came to a forest. As they walked along, they heard a sound on the side of a hill, as though some one were cutting down a tree. I wonder what that is, said =Espen. What would it be, but a wood cutter cutting down a tree! said =Peter. Oh, you're always wondering, said =Paul. Come along now, and forget it. No, said =Espen, I think I'll just go see what it is! And he climbed up the hill toward the place where the sound came from. The Airplanes Who wants to go for a drive with me? asked =Uncle =John, one day. I! cried =Jane. And I! cried =Bobby. Then jump into the car, said =Uncle =John, and we're off. Uncle =John did not say where he was going. But soon =Bobby heard: =Z-m-m! Airplanes! cried =Bobby. Why, this is the landing field. Look, =Jane! There's an airplane landing! That's the passenger plane, said =Uncle =John. Let's drive in and see it. My friend, Mr =Smith, runs this flying field. He said I might bring you here. That's lucky for us, said =Bobby. All summer, while the children were away from school, the little robins hopped and flew and grew strong. They still did not look like their mother and father. They did not have red breasts; they still had speckled breasts. Soon Fall came, and the leaves turned red and yellow, and fell off the trees. Then the robins flew away. They flew to the South. And the next spring, when the baby robins came back, they were mother and father robins! The Tallest Baby in the world There is a new baby at the zoo. It is yellow, and it has long legs. It is the tallest baby in the world. All the children come to see it. It looks at them out of big brown eyes. But it makes no sound, because it can't. Giraffes don't make any sound. Baby Bears Once a mother bear lived in a forest. She had two babies. All spring and summer they ran through the woods with their mother. She taught them to hunt for food. She taught them to catch fish. Look! she said in mother-bear talk. This is the way you do it. And she scooped a fish out of the water. School in the =Country Every morning =Billy and =Ann get ready to go to school. Every morning they take their books and their lunch boxes and wait down at the gate. Soon the school bus comes along. Hello, =Billy! Hello, =Ann! the children call. =Billy and =Ann get in, say good-by to =Pal, and go off to school. The school is a long way off. That is why the bus calls for all the children every morning, and takes them home every night. =Father used to go to this school when he was a little boy, said =Ann. The children used to ride horses to school in those days, said =Billy. There was only one room in the school house. All the children of the first six grades were in that one room. First the teacher taught the little children, and then she taught the big children. The Taxi Puppy Mr =Brown is a taxi driver. He has a bright new taxi. Up and down the streets he goes. Taxi? Taxi? says Mr =Brown. Taxi! Mr =Brown looked around. He saw a man, and a woman, and a little boy, and a little girl. They had three bags, and one basket. There was a puppy in the basket. They all got into the taxi. Drive to the station, said the man. We have to catch a train, and we're late! =Honk! =Honk! Get out of the way for Mr =Brown's taxi! It goes past the people. It goes past the stores. It goes past the houses and past the tall buildings. It stops for the red lights. It stops for the policeman. It starts on the green lights. It goes to the station. The Elephants The elephants came out to do their tricks. One elephant stood on a ball. One elephant beat on a drum. And one big elephant danced. Horses ! Acrobats ! Look at the horses! cried =Bobby. People stood up and rode on horses. Then the acrobats came out. =Ooh! said =Bobby. Look! &&000 SCOTT, FORESMAN (1927) 2ND GRADE SF19272N.ASC THE ELSON READERS BOOK TWO by William H. Elson and Lura E. Runkel Source: Columbia TC xerox, hand typed, edited by DPH 1-12-92 &&111 Lay, good hen, said the giant! At once the hen laid a golden egg. Lay again, called out the giant! The hen laid another golden egg. Lay a third time, said the giant! Again a gold egg lay upon the table. Then the giant put the three eggs into his pocket and fell fast asleep. Now =Jack had seen the wonderful hen through a hole in the door. This is the hen that the fairy told me to get, he thought. So when the giant fell asleep, =Jack quickly ran out of the castle with the hen. It did not take long to reach the beanstalk and to climb down. How happy his mother was when he showed her the magic hen, which would make them rich! After this, =Jack and his mother had all the gold they wanted. But the young boy could not forget the harp which the fairy had told him to take from the giant. =Mother, he said one day. I must go back to the castle and get me father's harp. So again =Jack climbed up the great beanstalk, until he came to the land of the fairy. Then he blew upon the castle horn, and the giant's wife opened the door. Now she did not know that this was the same boy who had run away with the magic hen; for =Jack had grown to be very tall in the time that had passed. So she hid him in the little room, just as she had done the first time he came to the castle. =Laura picked a great bunch of violets. Oh, thank you, thank you, she said to the old men! As she spoke, the three old men in white waved their wands over the fire, and it was winter again. Snow covered the ground, and a cold wind blew. The =Laura ran back to the little hut and gave the violets to =Clara. But the violets did not make =Clara happy. She did not even put them into water to keep them fresh. She sat by the fire, and tore the pretty flowers to pieces, one by one. The next day =Clara was a fretful and cross as ever. There is nothing but snow, snow, she said to the old woman. I wish I had some strawberries. Make =Laura get me some ripe, red strawberries. Get strawberries in winter, said =Laura! How can I do that? Come with me. Let us run and jump about in the snow. Then you will learn to like it. You will get warm and rosy. Do as your sister tells you, =Laura. Get her some strawberries, said the old woman, crossly. She pushed her out and locked the door. Again =Laura went into the forest. Again she found there twelve old men around a great fire. Why have you come back, they said? I am looking for strawberries this time, said Laura. Strawberries in winter, cried the old men. Go home and wait for summer. Oh, I cannot go home until I have found berries. I am afraid to go back without them. Please help me, said =Laura. This is our work, said the men in the golden cloaks. They waved their long wands over the fire. =Abe walked along by the wagon. Sometimes he patted the faithful oxen as they pulled their heavy load. By his side trotted a little dog. The dog really seemed to like the hard journey. For there were many squirrels to send hurrying up the trees. There were many rabbits to chase, too. It was just fun for the dog. But one day the little dog chased a rabbit far off into the woods. While he was gone, the oxen pulled the wagon, with the family inside, through a frozen stream. The thin ice cracked under their heavy feet and then floated off down the stream. The =Lincoln family had gone on some distance when they heard a loud barking behind them. Looking back, they saw the timid little dog on the other side of the stream, barking with all of his might. He was running up and down the bank. The lad, =Abe, ran back and tried to coax him to cross on the thin ice. But the frightened little animal could not be coaxed. He was afraid the ice would not bear even his light weight. We shall have to go on without him, said the older ones of the family. The roads are so deep with mud that the oxen cannot turn back. But he will starve or freeze, said little =Abe. We can't be so cruel as that. Listen how he whines! =Abe sat down and quickly pulled off his heavy shoes and stockings. Then he waded back through the cold water. The happy little dig jumped all over him in his joy. When the little pig heard this, he made a fire and put on a pot of water to heat. He took the lid off the pot when the wolf came down the chimney. The wolf fell into the pot, and after that he never again came to visit the little pig. The House in the Woods. Once there was a poor wood-cutter who had a wife and three little girls. We went into the woods every day to cut down trees. It was very hard work. One day he said to his wife, I shall be gone all day, for I must go a long way into the woods. I want our oldest girl to bring me a warm dinner. She might lose her way, said her mother. No, No, said the father. I will take a bag of grass seed with me. I will drop the seeds to show the way. So the father went into the woods, and he dropped the seed to show the way. At noon, the oldest girl went to find him. She took some bread and a pail of hot soup. She looked for the grass seed to show the way, but the blackbirds had eaten it all up. One and on she went. By and by, night came and its was very dark in the woods. At first the judge was very angry. I have lost my nap, he said. I came here as fast as I could to see what poor man was in trouble. But I find only a hungry horse eating a bell-rope. Who put that piece of hay on the rope? Find the man who did it, and bring him to me. Take this horse away. What right has he to be here? Then the judge looked again at the horse. The poor beats was lame and almost blind. The judge saw that he was very thin. He knew that someone had done a wrong to the poor old horse. This poor horse is very hungry, said the judge. He is almost starving. That is why he is so thin. That is why he is eating the piece of hay. Who owns the horse? An old man answered him. This horse belongs to a rich man, he said. See,he lives in that beautiful castle. This horse carried him when he went to war. More than once this horse has saved his master's life. But when the horse got too old to work, his master turned him out.. Now the poor old beast goes around and picks up his food wherever he can get it. He has nothing to eat unless he finds it for himself, an so he is hungry almost all the time. The judge was very angry when he heard that such a brave horse had a bad master. This poor hourse is in trouble, he said. He did well to ring =KingJohn's bell. Bring his master to me. So the master was brought to the judge. Why have you left this poor horse to starve, said the judge? Did he not work for you as long as he could? Did he not save your life many times? The master hung his head in shame. He had not a word to say. Robin's secret. We have a secret, just we three. The robin and I and the sweet cherry tree: The bird told the tree, and the tree told me, And nobody knows it but just us three. But of course the robin knows it best, Because it built the, I shan't tell the rest; And laid the four little, somethings, in it I am afraid I shall tell it every minute. Bit if the tree and the robin don't peep, I'll try my best the secret to keep; Though I know when the little birds fly about, Then the whole secret will be out. =Hans lay on the ground a long time. At last the butcher came along the road. He had a pig in a wheelbarrow. What happened to you, my boy, asked the man? =Hans told him. That cow will give no milk, said the butcher. She is an old cow. She must be killed for beef. Oh dear, said =Hans. I don;t like beef. I wish I had a pig. Then I could kill it and eat it. I like pork better. Let us trade, said the butcher. You take the pig, and I will take the cow. How lucky I am, said =Hans. He gave the cow to the butcher. The he took the pig and tried a string around its leg. Off he went, driving the pig. Now my troubles are over, he said. By and by he met a many carrying a goose. Where are you going, asked the man. =Hans told him about the horse and cow. Now I have a fine pig, said =Hans. The man shook his head. I am sorry for you, my boy, he said, Your pig will get you into trouble. Do you see that little town over there. It is in your way. A pig has been stolen there and they are looking for the thief. They will see this pig and will think it is the stolen pig. They they will throw you into the pond. &&000 SCOTT, FORESMAN (1931) 2ND GRADE SF19312N.ASC CATHEDRAL'S BASIC READERS (For Catholic Schools) BOOK TWO By Rev. John A. O'Brien PhD Source: Columbia TC: xeroxed, scanned, edited by DPH 1-9-93 &&111 The king was very happy to learn that =Jack wanted to help someone else. But he said, =Jean is not used to a castle. Everything here might seem so strange to him that he could not study. The prince was sad, but soon he said, =Father, I have another plan. If =Jean cannot come here, I can go to his house. Let me go and see =Jean every afternoon. We will study part of the time, and we can play, too. Please let me do this, =Father, =Jack said. I will put on old clothes, and I won't tell =Jean who I am. He will never guess that I am the prince. The king liked this plan, and he said, You may try it, =Jack, but remember this is to be a secret. We must not let anyone else know about it. Tomorrow you may go and play with =Jean. The next day a happy little boy put on his old clothes and left the castle. He ran down the hill to a pond, where =Jean was playing on the ice. All the afternoon the prince and =Jean ran and laughed and played happily. That evening =Prince =Jack went home with shining eyes. What fun it had been to forget that he was a prince, while he played with his new friend! And =Jean had not guessed who his playmate was. =Jack =Climbs the =Beanstalk Up and up =Jack climbed, until the earth was far below. But still the top of the beanstalk was high above him. By and by he stopped to rest. Then he thought of his poor, hungry mother below, and he climbed higher and higher. After a long time =Jack reached the top of the wonderful beanstalk. What a beautiful country! he cried. Near by he saw a castle fine enough for a king. While he was looking at it, a fairy came and stood beside him. See that castle with the shining roof! said the fairy. I will tell you a story about it. Once a good king and his queen lived in that castle with their little son. Not far away lived a great giant, who wanted the king's gold. So one night he broke into the castle and killed the king as he lay asleep. The queen and the little boy had gone to the earth below for a visit. When she heard that the king had been killed, she was afraid to go back to the castle. So the queen and her son stayed on the earth and lived in a little house. =Jack, that poor queen is your mother! My dear mother! My poor father! cried =Jack. All the things in this castle were your father's, said the fairy. Are you afraid to try to get them back? Suddenly the princess stopped. She had seen the basket among the rushes. What is that strange thing in the water? she said to one of her friends. Go and bring it to me. The girl went down to the river and carried the basket to the princess. Why, this is a =Hebrew baby! cried the princess when she peeped into the basket. My father has told his soldiers to kill all the little =Hebrew boys. But I will save this boy and take care of him. Then =Miriam ran to the princess. The child bowed and said, I know a woman who will take care of the baby for you. Bring her to me, said the princess. I will speak to her. Away ran =Miriam, and soon she came hurrying back with her own mother. Take this child home and care for him, the princess said to the mother. I will give you money for your work, and I will see that the baby has everything he needs. Yes, yes! answered Mrs =Goose. And please go and get the others. Don't stop to dress up. Come just as you are. Off ran the =Ducks. In a few minutes they came back with Mrs =Squirrel and Mrs =Rabbit. At four o'clock they were all eating the cookies and the cocoa and the ice cream. Mrs =Goose laughed with joy. This is a real surprise party, isn't it? she said. The Apple Tree I stood beneath the apple tree. The apples were so good to see, Very high above my head I saw them shining, round and red. A robin sang a tiny song, And after I had waited long, A fairy in the apple tree Threw an apple down to me. Then =Sister said that =Joseph and =Anna might take care of the altar the first day. That afternoon when =Anna got home, she said, =Mother, we are going to have a =May altar. We shall need flowers for it every day, and it's my turn to take the flowers tomorrow. May I buy some roses? Yes, said her mother. Roses will be very nice for the altar. Here is some money. In the morning you may get the roses at the flower store. =Joseph ran home, too. Mother, said the boy, you know that =May is =Blessed =Mother's month. Sister said we could have a =May altar. We want fresh flowers for it every day, and =Sister asked me to bring flowers tomorrow. I saw some pretty roses at the store. May I buy some of them? I am sorry, =Joseph, said his mother. But I cannot give you any money for flowers today. =Joseph thought and thought. Then he said, =Mother, I can find wild flowers in the woods. Do you think that =Blessed =Mother would like wild flowers? His mother answered, I am sure that =Blessed =Mother will like wild flowers if you pick them yourself. The next morning =Joseph got up early and ran to the woods to pick flowers. My Day Each day when I awake, I promise =Jesus everything I think and do and say. So I must do my very best, At prayer, at work, at play. The =Magic =Word The children were all ready for a ride in the new pony cart. Get up, =Billy, called =Jim. But =Billy, the little black and white pony, would not go. Down jumped the four children from the cart. Jim and =Tom ran in front and began to pull. Betty and =Nancy ran to the back of the cart and began to push. But =Billy would not go. &&000 SILVER BURDETT (1925) 2ND GRADE SIL9252N.ASC THE PATHWAY TO READING -- second book by Bessie B. Coleman et al Source: Columbia TC xerox, scan edit by DPH 1-5-93 &&111 =Billy tried to think over the things he had done that day, just for fun, but he grew too sleepy. Then he began to dream. He dreamed that he was riding on a bus with his pet dog, =Snippy. When the bus wound its way along the road by the river, =Snippy leaped to the trees, and then back again, always landing safely in his master's lap, just at the right moment. Then =Billy dreamed that they had lunch together at a funny place that had tables just for dogs. People ate from dishes on the floor. After lunch they shopped for a cap to wear on the end of =Snippy's tail. =Billy felt like laughing, even in his dream, =Snippy looked so very silly wearing the cap. In the dream, they took a bus again. They started to go up on the top of it to get the fresh air. Along came another bigger bus, and =Billy ran back to get out of the way. He dreamed that he fell down doing this, and that his feet were up high, on the very top of the bus ! The weather grew very cold, and his feet seemed to freeze so that he could not move them. Then I called, =Kitty, =kitty !" With a spring, down she came into the basket. I took her down and into the house. She seemed so glad to be safe on the ground once more that I thought she would never do that foolish thing again. But every morning this silly little kitten would climb the trellis and have to be taken down in the basket. She must have done it because she enjoyed the ride down in the basket. What four words describe the kitten ? What two words describe how she felt when she was at the top of the trellis ? What is a trellis ? Draw one. How was she taken down ? What foolish thing did the kitten do next day ? What seemed to be fun for the kitten ? A Bear Plays Soldier Once a man had a tame bear. The bear had been trained to march, play ball, and dance. The man led the bear from place to place. Children would come to see the man and his tame bear. The bear would march, play ball, and dance for them. Then they would give their pennies to the man Well, I will give up, said the sun. You try now. =Pitter-patter, =pitter-patter, =pitter-patter, went the rain, all day long, for days and days. Still the little pink rosebuds did not open into flowers. I know the flowers love me better, said the rain. Indeed, they do not, they do not! They love me better, said the sun. I have a plan, said the rain. Let us ask the wind, who knows everything. He has been in places that you and I have never seen. So one day when the rain heard the wind passing by, it called, Oh, Wind, Wind, please stop ! What is it ? said the wind. The sun and I want to know which of us the flowers love better. I do not know, said the wind, but I will ask the rosebush. The wind blew the rosebush just a little and said softly, =Rosebush, which do you love better, the rain or the sun ? Why, Wind, we flowers love one just as much as the other. They both help our children to grow. The rain gives them water to drink, and the sun keeps them warm. If we flowers had sun and no rain, all of our children would burn up. But if we had rain and no sun, then our children would drown. What! All my nice little poppy seed cakes ? cried =Andrewshek's =Auntie =Katushka Oh, the naughty goose ! The greedy goose tugged at the fine feather bed again with his long red beak and started to drag it to the door. Auntie =Katushka ran after the green goose, and just then there was a terrible noise. The greedy goose who had stuffed himself with poppy seed cakes had burst, and his feathers flew all over the room. Well, well ! said =Andrewshek's =Auntie =Katushka, as she gathered up the pieces of the big green goose. We soon shall have two fine feather pillows for your fine feather bed. Turn About Is Fair Play Once upon a time there were two green glittering gold bugs. One bug said to the other, The day is warm and sunny. Let us go out and play. Yes, said the other gold bug. We will dance. The green, glittering gold bugs went down to a stream near by. There, on the bank of the stream, they saw two beautiful dragon flies, one green and the other blue. What does =Jack =Frost do to pretty green leaves ? No one ever saw =Jack =Frost play with the pretty green leaves, for he plays with them long after all little boys and girls are fast asleep. Yet I am sure that you know the colors of leaves after =Jack =Frost has played with them. They are red, yellow, brown, and gold. What does =Jack =Frost do to the big brown nuts? The little girl who lived in the woods told me that =Jack =Frost goes about very late at night. Whenever he comes to a nut tree of any kind, he stops and nips the nuts. Then the nuts fall to the ground. It is =Jack =Frost's way of helping children to get the nuts from tall trees. What does =Jack =Frost do to ponds and lakes? All girls and boys who have had good times skating and sliding on ice can tell what =Jack does to ponds and lakes. They will say that =Jack makes ice because boys and girls want to skate and slide. Then he comes along and nips their little noses. What does =Jack =Frost do for old =Santa =Claus ? I once heard that =Santa's reindeer could not even start his sled if =Jack forgot to cover the ground with snow. =Jack scatters snowflakes while. old =Santa dozes in his big armchair before the fire. An old, old lady once told me that dear old =Santa himself would not have a twinkle in his eye if =Jack =Frost did not help him. The good bears helped me, =Father, and I want to kiss =Baby =Bear good-by. Then =Away-She-Go kissed =Baby =Bear on the end of his nose. Her father took the little girl up in his arms, and away they went back to the tepee all made of buffalo skins. Her mother was standing by the door of the tepee. She took the naughty little girl in her arms and kissed and kissed her eyes and hair. Away-She-Go said, =Mother, I shall never, never be naughty again. The next day her father said, The bears were good to help you climb out of the hole, =Away-She-Go. I will take them some buffalo bones. He took some buffalo bones to the big hole in the ground. He threw the buffalo bones down to the bears. The bears said, =Oof, =oof, and ate the buffalo bones all up. &&000 WINSTON (1929) 2ND GRADE WIN9292N.ASC THE NEW WINSTON SECOND READER by Sidnet G Firman and E. Gehres Source: Columbia TC: xerox, scan, edit by DPH 1-10-93 &&111 So I left the forest and walked toward a village. A neat little cottage was near the village. An old woman was sitting in the doorway. She was sewing and did not see me. But she seemed kind and sad, so I came near her and put my head on her shoulder. She jumped up and cried, Oh! what was that? I stood very still and looked at her. Poor donkey, she said. Do you belong to anyone? I could not talk so I just locked at her. Then she said, My poor old =Greycoat died the other day. If you have no master, you may take his place. Then I shall be able to carry my vegetables to market again. A little boy came running out of the cottage and asked, =Granny, to whom are you talking? Then he saw me and said, =O =Granny, may I stroke the donkey? Yes, =George, she said, but take care that he does not bite you. I only turned my head and licked the little boy's hand. This pleased him, and he said, Oh, see! Granny, the donkey licks my hand. Oh, that is easy, said the thrush, as she flew away to her home in the hedge. Now I know how to make a nest for myself. Since that time a thrush has always made her nest of mud. Next the magpie took some small twigs and laid them on the cake of mud. Now I know what to do, said the blackbird. Then away she flew to the maple tree to make her nest of mud and twigs. After that the magpie put some more mud on the twigs. Who? Who? Who does not know how to make a nest now ? said the owl. So she flew to her hole in the old tree and made a nest of mud and twigs. When the magpie threw some straw and sticks about the nest. That is the nest for me, said the sparrow. Since that time a sparrow has always made her nest of straw and sticks. Next the magpie lined the nest with strings and hair. Oh, what a fine nest! said the oriole, as she flew away to the old cherry tree. Since that time the oriole has always made her nest of string and hair. Last of all, the magpie took some straw to wrap around the nest. The lark came just in time to see her do that. I, too, can make a nest of straw, she said. Then she flew to the meadow to make a straw nest for herself. None of the birds was willing to wait for the magpie to teach her to make a nest. And that is why birds build their nests in so many different ways. Then another pea was put into the shooter, and away he went. I shall fly up to the sun and stay there, said he. That is the place where I want to be. Two of the peas were lazy. They did not care to see anything. They said, Wherever we go, we shall sleep. Then they rolled out on the ground, but the little boy saw them. He picked them up and put them into his pea shooter. We shall go the farthest of all, one of them said. Then only the smallest pea was left. I shall soon see what will happen, he said, as the boy shot him into the air. He went up on a roof under an attic window. There he rolled into a crack that was filled with moss. In the attic lived a poor woman and her daughter. Every day the mother went out to work. But the little girl had to stay at home. She had been sick for almost a year. She had to lie in bed all day while her mother was working. One morning, as the mother was ready to go out to work, her daughter said to her, =Mother, what is that little green thing outside the window? See how it moves every time the wind blows! I have never seen anything outside the window before. I shall see, said the mother. By and by he came to the farm yard. He saw what looked like a nice little house. It had a door just large enough for him. So he went into the house. But what a noise he heard! The rooster crowed, the hens cackled, and all of them ran out of the house. Oh, said =Ruffy, what fussy old things they are ! Then he went into the yard. He smelled something that smelled very sweet. =Mm-m, he said, something good is being cooked in that house. So he walked nearer and nearer. All at once he heard a loud bark, and a big dog came running after him. =Ruffy ran and climbed the first tree that he came to. And there he sat. Oh, he said, what an ugly old thing that is! After a time, a woman came to the door of the house. She called, Here =Biff! =Biff was the big dog's name. When he heard the woman call, he ran to her. =Ruffy saw =Biff run away from the tree. So he came down and ran to the barn. He ran so fast that he bumped a stool with a pail on it. The noise frightened the horse. He said, =Neigh,=Neigh, and ran out of the barn. What a big baby he is! said =Ruffy. Soon some of the ducks came and swam in the brook near the log on which the tortoise sat. Good ducks, teach me to fly, said the tortoise. No, we can not teach you to fly, said the ducks. You have no wings. You must stay in the brook. Yes, you can teach me to fly, said the tortoise. Let two ducks take this stick in their bills. I will hold fast to the middle of it, and you can carry me through the air. So they took the stick in their bills, and the tortoise held fast with his mouth. Do not open your mouth, said the ducks. If you do you will fall to the ground. No, I will not open it, said the tortoise. Away flew the ducks, high up in the air. They carried the tortoise with them. He held fast to the stick. The ducks flew on and on. As they went over a village, some men saw the ducks and the tortoise. One of them said, Who was wise enough to think of that? I was, said the tortoire. But when he opened his mouth to say it, he fell to the ground and was killed. &&000 WINSTON (1930) 2ND GRADE WIN9302N.ASC NEW FRIENDS by William Dodge Lewis et al Source: Columbia TC: xerox, scan, edit by DPH 1-9-93 &&111 Little =Mousie =Crusoe lived near the sea with his mother and his little brother and sister, =Toby and =Tiny. They had fried bacon for breakfast, roasted cheese for dinner, and anything they liked for supper. They were as happy as the day was long, all except =Mousie. He wanted adventures. As he could not find any at home, he ran away. He made a raft, and off he sailed across the sea. He felt sure that he would find adventures there. But soon a storm came up, and the raft was broken to pieces. Mousie was thrown into the sea. He thought that he would be drowned, but he held on to a cracker box as hard as he could. He cried like a baby when the waVes threw him here and there. At last a big wave threw him down, =ker-plunk, upon an island. As soon as the wave had gone back, he jumped to his feet and started to run. Before he had gone three steps, another wave broke over him and nearly drowned him. But he dug his feet into the sand and held on till the wave had gone back. Then he ran and ran and ran. Just before the next wave broke, he fell on dry land. of the girls brought Indian dolls, beads, =Indian blankets, and some dishes. One of the boys brought a bow and arrow and, a tomahawk. Miss =King brought some arrow-heads, a toy canoe, and an Indian pipe. One morning two boys came to school dressed in Indian suits. Another day someone brought a large wigwam. The children decided to put their things together to make an Indian museum. They set up the wigwam in one corner of the room. Then they put the Indian things in the wigwam. They wrote labels for their things. =John wrote this on his label: Fun With Words Here are three columns of words: ice cream frozen meat clock carpet seal meat igloo moccasins stone lamp poles dog team bath tub loom wigwam bone needle radio railroad corn bread piano papoose reindeer canoe You must wait, said the boy. The corn must grow all summer. The goose was sad. He thought that the boy was playing a trick on him too. But when the corn had grown, the goose had many times as much corn as he had at first. The boy had played a kind trick on the goose. How did the goose become rich? What would have happened to him if he had not met the boy? Finding =Parts in the =Story How many parts can you find in the story of =The =Rich =Goose? What happens to the goose in the first part? Give a name to this part of the story. When you have done this, choose pupils to give them titles. An =Indian's =Gift =Eli was playing in front of his log house. It was spring and his father was planting corn in the fields. =Eli heard a noise. He looked up suddenly and saw an =Indian standing close by. Oh, it's =Wee-ko! cried =Eli. =Wee-ko was =Eli's =Indian friend. This big =Indian was very friendly to the little white boy. It was =Wee-ko who had taught =Eli how to make a bow and arrow. Find the Right Endings Elephants live Elephants are A pack of elephants is called Hunters try to catch Some elephants are sent Elephants can be They pull and lift Elephants lift heavy loads Some elephants live to be Endings to the =Circus or to zoos. trained easily. over a =hundred years old in the jungle. with their trunks. very friendly animals. heavy loads. a herd. live elephants. A Circus Parade in School Many children in the =Park =School saw the circus parade. It was all that they wanted to talk about the next day. At last someone said, Let us have a circus parade of our own. Of course everyone wanted to have a circus parade in school. Miss =King likes circus parades too. Mr =White said, Some =Eskimos do live in snow houses. But many =Eskimo children have never seen an igloo. Their fathers build better houses for them. They build houses of sod and stones, or make tents of skins in the summer. But do flowers grow in the North asked =Jack. Yes, said Mr =White, many kinds of flowers grow in the north. Some of them are as bright and gay as the flowers we have. Well! said =Jack, I am glad that I have been able to see an igloo and some real live =Eskimos. Thank you very much, Mr =White. As =Jack went out of the igloo he said Good-by! to the =Eskimos. =Chinuck waved and said something to =Jack. But the only words =Jack could understand were Good luck ! It looks like fairyland, doesn't it, =Mother? said =Sally. This was =Sally's first deep snow. She had always lived in the =South. But this winter she was visiting her grandmother and grandfather in the =North. Of course, she was excited! While she was dressing, she heard a scraping noise outside. She looked out. There was =Grandpa shoveling the snow off the sidewalk. He was heaping it in soft piles. The piles grew higher and higher. =Sally opened the window and called, I'm coming out soon, =Grandpa! =Sally could hardly wait to eat her breakfast. Perhaps she did swallow some of it whole. But how could you expect a little girl to eat slowly when there was so much else to be done. There was just one thing that =Sally wanted to do. And that was to get out in the snow as quickly as she could. She put on a warm coat, her leggings, and her rubbers. Then she pulled her hat over her ears and put on her mittens. How she was ready to go. She opened the door and cried, I'm coming, =Grandpa! With that, she jumped into a snow pile as high as her head. Then she rolled over and over in the snow. One plane was very large. =Jack looked at it for a long time. Then a workman asked, Don't you want to go into the plane? Of course =Jack did. He climbed a short ladder and opened the door. It was just like an automobile door. =Jack sat in one of the chairs. He counted fifteen other chairs. He saw the place where the baggage and the mail are kept. He sat in the pilot's seat. Jack saw many little clocks on the board in front of him. a motor outside. The workman said, Here comes the mail plane now! =Jack climbed down the ladder and ran out of the hangar. He saw the mail plane getting ready to land. The motor slowed down. The plane came down the field like a big bird. When the plane stopped, the mail pilot got out. A mail truck backed up to the plane. Two men jumped off the truck. : ~ =1.' ~ =1