&&000 WIN9663R.ASC (1966) 3RD GRADE WIN9663R.ASC SOUNDS OF THE STORYTELLER SOURCE: SUNY Oneonta Xerox scan edit by DPH February 28, 1993 &&111 Mr =Mallory, =Tim, and =Sara went out to cut the tree on =Sunday. Wrapped in scarves and mufflers, carrying peanut butter sandwiches to fortify themselves, they tramped out into the snow. With much laughing and pulling and pushing they brought it at last, full of snow, onto the porch. Now you can start on the decorations, said Mr =Mallory. Tomorrow we'll bring the tree inside. When it was morning, a milkmaid came to the barn to feed and milk the cow. The first bundle of hay that she tossed into the cow's manger was the bundle in which =Tom =Thumb was sleeping. When =Tom awakened, he found himself in a cow's mouth, about to be chomped by the teeth! He tried to escape but the cow's tongue pulled him back, and =Tom =Thumb found himself on a long slide, slipping down into the cow's stomach. When he reached the bottom, he looked around and said, My, it's dark down here. When they made this place, they forgot to put in a window. In the meantime, the cow was eating hay, and the hay was coming down the slide into the stomach. It was too crowded for poor =Tom. He called out, No more hay, please! There's enough down here! Now, the milkmaid was seated on her milking stool, milking the cow. When she heard the cow speaking, she became so excited that she fell off her stool and spilled the bucket of milk. =Paulossie picked up the binoculars and looked down on the lake at the foot of the hill. He saw a little duck, swimming alone. Suddenly a snowy white owl swooped down from the sky. The duck dived under the water, but too late. The owl caught the duck by the back of the neck and lifted him out of the water. The poor duck, thought =Paulossie. =Paulossie stood up and started down the hill. He felt very sorry about the walrus and about the duck. At the bottom of the hill, =Paulossie saw =Niki, one of his father's dogs. =Niki was chewing on a piece frozen fish! =Tagoona, =Paulossie's father, had caught the fish through a hole in the ice, and it had frozen solid as soon as it was taken from the water. The fish =Niki ate were always frozen. He had to work hard for every bite. =Paulossie said, Hello, =Niki. But as =Paulossie came closer, =Niki growled. =Niki did not like to have anyone near him when he was eating. He was afraid his food would be taken away from him. The next morning, after the children got up, the tin soldier was moved over to the window sill. Whether what happened next was the work of the goblin or of a gust of wind, we do not know, but suddenly the window flew open, and the soldier fell headlong from the third story. It was a terrifying fall. He landed with his head down, his one leg up in the air, and his bayonet stuck between two paving stones. The housemaid and the little boy ran down at once to look for him, but although they almost stepped on him, they did not see him. If the tin soldier had cried out, Here I am! they would sure have found him, but he did not think it was proper to shout when he was in uniform. Soon it began to rain. The raindrops fell faster and faster, until it was a regular downpour. When the storm was over, two street urchins came along. Look! one of them said. There's a tin soldier! Let's send him for a sail. So they made a boat out of an old newspaper, and put the tin soldier . Away he sailed down the gutter, while the boys ran along beside him clapping their hands. Goodness, what great waves there were in the gutter, and what a swift current! The paper boat pitched and tossed and whirled so fast that the tin soldier became quite dizzy. But he did not flinch or show the least sign of fear. He looked straight ahead and kept a firm hold on his rifle. Then they were gone. Minutes passed before the fox moved. Finally, we noticed a slight ripple in the water where the fox had hidden. He raised his head above the surface. He made no sound. When he was sure that he was safe, he swam back down the cove to the spot where he had entered the water. He crawled up on a flat rock that lay quite close to the shore, and shook the water from his fur. After looking cautiously about, he leaped from the rock to the grass and was gone. Then =Charles gave the signal to break silence. We all started chattering at once. We climbed down the tree, elated by the fox's cunning. That's the smartest fox I ever knew, said =Henry. And we won't ever tell his secret, said =Charles. Let's all pledge that we won't tell his hiding place. As far as I know, not one of us boys ever broke the pledge in the fox's lifetime. He continued moving in this fashion toward the fence where his mate had leaped from the ground to the top rail. After he had passed five or six feet beyond this point, he leaped to his feet and flashed away toward the cove. All of us had heard that foxes would relieve each other when they were being chased by hounds. Herewehad seen it happen! The male fox had come to the rescue of his mate and was deliberately leading the dogs in another direction! We were greatly impressed by the way in which the fox had made sure that the hounds would follow him instead of his tired mate. Suddenly, the pack of hounds burst out of the woods with frenzied baying. They followed the scent of the fox along the edge of the cornfield and to the gap in the fence. In a few moments, they had passed beneath us and were off chasing the male fox to the cove. Not one of them caught the scent of the vixen that had escaped them by running along the top of the rail fence. Soon the hunters and the hounds arrived. There was a great commotion. The hounds broke into the clearing, and eagerly sniffed the scent of the fox up to the water's edge. Then they lost it. Both dogs and men moved up and down the shore, seeking the track or scent of the fox. But not a trace of their quarry did they find. Then =Capt'n =Jim's most dependable hound, =Old =Belle, jumped upon the trunk of the fallen tree and began to follow it out from the shore. Oh, go back, old hound, go back! was my silent prayer. I was sure that my companions felt the same as I did. The hound was now halfway out to the end of the tree trunk! My blood pounded in my veins as I contemplated the fate of the fox. Was the fox holding his breath as I was? Could =Old =Belle see the fox submerged in the water? Could she possibly smell the fox's breath at that distance? Would the hound work her way out to the end of the tree trunk, or would the protruding limbs stop her? As if in answer to our prayers, the hound stopped. She slowly turned around and started back toward the shore. Momentarily, the fox seemed safe. Then a hunter asked, Do you suppose the fox is out on that old tree? Cheese, the first man managed to say. Very good. Ah, said the second man, unclasping a little gold penknife, and making a cut. Another, then another of the king's men came out. Soon there were seven, all standing about, with their delicate little knives in hand, all munching on the cheese. And =Christmas was coming quickly now. There were secrets and whisperings throughout the house, and every now and then you could hear the crinkly sounds of wrapping paper. Every day more presents appeared under the tree. It was hard not to take a peek, or feel the packages just a little. The last few days before =Christmas, =Jake's door was closed most of the time. The others might have thought it strange, but they were so busy they hardly noticed. And it was just as well, because behind his closed door, =Jake was busy, too. &&000 AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY (AMR) 1963 3RD GRADE AMR9633R.ASC BEYOND TREASURE VALLEY by Betts, et al Source: Center for Research Libraries @ U. of Chicago DPH Xeroxed 12-30-94; scanned edited 01-04-95 &&111 =Little =Hawk had a pet donkey he called =Jenny. He rode his donkey to the =Indian =School every day. He did not tie her in the cattle barn, for =Jenny never left the school grounds. She always came when he whistled. =LittleHawk's tribe lived near the ocean in the =FarWest. The children went to school in a village, where they learned different trades, as well as reading and writing. Many boys learned to make beautiful chains and rings of silver, for some day they would be silversmiths, like their fathers. The =Indian girls learned to cook and sew. Their flashing needles made many pretty things. Some of the needlework was sent to markets all over the =UnitedStates. =Peter =Price and his family used to spend the summer months on =Frog =Island, small island lying at the mouth of a harbor. The far side of the island faced the deep blue sea. For =Peter, every day on =Frog =Island was filled with special fun or real adventure. When he wasn't discovering something new, he was busy with his pets. Mr =Price, his father, was head of a zoo. A love for animals runs in the family, he said. I suppose you will work with animals, too, just as =I do. But whatever job you pick, there's one thing you must learn. It's wise to keep your eyes wide open and notice things. One =Friday in =July, =Peter and his father were walking by the sea. =Peter was looking for turtles since he wanted them for pets, as well as his raccoons and other animals. Suddenly =Mr =Price said, =Your eyes aren't very sharp today, =Peter. Did =I miss a turtle? asked =Peter. No, said =Mr =Price. Just look ahead. =Peter saw thick smoke drifting from chimney at the edge of the island. The captain is back! shouted =Peter as he hurried toward a houseboat. It pays to notice things! Mr =Price called after him. =Peter didn't lose any time in reaching the houseboat. He cleared its low steps in on jump and found =Captain =Jolly just putting kettle on his old stove. Galloping turtles! exclaimed the old sea-captain. It's my friend, =Peter. Sit down, boy and eat lunch with me. A plate of ice cream! he cried. Why, that =Indian isn't wild. His wife just forgot to get his ice cream ! There's nothing he likes better than ice cream, said the boy. He always puts it on the shopping list. I know, because he's my uncle. I'm an =Indian, too. A real =Indian ! exclaimed =Joe. And you understand our language ! Wait until my father hears about this. The =Indian boy smiled. My family has a sheep ranch a short distance away, he said. Why don't you and your father drive over to our ranch? I'll show you all of our sheep, and then we can shoot with my bow and arrow, just for fun, of course. =When =Mr =Block came out of the trading post, he agreed to visit the sheep ranch. Then they all got into the car. =Joe smiled at his new friend. I'm glad =Indians aren't wild any more, he said. An airplane roared over the desert and flew in wide circles above =Swinging =T =Ranch, where =Mary and =Ted =Glover lived. For weeks the airplane had traveled back and forth over the ranch. Then one day =Mary and =Ted had signaled a greeting to its pilot. He flew down and circled above them. After that, he always flew down to greet them. Sometimes he dropped presents, too, which the children caught in a blanket. Today =Mary and =Ted rushed out with a blanket as soon as they heard the airplane. Here comes our mail pilot ! shouted =Ted. He's dropping a present again, =Mary exclaimed. Let's catch it ! When the bear heard the squirrel, he roared fiercely. Why are you laughing now, your nut-eater? You will never get anywhere, answered the squirrel. You're handling this in a very silly way. How would you do it, asked the bear? Well, offered the squirrel, I think that the idea which pleased most of us is the one to follow. I agree with the squirrel, said the frog with a nod of his head. So do I, grunted the woodchuck. The squirrel is right, said the coyote, the raccoon, and the rabbit. The squirrel is right, whistled all the birds. Very well, grunted the bear, brushing his fur in an important way. We shall continue with the meeting when the whistling and talking have stopped. I must ask each of you to keep still. Do not shoot me! cried the fox. I will tell you how to find the gold bird. Take this road which leads to a town. There you will see two houses facing each other. One is beautiful to look at, but do not go inside. The other is poor and mean, but there you must rest for the night. Instead of thanking the fox, the brother tried again to shoot him. The arrow missed, and the fox ran away into the forest. When the oldest brother reached the town, he decided to stay at the beautiful house. He went in and danced with the people who were making merry inside. There he stayed and forgot the bird and his country, too. Then the second brother went forth from the castle to find the gold bird. He, too, met the fox, and he received the same directions. But, like his older brother, he went his own way and stayed at the beautiful house. He, too, forgot the bird and his country. Then the youngest brother went forth the castle to find the bird. He, too, met the fox and received the same directions. But he did not try to shoot him. Instead, he listened to the fox and thanked him kindly. Hop onto my tail, said the fox. So the youngest brother sat down, and the fox galloped into the town. That night the brother stayed at the poor, mean house. Next morning the fox met him and said, =Now =I will take you to a castle. At the gate the watchmen will be sleeping soundly. Creep by them. Then go on until you find the gold bird. But one thing you must not do! Grandmother =King put the kettle away. She hoped she would soon discover the owner. The next day =Silver brought home a bunch of glittering keys on a silver key ring. After that he brought home one new roller skate. =Grandmother put the roller skate with the pie plate, the kettle, and the keys. One =Saturday, =Grandmother =King said, =Silver, we're going to have a caller. Off ran =Silver. He was gone almost an hour. He returned pulling a tin box. The box was filled with many glittering things. In it were a bright new penny and a silver dollar. There were watches and a silver-plated clock. There were small hammers and other bright tools. Oh, dear! exclaimed =Grandmother =King. Now what have you done? Just then someone knocked. It was =Jack =Bridges, who worked for a newspaper. See what =Silver has brought you ! =Grandmother said. She pointed to the box of tools. Thank you, =Silver, said =Jack as he patted the dog's head. You're a dog with wonderful ideas. A silver-hunting dog. I think =I'll put a notice about you in the newspaper. Oh, =I wish you would ! said =Grandmother. Print the notice on the front page if you can. When =Mr =Bridges returned to his office, he began to write about =Silver. The next day the notice was on the front page of the paper. So =Mrs =Pottleby began to dig in the ground. She turned it over along the rows that =Mr =Pottleby had marked off. The four older =Pottleby children worked hard, too. They all helped dig the big holes. The youngest =Pottleby child went on hunting for =Indians. Creep, creep, creep, he went up and down the garden rows. There! Mr =Pottleby said at last. Our work is done. To enjoy working, everyone must do what he enjoys most. And, as you know, there must be a plan. How right you are ! said =Mrs =Pottleby and all the =Pottleby children. How clever to think of a plan for making a garden ! The =Pottlebys put away the garden tools and went back into the house. Then they waited for their garden to grow. Days and nights went by. The spring wind blew, and the spring lain fell. At last the sun smiled. The bluebirds began to sing, and the black crows started to whistle. All the gardens grew. All but the =Pottlebys garden ! There it was with the rows all marked, but nothing grew ! I don't know what to think ! said =Mr =Pottleby as he shook his head. Maybe something we enjoyed doing was not the right thing, said the oldest child. Each =Pottleby told what he had done, each one but the youngest child. Everyone knew he had just hunted for =Indians. Oh, dear! Mrs =Pottleby was so sad. &&000 GINN AND COMPANY. (1966) 3RD GRADE GIN9663R.ASC FINDING NEW NEIGHBORS by David H. Russell et al Source: U of Rochester xeroxed, scanned edited by DPH 12-07-92 &&111 She knew, too, that she played the piano very well because her music teacher told her so. She liked to play the piano for all the children in assembly hall. She even liked to play the piano just for herself because, like anyone else, =Melindy was happy doing what she did well. No, all in all, =Melindy was happy enough at school. The workers first wash a six-window strip at the top. Then they push a button to turn on the power, and the gondola carrying the men, their buckets, wash water, and cleaning cloths moves down one story where they clean six more windows. They do this until a strip six windows wide has been polished all the way to the bottom. Then they push another button, and the electric power plant on the roof lifts them up to the top and moves them sideways to the next six-window strip. There they start cleaning again from top to bottom. On this gondola the window washers take only one and a half minutes to clean a window. They would need six minutes to clean a window in the older skyscrapers. In time there may be even better ways to make housekeeping easier and safer in the modern skyscraper. One of the men began to clean the fish. You know, he said, we can't eat all these fish tonight. Why not put that big one up in the tree there ? said his friend. It'll keep all right. The night air is cold enough. Here's a wet paper to put around it after you finish cleaning it. After the fish had been put up in the tree, the men ate their supper and sat by the campfire, talking. Mother =Mink smelled the fish. She came out of the brush pile and started toward the camp. She crept quietly around the men by the fire, past their tent to the tree. =Mul =Chand and his little brother =Bantu had never owned caps. Their father worked hard in the fields for very little money. How could he spend eight pennies for a cap ? Why, that would almost feed their family for a day. In the village it didn't matter, but =Bombay was different. =Mul =Chand just couldn't visit his uncle without a cap. If I just had a cap, =Mul =Chand thought, a red cap. =He wondered if he could earn some annas for the cap. When he reached home, he told =Bantu that he was going to earn a cap. A red cap to wear to =Bombay, =Bantu, but you mustn't tell. It's a secret. I'll help you work, =Bantu answered. =No, =Mul =Chand said. =You're too young. But you can find a safe place in the yard to hide the annas I earn. A place big enough for eight annas ! That's the price of a cap, =Bantu. =Mother came out of the house as the men hurried up the hill. =Can't I do something ? she asked. Yes, get down all the quilts. Wet them and cover the house ! The fire is blowing this way, =Father called over his shoulder. He ran through the yard and over the side of the hill. Mother ran toward the house. David hurried right behind her. =Bring out everything that will hold water, she said. =Katy, you help me get the quilts. =Katy and her mother brought out piles and piles of quilts. They carried them all to the well, where =David had filled everything he could find full of water. =Mother put one of the quilts in the water. Then she and =David carried it over to the house. =David climbed up a ladder and spread the quilt on the roof. Quilt after quilt they wet and spread. The wet quilts were very heavy. =Barby wants some cake, said =Pat, holding some out on his hand. But =Barby did not take the cake. She turned away from the window. Then =Father called, =Barby is asking you to come out. She has some birthday presents for you. =When the children ran outdoors, they saw two frisky colts near =Barby. Twin colts ! said =Pat. A colt for each of us, said =Peggy. Good =Barby, said =Mary. She petted the horse's soft nose. Someday your colts will help you carry us to school, said =Andrew. Now I'll need an apron, sang =Hilda, hopping into the kitchen and feeling more important than ever. She tied on Aunt =Selma's big apron and said to herself, I'll just get out all the things to make the gingerbread. What a help it will be ! First, the milk. =She carried the milk to the table. Butter. She put it on the table. Ginger. She opened the can of ginger and sniffed a big sniff, such a big sniff that she wanted to sneeze. =Dancing =Cloud was really afraid, but he crawled into the cave and found a young eagle there. It tried hard to get away from him. He caught it by the leg and pulled it out. Tie its legs, said =Dancing =Cloud. I saw the other eagle in the back of the cave. I'll get that one too. One eagle is enough, said =Swift =Boy. I want the other, said =Dancing =Cloud, and in he crawled again. When his eyes were used to the dark, he could just see the other eagle. He caught it by the leg and soon brought it out into the light. You tie this one too, he said. I saw something else in the cave. I think it was a jar. I am going back into the cave to get it. =Oh, no ! cried =Swift =Boy. If it is a jar, the =Dawn =People live in the cave. They would be angry if we touched it. On her way home from school =Nell =Moon went into her father's shop. She always liked to look at the beautiful silks and the long pieces of painted glass hanging about the shop. The glass tinkled in the wind. She always stopped for a minute at the table of =Chinese toys. Today =New =Moon saw something that was very special. It was a dragon head, painted led and green and yellow. It had a great mouth and big round eyes and red balls at the top. THE NORTH WIND. =Whooooo is there ? THE LAD. I have come for my meal. My mother is hungry and I am angry. THE WIND. I have no meal, but I have a magic stick. If you want to use it on a thief, just say, Beat, stick, beat. It will keep on beating the thief until you say, Stick, stop beating. THE STORYTELLER. The lad took the stick and hurried to the inn. The innkeeper thought that the stick was full of magic like the wonderful tablecloth and sheep. So in the night he tried to take it and leave another near the lad's boots. But this time the lad was not caught napping. THE LAD. Beat, stick, beat. THE STORYTELLER. The stick began to beat the innkeeper. THE INNKEEPER. Oh, lad, save me ! Make your stick stop beating me. I'll give you back everything and never take anything again. &&000 GINN AND CO. 1969 (LEVEL 9) 3RD GRADE GIN9693R.ASC WITH SKIES AND WINGS by Theodore Clymer Grether Wulfing Source: U of Rochester xeroxed, scanned edited by dph 12-06-92 &&111 Next morning they said to her, =You did miss a sight, =CapoRushes ! What was that ? says she. Why, the most beautiful lady you ever did see, dressed right gay and grand. And the young master he never took his eyes off her. Well, I should have liked to have seen her, says =CapoRushes. There's to be another dance this evening, and perhaps she'll be there. When evening came, =CapoRushes again said she was too tired to go with them. Then, when they were gone, she went back to the tree. She took off her cap o rushes, washed herself in the brook, and this time the dress she put on was one made all of gold. The master's son again danced with no one else, and never took his eyes off her. But before the dance was over, she slipped off. Home she went, and when the maids came back she pretended to be asleep with her =caporushes on. For several weeks the joey stayed inside his mother's pouch until he had grown larger and stronger. All this time his mother seemed to forget about him. If she had been living in =Australia, where kangaroos come from, she would have gone about with the herd looking for food. But in the zoo her food was brought to her and she had no worries about food or baby. When a joey is about four-months old, he is able to lean out of the pouch to nibble grass. Soon he can climb out and hop around by himself, but he goes back to the pouch to sleep. If he were a wild kangaroo baby, his mother would keep an eye on him when he was away from her. If she thought he was in danger, she would start toward him in great leaps, gather him up with her front paws as she passed, and tuck him into her pouch for safety. By the time the joey is six-months old, his mother can forget him, for he is now ready to care for himself. Spaceship =Earth is not alone As it moves through space. The bright moon also travels along. And now We have many manmade moons, Tiny satellite moons That we have rocketed into orbits Around the earth. Will you ever leave =Spaceship =Earth ? Perhaps Someday you will blast off And the earth will look smaller and smaller. You will see it spinning in space Half light and half dark, Spinning and orbiting around the sun. But wherever you go You will be happy to come To your warm, Green, Friendly, Spaceship =Earth. But the door opened before the capsule had been lifted high enough, and it started to fill with water. =Virgil =Grissom pulled himself out of the capsule into the sea. The capsule with its heavy load of water began to sink. Try as it would, the helicopter could not lift it. At last the pilot had to cut the cable and let it sink. The =million dollar spacecraft, with all the pictures and records of the flight, was lost. The astronaut, too, was in trouble. Air began to leak out of his space suit, and the suit filled with water. Several times he went under the waves, and he swallowed some salt water. He was in great danger. The second helicopter could not reach him as long as the first one was trying to save the nearby capsule. At last the capsule was allowed to sink. The pilot in the second helicopter quickly threw a line to the struggling astronaut and he was lifted safely aboard. When he finally landed on the waiting aircraft carrier, =Virgil =Grissom asked for a glass of water ! At lunchtime =Miss =Gay went into the teachers room, and the children who were staying for lunch began to eat, everyone but =Charley. He sat at his desk. Aren't you going to eat any lunch ?~ someone said. Charley looked up. It was =Jane =Lane. I forgot my lunch box, said =Charley. =You can have part of my peanut butter sandwich, =Jane said. ~ =No thanks, said =Charley. And suddenly he added, I'm going out to lunch. =Now that he had said it, he had to do it. And there was only one place to go, the =King =Charles =Hotel ! I have never seen such a strong wind in my whole life. It made me so mad that I ran out of the house and threw a big chunk of firewood at the wind. It must have hurt him. It must have made him stop and think how mean he was being to =Grandma and me, because the next thing I saw a big blue barn sailing through the air. It swished over the house and settled there where you see it now. It was a good barn, but it didn't have any doors. So I shouted: HEY WiND ! YOU FORGOT THE DOORS ! That old wind turned right around and blew back to wherever it had come from. In no time at all, I could hear him coming back. Sure enough, he had the doors for the barn. And he even fetched the pigeon house you see on top. Both =Centauree's father and =Yan's father are fishermen. Each morning they set their nets in the streams that twist and turn through the sands. Every evening they take up their nets and bring their catch across the bay to sell it on the island of =Mont-Saint-Michel. =Yan~s grandfather is now too old to go fishing, but when the sun shines he sits outside and mends nets. He has made many trips and tells the children about islands covered with flowers, about wind and storms, and about coasts from which the sea never runs away. Once, he says, when I was young, I saw whole houses swept away by the sea. =Linda looked, and looked again. At first she didn't see anything. Then she saw a big old whirlybird, beating its way toward her. I see it ! she shouted. Good ! Now when the pilot gets over your building, tell him which way to go. =Linda gulped. How ? she asked. He has a two-way radio, the policeman said. He can hear you. Loud and clear, little girl, another voice said. It was the pilot. In a few seconds the big whirlybird was right out front. Linda said, ~Over there. Over on the hill. The big machine swung away. This way ?~ the pilot asked. No! That's wrong! =Linda shouted. The other way. =Roger, the pilot said, and turned. There, =Linda yelled. Right down below. Got it, the pilot said. Then he gave the policeman the street names. And the girl is right the pilot said. That station wagon is slipping ! Poor =Teddy ! He had to struggle hard to keep from crying. He didn't know where to go. His box felt so heavy that he began to walk home. It didn't look as if he would ever be a shoeshine boy. He passed the hardware store and came to the supermarket. What's that box for ? a boy asked. It's a shoeshine box, =Teddy answered gruffly. Oh, will you shine my cowboy boots ? the boy asked. Shine your boots ? You're just a little kid. Then =Teddy remembered that he had not liked being called that. Besides, he wanted to use his box. All right, I'll give you a shine, he said. The foot rack was too big for the cowboy boots but =Teddy made it do. He put cleaning polish on with the little round brush. He wiped it with a cloth and put on hard polish. =Rat-a-tat-tat went his cloth. 00000 000 GINN READERS GRADE 3 LEVEL 10 DY1:GINN10.TXT 00000 000 ALL SORTS OF THINGS (NO AUTHOR ON COVER) 1969,1973 DISKS 91; 540 00000 000 TRANSCRIBED BY DPH MAR 83 STRATIFIED SRS PAGES: 00000 000 20-7; 56-4; 92-5; 117-4; 158-5; 172-0; 204-7; 243-4; 289-5; 312-6. 00001 111 On the ground floor, =Mother and =Daddy led the way from the 00002 111 elevator through the long hall. They stopped in front of a tablet 00003 111 on the wall. =Daddy read the last part of the tablet out loud: 00004 111 I lift my lamp beside the golden door. The children thought of all 00005 111 they had learned that day about their country, and about the meaning 00006 111 of the great statue. =William said slowly, NewYork harbor is like a 00007 111 doorway to America. =Bonnie remembered what =Mother had said before. 00008 111 As long as the Statue of Liberty stands here in the harbor, she 00009 111 said, it will remind people everywhere that this is the land of 00010 111 freedom. 00011 111 How many of these flags do you know? What do you think their 00012 111 designs represent? You can design a flag. You might like to 00013 111 design a flag for your school, your class, your club or your 00014 111 family. Perhaps you might have another idea for a flag. Think 00015 111 carefully about what you want your flag to represent. After you 00016 111 have designed your flag, be prepared to tell your classmates about 00017 111 it and what it represents. 00018 111 =Tabe worked at farmer =Terpstra's, next door. He was the best 00019 111 skater of the village. =Tabe was big and strong and very fast. 00020 111 But =Auke had a better style. They skated a lot together, but 00021 111 only =Tabe went in for races. He had won seven medals already. 00022 111 But he hadn't got the =ElevenTownsCross yet. Would he this 00023 111 year? Everybody knew he had put his name in the race. The winner 00024 111 of the =ElevenTownsCross is a hero. At school the picture of the 00025 111 last winner hung just under the Queen. Fancy, thought =Bouke, 00026 111 our =Tabe underneath the Queen. The boys pulled on warm coats 00027 111 and pulled their caps down over their ears. As they went outside, 00028 111 =Yelle swung the snow shovel over his shoulder and =Bouke picked up 00029 111 a broom. They walked down the snowy path. It was bitter cold. 00030 111 =Joshua turned around, then, and walked over to where the empty 00031 111 clock box was. He picked it up. Where dragons go, he said. This is 00032 111 a very good box to keep marbles in, I think. I'm going to put my 00033 111 marbles in it now. And he did. 00034 111 Once upon a time, long ago, there was a young man named 00035 111 =DonaldMacCrimmon. He lived with his family on the Isle of =Skye, 00036 111 an island off the coast of Scotland. One morning =Donald went 00037 111 skipping across the moor. Under his arm =Donald carried his 00038 111 chanter. He was on his way to Mr =MacSkirl's house for his bagpipe 00039 111 lesson. =Donald did not have a bagpipe of his own. 00040 111 It is eight o'clock. Tons of vegetables have been arriving 00041 111 by truck and by train from farms all over the country. Now, the 00042 111 produce fills the sidewalks and the warehouses. Later tonight 00043 111 other trucks will cart it to the food stores. It is nine o'clock. 00044 111 The fireman in the fire station is listening to the fire alarms 00045 111 that come in by bell and by loudspeaker. When an alarm is sounded 00046 111 for his district, he alerts the other firemen stationed here and 00047 111 they race for their trucks. It takes them =thirty-five seconds to 00048 111 get under way. So far tonight, they have been out once for a fire 00049 111 in a kitchen and once for a false alarm. No one knows what the 00050 111 rest of the night will bring. 00051 111 Then =Pete heard =Ron's voice. He pulled in his line and put his 00052 111 pole between the rocks where the wind couldn't reach it. Then he 00053 111 started to make his way to the other side. The ocean spray made 00054 111 the rocks slippery. He saw for the first time how fast the tide 00055 111 was coming in. =Pete looked around for =Ron. Just then a wave broke 00056 111 over the rock. =Pete was soaked. He saw that his fish, his pole 00057 111 and his bait had been swept out to sea. A second wave splashed 00058 111 against the rock, covering him with white foam. Suddenly he felt 00059 111 a pull on the back of his jacket. =Ron was dragging him up the rock. 00060 111 The two boys made their way to the top of =CastleRock. 00061 111 After tobacco became popular in the colonies, the colonists began to 00062 111 ship some of the crop to England. It was considered so valuable 00063 111 that people began using tobacco for money. The Indians and the 00064 111 colonists were now using wampum and tobacco for money. The colonists 00065 111 who came from England were fond of tea. They were used to drinking 00066 111 tea and missed not having it in America. Since tea had to be brought 00067 111 by slow sailing ships to the colonies, it was very expensive. The 00068 111 people who had tea began using it for trading. Now the colonists 00069 111 were using three kinds of money, wampum, tobacco and tea. 00070 111 =Grandpa drove around and around in a circle. It's no use =Emily, 00071 111 he said. I'll have to stop. There's nothing else to do. We can hitch 00072 111 to the nearest farm and get a farmer with a team to tow us back 00073 111 to town. No, wait, =Grandpa, begged =Emily. Be towed back to town 00074 111 behind old-fashioned horses? I should say not. =Grandpa and his 00075 111 wonderful new automobile would be the laughing stock of the whole 00076 111 town. If you could drive real slow, she suggested, I could jump 00077 111 out and open the gate. =Emily, you'll get hurt, =Grandpa said. 00078 111 No, I'll be careful, =Emily answered. I guess I could see how slow 00079 111 I could drive. =Grandpa was not eager to be towed back by horses. 00080 111 They slowed down until they were bouncing gently over the ruts. 00081 111 Dear Mr =Bear, spare me! I will give you all my treasures. Look, see 00082 111 the precious jewels lying here! Grant me my life. What do you want 00083 111 with such a little fellow as I? You would not feel me between your 00084 111 teeth. Come, take these wicked girls. They are fat and tender. Eat 00085 111 them! =Snow-white and =Rose-red, do not be afraid. Wait, I will come 00086 111 with you. Why, it's our own bear! I am the king's son, and I was 00087 111 bewitched by that wicked dwarf, who stole all my treasures. I have 00088 111 had to run about the forest as a wild bear until I was freed by 00089 111 his death. Now he has got the punishment he deserved. 00090 111 So he thanked the ghost and shook hands with him and said, Well, 00091 111 good-bye for now. You'll hear from me. That night at supper, 00092 111 =Jimmy's aunt said, Well, what have you been doing today? I've 00093 111 been learning to vanish. His aunt smiled. That must be fun. The 00094 111 ghost up at =Grandfather's taught me, said =Jimmy. I don't think 00095 111 that is very funny, said his aunt. And will you please not, why 00096 111 where are you, she cried, for he had vanished? Here, he said as he 00097 111 reappeared. Oh, my goodness, she cried, and she pushed back her 00098 111 chair and rubbed her eyes. Jimmy had to vanish twice more before 00099 111 she would believe it. She was pretty upset. 00000 000 GINN READERS GRADE 3 LEVEL 10A (ADVANCED 10) 1970 GINN10A.TXT 00000 000 A LIZARD TO START WITH (no author on cover) 00000 000 Transcribed by DPH Mar 83 Stratified SRS pages: 43-1: 59-0; 00000 000 108-1; 131-8; 171-8; 205-7; 263-3; 288-5; 314-2l 360-0. 00001 111 =Santiago, =Mother called from the kitchen! No answer. =Santiago 00002 111 =Roman! Still no answer. His mother walked into the parlor. There 00003 111 sat =Santiago staring at the light through the stereoscope. I have 00004 111 been calling for you, =Santiago. Did you not hear me? But I am 00005 111 looking at the picture of =Selina grandmother sent me. =Selina, 00006 111 =Selina. Morning, noon and night, you speak of nothing else. You 00007 111 left her in =PuertoRico, but to hear you talk one would think she is 00008 111 here in NewYork. Put away your stereoscope. Come, have your 00009 111 breakfast or you will be late to school. 00010 111 =Annie has a special reason for not wanting to grow. Her love for 00011 111 the =OldOne makes her want to keep things exactly the way they are. 00012 111 So she tries to hold back time. What does =Annie learn as she tried 00013 111 to make time "stand still". =Annie's =Navajo world was good, a world 00014 111 of rippling sand, of copper red bluffs in the distance, of the low 00015 111 mesa near her own snug hogan. The pumpkins were yellow in the 00016 111 cornfield, and the tassels on the corn were turning brown. Each 00017 111 morning, the gate to the night pen near the hogan was opened wide 00018 111 and the sheep were herded to pasture on the desert. =Annie watched 00019 111 the sheep. She carried pails of water to the cornfield. And every 00020 111 weekday, she walked to the bus stop and waited for the yellow 00021 111 bus that took her to school and brought her home again. 00022 111 =Encylcopedia had read about ambergris. It is thrown up by sick 00023 111 whales. It is found floating in southern waters and is used in 00024 111 making perfume. Don't just sit there, piped =SmellyNellie. 00025 111 Bring a bottle of oil of peppermint. =Encyclopedia jumped to it. 00026 111 Within twenty seconds he was shoving an open bottle under 00027 111 =SmellieNellie's wonderful nose. She breathed deeply. Thanks, she 00028 111 sighed. It's the only thing to clear the passages. What snarled 00029 111 the sneezer, asked =Encyclopedia? Did you ever stand close to 00030 111 ambergris, asked =SmellieNellie? 00031 111 It's getting dark, said =Jill. My mother will be worried. Well, all 00032 111 right, let's meet in the morning and follow him. How, asked =Jill? 00033 111 He'll go to work in his car, Besides, we've got to go to school. 00034 111 =Gwen played with her braces. It was a problem. Finally she said, 00035 111 Your mother's Okay isn't she? Yeah, she's Okay, said =Jill. Well, 00036 111 we need her, said =Gwen. =Gwen and =Jill told mother everything. 00037 111 Let me get this straight, said =Jill's mother. =Fernbach said he 00038 111 had never seen =Fletcher before he even looked at the drawing, and 00039 111 =Fernback slammed the door on you? 00040 111 The third message means: I am going hunting and will be gone all 00041 111 winter. This is shown by the sled and the snowshoes. The Indians 00042 111 of Alaska also used picture signs to tell a story. They carved 00043 111 tiny figures on pieces of ivory or wood. Here is a drawing of a 00044 111 picture carving in which an Indian tells the story of a hunt. 00045 111 It shows him leaving his house and then tells how many animals 00046 111 he caught. All the animals he caught have their heads pointed 00047 111 to his house. The ones he did not catch are facing away from the 00048 111 house. He caught one wolf, two deer and three beavers. The ones that 00049 111 got away were a porcupine, a seal and a fox. 00050 111 The oldest, most-respected member of the clan was =Wupa, =Hah-nee's 00051 111 grandfather. =Wupa lived alone with his pet raven =Kisha. As the 00052 111 story opens =Kisha has taken =Wupa's bag of treasured possessions 00053 111 and hidden it. =Wupa is too old to search for it, so he has asked 00054 111 =Hah-nee to find it for him. =Hay-nee has a friend named =Tuya and 00055 111 a dog, =Mozo. But =Wupa is a person =Hah-nee loves most of all. 00056 111 After several attempts, =Hah-nee finally finds =Wupa's precious bag. 00057 111 As the story begins, =Hah-nee is on his way to give it to his 00058 111 grandfather. In his excitement =Hah-nee forgot he was tired and 00059 111 hungry. He hastened down to =Wupa's home, the bag in his hands. 00060 111 On the count of four his foot would come down hard, and another 00061 111 musical evening would have been launched and would be under full 00062 111 sail in the white cottage by the sea. =Beckie's shrill fife went 00064 111 ="tweet, =tweet, =tweet". =Abbie's red drum went ="bam, =bam, =bam! 00065 111 Yankee =doodle was their favorite, but any patriotic marching tune 00066 111 sounded fine to the =Bates sisters. =Penelope didn't agree. To avoid 00067 111 the music, she would sit in the garden with only the chill mist 00068 111 rolling in from the sea for company. The sounds of the evening 00069 111 concerts did not carry into the homes of =Scituate. 00070 111 Go and catch a bullock and we'll have a bite to eat. And =Vasil 00071 111 went into the forest and began stripping bast from the lime trees. 00072 111 The dragon waited and waited, and at last went to look for him. 00073 111 What is taking you so long, he asked him? Can't you see I am 00074 111 stripping bast from the lime trees, =Vasil replied. What do you 00075 111 need bast for? To make some rope so as to catch us five bullocks 00076 111 for dinner. What do we need five bullocks for? One is enough. 00077 111 And the dragon caught a bullock by the nape of its neck and 00078 111 dragged it to the cart. Now go and bring us some wood to roast the 00079 111 bullock, he said to =Vasil. And =Vasil sat down under an oak tree 00080 111 in the forest, closed his eyes, and chuckled to himself. 00081 111 He shovels the winds to the East and to the West. Over the wintry 00082 111 forest, winds howl in a rage with no leaves to blow. When a tiger 00083 111 sighs and cries, and lies, watch out! When a tree and road talk, 00084 111 sit and listen and wonder! But when you meet a jackel, get ready 00085 111 to laugh and laugh, and laugh, and. Once upon a time, a tiger was 00086 111 caught in a trap. He tried in vain to get out through the bars, and 00087 111 rolled and bit with rage and grief when he failed. By chance a poor 00088 111 =Brahman came by. =O holy man, let me out of this cage, cried 00089 111 the tiger. No, my friend, replied the =Brahman mildly, you would 00090 111 probably eat me if I did. 00091 111 I unroll a lot of string and open the door to the =25th floor. 00092 111 =Easter only tips his head to one side and looks up at me in that 00093 111 cute way of his. Either =25 is not where he lives or else he doesn't 00094 111 know how to use his sense of direction. I wish I knew which. It is a 00095 111 long way to the lobby. But I am not going to give up yet. I start 00096 111 down the stairs toward the next floor. =Easter follows. For a duck 00097 111 he is pretty good at going down stairs, His orange legs are not 00098 111 long enough to reach the steps one foot at a time. So he jumps 00099 111 with both feet at once and lands on each step with a loud double 00100 111 slap. &&000 D.C.HEATH & CO (1964) 3RD GRADE HEA9643R.ASC MEADOW GREEN by Paul A Witty and Mildred Hoyt Bebell Source: SUNY Oneonta xerox (15c each!) scan edit by DPH February 21, 1993 &&111 He used to make the piles higher and higher, and they made louder and louder crashes. But still he wasn't happy. Prince =Hulla-Baloo wanted to hear the loudest noise in the world. It was a few weeks before the prince's birthday. His father, the king of =Hub-bub, asked him what he wanted for a birthday present. I want to hear the loudest noise in the world, answered =Hulla-Baloo. Fine, said the king. I'll order the royal drummers to get out the special super-loud drums for the whole day. But I've heard them before. That wouldn't be the loudest noise in the world, grumbled the prince. All right, promised the king. I'll also order all policemen to blow their special super-loud whistles. I've already heard those, too, said =Hulla-Baloo. They wouldn't be loud enough. Tell you what, said the king. At the same time I'll close the schools. I'll have the children stay home and slam the super-slammy doors. How is that? That would help, agreed the prince. But it still wouldn't be the loudest noise in the world. The king was a very kind father, but he was becoming angry. What's on your mind? he asked. What great idea do you have? Well, answered =Prince =Hulla-Baloo, I'll tell you what I've been wanting for a long time. I want to hear every person in the world yell at the same minute. If =millions and =millions of people all yelled together, I'm certain that would be the loudest noise in the world. The more the king thought about this idea, the better he liked it. It might be fun, he thought. And besides, I'll be the first king who ever got all the people in the world to do the same thing at the same time. Yes, I'll try it. But =Petunia had other things to do. Cotton, the kitten, went up the tree but could not come down. While he =meowed and =meowed, his friends called for =Petunia. Glad to help, said =Petunia. I know just what to do. Since none of you is tall enough to reach =Cotton, all of you will do it together. Donkey on top of =Clover, =Pig on top of =Donkey, and so on up. Simple. So =Donkey climbed on top of =Clover. =Pig on top of =Donkey. =Goat on top of =Pig. =Sheep on top of =Goat. =Piggy on top of =Sheep. =Turkey on top of =Piggy. =Duck on top of =Turkey. =Hen on top of =Duck. Suddenly =Clover cried out, Stop! My legs feel wobbly. And she sat. =Donkey and the rest fell into a heap, and =Cotton was so scared that he fell on top of them. They were all full of bumps. Well, said =Petunia, =Cotton is down. So he was, poor, bruised kitten. But =Petunia had other things to do. Getting prouder all the time, she felt her neck stretch farther out. =Thousands of animals live here, where land and sea meet. You won't find too many of them on a flat, sandy beach. But even there, if you follow tracks in the sand, you may poke out a round, velvety sand dollar or a baby horseshoe crab. If you dig, you may discover long-neck clams that squirt water at you. Or you may find sand crabs that rush away from you as fast as they can. On a rocky beach it is different. Turn over a rock or bunches of seaweed, and you will see =hundreds of little creatures scurrying out of sight. As the tide goes out, it leaves little pools. Here you can get a really good look at the shore animals. You call easily pick out the crabs, starfish, and snails. But now find a long sandworm you can use for fish-bait. If you wiggle your feet in the pool, little glassy shrimp may tickle your toes. Just beyond the pools left by the low tide are the shallow waters bright with sunlight and bouncy with waves. Look at the tiny fish. These minnows swim very fast. They are hard to catch unless you use a big net. The best game the fairies play, The best game of all, Is sliding down steeples, You know they're very tall . You fly to the weathercock, And when you hear it crow You fold your wings and clutch your things And then let go! They have a =million other games, Cloud-catching's one, And mud-mixing after rain Is heaps and heaps of fun; But when you go and stay with them Never mind the rest, Take my advice, they're very nice, But steeple-sliding's best! A wicked witch of great power wanted to keep the beautiful =Rapunzel hidden safely from the world. But this proved to be more than even a wicked witch was able to do! Once upon a time a man and his wife were very unhappy because they had no children. They lived in a house with a little window in back. It looked into a beautiful garden that belonged to a witch of great power. The garden was full of the finest flowers and vegetables. But no one dared enter it because there was a high wall all around. Then the pie making began. Pumpkin pies along the cellar stairs. Apple pies along the porch railing. And the baking! Fourteen loaves of crusty bread. Fifteen pans of crusty rolls. Four round cakes with chocolate frosting. Three square cakes with maple frosting. Twenty-two cupcakes to eat in between times. And the turkeys! All the turkeys that would fit in the oven. Plump in the legs and white in the wings, with skin to turn golden from the heat of the fire. And the stuffing! Bread crumbs and celery and onions, and chestnuts besides. =Hurrah! said Mrs =Floogle at last. We are ready. Such a =Thanksgiving dinner there never was before. Such a =Thanksgiving dinner there never will be again. Fanny =Flora and =Amos must tell the teacher tomorrow. Mr =Floogle said that it would be a good idea to write everything down in a note. So they did. =Fanny =Flora did the copying, since she wrote very prettily. Mrs =Floogle put the note in a beautiful hand-painted envelope. Next morning =Amos and =Fanny =Flora set out happily for school. They were careful not to leave finger marks on the envelope. Mr =Floogle and Mrs =Floogle stayed at home and waited. At noon, almost before =Amos and =Fanny =Flora got in the door, Mrs =Floogle took off her apron and said, =Are they coming? Are they all coming? =But =Amos looked sad. And =Fanny =Flora looked unhappy. Oh, oh! said Mr =Floogle. Trouble with =Squanto? =Amos and =Fanny =Flora were too unhappy to speak. Come, come, said Mrs =Floogle. I've a dinner to cook tomorrow. How many are coming? None, said =Fanny =Flora. Eddie Wilson was seven years old. His three older brothers and their pals were always telling him he was too little to go around with them. But this never troubled Eddie. He went along just the same and somehow found a way to get in on nearly everything the older boys did. But s-~metimes he had to think fast and work hard to do it. Agnes was ten years old, but she sti thought that playing Jack-in-the-box woul~ be fun. Since, however, she was the onl~ girl in the family, she knew that she shoul help her mother. "Well, we'll have to get them out of hei t soon," she said. "You know th~t I\Iothe~ wants the house to be neat alld tidy befoi t Thanksgiving." "It's days and days until Thanksgiving,' Andy said happily as he got down in the bo~ and covered his head. "It's not such a very long time," said Dick. "We have a lot of t hin~rs to do. Mother's birthday comes on Thank~,riviIlgr this year. Has anybody thou~ht ~out what to give her?" The next day Young Tennessee took his hound Ranger and went across the fields and through the woods to see Old Sam. Old Sam was the meanest, trickiest man around--or in the state or in the country, for that matter. He thought he was the smartest, too, but Young Tennessee went to see him anyway. Young Tennessee knocked on the dool. Pretty soon Old Sam opened the door just a crack and looked out. "Oh, it's you," he said. "Why don't you come in?" "Because I want to get started," said Young Tennessee. "I'm planning to travel around and see the country." Years ago a little girl name~l ~Sallv lived with het f~hel in a li~lltllou~. J~r f~lthe was ~he ]iglltkeel)er there. Sally's father had an oil lamp to take care of. ~Tel y day he shillecl t he glass around the 1~;nP, filled the l~m~ ith oil, and cleaned the wick cal efully. I~vt~ y ~ ,ht he lighted the l.imp with ,1 m~it( h. The lighthouse had no fogho~ Thell th~ fog rolled in, the keel)er had tO r ing the big fog bell that was outside the li~,hthouse and keep ringing it until the foc~~ clealed. Sally's fathel hac~ e~l)lailled to her many times how iml~oltant the ];~-ht ~ the fot, bell were. She knew how they warned sailors to keep their ships away ~i om the rocks on ~ hi~il the lighthous~ Mrs. Minelli became alarmed when the ringing continued. "Something must be the matter," she said. "I think Jane and I had better (r~. home right away." As she and Jane hurried toward the house, they saw neighbors running from all directio~ everal rneIl carried pails. "When (I dinner bell rings like that, it is usually soundill~ an alarm for some kind of trouble," caid one man as he l)assed Jane and her mother. "And trouble around here is usually a fire." When ilnt' neighbols and the family came in sight รน)f ~ house, they could see smoke pouring oul of it. ~-lnd flames spl-eadillg ovel the roof: "Could they be clapping for Prancer?" Dan wondered. "Who could ever have dreamed such a thing!" Just then Dan heard a boy cry, "Let's follow the trick horse!" Dan was as happy as ever he had been. He clutched the rope tightly as Prancer danced to the music and tossed his head back and forth. Down one stl eet and up another they went until they l~eached the square. Prancer was the star of the parade! Then the music stopped. On a platform stood a tall bearded man. All attention was fixed on him. The tall man said, "First prize goes to Highland School for the performing horse that led the lqoat!'' All the way home, Dan kept turning around to look at Prancer. Just as though t he band were still playing, Prancer kept d~ncing as he trotted along behind the ViT~ (ron . A small mountainside farm in Switzerland dozed in the early morning light. Inside the chalet a little girl was still asleep. Her dreams must have been happy ones bec~ s~ she was smiling. Outside, the sun was just pushing its nose over the mountains. It threw a long golden beam across the fields. It touched the roof of the chalet and moved down to the balcony. Then it came into the room and softly touched the girl's nose. She opened her eyes and started to laugh. She washed and dressed quickly, and she was still laughing when she sat down at the breakfast table. That night he had a servant bring to him a large number of chopsticks, all exactly the sarne length. Then from under his coat he drew out one that was an inch longer than the rest and put it in with them. He let the servant watch while he tied the chopsticks into a bundle. Then he wrapped a cloth around the bundle so that only one end of the sticks could be seen. He knew that the servant would immediately tell the other servants what he had seen. The next morning he sent for all his servants, but before they arrived he took the long chopstick out of the bund]e. When the servants came in, the rmaster had them stand in a half-circle in fiont of him. Then he took up the bundle of sticks and told the servants that each of them was to come up and draw out a stick. That night, Snick took a notioJl tG ~et into the window and let the skinks out ol their box. Then, ~uicl ,~s ~ ~ inl . i-( scampered back into his own ca~e, bcin~,eci the door shut, and latc~led it. Tandy happelled to be peekir~g t~lrough tile window when Sni( l~ opened ~he box. iiTe laughed as he saw the slhinl~s pop~ .g o-1t of the box like popcorn out of an ope~l popper. Tandy was still pet~ing ~he~ e heard 8omeone say, "Miss Pe~ley s p.~t ~hop 1 ~ < favorite p~ace of yours~ ;sll t i f~ W?;~ It was t~ en~J~- "Yes, sir,'~ Tandy replied. Before the Boomer and the hound were out- of sight, the Roadmaster had a new idea. "I'll fix that Sooner," he said, snapping his fingers. "I'll teach him a lesson.A7l Tomorrow I'll put the Boomer in the cab of our Cannon Ball Express. That's the fastest train on wheels. If the fastest dog on four legs can beat the fastest thing on wheels, I want to see him do it." The Roadmaster called the Boomer back and told him the new plan. "You're going to a lot of trouble," the Boomer said. "There's no need for all this bother on our account. Just let my dog ride in the cab with me. That's all he wants, and that's all I want." But the Roadmaster would change neither the plan nor the rule. He was so sure that the Cannon Ball Express would beat Sooner that he grinned from ear to ear. "I aim to see this race myself," he said. "I'll ride in the cab of the engine. If that Sooner ~ioun(l beats the (~annon Ball Express, I'll give him my seat and walk back." Year after year the summer rains watered the tree, and during the bright summer days the warm sun helped it grow. Every autumn the tree was covered with copper-colored leaves. The acorns on the ends of the twigs dropped and were scattered by squirrels that g,lthered them ~IIl(~ stored some away for winter eating. Then the days grew colder and colder. The leaves on the oak tree changed to brown. They wrinkled up until they looked like wrinkled pieces of brown wrapping paper. And after winter, another sprlng came, ~rlnglng new buds and new bright green leaves to the oak tree. Dark brown is the river Golden is the sand. It flows along for ever, With trees on either hand Green leaves a-floating, Castles of the foam, Boats of mine a-boating - - Where will all come home? On goes the river And out past the mill, Away down the valley, Away down the hill. Away down the river, A hundred miles or more, Other little children Shall bring my boats ashore. &&000 LAIDLAW BROTHERS (1960) 3RD GRADE LAI9603R.ASC DOORWAYS TO ADVENTURE by Harold G. Shane and Kathleen B. Hester Source: Columbia TC xerox, scan edit by DPH June 3, 1993 &&111 Years later, when the war was over, =James =Tyler was at a meeting. =Indians and white men were there. Mr =Tyler told the story of the latchstring. He told of how the war party of Indians had left his home when they found that the latchstring was out. Suddenly an old chief got to his feet. I was one of these Indians, he said. We came at night. We mean to burn house. Take cows and horses. But we find latchstring out. We say, We no burn this house. These people our friends! They believe in =Great =Spirit. =Aladdin ran to his mother. He told her how the magician had left him in the mountain. He told her how the slave of the lamp came when the lamp was rubbed. He showed his mother the gold he had in his pockets. The lamp is magic! his mother said. That is why the bad magician wanted to have it. We must be sure that he does not get the lamp. I do not think that he was really your uncle. He just wanted to have you find the lamp for him. Just then the =King's beautiful little girl came in through the door from the garden. She had been crying. Oh, =Father, she said, did you see our garden? Have you seen our poor little flowers? What has happened to them? They are so ugly now. The little girl ran up to =Midas. No! No! he cried. Do not come near me! Go away! But it was too late. Before the king could stop her the little girl had touched him! Before his very eyes she had turned into a cold, hard, golden statue. Before you go, I give three horses to you, the chief went on. I make sure you have no trouble in my country. I hope you and golden-hair girl be happy in new home where the sun go down. Doctor =Dean was glad to hear the chief say that the wagons could go. He was sure that the chief would see that no one stopped the white men. Doctor =Dean and the =Indian Chief It was a warm night in summer. None of the children wanted to go to bed. Tell us a story, =Grandfather, they said. Tell us the story of how the =Indian chief wanted our great-grandmother to be the wife of his son. What? said =Grandfather. Do you want to hear that old story once again? Oh, yes, the children cried. We can never hear it often enough. Tell it again. Master =Till was walking along a country road. He was hungry. It seemed that he was always hungry! He came to a turn in the road. There before him was a beautiful castle. It was the home of a prince. Till went up to the door of the castle. He said that he was a great painter, and he asked to see the prince. The soldier at the door let Till go inside the castle where he met the prince. Master =Till said that he would paint a beautiful picture of the prince. I will use only the finest colors, said =Till. And people will come from far and near to see how great you look in your fine clothes. Then one summer day in =1807 =Fulton was ready for a trip up the river with the =Clermont. Many people came to the river to see the fun. Some watched from housetops. Others pushed away from the shore in little boats. Shortly after noon, =Robert =Fulton started his steamboat. All the people stopped talking and were quiet. Would this strange boat run? Or would it blow sky high? The wheels turned. The =Clermont moved out on the river. Then it stopped still in the water. All the people laughed. The boat would not move. What did we tell you? someone called. One day a little =Indian boy was looking for fruit to eat. He looked in the bushes near the foot of the =Great =Mountains. To his surprise he heard something cry out. Soon he saw a large, young bird. It was an eagle! The eagle was still too small to fly. As he came near the bird, =Waukewa saw that something was wrong with it. One of its wings looked queer. The boy saw that the eagle had fallen from its nest. His eyes were kind as he said, =Little eagle, did you break your wing when you fell? We will be happy to have you stay here, the white birds said. Look in the water, they told him. You will see that you are the most beautiful of us all. The ugly duckling looked at the water. And what did he see? The ugly duckling had grown into a pretty white swan! Soon little children came to the garden. They had corn and pieces of bread for the swans. Look! the children said. There is a new swan. He is the most beautiful swan of all! For the first time the ugly duckling had made some friends. He said, When I was the ugly duckling, I never thought that I could be so happy. &&000 LAIDLAW BROTHERS (1966) 3RD GRADE LAI9663R.ASC DOORWAy TO ADVENTURE by Harold G. Shane et al Source: SUNY Oneonta xerox scan edit by DPH February 28, 1993 &&111 The old woman said that the duckling could stay with her. But after three weeks she said, Not one egg have I found! If I do not have an egg from you by tomorrow, you must go away. I will not feed you more of my corn and bread. That night the poor ugly duckling went away. At last he came to a little river. There he lived in the bushes and ate wild seeds. He was all alone in the world. There was no one to take care of him. In a short time the summer was gone. The wind grew cold and the snow fell. The ugly duckling was always very hungry. He was always very cold. One cold night the duckling went to sleep on the river water. In the morning he was caught in the ice. He could not get out. He was so hungry and afraid that he wanted to cry. At last a man came by. He saw that the little duck was caught in the ice. He wanted to help the poor little thing. When the dog again came to get the princess, he did not see the bag. He did not see the corn fall out to show where he carried the girl. The next day the =King could see well enough where the princess had been. He sent men to bring the soldier to him. When the little soldier stood before him, the =King said, No one may see the princess. No one may take her from my castle. When she was a very little girl, a fairy said that some day she would be the wife of a poor soldier. Well! This cannot be! We will cut off your head this very day! Then you will never win the princess. Four big soldiers took the little soldier into the castle yard. Good =King, cried the little man, may I have a last wish? May I look at my tinderbox once more? Very well, said the =King, but be quick about it. The soldier took the tinderbox from his pocket. He opened it as if to light the fire. No sooner did the box fly open than the saucer eyed dog stood before the soldier. Help me! he cried. Don't let them cut off my head! The great dog went to work. He sent the =King's men flying high into the air. One day a little Indian boy was looking for fruit to eat. He looked in the bushes near the foot of the =Great =Mountains. To his surprise he heard something cry out. Soon he saw a large, young bird. It was an eagle! The eagle was still too small to fly. As he came near the bird, =Waukewa saw that something was wrong with it. One of its wings looked queer. The boy saw that the eagle had fallen from its nest. His eyes were kind as he said, Little eagle, did you break your wing when you fell? The bird seemed to know that =Waukewa could help him. It lay still even when the boy touched it. It did not cry out again. Yes, said =Waukewa, there is a bad break in your wing bone, little eagle. The =Indian boy carried the bird with great care. Then he began the long walk home. When he got there, the boy tied up the eagle's wing. Now the bone would grow straight and well again. For many days =Waukewa took care of the bird. He gave it water to drink and corn and bread to eat. At last the eagle could fly again. It had grown to be a big, fine bird. =Waukewa knew that the time had come for him to let the eagle go back to its wild mountain nest. The morning at =Sun-Dance was a fine one. There were horse races, Indian dances, and many other things to see. There was pop to drink and there were peanuts to eat. =ChiWee and =Loki had never seen so many people. They had come from all over the country to see the racing and dancing. Later in the day came the games for children. =Loki was first in a game with arrows. A fine knife was the prize. I am so proud of you, said =Chi-Wee. Then, at last, came the race for little =Indian girls. All of them wanted to win the beautiful dress. =Chi-Wee looked around her at the other girls. Two or three she knew, but the others she did not know. The strange little girl next to =Chi-Wee was very poor. Her dress looked as if it would not last much longer. If I win this race, she said softly to =ChiWee, my mother will be glad. She cannot buy me a new dress. I can run fast. I think I will win. =Master =Till was walking along a country road. He was hungry. It seemed that he was always hungry! He came to a turn in the road. There before him was a beautiful castle. It was the home of a prince. =Till went up to the door of the castle. He said that he was a great painter, and he asked to see the prince. The soldier at the door let =Till go inside the castle where he met the prince. =Master =Till said that he would paint a beautiful picture of the prince. I will use only the finest colors, said =Till. And people will come from far and near to see how great you look in your fine clothes. The prince did not care to have his picture painted. Go away, he told =Master =Till. But wait! said =Till. It is a magic picture that I will paint. What is this? asked the prince, who was a silly man. A magic picture? Oh, yes! said =Till. I will do it in such a way that fools cannot see it. When it is done, you can tell which of your friends are the fools. They will not see the picture! It will not be there when~they look at it. The silly prince liked the thought of having a picture that only a wise man could see. He gave =Till one =hundred pieces of gold and told him to go to work. =Andy learned that it was not easy to skate. He fell down time and again. But after a while the boy came to be a very good ice skater. None of the children living along the river could go as fast as he could. One fine day =Andy skated up the river. He was a long way from home when one of his skates came off. He sat down on the ice. He had not had time to put the skate back on his foot when he heard a noise. =Andy looked up. Right behind him were seven Indian braves! Suddenly =Andy was very afraid. The tall red men were so near him that he did not even have time to get to his feet. They will catch me! he thought. And they did! The =Indians took =Andy far up the river. They walked for one whole day. Not once did they tell him where they were taking him. That night they tied =Andy's hands and feet. He lay by the fire and tried to sleep. The next day, after a cold breakfast, the =Indians once again went up the ice-covered river. =Andy had to go with them. At last the boy and the =Indians came to their town on the river. There were many other braves. The men had red and white and blue paint on their faces! Andy knew that this would mean trouble. Soon each brave would take his knife and arrows. They would go after the white men and burn the town. How could he tell his mother and father and friends that the =Indians were coming? Doctor =Dean and the =Indian Chief It was a warm night in summer. None of the children wanted to go to bed. Tell us a story, =Grandfather, they said. Tell us the story of how the =Indian chief wanted our great grandmother to be the wife of his son. What? said =Grandfather. Do you want to hear that old story once again? Oh, yes, the children cried. We can never hear it often enough. Tell it again. Well, =Grandfather began, it all happened when this part of the country was wild and full of =Indians. Your great grandmother, my mother, she was, was coming out here in a covered wagon. She was a little girl. Then =Grandfather told of how =Mary =Dean, his mother, had reached the =Black =Hills with her father, =Doctor =Dean. One day as their covered wagons were moving along under the hot sun, a party of =Indians rode up on their horses. The =Indian chief was named =Straight =Arrow. For three days the covered wagons stopped near the =Indian town. The next day, when =Doctor =Dean went to see =Gray =Wolf, the boy sat up. He was almost well again. The red spots were gone from his face. =Straight =Arrow walked back to the wagons with =Doctor =Dean. You go now, my friend doctor, he said. You make =Gray =Wolf well. He be all right now, I know. Before you go, I give three horses to you, the chief went on. I make sure you have no trouble in my country. I hope you and golden-hair girl be happy in new home where the sun go down. =Doctor =Dean was glad to hear the chief say that the wagons could go. He was sure that the chief would see that no one stopped the white men. When the sun came up, the =King jumped from his bed. There was a small table near his bed. =Midas touched it and it turned to gold! It was no joke. =Mercury had really given him the golden touch! Why even =Midas' clothes were gold now! The =King ran about his bedroom touching everything on which he could lay his hands. Bed, tables, chairs, all of them, turned to gold. Then =Midas ran into the garden. At his touch bushes and flowers turned to hard gold. They are beautiful! Beautiful! cried =Midas. At last I am a happy man. I am the happiest man in the world. I can have all the gold I want. After a time the =King grew hungry. Someone had set his breakfast table in his bedroom. =Midas sat down at the table. He picked up a piece of well-browned fish to eat. But what happened? Before =Midas could put the fish in his mouth it turned to cold, hard gold! His hot-cakes turned to gold! His fruit and milk turned to gold! The =King was now very hungry. Oh, dear, he said. What will I do? The food turns to gold faster than I can eat it. He was even a little afraid. Come, my dear little one, said =Midas. We will make the flowers into real ones again. We will make them beautiful once more. But, =Father, said the little girl. I thought you loved gold. Oh, no, laughed =Midas. The only gold I love now is the gold of your beautiful hair. Then, hand in hand, father and girl went into the ugly, golden garden. Together they put water from the river on the flowers and bushes until they were once again beautiful. At last =Midas stood in the middle of the green garden. His hand lay on his little girl's head and he looked up to the sky. Oh, =Mercury, he said, how much you have helped me to learn today. How well I know now that gold alone means nothing. It cannot make us happy. With these words =Midas went into his house to turn back all the other things he had made into gold. =Aladdin went through the door in the mountain's side. It was very dark, but he was a brave boy. He was not afraid. On he went until he came to a great room full of gold. In the middle of the room, on a small table, a little lamp was burning. Quickly the boy picked up all the gold he could put into his pockets. Then he took the lamp and went back the way he had come. Before =Aladdin got through the magic door, the magician said, =Give me the lamp. No, said the boy. I will give you the lamp after I come out of this little door. The magician grew angry. He said some magic words once again. As he did so there was another great noise and the door closed! In =1812 our country and =England were at war. The soldiers of =England paid some of the =Indians to burn the homes of =Americans. The =Indians would come out of the deep woods with angry war cries. They would burn down the farm houses and take the cows and horses away with them. At first the war did not go well for our country. Many people had to leave their farms. They went to towns and cities where there were enough soldiers to keep the =Indians away. =James and =Mary =Tyler lived on a farm with their four children. James would not move them to town when he was told that the =Indians might come at any time. I think we should go, =Mary said. No, said =James. We must believe that =God will take care of us. We must believe that both the red men and the white men are our friends. =Well, said =Mary, if we stay here you must take in the latchstring on the door. Then the =Indians cannot just walk in on us. &&000 LIPPINCOTT (1969) 3RD GRADE LIP9693R.ASC BOOK G by Glenn McCracken & Charles C. Walcutt et al BOOK H " " " Source: Hobart WS xerox scan edit by DPH February 11, 1993 &&111 There was no real need for them to stay now. The fire would safely burn itself out. The boy knew that as well as the man. They sat down together on the long tongue of the old hay rake. How would you happen to see it? asked Mr =Grayson suddenly. I didn't think anyone would come. I called the telephone operator as soon as I saw what it was so she wouldn't give an alarm. Didn't want a lot of people running all over the place. I was camping out until the storm and ran into the house. I saw the fire when I came back outside. Folks know you're here? =N-no. Another beam, charred through, broke and sent a fresh shower of sparks high into the air. You just thought perhaps you could help, said the man slowly. I thought I'd see what it was, said =Billy, embarrassed. As the light from the fire died down, the night came back all around them. Mist rose Tonight is the night When dead leaves fly Like witches on switches Across the sky, When elf and sprite Flit through the night On a moony sheen. Tonight is the night When leaves make a sound Like a gnome in his home Under the ground, When spooks and trolls Creep out of holes Mossy and green. Tonight is the night When pumpkins stare Through sheaves and leaves Everywhere, When ghoul and ghost And goblin host Dance round their queen. It's =Hallowe'en! =Becky shook her head doubtfully, until the red curls beneath her hood twinkled. I don't see any bows and arrows, she said. Well, they're probably gathering for a council of war first, to plan things out, replied =Tom. That's the way the Indians did in the stories =Tom read aloud to =Becky at night. I think we should warn =Mother, he said. Gifts for the Indians. Mrs =Cabot, however, had already seen the red men from the window. Much to =Tom's disappointment and =Becky's relief, she didn't agree about the Indians going on the warpath. Why, =Tom, she said, the =Chippewas are peaceful =Indians. They'd never make trouble for us. =Tell me, then, said =Tom, not quite convinced, why are so many gathering at one time? I'll admit that has me puzzled, too, said =Mother. =Becky spoke up. Maybe Mrs =Boyd could tell us. She was their nearest neighbor, =Beto found so many chicken and turkey eggs that he had to carry them in his sombrero to the house, making three trips. This sombrero is good for carrying eggs, but it will never do to wear at the fiesta, =Beto told his mother. It is too old. That is so, his mother said. But perhaps even a little old sombrero may help to find the way to a little boy's wish. Who knows? After breakfast it was time for =Beto to hitch up the little gray burro and go to market with the eggs. My little sombrero with the wide red band around it is the one I will wear to market, said =Beto. He hung up the old straw one and took down a small, bright colored one. reach all the things on the top shelves, and Mr =Z can get all the things on the bottom shelves. If there is anything on the very top shelf, they have to get a long pole and poke it down. Then Mr =Y pokes and Mr =Z catches, because Mr =Z's lap is the widest. In fact, they do everything together. Mr =Y takes the money and Mr =Z rings the bell on the cash register. Mr =Y counts the groceries, and Mr =Z writes them down. Mr =Y makes the jokes, and Mr =Z laughs at them. And, in the evenings, when the store is closed and work is done, then Mr =Y plays the flute and Mr =Z plays the accordion. the little man and held him fast until the bird gave up the struggle and flew off. As soon as the dwarf had recovered from his fright, he exclaimed in his squeaking voice, Could you not hold me more gently? You have seized my fine coat in such a manner that it is all torn and full of holes, meddling and interfering rubbish that you are! With these words he shouldered a bag filled with precious stones and slipped away to his cave. The girls were now used to his mean ways, and so they walked on to town to buy the things for their mother. Coming home, they returned over the same field. They just happened to walk up to a certain clean spot on which the dwarf had shaken out his bag of precious stones, thinking nobody was near. The sun was shining, and the bright stones glittered in its beams. The two girls stopped to admire them. A Pleasant Surprise. What are you standing there gaping for? asked the dwarf, while his face grew The children went on eating as if they never meant to stop, not thinking that they might be doing something wrong. =Hansel, who found that the cake on the roof tasted very good, broke off another piece. =Gretel, who had taken out a whole pane of sugar from the window, sat down to eat it. Just then the door opened and a strange looking old woman came out leaning on a stick. =Hansel and =Gretel were so frightened that they let fall what they held in their hands. The old woman shook her head at them, and said, Ah, you dear children, who brought you here? Come in and stay with me for a while, and no harm shall happen to you. She seized them both by the hands as she spoke, and led them into the house. For supper, she gave them plenty to eat and drink, milk and pancakes and sugar, apples, and nuts. When evening came, =Hansel and =Gretel were shown two beautiful beds with white curtains. They lay down in the beds and thought they were in heaven. But though the old woman pretended to be friendly, she was a wicked witch. =Norway with her so that he might be with her always and be her brother. She asked her father and mother, and happily they were very willing to have the little =Arab boy as their son. =Tamar himself was happy to have =Father and =Mother and =Trina as his family, for it is not much fun to be alone in the world at five years of age without anyone to look after one. So they all sailed back to =Sandefjord, =Father and =Mother and =Tamar and =Trina, and there they live now in the white house down on the shore. Ah! is that the courteous way in which you make your presents, =Master =Antonio? You have almost lamed me! I swear to you that it was not I! Then you would have it that it was I? The wood is entirely to blame! I know that it was the wood; but it was you that hit my legs with it! I did not hit you with it! Liar! =Geppetto, don't insult me or I will call you =Polendina! Mule! =Polendina! Donkey! =Polendina! Baboon! =Polendina! On hearing himself called =Polendina for the third time, =Geppetto, blind with rage, fell upon the carpenter and they fought violently. When the battle was over, =Master =Antonio had two more scratches on his nose. So, =Dolly! Good =Dolly! cried =Brownie, mimicking the Gardener's voice. Now we'll see what we can do. I want my breakfast badly, don't you, little ones? Of course they did, for the morning air made them very hungry. Very well, wait a bit, though. Old people should be served first, you know. Besides, I want to go to bed, said the =Brownie. Go to bed in the daylight! The children all laughed, and then looked quite shy and sorry, since they might have seemed rude wherever he stepped, he left a black mark behind, until at last the whole tablecloth was covered with black marks. He did not mind this. In fact, he took great trouble to make the cloth as dirty as possible. Then laughing loudly =Ho, =ho, =ho! he leaped onto the hearth and began teasing the cat. He squeaked like a mouse and chirped like a cricket, and buzzed like a fly. He disturbed poor =Fluffy's mind so much that she went and hid herself in the farthest corner. She left the hearth all to him, and there he lay at ease until daybreak. Soon she saw a little glass box that was lying under the table. She opened it, and in it she found a very small cake, on which the words EAT ME! were beautifully marked in raisins. Well, I'll eat it, said =Alice, and if it makes me grow larger, I will be able to reach the key. And if it makes me grow smaller, I can creep under the door. So either way I'll get into the garden, and I don't care which happens! She ate a little bit, and said to herself, Which way? Which way? holding her hand on top of her head to feel which way it was growing. She was quite surprised to find that she stayed the same size. To be sure, this is what usually happens when one eats cake. =Alice had got so used to new things happening that it seemed quite dull for life to go on in the normal way. So she set to work, and very soon finished off the cake. The Pool of Tears. Curious and curious! cried =Alice. She was so much surprised, that for the =Heidi was awakened early the next morning by a loud whistle. The sun was shining through the round window and falling in golden rays on her bed of hay. As she opened her eyes everything in the loft seemed to gleam with gold. She looked around in surprise, for she could not remember for a moment where she was. Then she heard her grandfather's deep voice outside, and she thought of everything that had happened the day before. Most of all, she thought with delight of the two dear little goats. She jumped quickly out of bed and dressed in a moment, for there were not many clothes to put on. Then she climbed down the ladder and ran outside. There stood =Peter already with his flock of goats, and the grandfather was just bringing his two goats out of the shed to join the others. =Heidi ran forward to say good morning to him and the goats. Do you want to go with them up the mountain? asked the old man. a pillow and had arranged it so that, when in bed, she would be able to see clearly out through the round window. That is fine, said her grandfather. Now we must put on the sheet, but wait a moment first, and he went and brought another large bundle of hay to make the bed thicker, so that the child would not feel the hard floor under her. There, now bring it here. =Heidi took hold of the sheet, but it was almost too heavy for her to carry. So the two together now spread the sheet over the bed. Where it was too long or too broad, =Heidi quickly tucked it in under the hay. It looked now as tidy and comfortable a bed as you would wish for, but =Heidi stood gazing at it, thinking that something was missing. Wait a moment, said her grandfather, and he climbed down the ladder again and went towards his bed. He returned to the loft with a large, thick sack, which he threw down, saying, =There, that will do for a cover, will it not? At the =Army base, =Wayne gathered together all the men who disliked the camels. He led his best camel to stand before them. Then he made the camel kneel, and he loaded two big bales of hay on its back. The muleteers started to shout, It will never lift the load. It will never do it. They knew that their mules could only carry one of those bales, never two of them. =Wayne paused a while. When the crowd of men became quiet again, he loaded two more bales of hay on the camel's back. Four bales, shouted the men. No animal can lift such a weight. =Ross, however, had other matters on his mind. He was thinking of the night on the hotel porch and of the words spoken by =Major =Jim. I'll be back soon, he said, turning to his father. I'm going over now and get my alligator measured. =Major =Jim was on the hotel porch when =Ross and old =Jinny arrived. His eyes bulged at the sight of the great black hide that dragged along the ground on both sides of the old mule. Great jumping bullfrogs! he roared. Where on earth did you get that? =Ross grinned. Down on =Sunken =Lake. Well, bellowed the major, I never heard of the place. I am beginning to think that there are several things I didn't know about. You wait here, lad, while I go after a tape measure, and I think it might be a good idea to get my checkbook too! =Ross =Allen's heart began to beat quickly. When the major came out, =Ross had spread old =Snaggle-Tooth's skin on the. &&000 Lyons and Carnahan 1962 3rd grade reader LYN9623R.ASC By Guy L. Bond, et al. "Stories from Everywhere" Source: Center for Research Libraries @ Chicago 12-30-94 Scanned/edited by DPH 01-03-95 &&111 You won't put that tiny animal with the big elephants, will you? asked =Yvon, who was visiting the zoo. Look at their big feet. They would be sure to hurt the little elephant. And see them wave their big trunks, said another visitor. Won't they hurt the little one with their big trunks? They are stamping because they are so excited, said the keeper. They won't hurt her. They are trying to reach =Baby because they like her. Each of those mother elephants wishes =Baby belonged to her. They think she is beautiful. Well, the poor little elephant will not get any of that hay, said =Yvon. Won't the big ones push =Baby away when she tries to eat from those bales? No, they are polite animals, replied the keeper. They will be very kind and polite to =Baby. The big elephants will let her eat first. They will wait until she eats all she wants. Baby did not even look at the excited elephants. She held up her trunk and proudly walked past them. The visitors laughed to see her act as if she were the only elephant at the zoo. Oh, that's not the way I want to sing, said =Theobald. I will go to the hen. So off to the hen he went. The hen was scratching for food in the garden. She said she would be glad to teach him to sing. Then she began to =cackle. =cackle, =cackle, =cackle, she said. Oh, no, said =Theobald. I don't want to =cackle. I will go to the pigpen and ask =Curly =Tail to teach me. =Theobald went to the pigpen. He saw =Curly =Tail rooting in the ground with his queer nose. Please, =Curly =Tail, teach me to sing, said =Theobald =Willy =Wobble. Curly =Tail was pleased. He looked up and began to say, =Snork, =snork, =snork. Dear! cried =Theobald =Willy =Wobble. Such an awful song! I do not want to sing like that! I don't want to say =snork, snork like =Curly =Tail. Maybe =Beauty, the mule, will teach me to sing. The little turkey went to find the mule. He walked out of the barnyard. He knew he would find =Beauty, the mule, behind a shed down the road. She said the clover there was better than the clover at the farm. Beauty, he asked, will you teach me to sing? I will be very pleased to teach you, answered the mule as she raised her head high in the air. She opened her mouth. =Heehaw, =heehaw, =heehaw, =Beauty, the mule, said. The young man handed the paper to his honorable grandfather. The grandfather said, My boy, here is thin colored paper that came around tea we bought, and you need not pay for it. Go and make your kite quickly, for the ninth day is tomorrow. =Ling =Tang bowed. Then he thanked the =Honorable =Grandfather and hurried home. He went to the kitchen where his mother was working. When his mother saw =Ling =Tang, she asked, =Why are you so cheerful, my son? =Ling =Tang smiled and said, I have been lucky. I'll have a kite to fly tomorrow. It will not be the shape of a dragon or a hawk. It will be a cricket kite! I will make it of this colored paper. He showed his mother the singing cricket and told her about how lucky he had been. He told her how he had cut the bamboo and found the string by the roadside. And he told her about the =Honorable =Grandfather at the tea shop who had given him the thin green paper and asked no pay for it. Do not wait longer to make your kite, =Ling =Tang, his mother said. There is no time to lose. She was glad her son had found the lucky cricket and would have a kite to fly on the ninth day like other boys of the town. This is a story about the small island of =Bora =Bora and a little boy named =Manu who lived there. In the =South =Seas no one knows how many birthdays he has had, so you will just have to guess how old =Manu really was. He may have had eight birthdays. The boy's real name was not =Manu, either. In =Bora =Bora a boy has two names. One is the name everyone calls the boy. The other is a name that only the boy's father and mother know. People of =Bora =Bora believe that there are spirits who try with all their might to find out a boy's real name. Once the spirits know the name, they can hurt the boy. =Manu's father and mother did not want that to happen. So not even =Manu himself knew his real name. He might have told it to his little brother =Timi, but =Timi was only about six years old. He never could have kept the spirits from finding out about it. So the spirits in the =South =Seas never found out =Manu's real name. =Manu is a good name, for it means bird. As he grew up, =Manu could move as quickly as the bird for which he had been named. He could throw four white stones into the water, then dive and catch them all before they reached the bottom. =Manu's eyes were sharp, too. He could see farther out to sea than anyone else in =Bora =Bora. Other lodges like it had been built by other beavers. Some of them were built at the edge of the pond. There were other lodges built far from the shore. As the old ground hog looked down from his hillside, he wondered more than ever what was happening below. He could not understand it at all. For many days I have known about these things growing in the pond, thought the old ground hog. Still I do not know what they are. I wish I did. Suddenly he rose from the stump against which he had been resting. One of the strange animals had just come out on the shore. It sat there pulling the fingers of its front paws through its fur. The old ground hog watched the beaver for a while. Then he raised his head as though he had made up his mind about something important. I think I'll talk to it, he said. Making his way slowly down the hillside, the old ground hog looked out from behind a thicket of bushes. Good day, he called out. I am the ground hog, and I live in a burrow on the hillside. I have come to talk a while. In days long ago it was no easy thing to move to a new home. There were no trains to carry people across the country. There were no cars on the road. There were not very many roads. When a family wished to move to a new place, they put their things into a big covered wagon. Then they climbed into the wagon and started off. Sometimes they used oxen to pull the covered wagon. Sometimes they used horses. The =Wayne family drove oxen because they were going a long way into the big woods and the way might be muddy. Oxen have wide feet. Their wide feet do not go down into the muddy road so quickly as horses feet do. There were four oxen to pull the =Waynes' wagon. It was a big wagon with a top over it which kept out the rain. At night the family would sleep in the covered wagon. The night before the =Wayne family left their old home, a number of the neighbors had a party for them. Now run and play, said =Three =Flowers. I am very busy. We can play over by the lake, =Naki, said =Bluebird. I will take my bow and arrows with me, said =Naki. We can play we are hunters. It was not far to the lake because these =Indians always lived near a lake. They liked to fish. The children went to a canoe that was near the water. I think we could go across the lake in this canoe, said =Naki. The children pushed the canoe into the water and climbed into it. Before long, they were across the lake. The children paddled the canoe under a big tree. =Naki jumped out of the canoe and pulled it out of the water. Then he put an arrow into his bow. You walk right behind me, =Bluebird, he told his sister. A squirrel chattered in the branches over their heads. The two children stopped and looked up through the leaves above them. =Naki saw the squirrel on a branch. His arrow flew up at the squirrel. The little squirrel chattered even louder than it had before. He is laughing at you, =Naki, because you could not hit him, said =Bluebird. Just then a little stick dropped from the tree and hit =Naki on the arm. Maybe the squirrel threw the stick at you, said =Bluebird. &&000 SCOTT, FORESMAN AND COMPANY (1965) 3RD GRADE SF19653R.ASC WIDE HORIZONS by Helen M. Robinson et al Book 3 GRADE 3 Source: U of Rochester xeroxed, scanned, edited by DPH 12-06-92 &&111 The center of the vacant lot was exactly the right place for the boys clubhouse. It was the same distance from all three houses. The vacant lot was behind =Kerby =Maxwell's house, while =Fenton =Claypool lived on one side of it and =Bumps =Burton on the other. They had built their clubhouse with old lumber some workmen had given them. It was not much to look at. It leaned. Its door was so small they had to crawl inside. And inside there was barely room enough for the three of them. In fact, just to show how little room there was, =Kerby's dog =Waldo had to stay outside. =rllis always annoyed =Waldo, because he considered himself a member of the club. =Bumps =Burton was the club president. Before the church pageant last spring, =Bumps had been a but tonight he could not seem to get interested in food of any kind. His mother noticed, of course. What's the matter, =Kerby? Something wrong with the pudding? =Oh, no, =Mom. It's swell, said =Kerby, beginning to eat faster. Here, now, stop that. You don't have to shovel, she said. She leaned forward to inspect him with a mother's worried eye. =Kerby, do you feel all right? You look a little pale to me. And you've been awfully quiet. Aw, I'm fine, =Mom! =Maybe old =AJCarmody has got him upset, said his father. That reminds me, I talked to =Sid =Edwards about him after the wedding, and he claimed the old boy does have a good side to him, if you can only get on it. He says he thinks that if you boys are careful not to rub him wrong, Mr =Carmody just might change his mind about your clubhouse. =Sid says he's been known to do things like that, contrary to what people think. If his father had wanted to torture =Kerby, he could not have done a better job than he was accidentally doing with the best intentions in the =Sarah, dear child, see if you can read well tomorrow, and remember not to twist your hair. Yes, =Master =Christopher, said =Sarah, but my hair is so stribbly. =Reuben, said the master as he leaned over a boy near him, if you do well at reading this week, you will be glad when =Wednesday comes. Now =God bless you all and bring you back safe in the morning. =The girls got up and walked out two by two; then the boys followed. =Eli could scarcely believe it. A whole day and not once had the schoolmaster used the birch rod! Not once had he even been angry! It ought to be easy to have fun in this school. =Eli tossed his broad hat into the air. The paper mill was so interesting! =Eli watched the rags of old clothing go in at one end of the mill, where they were cut in pieces. Then they went through the big vats that took out all the color, and through other great vats that dissolved the rags into a thick pulp. The pulp went through the huge vats, presses, and rollers, then came out as beautiful creamy-white paper with the =Rittenhouse watermark upon it. Master =Rittenhouse gave =Eli two or three sheets of the paper to take home. =Eli thanked him, never before had he had any paper of his own. It would be fun to write on his own paper. Perhaps, he thought, if I make a journal and write about all the things I've seen in the =German =Town, it will please =Master =Christopher. =By the time they left the paper mill, the sun was low, and it was beginning to be very cool. Master =Christopher put =Eli before him on the horse to keep him warm. They rode up the =Rittenhouse =Lane and over to the =German =Town =Road, down past the =Market =Square where the shops were closing, past the =Friends' =Meetinghouse, past the =Grecn =Tree =Tavern, and to =Cousin =Hannah's. Candle.s were lighted, and =Cousin =Jacob was home. Look at us skiing! =Mimi called to =Anton. I see, said =Anton. You are like birds of flight, so free, so graceful he began. But =Mimi tumbled, and her skis waved in the air as she slid on her back to a stop. =Anton changed his mind. You are a bird that is better at nesting than at flight, he said as he picked her out of the round wallow she was making. Didn't anyone tell you that falling down when you're skiing isn't very wise? Good skiers don't do it. Sometimes =Philippe thought =Anton's leg hadn't been hurt so much as his pride was in losing the race. Look out! shrieked =Philippe as he spcd toward them. There's no way to stop these skis! =Anton caught him. Skis? Then he saw the barrel staves and his mother's curtain ticbacks, and burst into laughing roars. What skis! Butterfly-banded, too ! =But when he saw the hurt in =Pllilippe's brown eyes, hc shook his brother lovingly =You did a very clever piece of work, =Philippe. But what is =Mama going to say about her beautiful butterflies ? The felt was soggy, and the buttcrflies' wings drooped sadly. The next morning =Philippe was so tired from his adventure that he just lay in bed for a long time admiring the hill through his window. Suddenly he saw four men tramping up it. There were =Papa and =Anton. He hopped out of bed and danced up and down in his bare feet because the floor was too cold to stand on. But he had to see if it was Mr =Vincent and =Toby's father, too. It was ! He was missing something ! =Philippe put on his clothes so fast that he was quite breathless when he ran into thc kitchen and reached for his outdoor clothes. Wait a minute ! said =Mama. I want to hear what they say about my hill. =Philippe was already struggling into his jacket. Wait a minute. The hill will be there a long, long time. And there's something here you might want to see first. Where? =Philippe looked around in such a hurry that he looked like a top spinning. =Mimi giggled. Look where you left your skis to dry. =Philippe looked all blinked and looked again. Winking and gleaming in the sunlight was a tall, slender pair of glistening new hickory skis. direction that would take him from home. Then he wondered how he could leave his father. His father didn't have any part in making him take the sack back and explain to Mr =Conley why he was bringing it back. And he thought about how hard it would be to stay away from his baby brother and his little sisters. =Shan wanted to make his mother feel sorry for sending him back to the store with a sack worth a penny. But there wasn't anything left for him to do but to face Mr =Conley. To think of returning this sack made his face get hotter than the sun could make it. He tried to think of what he was going to say. But his tongue got heavy again. It was as lazy as the wind and didn't want to speak these words. It would only be a few minutes. He couldn't tell his heart to beat slower, and he couldn't keep his face from getting hotter. He walked around the bend in the road where the cliffs looked up to the hot blue sky. This was the first time in =Shan's life he hadn't wanted to see Mr =Conley's little white store under the sycamore trees. Always before, when he had walked around the winding road beneath these cliffs and seen the store, he had started running to get there. He saw the floor or even the air vibrate as her mother moved about. Catching hold of her mother's skirts, she would follow her. If Mrs =Bridgman were making bread and kneading the dough, =Laura would place her hands on her mother's arms and knead it with her. Sometimes her mother gave her a lump of dough to knead and shape by herself. Often =Laura worked along with her mother as she spun, wove cloth on her heavy loom, or did the churning. As =James =Barrett watched =Laura, he wondered about many things. Perhaps someday he would be a teacher. How would he set about teaching such a child? We learn, he reflected to himself, by thinking, by using our brains. But what makes our brains work? Our eyes send picture messages to our brains, and so we think about what we are seeing. But =Laura's eyes don't send any messages to her brain. Our ears send sound messages to our brains, he thought. But =Laura's ears don't send any messages to her brain. Our noses and the taste buds on our tongues send messages about smells and tastes to our brains, but Mrs =Bridcman has told me that =Laura can smell and taste almost nothing. By about the third day Dr =Howe and =Miss =Drew were delighted to see that =Laura had grasped the important point that the separate label for key somehow went with the key and the label that was separate from the spoon went with the spoon. That she understood this was shown by the fact that she could take a separate label, such as the one spelling book, and feel about until she found a book without any label. Then she would place the label on the book. In a very few days =Laura could reverse this process. She could pick up an object such as a spoon, search through a pile of loose labels on the table, feel them until she found the one that read SPOON, and then place it on the spoon. She could do this for any object for which she had been taught the feeling of the word. Dr =Howe was greatly encouraged. He felt sure that he was going to succeed with =Laura; his only question was how long it was going to take him. In a report that he once wrote about his work with her he said: It sometimes occurred to me that she was like a person alone and helpless in a deep, dark, still pit, and that I was letting down a cord and dangling it about, in hopes she might find it, The very moment the raccoon opened his eyes he knew it was the day to decide. The pines of his forest looked dark against the almost brilliant oaks and maples hung with leaves of rose and pale yellow and green turning scarlet. His nose lifted to taste the air and found it already cinnamoned with autumn, already pungent with damp earth smells like thc undersides of mushrooms. Even the tips of his delicate raccoon paws were no longer quite warm. &&000 WINSTON CO. 1960 3RD GRADE WIN9603R.ASC ACROSS THE VALLEY by Russell G. Stauffer, et al Source: Center for Research Libraries @ U. Chicago Xeroxed 12-30-94 by DPH Scanned/edited by DPH 01-03-95 &&111 Something exciting was always happening at the =Berg house. If the younger children got into fights, Mrs =Berg would make each take care of himself. Of course, she would keep an eye on things. One time =Polly called =Rachel a name that Mrs =Berg didn't like. I don't want to hear that word again, said Mrs =Berg, and she didn't. The children all knew that when =Mother said no she wasn't teasing. In the summer all of the children worked about the house and in their big flower garden. They had time to play, too. They all loved the river, and each one could row a boat. =Polly tried to warn =Ed. But she was too frightened to talk. Then =Ed saw the animal, too. He looked around wildly. Polly could see he was trying to decide where to run. She wanted to call out, =Ed, you must stand still. But she couldn't make a sound. =Ed didn't stand still. He stepped quickly to one side, and started backing away slowly. The big black hog began moving, too. He moved slowly at first. Then he went faster, and his head went down lower. =Ed would have to stand still! How could =Polly get him to stop? =Ed, she shouted at last. Another one's coming at you from behind! This stopped =Ed. He stood still. Long hours of the day the prairie dogs stayed outdoors. Here they passed the time away playing games or eating. The prairie was covered with grass and weeds. This was the best eating a prairie dog could get anywhere. Even the weeds were tender. Not only did the prairie dogs play and eat together, they also worked close together near their burrows. There never were neighbors more friendly and helpful. If one of them smelled danger, he barked to warn the others. Then they would all head for their burrows where they were safe. Why do you have a dog? Did you want a pet? Or are you like so many people who get a dog? Many people get a dog because they want a good watch dog. This is all very well and good, up to a point. If you train a dog to keep all strangers away, you may have trouble, too. Some day your rich uncle may come to make a surprise visit. You don't answer the door fast enough. Before you're there, you have an idea about what has happened. Your favorite watch dog has taken a bite out of your rich uncle. Hello, said =John to the farmer. Would you be kind enough to tell me how to raise potatoes? To be sure, replied the farmer. Just plow the ground and plant the potatoes. Then watch for bugs. That's about all there is to it. Thank you, =John =K =Washington, said. Then he went home. Now what do you think of raising potatoes? asked =June, his wife. John =K. was sitting way down in his chair. It's too much work to watch for bugs, he said. And me with a poor back . Oh, you lazy man! shouted =June. If you won't raise potatoes, then get some chickens to raise. Chickens, replied =John =K. Now that's an idea. Indeed it is, said =June softly. I could make you a big chicken pie. Of course you could, said =John =K. Then off he went. The two girls searched all over the attic. But there were no signs of any kind. Then they went to see =Mother. =Mother knew nothing about the valentine. It had not been there when she had finished cleaning the attic. Tomorrow after school we'll search the attic again, =Hilda said. There must be some way to explain how the valentine got there. At bedtime the twins talked about the attic. I thought we wouldn't like living in a small town, =May said. Now we already have a mystery to work on. The next day was =Valentine's =Day and the girls had fun at school. It didn't seem to matter that they were new. There was once a little boy named =Boots who lived in a big city. He lived on a street with many houses, but no trees or grass. It is no wonder that =Boots loved to go to the park. He loved to see the trees and the colorful birds. He also loved the merry-go-round with all its painted horses. Each day =Boots would stand beside the merry-go-round and watch it go around. He watched because he never had enough money to buy a ride. But =Boots could dream. He could dream as he watched others riding the painted horses. Saturday came at last. It was a beautiful day. The smell of spring was in the air. It was just the kind of day to go with Uncle =Tom to the river. Do you think I'll really find a wood duck's nest? asked =Ed. That all depends on how good your eyes are, Uncle =Tom replied. I'll look carefully along the river, =Ed said. You can depend on that. Are wood ducks nesting right now, Uncle =Tom? asked =Ed, a little later. They are nesting, Uncle =Tom said. Then I'll find a nest, said =Ed. You can depend on that. =Ha! =Ha! Uncle =Tom laughed in a teasing way, as he opened his creel. =Ed looked unhappy. You don't think I'll find one, he said. &&000 OPEN ROADS by Ullin W. Leavell AMR9613R.ASC THIRD GRADE BASAL 1961 SOURCER: CRL SAMPLED BY DPH 12/30/94, & ANALYZED 01-03-95 &&111 In a moment the old man came up again and climbed out of the water. In his hand was a golden ax. Here, he said. This is your ax, isn't it? =No, said =Hans. That isn't mine. =Without a word, the old man put down the ax and jumped into the water again. Again he came back quickly. This time he was carrying a silver ax. Here, he said, holding out the silver ax to =Hans. This is your ax, isn't it? =Hans shook his head. I am sorry, =Old =Friend, but that isn't my ax at all. This time he brought back an iron ax. Yours? he asked. Yes, thank you! cried =Hans. He was so happy to get his ax back that he took it and started to run home at once. Wait! cried the old man. Take the other axes, too! You haven't been greedy with me, so =I won't be greedy with you. Well, if you say so, said =Hans. He thanked the old man, picked up the other two axes, and away he went. Betty =Ann looked at the two dollars that her father had just handed her. Oh, she said. You mean my allowance money? =Tommy nodded. You know very well that's what I mean! Yesterday you said you would pay me the dollar you owe me when you got your allowance. So come on, =Betty =Ann. I have waited long enough! =Betty =Ann turned and went into her room with =Tommy trailing after her. Look, =Tommy, she said. I know I promised to pay you this week, but now I can't. I have to pay for my yearbook at school. The yearbook can wait, said =Tommy. It's been five weeks since you borrowed that dollar. Every week you tell me to wait until you get your next allowance, and =I'm not going to wait any more. =Well, =I don't see why you're in such a hurry, said =Betty =Ann. All you'll do is to put the money back in your bank. =That has nothing to do with it, said =Tommy. You borrowed a dollar from me, and I want it back right now. =John looked around, but no one else had spotted that little fire. Then suddenly he realized something else. The wind was blowing the fire toward an open powderkeg! There was no time to get water, no time to move the keg. If the powderkeg caught on fire, it would blow the ship to pieces. Dropping his gun, =John raced across the deck. He pulled off his coat and started using it to try to put out the fire. Then all at once, his father was beside him, and =Bill and another deckhand came running with water. A minute later, there was nothing left of the fire but a black, wet spot near the powderkeg. That was quick thinking, =John, said his father. That was quick thinking, my boy, and I am proud of what you did. =John looked happily from his father's face to =Bill's. Yes, sir, Mr =Adams! =Bill was saying with a grin. When it comes to quick thinking, =John seems to be following in your footsteps. I can see already that one of these days he will be doing great things for our country. Here we are! cried =Mary =Ann, as the stagecoach rolled to a stop. Look, =Hope! Look, =Mother, =The =Stagecoach =Inn! This is where we'll be staying for the night. =Hope pushed the two kittens she was playing with into a big basket and closed the top. I'm going to miss the kittens, she said. I wish we didn't have to turn them over to the innkeeper's daughter. =Well, that's why her grandmother asked you to bring them, said =Mother. But I know the rest of the trip home will not be much fun for you without those kittens. =When the girls went into the inn, they gave the basket with the kittens to the innkeeper's daughter. How happy she was when she saw the two little kittens! She played with them the rest of the day. After supper she let =Hope and =Mary =Ann play with them, too. The girls were still playing with the kittens when their mother told them it was time to go to bed. The stagecoach leaves very early tomorrow, she said. So say your last good-by to the kittens, and off you go! I'll be up in a minute. The days went by, and at last the day came when the melons were to be picked. =Pablo could hardly wait to start working. But when he came to the garden, he let out a cry that brought his family running. The melons, they are gone! he cried. It is the work of =Brother =Coyote, said =Pablo's father. Brother =Coyote always takes the best melons. At first, =Pablo could not say a word. Then he said quietly, I will go and tell Mr =Armas that I will not be buying the spotted pony after all. When Mr =Armas heard about the coyote, he said, Such troubles come to all of us at times. But it is too bad this must happen to one who has worked as hard as you. =Pablo dropped his head to hide his eyes. For a long time, Mr =Armas went on, I have been looking for a strong boy to help me with my horses. Oh, Mr =Armas! cried =Pablo. I could work for you! I would work just as hard as I worked for those melons! Mr =Armas laughed. One does not round up horses with a donkey, he said. But if I sell you the spotted pony, you can pay for him by working for me. What would you say to that? =Pablo stood up straight, smiling proudly at Mr =Armas. Mr =Armas, he said, I would say that it would be the best sale that you have ever, ever made! =Eddie caught up with his brother and took a quick look into the three black openings. A cold wind blew through one of the passageways, making a strange, crying sound in the darkness. I don't think we should go into any of them, said =Eddie. We might get lost. =Oh, don't be such a baby, =Eddie! said =Jack. You and =Randy stick close behind me, and I'll see that you don't get lost. I'm not a baby! said =Eddie. But =Jack wasn't listening to him. He stepped into a passage and started down.