&&000 AMERICAN BOOK CO.  (1970)   3RD GRADE      AMR9703R.ASC
IDEAS IMAGES AND I SERIES
I CAN COMPETE AND CARE by John M. Franco et al
Source: Hobart WS  xerox scan edit by DPH February 13, 1993

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=Gus and =Luis were on their way home.
They'd just turned the corner of =107th =Street,
and were walking past =The =New =Center.
Say! Will you look at that sign,  said =Gus.
They want a kid to act in their new play. I
can just see myself now, like on =TV. 
What makes you think you would get the
part?  asked =Luis.  Besides, how do you know
can act?
=Gus laughed.  It's easy!  he said, waving
his arm in the air.  All you do is stand up, and
talk, and wave your hands around like this.
Very well, my friend,  said =Luis.  Come with me!
The sign says to go to Stage 4.



But tomorrow's the big game,  I yelled.
 And I'm the only pitcher on the team. 
 You'll never make it,  said =Mom.
 How about =Kelly pitching for us?  asked
=George.
We all looked at one another.
 Maybe =George is right,  I said.  I'm sure I'll
be Okay,  but we could ask her anyway, just in
case. She's pretty good for a girl. 
Just then, =Kelly came marching in.  What's
up?  she asked when she saw my arm.
=George told her what had happened, and
asked if she'd help us out.
=Kelly looked at me, and began to laugh.  My
big brother doesn't want his little sister pitching
for him, she told =George. 
Don't worry! You won't have to!  I told her,
getting mad.  I'll pitch myself, if it kills me! 
 Well, you just may have to do that,  =Kelly
said, and marched out again.
The guys were all mad at me, but they didn't
say a word. They just stood there looking at me.


=Luis worked hard to bring money and new
jobs to =Puerto =Rico. He worked hard to get food
for everyone. Soon, the people of =Puerto =Rico
began to have hope again.
In =1948, the people of =Puerto =Rico voted to
make =Luis =Munoz =Marin their first governor.
He did such a fine job, that they kept him as
their governor for sixteen years.
In those sixteen years, =Puerto =Rico began
to build schools and houses, hospitals and
factories. In those sixteen years, =Governor
=Munoz =Marin saw to it that his people had jobs,
food to eat, and money to buy the things that
they needed.
And in those sixteen years, =Luis =Munoz =Marin
earned the love of his people and the right to be
called a =Famous =American.



Heat from buildings,
Heat from sidewalks,
A hot summer morning.
See the people sit.
Tall ones, short ones,
Fat ones, thin ones,
Old ones, young ones, 
Black and white.



When I got to the newsstand, =Jan was
there. The other kids were playing, but =Jan
was sitting next to the newsstand and writing
in a notebook.
It wasn't long before one of the kids came
running over.  Say, look !  he shouted.  It's
the playwright herself! 
I was sure =Jan would start to fight with
him, but she never stopped writing in her
notebook. She never even looked up at him.
I chased the kid away, and showed =Jan the
book I'd found at the library. She looked at
the picture on the back cover. It was a picture
of a woman. A =Black woman!
Jan didn't say one word, she just began
to read. She didn't say a word for hours.
 Come on, =Jan,  I said at closing time.
 Let's go home. 
Jan looked up at me.  It's about people
like us,  she said, and her eyes were bright.
 It's funny, and it's sad, and    Can't I read
just a little more? 



Then one day, she came home with her face
all red and funny looking.
 What's the matter, =Master =Spy?  I asked.
You wouldn't understand!  she said, and ran
out of the room.                            
Where's your spy box?  I yelled, following
her to her room.  Give it away? 
 Go away!  she yelled back. She sounded like
she really meant it, so I went.
I went downstairs and sat on the back steps. I
wasn't really looking for it, but I couldn't help
seeing it. It was right across the alley on a trash
can ! She must have stopped to pick up
something or talk to one of her friends, and just
left it there. It had to be hers. She was the only
one who had one!

 

See what I mean? She'd worked so hard to get it, 
and then she'd just
left it there! Man! Was
she ever a birdbrain !
I went over and got it.  Well, kid,  I said to
myself,  Look what you did ! You just got
yourself a spy box.



=Tony nodded, starting to feel kind of proud.
 Why didn't you tell us about it?  asked =Jose.
 This what you call daisy painting? 
Sure is!  laughed =Hank coming up to the
guys, too.  And =Tony's the best daisy painter
of all!
Guess I had that one coming,  =Tony laughed.
 How about a game of =Escape, you guys? 
asked =Pete, looking right at =Hank and =Tony.
 Sure,  said =Hank.  =Tony and me, we're a
team ! 



=Jack just nodded, but he had a secret smile
on his face. He was thinking,  Or about me! 
=Ray started up the steps to his house.
 You still got that book? The one about =Jackie
=Robinson?  Jack called.
 No,  =Ray called back.  But I can get it again
if you want. Maybe, called =jack.  Does it have any
pictures?
  Yes!  =Ray called back.  Lots.
Guess maybe that would be Okay,  called =Jack.
Okay,  called =Ray, as he went into the building.
I'll get it for you tomorrow. 
=Jack walked the rest of the way to his own 
house with the secret smile on his face again.
 My name's =Jackie, too!  he was thinking.



The man smiled.  It's looking pretty good,
don't you think?  he asked.
=Tony nodded.
 What do you think should go over there? 
asked the man, pointing to the blank, back wall.
 Has to be something special,  said =Tony.
 Think you'd like to try it?  asked the man.
 Who me?  said =Tony, looking up at the man.
 Why not?  asked the man.
=Tony looked at the wall again.  Well, maybe
it wouldn't really hurt to take a crack at it,  he
said,  I don't have anything to do right now. 
 It's kind of late,  said the man.  Don't you
want to wait till tomorrow? 
 =No!  said =Tony, with a laugh.  
I might never get around to it, if I wait. 



I told her they'd sold them all out, but she
didn't think that was very funny!
At last, it came! It was about as big as a
=Snap-O-Box, but it had all kinds of little drawers
and things.
Send for your own,  she said when I asked to
see it. So I never did get a good look at it.
She took it with her everywhere she went. She
even took it to bed ! I know, because I got up one
night and looked for it. There she was, hanging
on to it in her sleep. She was really a birdbrain
about it.
&&000 american book company  (1971)   3rd GRADE     AMR9713R.ASC
HIGH AND WIDE  (Part I)
IDEAS AND IMAGES (Part II) 
Source: U of Rochester  xeroxed, scanned and editred by DPH 
12-07-92

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As the prince said these words, his feet stopped
dancing. Much to his surprise, he no longer felt so
tired. He made his way to his room, and was the
happiest ever to find a hot bath and clean clothes
ready for him.
He did not know it, but the terrible spell had
been taken off him !
That night was a special night. The jesters had
come to make the family laugh, and the singers
had come to make lively music.
The royal family gathered in the music hall. At
any other time =Prince =Hal would have pushed in
front of =Prince =Richard and baby =Prince =John to
get the best chair for himself.  Instead, he held a
chair for his mother and said sweetly, won't you be seated first.



Still another kind of last name came into being
when towns and villages began to grow very big.
In order to tell which =Jack a man was speaking of,
he named the place where that =Jack lived. He
spoke of the =Jack who lived on the hill, or the =Jack
who lived in the field. In time, these men became
known as =Jack =Hill, or =Jack =Field.
If there were two =Jacks, each one living on a
different hill, they soon became known as =Jack
=Greenhill or =Jack =Brownhill. A =Jack who lived on
the top of a hill might be known as =Jack =Hilltop.
The study of last =names is very interesting.
Think about your own. Does it tell you what
your family did, or where they lived? Maybe it
tells you who was the first man in your family to
pass on his own name.
Chances are, your last name tells you something
about the people in your family who lived back
in the days when last names came into being.


A long time ago, astronomers found out that
they could make a telescope. They used glass
lenses and mirrors in the telescope to help them
see far into the sky. A telescope makes most
things look much nearer than they seem from
where we stand. With a telescope, astronomers
can see the many things that are on the moon.
They can study the rings of =Saturn. They can
study the moons of =Jupiter.
Sometime, if you can look through a very big
telescope, you will see many of these things
yourself, but when you see a star through a
telescope it does not look near at all. It may still
look like only a tiny dot. There are some stars
so very far away that even a telescope lens cannot
make them seem larger.

Suddenly all the lights came on again; the
escalators began to move.  You see, =Grandfather, 
=Bennett said,  you didn't do any real harm. I've
fixed everything. You just haven't learned how
to push buttons and work the switches. See.
=Bennett showed =Grandpa how to push the
buttons. He couldn't see =Grandpa, but he did
see a button on the panel push in. He knew
=Grandpa had pushed it.
 That's the way, =Grandfather,  =Bennett said.
So now it's =Grandpa =Follet who pushes the
buttons. =Bennett =Follet stands by the front door
with his big friendly =sn1ile and welcomes the
people as they come in.
Now, more than a =hundred years later, the =Follett
=Department =Store is really run by old =Grandpa
=Follet himself, with nothing but push buttons.



=Noodlehead touched the turnip,
patted the pan,
waved the stick at the pigs,
stuck the stick between his teeth,
and then he took the bag of apples

=Flip! He flopped the bag over, upside down.
Out came all the apples, rolling and bouncing
down the long hill toward the =Fair. Another and
another and another!
 There!  said =Noodlehead.  The apples will 
take themselves to the =Fair. And I will follow
them and get the prize. 



=Steve =West opened his eyes. The noise from
the street boomed through the open window.
 What's that?  he thought, jumping out of bed
and running to look out the window.
 Boy! A big truck and a big shovel,  he said
to himself Boy! I want to watch that! 
=Steve had never dressed so fast before. While
he ate, he told his mother and father what he
had seen from his window.
=KING: For all our care, I don't believe our little
=Lilita is happy.
=QUEEN: She never cries.
=KING: But perhaps a few tears never really hurt
anyone, my dear. Perhaps we had better give 
the crystal flask to her, to think that she has
never shed a tear in all her life. 
=QUEEN: And she never shall shed one, if =I can 
help it.  Princess =Lilita enters, carrying the
crystal flask and crying. There is no stopper
on the flask. She is followed by the =Nurse and
=QUEEN: What has happened to my child!
crystal flask! Who has done this terrible thing?
=CARA: She climbed Up on the ladder herself, but
when she was halfway down, she took the
stopper out and dropped it.


=Pete =Buchard sat on the front steps of his house
and stared at the crumpled paper in his hand.
 I will not give it to him,  he thought fiercely.
 I will say at school that I have lost it. I will  
say he is too ill to come. I will say he has not the
interest to come. I will say .    


=Neptune is nearly =4 times as wide as the earth.
It takes =165 years to orbit the sun. Neptune has =2
moons. This planet, too, is much too cold for
anything to live there.
=P1uto is smaller than the earth. This planet
takes =250 years to orbit the sun. =Pluto has no
moons. It gets almost no light or heat from the
sun because it is so very far away. From =Pluto, the
sun would look as tiny as a twinkling star.
So far, these nine members of the sun's family are the only planets
that the scientists have discovered. But a new member of the family
may be discovered any day. Perhaps tomorrow. 



Dinosaurs also became fossils when they turned,
to stone. This also took a long, long time. It
happened a little bit at a time. Some hard
material in the water went into the bone and
took the place of the material in the bone. When
this happens, we say that the bone has become
petrified! A petrified bone is one that has turned
into stone.
Fossils were made in other ways, too.  
Sometimes the animal left a footprint in soft mud. A
dinosaur may have been walking along in the soft
mud and left its tracks. Then sand and mud
washed into the footprint and kept it from being
washed away. Slowly the mud hardened and
became rock, and there was a fossil of the track.

=Kami looked at his little sister, =Puhuka playing
at the water's edge. He had to keep her out of
mischief, while his mother was shopping.
Women's work!   he thought. He sighed a
loud sigh and began to clean the fish.
Even before he looked up, =Kami could feel
that there was something wrong. There was a
silence in the air. He lifted his eyes from the
fish and looked for =Puhuka. But =Puhuka was all
right. =Kami looked beyond his little sister to
the sea.                
The sea! =Kami's eyes grew wide, his mouth dropped open. The
half-cleaned  fish fell to the sand. He couldn't believe what his
eyes were telling him. The sea! What had happened to the
sea? The sea was gone! There must be some mistake! 

Tales of the Great Wave flashed through his
mind.  The moon was shining on the night of the
Great Wave,  =Kami had heard his father say

A few fishermen were on the beach that night,   
fixing their nets by the moonlight. As they
sat there, the sea slowly l backed away and
disappeared. 


The =Kippers never threw anything, not  
anything, out.
They kept pieces of string
And clothing and bowls,
Keys to nowhere.
And pans full of holes.

Their apartment on floor five
From windows to door
Was one great big pile
Of shoes they'd outgrown,
And plants needing pots.
Old scrapbooks and papers with
dog-ears and spots.
&&000 THE ECONOMY COMPANY  (1972)  3RD GRADE READER ECO9723R.ASC
AIR PUDDING AND WIND SAUCE by Theodore L. Harris et al
MYSTERIOUS WISTERIA by Theordore L. Harris et al
SOURCE: xerox, scan edit by DPH March 6, 1993

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Never a week went by that =Eddie =Wilson
didn't bring home a piece of something he
called  valuable property.  But his father
called it junk.
All the family knew when =Eddie brought
home some of this valuable property. At
dinner he would always say,  I had a very
enjoyable day today. 
 Now, see here, =Eddie!  said his father
one day.  This junk collecting has to stop!
Every week the neighbors put out all their
rubbish, and every =Saturday you bring most
of that rubbish to our house. Now I'm tired
of it. 
 You were glad when I brought home the
telephone pole,  =Eddie said.
 Well, that was different,  Mr =Wilson
said.  I could use that pole. But this junk
collecting has got to stop. We'll never get
all that junk out of your room. 
 But, =Dad!  said =Eddie.  It's my valuable
property. 
 Valuable property!  said =Eddie's father.
 Junk! All you bring home is junk! 
 Even the telephone pole?  said =Eddie.



=Prince lay back down on the porch. His
eyes were gloomy again as =Jo walked down
the sidewalk.
=Prince had not lain there very long when
the little boy next door began to cry. It
was =Danny =Saddler. His red ball had rolled
into the busy street.  =Prince wanted to run
out and get it, but he had been told to
stay away from =Danny. So the collie just
cocked his ears and watched.
At last, =Danny saw his bright red ball in
the street and scrambled after it.  =Prince
stood up. On the farm he had learned that
cattle and other animals must never go into
the road. So =Prince felt sure that children
in the city should never go out into busy
streets either.
=Prince walked to the end of the porch.
=Danny had reached the middle of the street
when =Prince heard a blast of air horns and
the screech of brakes.
The collie saw the danger at once. A huge
truck was coming down the street! Brakes
screeched again. The driver of the truck
would not be able to stop in time!



=Aw, those babies aren't so great,  said
=Billy.  All that power, and you have to
walk mile after mile just to mow the lawn
anyway. It's too bad you can't do something
about it. 
 Like what?  asked =Fats.
 Oh, fix it somehow so you can ride along
while you're guiding it,  =Billy said.
 How could I do that?  asked =Fats.
 Oh, I don't know,  said =Billy.  Right
now I'm going for a swim. If I think of
anything, I'll let you know. 
=Fats still had half the lawn to mow when
=Billy came back, pulling a wagon. In the
wagon were his swim trunks, a towel, and
about =twenty-five feet of rope.
 What's the wagon for?  =Fats asked as he
stopped the mower.
 For you to ride in,  answered =Billy. He
threw his towel and trunks on the grass and
tied the wagon behind the mower.
 But if I stand up in the wagon, guiding
the mower won't be easy. I'll have to stoop
to reach the handles,  =Fats said as he
studied =Billy's rig.



But lumbermen have learned how to take
care of this problem. They have learned how
to build man-made rivers. They use water
from mountain rivers to build their own
rivers to carry the logs or lumber down
the mountainside.
The man-made river is a shallow wooden
trough built in the shape of a =V. It may be
about a foot and a half wide at the bottom
and four or five feet wide at the top. When
a mountain stream is fed into this trough,
the water runs through it about two feet
deep. This wooden trough is called a flume,
and the water that runs down it makes it
truly a man-made river.
The flume itself has to be built over one
deep valley and canyon after another on its
way to the bottom. The lumbermen build
the flume on wooden stilts, much like those
found under a railroad bridge.



=Bobo, why are you so sad?  asked =Mother.
She sat beside him on the bamboo bench.
=Bobo =Chang looked out the window at the
boys walking up the street.  I want to play
with =Tommy and =Red and =Bobby,  he said.
 Speak, =Bobo. Why do you not play with
them?  asked =Mother.
=Bobo did not answer. He was still looking
sadly out the window, even though the boys
were no longer in sight.
But Mrs =Chang knew why =Bobo did not
play with them. =Red and his two friends
would not let him play.
Very softly Mrs =Chang began to speak.
 Listen carefully to your mother. He that
is not worth having for a friend will never
have a friend.  
Gently she brushed some hair out of his
eyes. Then she went back to the kitchen.
=Bobo thought awhile. Then he ran out of
the house. He went to the playground where
=Red, =Tommy, and =Bobby played baseball.
 Hi!  called =Bobo.
 Can you play baseball?  asked =Bobby.
 No one has ever taught me,  said =Bobo.



 Oh, a helicopter,  he said.
Mrs =Alsop shook her head.  =Noooooo. I
don't think it is. It doesn't have any of
those fans. But you can go out to the barn
and have a look if it matters to you. Take
him out, =Alfred. Watch out for the mud
while you're crossing the yard. 
 Come on,  Mr =Alsop said.  I'd like to
look at the contraption again myself 
=Rafferty followed along as Mr =Alsop led
the way to the barn, crossing the yard on
a walk.
 Got a lot of fine chickens this year, 
Mr =Alsop said.  Very fine chickens,  he
repeated. Then he became thoughtful again.
 Do you think chickens will do very well up
on a star, Mr =Rafferty?  he asked.
 On a what?  said =Rafferty.
 Up on a star. 
Mr =Alsop's barn door squeaked as he tried
bending the latch to open it.  Sticks,  he
said. =Rafferty helped with the latch, and
together they slid the door open. As soon
as he looked inside the barn, =Rafferty knew
he had a story.



But when time came to make camp, =Janey
had to get down and look for berries. As it
got colder and colder, she wished many
times she had remembered her shoes.
At last they came to a small village, way
up in the mountains. And =Pa thought he'd
better try to get some land not too far
away. So for a few days he left =Janey and
=Ma in the village. When he got back, he had
a pleased look. He hitched up their oxen
with the harness and wooden yokes. And
soon they were on their way again.
They had not been traveling long when it
began to snow. Sometimes =Janey crouched
in the cart with old covers around her
while =Ma and =Pa struggled on, looking like
two snow ghosts stumbling along.



=Schumacher can't sit up on his tail and
beg,  said =Jimmie.
 No, but =Butch rolls over and plays dead.
=Schumacher could do that,  said =David.
They tried to teach =Schumacher to roll
over and play dead. No luck! =Schumacher
got tired and snapped at =Jimmie's finger.
Just then =Kay walked up and looked into
the pool.  Hey!  she said.  Your dopey pet
has his eyes open under water! 
 Yes, it looks like he has windows over
his eyes,  said =David.  Did you ever see
such queer eyelids? 
Later =Mother explained,  Alligators have
an extra pair of eyelids, almost like clear
plastic. That's why they can keep their
eyes open under water. 
One day =Jimmie tickled =Schumacher on
his blunt nose with a blade of grass. The
baby alligator wiggled his nose. What a
funny grin! =Jimmie tickled the alligator's
nose again, and it did the same thing.
After that, =Jimmie tickled =Schumacher's
nose with a blade of grass when he wanted
him to show off



 Well, yes,  the man said, rubbing his
chin.  But now see here. These birds don't
even have their feathers. They were eggs
when you first showed them to me. 
 Yes,  said =Kimba,  but you were busy
then and did not buy them.  =Kimba felt like
a real businessman. He was doing business
just as his father did when he bargained
for the price of his wooden figures.
The bearded man began to laugh.  I never
thought I'd see the day when a boy would
out-bargain me. But very well, =twenty-five
pennies apiece it is. But mind you, no one
will receive more than five pennies again
for a bird without feathers,  he said.
=Kimba grinned his biggest grin and held
out his hand for the money. The buyer kept
dropping money into his hand until =Kimba
thought he had a fortune.
 What a day!  =Kimba thought. He had
saved his father's life and had been called
a warrior. He had bargained just like a
full-grown businessman. And now he had
enough money to buy a gift for his chief
and still have some left for himself



But =John didn't know a thing about seals.
So there was only one thing to do. He took
the frightened baby in his arms and carried
it home to the lighthouse.
=John opened the door and tiptoed in.  See
what I found!  he said.
Mother looked up and let out a little
squeal. =Father dropped his book.
 Can I keep it?  asked =John.
 No!  said =Father.  Why, it's so small it
probably won't even be able to eat! 
But =John felt sure =Father was wrong. So
he rushed out to the string of fish he had
caught that morning and brought two little
ones to the seal. The baby sniffed at the
fish. But that was all.
Then =Father carried the seal back to the
water.  There are a lot of seals around, 
he said.  One of them may hear this baby
barking and come find it. 
At daylight the next morning =John jumped
out of bed. Quickly he put on his clothes
and started outside to see if the baby seal
had been rescued. But he tumbled over
something lying in the doorway.



They are in a book which he called =Tales
of =My =Mother =Goose.
Another lover of the old tales was a man
from =Denmark named =Hans =Christian
=Andersen. Hans =Christian liked to visit in
a hospital near his home where the old
women told him stories of the old days in
=Denmark. =Hans =Christian told the old
women stories, too. He told them tales
his father had read to him from a book called
=The =Arabian =Nights.  =Hans =Christian was
such a good storyteller he even made up
stories of his own.
Today the stories of =Hans =Christian are
in a book called =Andersen's =Fairy =Tales.
Perhaps you remember reading one of =Hans
=Christian =Andersen's stories called  =The
=Emperor's =New =Clothes. 
Some of these old stories have been told
and retold in so many countries that we
cannot tell where they first came from.
Others are so much like tales from another
country that we know they must be the same
story. Each has simply been changed a
little by people from different countries.



 But, =Brother =Tiger,  said the =Brahmin.
 You know that if I should let you out, you
would spring on me and eat me up. 
 Oh, never, =Brother =Brahmin!  said the
=Tiger.  I would not do such an ungrateful
thing! Just let me out to get a drink of
water, =Brother =Brahmin! 
So the =Brahmin unlocked the door and let
the =Tiger out. The moment he was out of the
cage, the =Tiger sprang on the =Brahmin and
was about to eat him up.
 But, =Brother =Tiger,  cried the =Brahmin.
 You promised you would not! It is not fair
that you should eat me, when I'm the one
who set you free. 
 That was when I was in the cage,  said
the =Tiger.  But now that I am free, I shall
eat you up. 
The poor =Brahmin wept and begged. At
last the =Tiger agreed to wait and ask the
first five whom they should meet whether
it was fair for him to eat the =Brahmin. The
=Tiger also agreed to act by their decision.
The very first thing they met was an old
=Banyan =Tree, standing by the wayside.
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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 GINN & CO.  (1976)         3RD GRADE READER   GIN9763R.ASC
(also 1979, 1980 printing) 
A LIZARD TO START WITH
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Finally the elevator reaches the lobby and everyone
gets off. Everyone except me. Now is when I head back
to =12H for breakfast. I make my move. As the woman in
front of me gets off I step to the front of the elevator
and press close to the wall where the self-service
buttons are. I wait nervously for the doors to close. I
do not like anyone to notice that I stay on the elevator.
I do not want people getting wise to me.
The doors close. No one has seen me. I push the =12
button and get ready to relax. Then it happens. I get this
feeling. I know that I am not alone. Slowly I turn my
head to one side. I look out of the corner of one eye. I
am right. I am not alone. There is a duck in the elevator
with me. A white duck with orange feet.
Ducks are not allowed in our building. No Pets of Any
Sort are allowed in the projects. So if anyone gets on
this elevator now and sees me and this duck together,
I am going to be in big trouble. It is not easy to get
into the projects, especially a low-income project like
ours. The rent is low and they've got plenty of water
and heat and all. You have to show need before you
can even get on the waiting list. We waited two years
before our number came up.
 Listen!  I say to the duck.  I am not going to get us
kicked out of here for a duck. 
I look away. If anybody does get onto the elevator,
he will not see me paying any attention to any duck.
But the elevator goes straight to =12 without stopping.
The door opens and I dash out. I am safe. I will go and
have my breakfast in peace, and the elevator will carry
the duck to some other floor.
And then what? Who will find that duck next? What if
it's the =Housing Inspector? What if it's somebody that
likes to eat duck?
I turn around and look into the elevator. The duck is
just standing there on these ridiculous orange feet, 
looking at me.
As the doors start to close, the dumb duck quacks. I
can't stand it. I stick my arms through the closing doors
just in time. The doors open. I grab the duck and charge
down the hall. Ducks are not my usual line of work. But
I don't have anything against them either. And I just
don't like the idea of anyone cooking a duck that has
looked me straight in the eye and quacked.
Okay, =Easter,  I say,  I'll take your case. 

TIME: The year =1465.
PLACE: The weaving room of =DOMENICO =COLUMBUS in
=Genoa, =Italy. When the curtain rises,  
fourteen-yearold =CHRISTOPHER is seen seated before the loom,
but his hands are idle. He is reading from a scroll.
=DOMENICO enters the room. 
=DOMENICO: =Cristoforo!
=CHRISTOPHER: Yes, =Father?
=DOMENICO: You are reading again, though I told you to
keep at your weaving. Have I not told you that this
cloth must be ready before this week is passed?
=CHRISTOPHER: Yes, =Father. But .  He hangs his head
for a moment, then looks his father straight in the eye.  I
am tired of weaving! I do not like to weave. But this
tale, =Father, it is wonderful!  He rises, holding the
scroll in his hands.  This is what I like, what I want to
be. Yes, I want to be like =Marco =Polo. You should read
it, =Father-all about the wonderful travels he had,
the strange sights he saw. He was afraid of nothing.
Oh, if only I could be a sailor!
=DOMENICO: What is this nonsense? Always the same,
always this talk of becoming a sailor!
=CHRISTOPHER: When I am grown I shall be a sailor. Not
only that, but a great one, too.
=DOMENICO: You shall be nothing of the kind! My son
shall be a weaver like his father. And you must keep
at your work, =Cristoforo, and stop this talk of sailing
and navigating, I tell you. How can a boy of fourteen
know what he wants to be when he is older?
=CHRISTOPHER: I know what I want! When I am a man I
shall follow in the footsteps of =Marco =Polo and
travel over all the world. I shall have ships that sail
the seas, and I shall be their master!
=DOMENICO: Let me hear no further talk of this kind.
Now give me that scroll and get back to your  
weaving at once!  He takes the scroll from =CHRISTOPHER hands. 
=DOMENICO leaves and =PEDRO enters. 
=PEDRO: What, =Cristoforo! You sit at the weaving while a
new ship has come into port, a strange and  
wonderful ship, and you not there to see her! All of =Genoa
was there to watch her dock. What a beautiful sight
that was as she entered the harbor with her sails
flying!



The engineer blows two long blasts on the whistle.

=TOOOOT =TOOOOT
This tells the roundhouse workers,  I am going to
move forward. 

Now the engine has moved into the railroad yards.
The engineer blows four short blasts on the whistle.
=TOOT =TOOT =TOOT =TOOT
 Where shall I go? 

The switchman waves to the engineer.  Come
ahead. 
The engineer whistles the answer. =TOOT =TOOT
Here I come! 

The train that =Engine =Number =312 is going to pull
is on the first track.
The cars are all ready for the engine to couple onto
the first car.
The switchman signals for the engineer to back
up.
The engineer answers. =TOOT =TOOT =TOOT
 I will back up. 
The engineer whistles now for the air man.

=TOOOOT =TOOOOT =TOOOOT =TOOOOT =TOOOOT

Come and couple me up. 
Quickly, the engine is coupled and ready to go.
But the engineer must find out if the conductor is
ready.

=TOOOOOOOOT
 Are we all ready? 

The conductor is on the caboose at the rear end of
the train. The conductor is testing the air that runs in a
pipe under all the cars.
The engineer looks at the air gauges on the panel
in front of the cab of the engine. They tell the engineer
the conductor is ready.
Then the engineer blows the whistle.

=TOOOOT =TOOOOT


Learning to read and write helped people to have
much better lives. As they learned more, they needed
ways of sending messages.
Some villages built stone towers and made fires on
top to signal other villages about an enemy. Huge logs
were burned near the seashores to warn ships of
danger. These burning logs were the first lighthouses.
Today, lighthouses use electricity to flash signals to
ships.
In central =Africa people used drums to communicate
with one another. A drummer from one village would
beat out a message for the tribe in a second village.
Someone in the second village would beat out the
same message for the people in the village beyond.
Members of the same tribe understood the pattern of
the drum beats, but strangers did not. By using this
 jungle telegraph,  as it was often called, drummers
could send an important message safely for =hundreds
of miles. 
Bells were also used to send messages in early times.
Church bells were rung to call people together when
there was important news. Some towns had a =Town
=Crier. This person walked along the streets and called
out the news. The =Town =Crier rang a bell to get the
people to come outdoors and listen.
In early times, letters were often hand-delivered by
travelers. Later, =Post =Riders, messengers on  
horseback, became the first regular mail carriers.
In order that letters could go more swiftly, the =Pony
=Express was begun on the =American frontier. A person
rode horseback with the mail fastened to the saddle.
About every ten miles the rider changed horses. After
the rider had ridden a =hundred miles, another rider took
the mail and rode on. In that way the mail was carried
from place to place. After better roads were built,
letters were sent by stagecoach. It took many weeks for
the coach to travel a few =hundred miles.
Now, mail is delivered every day. Sometimes it travels
=hundreds of miles on fast trains overnight. Usually it is
sent on airplanes. Letters and packages can be  
delivered to people across the ocean in three or four days.


 I know it's funny,  the teacher said,  but now I need
the shoe. 
=Annie looked at the boards of the floor. A shiny black
beetle crawled between the cracks.
The door opened and a man teacher came inside
with a shoe in his hand. As he passed =Annie's desk,
he touched her shoulder and smiled down at her.
 I saw someone playing tricks,  he said.
The teacher looked at =Annie and the room was very
still. When school was over for the day, =Annie waited.
Timidly, with hammering heart, she went to the  
teacher's desk.
 Do you want my mother and father to come to the
school tomorrow?  she asked.
 No, =Annie,  the teacher said.  I have the shoe.
Everything is all right. 
=Annie's face was hot and her hands were cold. 
turned and ran. She was the last to climb on the bus.
=Finally, there was her own bus stop. She hopped
down and slowly trudged the long way home. She
stopped beside the loom. The rug was now much higher
than her waist.
That night she curled up in her blanket. She slept
lightly, and awakened before dawn. There was no soup
from her mother's sheepskin. Her grandmother was a
quiet hump in her blanket. =Annie heard only her
father's loud, sleeping breathing. There was
other sound on the whole earth, except the howling
of a coyote from far across the desert.
In the dim light of early morning, =Annie crept outside
to the night pen where the sheep were sleeping.
The dry wood creaked when she opened the gate and
pushed it wide open against the fence.
She tugged at the sleeping sheep until one =sto
quietly. Then the others stood also, uncertain shoved
together. The lead goat turned toward the open gate
and =Annie slipped her fingers through his belled collar.
She curled her fingertips across the bell, muffling
sound, and led the goat through the gate. The sheep
followed.
She led them across the sand and around the =sn
mesa where she let go of the goat.
 Go,  she said.



What makes dreams come
true? Is it what other people
think of you? Is it what you
think of yourself? Is it luck? Or
is it all of these? =Hai =Yin had to
find out for herself. Perhaps as
she grows and discovers the
answers, you will too.
In the great gray city of =Taipei, on the busy street
of =Ho =ping lived a girl named =Hai =Yin
Above the =Precious =Lion =Beauty =Parlor and next door
to the =Won =Chuan =Ham =Works, =Hai =Yin lived with her
mother, father, baby sister =Mei =Mei'5 and older brother
=Wu.
 =Hai =Yin was born in the =Year of the =Dragon,  her
father said proudly.  =Hai =Yin is a =Dragon  =Girl. 
In =Taiwan, it is said that people born in the =Year
of the =Dragon are the luckiest in the world. To be a
=Dragon =Girl is a very fine thing.  =Hai =Yin liked to think
about it. One day she, said to her brother,  You know, =Wu,
someday I am going to be famous. 
=Wu laughed.  And how are you going to become
famous? 
&&000 HARPWR & ROW  (1972)  3R GRADE               HAR9723R.ASC
SPRINGBOARDS LEVEL 12  3-1 M. Jean Greenlaw et al 
FROM NEAR AND FAR  11  3-2 BY ERIC P. HAMP et al
Source:Hobart WS xerox scan edit by DPH          February 11, 1993

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Here is an illustration from
=Sparrow =Socks. Look at the
pictures hanging on the wall.
Why are they satire? What are
they satires of? Have you seen
some of these pictures in other
places ? Where did you see
them?

He set the wheels on the wonderful sock machine
so it would make the smallest pair of socks it could.
It clicked and it clacked, and it purred and it
whirred, and in a minute out popped the tiniest
wee pair of socks in the whole world! It was
the beauteous new, warm and woolly winter
sock with the stripes and the bright red toe on it,
but small enough for a little bird to wear.

The moving man was right,  said =Don.
I do like my new home.
I have a new ant nest,
and I have two new friends.
All I need are a tree house
and a tin-can telephone. 
We can take care of that,  said =Jack.
Look over there! 
In =Don's backyard
there was lumber for a tree house.
Jack and =Jimmy each handed =Don
a tin-can telephone.



They put some soil
from under the wood into another jar.
They took two pieces of glass
that were the same size.
They put waterproof tape around
one of the pieces of glass.
They turned up the tape.
On one side they left a small opening
for the ants to go in and out.

On the porch was the box.
=Don lifted a piece of glass.
He lifted a piece of cardboard.
Under the cardboard was an ant nest
between two pieces of glass.


=Emilio crossed the street to the next block,
where the store was. It was dark and cool inside.
=Emilio bought the bread. Then he looked at the candy bars.
It was hard to choose. They all looked good.



People from the city came in a bus
to see =El =Monsfruo.
The people of the village
sold them oranges and melons
and hot dogs and corn cakes to eat.

There was a loud CRACK,
and the earth opened wide.
The farmer ran,
=Pablo ran,
and the ox ran too.
Fire and smoke came from the ground.



The illustration on these two pages is
from the book =A =Tree Is =Nice. The artist
won the =Caldecott =Medal in =1957 for the
art in that book. Compare this art with the
art in =Frog and =Toad =Are =Friends.



The brook was quiet.
It did not move.
It was frozen quiet and still.
It was winter.

The brown earth was quiet.
Nothing moved in the brown earth.
It was frozen quiet and still.
It was winter.

Not even a small bug moved.
Not even an earthworm turned  
in the cold ground.             
Even the frogs seemed frozen.
They lay so quiet and still. 



He almost drowned!  cried =Jacot.
What kind of gull is this? He can't
even swim. 
Once I saw some young gulls in the
water for the first time,  explained one
of the fishermen.  The father and
mother gulls were swooping down beside
them to tell them what to do. What
kind of papa are you that you have not
shown =Fripoun how to swim? 
=Jacot waited until the gull had his
first grown-up coat of gray feathers
mixed with brown. Then he put some
sea water into a tank on deck. He
placed =Fripoun lightly upon the water.
The gull kicked, and flapped his wings.
No, no!  said =Jacot.  Do not kick
the water. Push it back with your feet
and lift your head. That is the way. 
Once =Fripoun stopped flapping his
wings wildly, he sailed as easily as if
he had been swimming all his life.




The big, round sun was just coming up
on =May =25 as =Kobi started down the
mountain trail which joined the road
leading into the village. In the pack on
his back was his noontime lunch. His
goat, =Whitie, a rope around her neck,
tripped along behind him.
The road, when he came to it, was
crowded with farmers driving their
unwilling cattle to market. The cows
were a soft gray color like =Kobi's cow,
=Gurt, and like most of the cattle one
sees in =Switzerland.



The lad would put back the knife,
shaking his head sadly.
I haven't a shilling to my name, 
he would answer,  and I'm not likely
ever to have one. 
Then the peddler would pull the lad
over to him and whisper in his ear,
 =Take the knife, lad. It will rest far
more easily in your pocket than in my
pack.  Then, like as not, some lass would
hold up a blue ribbon to her yellow
curls and ask,  =Master =Peddler, how
much must I pay you for this? 

=Timothy had no idea what to do now.
He couldn't ride the merry-go-round.
He couldn't even look at the ponies.
The =Ferris wheel was not running. But
come now. Maybe he did know what to
do. If he got rid of the duck, his
troubles would be over.
He put the duck down right in  
the middle of all the passing people. Then
he tried to hurry away. He couldn't.
Something was pulling at =Timothy's
shoestring. When =Timothy looked down,
he saw that it was the duck. One of
=Timothy's shoestrings had come untied.
The duck had it in his mouth.
As =Timothy looked down, the duck did
a funny thing. He started to m e the
shoestring. While he nibbled, he
whispered busily to the shoestring. The
little busy whispers sounded happy.
=Timothy stooped to tie his shoestring.
He stooped way over.



The crows calling all day in =Alexander's
=Wood could not be heard there. They
were too far away. The trains rolling
all night in the bigger valley could not
be heard. They were too far off. At
night rabbits played in the quiet valley.
But rabbits can play the hardest games
and still not make a bit of noise. And
the birds in =Timothy's valley sang only
in the morning and a little at night.
Timothy loved his quiet valley. But
sometimes the valley was so quiet it
made him wish that some good fortune
would bring him a pet to be with him
all day long, a pet and a companion.



I would like to stand on a mountain
When its top is covered with snow.
Then I could look up
At the great blue sky
And down at the world below.
With the sun on my face
And the wind through my hair,
I could look all around me
And see EVERYWHERE.

Once again =Ramon made his way
through the crowds in the market place.
His bright eyes were on the lookout for
the weaver. At last, high above his head,
he saw a pile of folded serapes moving
slowly through the crowd. He waved
and called to the weaver, who did not
have a stall but was carrying the folded
serapes on top of his head.
The weaver laughed loud and long when
=Ramon asked him to trade one bowl for
one serape. He would not do it.


The Storyteller's Story.

Do you know how to play a game
called  =Follow the =Leader ? Someone in
=Miss =Winters' schoolroom in =Redwood =City
did. No sooner had =Angelo's story come
to an end than =Ramon said in an excited
voice,  I know a story as good as that.
It happened to my father. His name is
=Ramon, too.
 My father used to live here, but I
never did,  he said, running up to the
map on the wall and pointing to the
country of =Mexico.  He said that he
lived not far from an old, old village at the
foot of a mountain. Do you know what else
he told me? In that village there used to
be a man who was the village storyteller.
Every market day he sat in the shadow of
a tree in the market place and told some
old tales, or stories, about =Mexico.
Everyone crowded round to listen because
those tales were so exciting.



 Silly boy!  exclaimed =Grandfather.
 Who ever heard of music for a donkey?
Put an end to this nonsense. There is
work to be done. 
But, =Grandfather,  begged =Marco.
=Serafina belonged to the puppet show
we saw last summer. The people who
ran the show played bagpipe music.
Maybe that is what is wrong with
=Serafina. She misses all the music. 
=Grandfather shook his head to show
that he did not believe a word =Marco was
saying. Not one word!
=Marco looked over at =Serafina. The
donkey had stopped braying and was
eating grass. He started to play on his
goatskin bagpipes.



By this time the boys and girls from
the rest of the village had gathered
around the cart, staring at the bright
colors and the beautiful pictures.
The woman from the cottage next door
left her seat beside her doorway to
walk over and tell =Grandfather what a
wonderful workman he was.
Farmers on their way to market
stopped to stare in astonishment at the
little cart. Never had they seen a cart
so bright and so beautiful.
&&000 HARPER & ROW  (1973)  3RD GRADE            HAR9733R.ASC
FROM MYSTERIES TO MICROBES by Bryon H. VanRoekel et al
Design for Reading Series

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Afterward =Pippi asked them to step
into the living room. There was only
one piece of furniture in there. It was
a chest with many tiny drawers. =Pippi
opened the drawers and showed =Tommy
and =Annika all the treasures she kept
there. There were wonderful birds
eggs, strange shells and stones, pretty
little boxes, lovely silver mirrors, and
many other things that =Pippi and her
father had bought on their journeys
around the world. =Pippi gave each of
her new playmates a little gift to
remember her by. =Tommy got a dagger
and =Annika a little box covered with
pink shells. In the box there was a
ring with a green stone.
 Suppose you go home now,  said
=Pippi,  so that you can come back
tomorrow. Because if you don't go
home, you can't come back and that
would be too bad. 




When you read a story or poem over and over 
again because you enjoy it, you
are doing what =hundreds of people all
over the world do. Good stories and
poems that people read again and again
are called literature.
When you read literature, you may
be reading something that was written
many years ago, or you may be reading
something that was just written. You may
be reading about faraway places or about
your own town. What you are reading may
be true, or it may be make-believe.
Whatever you read, you will learn what
was in another person's mind when he
or she wrote and you will be wiser


Finally a little girl said,  Oh, =Sire,
we know that you love us. But all of
us children are getting very tired and
bored with playing. Most of us are too
fat or too sick from eating so many
treats to even get on our bicycles.
And none of us is very smart because
we don't go to school enough. 
The king was very sorry to see the
children so unhappy, so he changed the
laws. Then the children's lives became
very much like yours.
And everyone lived happily ever after.



All the large cities in the =United
=States, in =Canada, and in other countries
are connected by many airways. The
governments of the different countries
set up rules that airline companies
using the airways must follow. For
example, planes flying in different
directions can't fly at the same altitude,
or height.
Some cities near airports have rules
about where planes can or cannot fly.
For example, planes landing at =Kennedy
=Airport, the largest airport in =New =York,
must come in over water and not over
the city.
Control towers at airports help keep
the airways safe, too. Control towers
are often located at the tops of tall
airport buildings. All around the tower
are glass walls. The people who work
in the tower are called air traffic
controllers.


Traveling the Waterways

=Captain =Montero lives in the port city
=Callao in =Peru. He knows a lot about
seas, oceans, rivers, and lakes. He has
to know a lot because he is the captain
of a large ship that travels on all of
these waterways.
Captain =Montero's ship is a cargo ship.
It transports goods and materials all
over the world. Most of the cargo it
carries is bulky or heavy. Transporting
such big, heavy cargo by ship is cheaper
than carrying it by any other form of
transportation.



When automobiles were first built,
they were so strange to people that they
were shown and driven in circuses. The
first automobiles were called horseless
carriages because of the way they looked.
Going for a ride in an early
automobile meant traveling on dirt
roads or on cobbled city streets.
On rainy days, the dirt roads turned
into mud roads. And automobiles often
got stuck in the mud. Because many
automobiles had no windows or roofs,
drivers got very dirty. To protect their
clothes, they had to wear special coats.
Early automobiles could go only a
little faster than carriages drawn by
horses. They were almost impossible to
drive in bad weather. Because they
needed to be repaired very often, drivers
never knew if they would get to where
they wanted to go.



Summer was just beginning in the
year =1813. The =Johnson family had left
their home in =Pennsylvania and were
traveling to =Missouri. Mr =Johnson liked
wide open spaces. He wanted more land
than he had in =Pennsylvania. And there
was plenty of land in =Missouri.
Leaving =Pennsylvania was hard for
Mrs =Johnson and the twins, =Ann and
=Adam. They had to leave their friends
and many things they loved. Yet now
that they were on their way, everyone
was excited.



Bugs claimed he had never been to
=Danny's house.
Yet he knew the porch railing, the
steps, and the front door were just
painted and still wet.
How had he given himself away?
By   jumping over the steps getting
on and off the porch instead of walking
on them,  righting himself without
touching the porch railing after he
skidded, and  knocking on the glass
window rather than on the front door
when no one answered the doorbell.
Obviously, =Bugs didn't want to get
fresh white paint on his hands and
shoes!



 Happy birthday, =Homer dear,  said
his aunt. She gave him a kiss and
handed him the box. Then she left him
with his two friends who were there
helping him celebrate. And she went
into the kitchen to talk to his mother.
As =Homer opened the box, out crawled
the little snake.
 A snake!  said =Barney.
 &&000 HARPER & ROW  (1976)  3ST GRADE              HAR9763B.ASC
TROUBLE AND TURNIPS by no author given on title page

NOTE: This is from the READING BASIC PLUS series
      This is not part of the WONDER STORY BOOKS series

SOURCE: ELMIRA COLLEGE: xeroxed, scanned, edited by DPH
January 16, 1993

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 nodded her head.
 he said,  why doesn't =Papa come
home every night? =Ana's papa comes home
every night. Why not my papa? 
 sighed.  Poor =Papa,  she said,  has
to work very hard. He has to have two jobs
to get enough money so we can eat and have
a place to live. His jobs are far from here, too.
Poor, poor =Papa. He works so hard. 
The door opened, and =Manuela, =Carlos, and
=Ricardo came in together from school.




The engine made its way down =Taku's street, up to
the =Street of =Shops, past the town hall to the edge
of town, and back again. When they got back to
=Taku's house, =Mother invited Mr =Sakamoto into the
house for some sweet bean-paste cakes and tea.
=Grandfather, =Grandmother, and old =Aunt =Yuri had
come, too. And the visit turned into quite a party.
=Taku kept right on smiling and ate four sweet
cakes, much to his mother's surprise.

When Mr =Sakamoto was leaving, he said to =Mieko,
 =Mieko, don't worry. I know =Taku is going to get
better. He asked me if he could have my job on
the fire engine when I get too old to work! That
was a very good idea you had! 

Now it was =Mieko's turn to smile.



He was here when I came home,  her mother
said.  He was worrying about something.  They
went downstairs.

 =Jimmy's mad at you,  said Mrs =Martin.  He
says you stood him up. 

=Joanna walked past Mrs =Martin into the back
bedroom, where =Jimmy slept with his big brother.

 Is your turtle still alive?  she asked. =Jimmy
nodded, but he didn't say anything.

 Fresh hamburger is what he needs and liver and
lettuce. Cut up in little bits. That's what my
teacher said. I'll help you get some tomorrow. 

 You really will?  asked =Jimmy.

 I really will,  said =Joanna. And then she went
back upstairs with her mother and went to bed.



There was a witch.
The witch had an itch.
The itch was so itchy it
Gave her a twitch.

Another witch
Admired the twitch,
So she started twitching
Though she had no itch.

Now both of them twitch,
So it's hard to tell which
Witch has the itch and
Which witch has the twitch.



One day some workmen came to the park. They
brought a steam shovel with them. They scooped
up dirt to make a hole for a new building. The hole
got deeper, and the dirt piled higher. Finally, the
workmen and their steam shovel went away.
That afternoon =Miguel
went to the park as
usual. Some of his
friends were on the
huge pile of dirt.
Suddenly =Miguel had
an idea.



My name is =David, and I am eight years old. This
is a picture of me and my brother, =Sam. =Sam
has red hair, and he is only four. We live in a
brownstone house in =Brooklyn with our mom. It's
the one with the red flowers in the window box.
Our mom works in the city on a computer. One
time we got to go to her office, and I made a
computer card with holes in it that said my name.



Gravity is everywhere, on the earth, on the
moon, on =Jupiter, on =Mars, and on all the other
planets. All things in the universe have gravity.
The sun has gravity, and so does every other
star.
The gravity of the earth holds things on the
earth. It holds down rugs and tables and you
and me. Gravity makes a ball come down. It
makes us work hard to lift a heavy stone.
We know where gravity is; it is everywhere.
And we know what gravity does. But no one
knows exactly what gravity is. Gravity is a
mystery.



So he did. And =Little =Black =Riding =Hood
answered, 

=Red! =Red!! =Red!!!

She answered,  I'm going to the store to buy
some tomatoes. 

No, she didn't. She said,  I'm going to my
grandma, who is sick, but I've lost my way. 
Of course! And the horse said, 

What horse? It was a wolf.

&&000 HARPER & ROW  (1976)   3RD GRADE               HAR9763W.ASC

NOTE: 'W' IN FILENAME MEANS A 'WONDER BOOK'
AFTER THE SUN SETS by ??
THE WONDER STORY BOOKS
Source: Elmira College  xerox, scan, edit by DPH January 17, 1993

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The Hens

The night was coming very fast;
It reached the gate as I ran past.

The pigeons had gone to the tower
of the church,
And all the hens were on their perch

Up in the barn, and I thought I heard
A piece of a little purring word.

I stopped inside, waiting and staying,
To try to hear what the hens were saying.



 Now,  said the old woman,  I think that you
had better take my horse and ride to the =East
=Wind and ask him. It may be that he knows the
way to the land east of the sun and west of the
moon, and he may blow you there. 
 Thank you,  said =Freda, as she got on the old
horse.
 Not at all,  said the old woman,  and you may
as well have this jewel box to take with you. When
you get to the =East =Wind, strike the old horse
under the left ear and tell him to be off home. 



 It is true,  said the princess.  Look in the next
room. 
=Prince =Hal went into the next room. There stood
his six brothers. By the side of each was a
princess. He went up to them and touched them.
They had all been turned into cold stone.
=Prince =Hal went back to the princess in chains.
 How do you happen to be here?  he asked.  Why
are you held in chains? 
The princess began to cry.  The giant carried
me away from my father's castle,  she said.  He
says he will keep me in chains until I become his
bride. 
 That will never be!  said =Prince =Hal.  The wolf
told me you knew how I could free my brothers. I
shall free you, too. 



When they could eat no more, the old woman
made up two little beds, and into the beds the
children climbed.
 Oh, what a fine soft bed this is!  said =Hansel.
 Yes!  said =Gretel.  I think I can sleep for days.
The animals in the woods cannot get us here. 
They went to sleep in no time at all. They did
not know that the bad old witch had this house
made of sugar and cake just so that she could get
little children into it.



The giant soon stopped by a big apple tree.
 Watch me bend this apple tree over and get
the big apples at the top,  said the giant.
And the giant did bend the apple tree right over
and began to eat the apples.
 Help yourself,  said the giant.  But you will
have to help me hold the tree down. 
So =Snip held to the tree and began to eat one
of the apples. Just then the giant let go the tree,
and you know what happened to =Snip. Up went
the apple tree, and up went =Snip. He went right
over the tree and came down on the other side.
 =Ho, =ho, =ho!  laughed the giant.  What kind of
man are you that you cannot bend a little apple
tree over? 



Once there was a boy named =Pat. =Pat knew
very little, but he did the best he could. He knew
how to run errands very well.
=Pat ran errands for people, and they all liked
him. As he went on his errands, he laughed and
sang and talked to everyone he met. But he
always came back with the things that he went
after, and that is more than some boys can do.
When he went to people's houses, he always
said  If you please  and  =Thank you. 



This is what =Aiken-Drum said to the people of 
the village. Then he looked long at an old, old 
woman and said,
 One of you once I knew.
She can tell you this is true. 
Then the old, old woman said,  Yes, it is true.
He is a brownie. Brownies like work and think it is
play, and they never take any pay for their work.
They like children, and children like them. They
come when people need them most. They work at
night when other people are asleep. They eat little
and do much. 



He went out to the well and got the rope. Then
he went up on top of the house and tied one end
of the rope around the cow's neck and put the
other end of the rope down the chimney. Before
he sat down to churn again, he tied the rope to
one of his feet.
 Now,  he said,  I shall know if anything
happens to the cow. 
By this time the morning was almost gone, and
he thought to himself,  My, my, I must put the
porridge on. It will soon be time for dinner. 
He put water into a pot and put the pot on the
fire. Then he got some meal to make the porridge.



The children sat down to rest. =Gretel gave
=Hansel some of her bread to eat.
 It will be a long way home,  said =Hansel,  but
the bread crumbs will show us the way. 
=Gretel's bread was soon gone, and the children
started back home. They had not gone far before
they saw that there were no crumbs to show them
the way.
 Oh, oh!  said =Gretel.  The little birds ate up
your crumbs, =Hansel. 
=It was true. Not a crumb was to be seen. The
little birds had found them all.
=Gretel began to cry, but =Hansel said,  Don't cry,
=Gretel. I can find the way without the crumbs. 
=They started through the woods, but they were
soon lost and did not know where they were going.
They walked all night and all the next day, too. At
last they lay down under a tree to sleep.
&&000 HARCOURT BRACE JOVANOVICH  (1974) 3RD GRADE    HBJ9743R.ASC
WIDENING CIRCLES (2nd edition) also 1970.
Source: Elmira College xerox scan edit by DPH February 6, 1993

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There once was a man who lived all
alone in a little house on the edge of a
town. He didn't have any wife or children,
so he always cooked his own supper,
cleaned the house by himself, and made
his own bed.
One night he came home hungrier than
usual, so he made himself a big, big supper.
It was a very good supper. But there was
so much of it that he grew very, very tired



=Dulary was far too little to be put in
with the zoo's two grown-up elephants,
=Peggy and =Petal. Instead, she had her own
special pen in the =Children's =Zoo.
 I liked =Dulary from the first day,  =Ann
says.  Maybe it was because she needed
me. I worked hard at being a mama to her.
You could tell she was thankful.
 I began coming in early every morning
to fix her food for the day. As soon as she
saw me, her ears stood out like a pair of
little wings and she started to call. Then
she walked up to me like a pet dog.
 And eat! She gained =fifty pounds the
first few days.
 Then she started to lose a little, so we
changed her food. We put her on the zoo's
special formula.
=Dulary's formula was like a food first
made for sick monkeys. It was made from
baby food and dry milk. To this were
added rolled oats, raisins, sweet syrup,



Just as there are books about almost every
subject under the sun, artists have painted
pictures about everything you might think
of. They have painted animals, quiet
country roads, the sea when there is a
storm, life in the city, mothers and children,
boys and girls, young and old people.
In the painting below by =John =Sloan,
you see children building a snowman,
black cats, a girl looking from the window.
What else do you see?



=Shhh!  she said as she came in the
door.  No more of that! We have to keep
quiet for a while, so off with you to the
roof, and play there until I call you. Yes,
you can take the game with you, and your
tops, too, if you like. 
The sun was bright on the roof and they
had a good time. After lunch, their mother
took them for a walk, and when they got
back she sat down and read them stories.



it was time for him to go on with the mail.
As he left, an old lady came up. She
tried to look, too. But she was too short.
 I wish I were taller,  she said.  I'd like
to see, too. 
 Why not?  laughed the foreman.
So =Stevie drilled another hole a little
higher than his. When he was finished, he
ran back to his place. But =Johnny =Hall was
there.
 Hey,  said =Stevie,  that's my place. I
drilled that hole myself! 
 But I want to look, too,  said =Johnny.
The foreman looked at the two boys. He
put his head back and laughed.
 It looks as if we have more work to do,
=Stevie,  he said.  We have one place for
tall men, and one for the ladies. But we
need more than one place for children. 
=The foreman took the brace and bit.
Soon he had drilled another hole. Then
he took a piece of chalk from his pocket
and began to write on the fence.



his mother's sheep back up the canyon path.
Then he had coiled it very slowly, and put it
back in the cave's darkness.
After that morning he had taken the rope
out of the cave many times. He had learned
to tie it well, and he had learned to throw
it without missing over the round gray
rocks that were in the canyon.
Then, one time when the rope was in his
hands, and he was getting ready to throw it
over a round gray rock, a sheep had come
near, and suddenly he had thrown it over
the sheep's head.
Now =Salt =Boy sat on the rock that was
tall and flat. He was thinking about that
first time, and he was thinking about how
many times after that he had thrown the
rope over the heads of other sheep of his
mother. And he was thinking about
yesterday, and the promise he had given
his father.



most wonderful orange. He knew about
trees, and he knew what to do.
He cut a bud from the branch that had
the big oranges. Then he made a =T-shaped
cut in the bark of a small orange tree. He
fitted the bud into the cut, under the bark.
Then he tied up the cut.
The worker budded other trees with
cuttings from the same branch. The buds
grew into strong branches. In time,
the new branches began to bear the
strange-looking sweet oranges that had no
seeds. Today we call them navel oranges.



Beginning in the year =1969, =Earth men
have had other space things to study.
Astronauts landed on the moon and came
back to =Earth with some moon rocks.
Astronauts also gave us our first good look
at some of the craters on the moon.
The picture above shows part of one
side of the moon. This is the side that
we never see from =Earth. This side is
always turned away from our planet. As
you study the picture, you see that there
are craters of all sizes. Do you think that
meteorites may hit the moon as well as
=Earth?



=Edward =Lear was an artist who
lived over a hundred years ago in
=England. When he was twenty he
stayed with the =Earl of =Derby,
painting the =Earl's collection of
birds. These poems and drawings
were made for the =Earl's children.
Do you think they are funny?
There was a Young Lady whose nose
Was so long that it reached to her toes;
So she hired an old lady,
Whose conduct was steady,
To carry that wonderful nose.



Then jellybeans came out of still another
pipe. They landed in a pan with a =plink,
=Inkk =Plunck.

The children laughed happily and
crowded around =Pete and =Art to grab up
the gum balls and jellybeans for a penny each.
Boy,  said =Pete, looking at the growing
pile of pennies.  Just think how much
money we could make if we made some
soda pop, too! 
 Gum and jellybeans are enough,  said
&&000 HARCOURT BRACE JOVANOVICH (1979)  3RD GRADE  HBJ9793R.ASC
LEVEL 8--(3-1)  WIDENING CIRCLES by Margaret Early et al
LEVEL 9--(3-2)  RING AROUND THE WORLD by Margaret Early et al
Source: Hobart WS  xerox scan edit by DPH  February 13, 1993

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That night no one could sleep. Everyone
watched the fire in the sky. It came from where
the farmer's field had been. There was a loud
BOOM, and another, and another.
Hot lava came out of the earth. The lava
twisted over the ground, through the trees. It
came toward the farmer's house. It came toward
the village. Pieces of burning stone flew in the
air. The earth coughed. Every time it coughed,
the hill of fire grew bigger.
In a few days the hill was as big as a
mountain. And every now and then there was a
loud BOOM. Squirrels and rabbits ran, and
birds flew away from the fire. People took their
animals away to safe places. Burning pieces
of rock flew everywhere. The farmer and his
neighbors put wet cloths over their noses to
keep out the smoke.
When the booming stopped and the fires
dwindled, the farmer's house was gone. The
school was gone. The market was gone. Half the
village was gone.



=Hatchy =Hen sat down in the nest and started
to hatch. In a little while she was through and
hopped off the nest. And what do you think she
had hatched out of that spaghetti?
Fire hose. A =hundred meters of fire hose. I
hooked it up to the water and put out the fire.
That's how =Hatchy =Hen saved the farm.



Time passed. =Thousands of boys and girls
and nearly as many grown-ups had come to see
=Dulary that first summer of her life. She spent
her first winter indoors with the other animals.
Then there was another summer as the star of
the =Children's =Zoo, with =Ann as her keeper. In
the meantime =Dulary grew and grew and grew.
By the end of her second winter in the zoo,
she was too big for the =Children's =Zoo. She was
far from grown-up, and she was as friendly as
ever. But she just didn't fit in with baby ducks
and baby lions anymore. The zoo decided that
=Dulary would go to the =Elephant =House.
=Dulary grew used to being with the  
grownup elephants. Indeed, she must have felt that
she was also grown-up. But she didn't forget
=Ann.  =Ann would come by many times to say
hello and to pet =Dulary's trunk just as she used
to do.
=Dulary was always glad to see =Ann, but she
didn't carry on and call after her when =Ann
went away. She was acting more grown-up.



=Ookie was the only walrus at the marine zoo.
That was part of the trouble.
She liked people a lot. But the zoo keepers and
the people who came to see =Ookie couldn't be
with her all the time. That was another part of
the trouble. =Ookie was just about the most playful
walrus that marine zoo had ever known. That
was the biggest part of the trouble.
Oh, yes! That young walrus, without meaning
to, made a lot of trouble one summer at the
marine zoo.    



It is the next night and =Dad comes home
from work. A woman is with him. 

=DAD: Everyone, come and meet Miss =Carla =Lopez.
Yesterday she moved in downstairs. She just
moved to our city.
=MOM: We're very glad to meet you, Ms =Lopez.
=CARLA: Please call me =Carla.
=RAY: Hello. Where are your children?
=LINDA: Yes, and how old are they?     ~
=CHET: How many children do you =have2
=CARLA: Just a second!  I haven't any children.
Why do you think I do?



At once, just like that, he became the sun,
burning high in the sky! He laughed when he
saw people run indoors to hide from his rays.
Now I am the strongest of all things,  said the
man to himself.
Just then a cloud passed below.  =Aha,  cried
the man.  I fear a cloud is stronger than the sun,
for it can stop my rays. Oh, if I could only be a
cloud. Then I would be the strongest thing. 
Suddenly he became a cloud.  At last,  he
said,  I am the strongest.  But then a wind
came. It pushed the cloud up and carried it
across the sky. The man saw that the cloud was
not as strong as the wind.



One kind of craft is a big
ball with thick walls made of
strong metal. It has thick,
strong windows for  
underwater pictures. This craft
can descend many kilometers
into the water. It has returned
with pictures of many strange
=f1sh that live there.
In the world of tomorrow,
people will use other craft to
explore the deep, dark parts
of the ocean. Deep =Diver can
carry four people down to the
bottom. It can stay down for
some time. Divers can go in
and out of the craft as they
work on the ocean floor.
Submarines run by  
computers can also be used to  
explore deeper parts of the
ocean. Small submarines and
machines with metal arms will
move about, dig, and do many
kinds of work deep down in
the sea.



 I want you to find my missing pillow, 
said =Danny.
 I've seen a candy box and a boardwalk, but
I've never worked on a pillowcase,  said
=Encyclopedia thoughtfully.
 My pillow doesn't have a case,  said
=Danny.  It's made of rubber, I blow it up on
camping trips. 
=Hmm,  said =Encyclopedia,  and it gave you
the air. When? 
Half an hour ago,  said =Danny.  I think
=Bugs =Meany took it. 
 =Bugs?  said =Encyclopedia, his voice
becoming serious. Bugs =Meany was known to be
a troublemaker.
 I'll take the case,  said =Encyclopedia,  but
please, let's have the whole story. 



And then he was very sad and he said so.
He was almost ready to cry. He was a
bagpiper, and he had just made these fine
new bagpipes to play on, but he had made
them too big. And he didn't have breath
enough to blow them.
Uncle =Andrew was sorry for him, so he
tried to blow them, but he couldn't. Uncle
=Angus was sorry for him too, so he tried to
blow them, but he couldn't. So they all sat
down on rocks and were sad together.




=Bom =Bosh was king of =Bushongo, a country
in =Africa, more than three =hundred years ago.
Here is his likeness carved in wood. Look at the
square shapes of =Bom =Bosh's headdress and
seat, and the smooth, rounded shapes of his face
and body.



Turtles. The turtle may be one of the
slowest animals. But what if it does move
slowly? The turtle makes up for it in long life.
This cousin of the early dinosaurs lives longer
than any other animal on earth! Strange as it
may seem, giant turtles have been known to live
well over two =hundred years. Scientists believe
that some turtles may even reach the age of
three =hundred!
How do these hard-shelled animals live so
long? Taking things easy enables them to do it.
A turtle eats slowly, moves slowly, and grows
slowly. It takes more than a year just for its shell
to become hard. And some turtle eggs take as
long as a year to hatch!



The band played the song five times. The music sounded
good, but in one part someone kept playing the wrong note!
The bandleader thought about what he could do.
Then the bandleader had an idea.  Let's break the music
down into its parts,  he said.  Each person will play his or her
part alone.  He listened as each person played, and soon found out
who was making the mistake. Then he helped the person play
the song the right way. After that, the band made
beautiful music together!
&&000 MACMILLAN  (1975)  3RD GRADE                 MAC9753R.ASC
Edited by C. B. Smith & R. Wardhaugh
Levels 15-18

Sampled from SUNY Cortland and scanned by PDH 11-17-92

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The next morning, as the sun came up, Ricky crowed
to wake everyone. Then, after a big breakfast, =Zym went
out to watch =Thompson do his work.
He was amazed to see =Thompson milking the cow.
But he was even more amazed to find the egg in =Myra's
nest.
 What kind of animals do you have on your planet? 
=Thompson asked him.
 Oh, we don't have room for animals any more,  =Zym
said.  We need all the space for machines and houses
and moving roads. We do have some cats and mice,
but they aren't real. They are just for playing with. You
push buttons, and the cat runs after the mouse. I find
it very dull. 
 How sad not to have any animals,  said =Thompson.
 But come, let's look around a bit. 

Through the valleys and past the
mountains they went, then up, up to
the top of the sea. There before him
=Taro saw again the houses of his
village beside the sea.
He thanked the turtle for his safe
trip. Then he ran up the beach to his
village. But something was wrong! The
mountains behind the village were still
there, but the streets and houses all
looked different. =Taro walked through
the strange streets to where his house
should have been . But there was a
house he had never seen before.
Going up to a villager, he asked,
 Is this not the place where =Taro
=Urashima lives? 
The man looked at him with surprise.

 We must,  said =Isabel, and that decided it.
All three of them ran to the car and jumped
in. =Kate was excited. At last something was
happening in =ShadowLake!
As they bounced along the dark road near
the =Smith house, =Kate heard a car starting
up.  He's leaving!  she shouted. Suddenly the
blue car came out of the drive and turned into
=LakeRoad.
 That's him! Let's chase him, Aunt =Isabel! 
 Stop shouting!  Aunt =Isabel yelled. She put
on the bright headlights. When the man saw
that they were tailing him, he began to speed.
=Kate's mother saw the signs first.  =Isabel,
watch out!  she screamed. Ahead, a police car's
red light swung around. A truck blocked the
road where the men were still working. Unable
to stop in time, the blue car hit the truck.
Aunt =Isabel brought their car to a stop a few
feet away. Officer =Greenly came over to them.  Miss
=Belt! And Mrs =Gordon, and =Kate, too!
What on earth.


You slide down the hill behind the leader
and cross the river on a log. You climb trees.
You run through fields.  Look! I've found a
four-leaf clover!  You kneel in the grass, and
the others stop to look.
 That clover is really lucky,  everyone says.
 There aren't too many around. 
Then you all play tag and hiding games.
And you sit and make grass whistles.
You spent a whole day without television,
bikes, or other ready-made toys. What on earth
did you find to play with?



=Ben got to his street, sitting on the tail of
=BelTraffio's magnificent wagon. All the kids
on his block, and a lot of grownups too, gathered
around asking a million things.
 I'll tell you about it later,  said =Ben. He waved
good-by to the =BelTraffios. Then he ran up the
stairs to his apartment. He was so out of
breath that he couldn't say a word. He pressed
the sixty cents into his mother's hand.
She slowly counted out the pennies and the
silver pieces. =Ben's brothers and sisters and his
father gathered around.  In the new country, 
his father said,  our oldest is already a candy
merchant at ten years old. 
 And I got a job, too,  said =Ben.
 Don't tell any more until I come back,  said
=Ben's mother, putting on her shawl.  I'm going
to the butcher to get a chicken. Tonight we'll
have a party. 


The kids in the class didn't quite
know what to make of =Laurie. Her ways
were different. Some of the kids laughed
at her. Others stayed away from her.
=Rosie knew how she felt. She had
felt that way, too, when she first came
to this new school.
One day =Rosie asked =Laurie to eat
lunch with her. The two girls talked
all through lunch. =Rosie learned a lot
about the newcomer.
 I know the others think I'm funny, 
said =Laurie.  I don't talk like them. And
I don't know the answers to all the
questions the teacher asks. But I've
been living in the hills. People don't
go to school much there. 
 Aren't there any schools in the hills? 
asked =Rosie.

You are sitting in the circus. You can hear the brass
band and you can smell the candy and the peanuts.
Look! There, in the middle
of the big ring, the lion
tamer waits for the big cats
to come out.
Slowly they come, growling. They don't look friendly.
But the lion tamer is not afraid. You can tell. In one
hand he holds a hoop, and in the other, a whip. One by
one, the lions jump through the hoop. They run into the
open cage as the tamer 


 Couldn't cops in plain clothes catch them? 
 Get with it, friend. You can spot a cop
every time, at sixty yards.   How?  said =Doug.
 By the bump under his coat.   What bump? 
 His gun, naturally. Don't you ever watch
TV?  =Parker asked.
 Sure,  =Doug said, but he didn't say how
much. Mostly, he just read books.
 We've got to do this alone,  =Parker said.
 When do we start?  =Doug asked. He was
beginning to think. Maybe a little action
wouldn't be bad.
 We start right now,  said =Parker.  First, we
split up. You go one way. I go another. Then
we snoop around. 
 Where do we snoop around? 
 Anywhere. Play it by ear. But don't let
anyone guess what you're doing


Here is =Mykillengi, a lonely farm in =Iceland. The time is long
ago. It is winter. The farm lies still under the snow. The top
windows of the farmhouse peek like three eyes from under the white
snowy cover. Inside lives the famiIy with the dog =Yafti, the cows
and ducks. They are all nice and warm. Father, Mother, and
Grandmother do their winter work and wait for spring.
=Rauf and =Egli, the children, read while  they wait. They go to
school at home. 


 Well, at least we're cool,  said =Erica,
picking herself out of the gutter.
They stood beside the hydrant and
watched the water pounding out into
the gutter.
 This would be fun if the water
weren't so strong,  said =Erica.
 The way it is now,  said =Jay,  you
could get killed trying to play in it. 
=Erica sat with her toes in the gutter.
She stared at the stream of water for a
long time.

But his mother worked on, worried that she
might not be able to finish in time.
 Wake up, =Harlequin, it's all finished! 
Moonlight streamed into his room. He heard
music and shouting far away. He blinked his eyes.
For a moment he didn't know where he was.
Then he knew that he was not dreaming. His
mother was standing by his bed, smiling. She was
holding up a beautiful rainbow-colored suit.
 It's finished!  He threw the covers off and jumped
out of bed.  Let me put it on! 
 How wonderful you look!  his mother said
proudly. He spun around and around, as bright as
a butterfly.  Oh, thank you, I love it,  =Harlequin
said as he put on his mask and his big hat.  It's
wonderful! 
And in a moment he ran off to the town square.
The town square was wild with color and noise.
All the world seemed to be dancing and singing
there. Wonderful smells of cooking meats and sweet
pies filled the air. Musicians were playing all the
songs everyone liked to hear.


Next =Mimi played, saying the numbers in =English. When they had
learned to pronounce the words perfectly, they
played a real game. As they hopped from square to square, =Jennifer
said the words in =French. =Mimi said them in
=English. =Mimi won, but =Jennifer didn't mind. She thought she
might have a friend at last. And she had learned
eight new =French words. 

When =MaryAnning found her  dragon,  it didn't have a
name because it was something no one had ever seen
before. Scientist put together the =Greek words for fish and
lizard and named it

Words can help describe what they name. The first part of
the word dinosaur means  monstrous, fearful, or terrible. 
The second part means  lizard.  A dinosaur is a fearful or
monstrous lizard.

People have to invent new words for new times. When men
first went into outer space, they were named astronauts.
The word astronaut comes from the =Greek words, astro
meaning  star,  and =naut meaning  sailor.  An astronaut is
a star sailor. If you see a word that begins with astro, you
know the word has something to do with stars.

Have you ever tried to be a word inventor? Use your imagination to
invent a friend. What does your friend look like? What does your
friend like to do? Why do you like your friend? Now that you've
invented a friend, make up a name for him or her. Try to make up
one you've never heard before.

Invent a thing. It's something you wish you had but you've
never seen one! Describe the thing. Tell what it does and
why you like it. Make up a name for it, a name you've
never heard before. You're a word inventor.

Once upon a time there lived a poor woman with her only son, whose
name was =Sillibill. He was a nice young man, kind and cheerful,
but not very smart. He loved to play happy songs on his
fiddle or to draw pictures with his crayons. But he was useless for
any kind of work because he did everything the wrong way.
One day his mother said,  The pigsty really needs to be painted.
Please, do it  While I do my shopping in town. Use this red paint. 

FOURTH NIGHT

I decided not to trap the bat, and not to
drive it off. Instead, I would try to take more
photographs. What I really wanted was a
picture of my visitor while it ate.

Again I set up the camera and waited out
the evening.

The next morning the photograph showed
just what I had hoped it would. The animal
was eating a banana. But to my surprise the
creature did not look like a bat; it looked
more like a squirrel.

I had always heard that bats were blind;
but this animal had a well-formed open eye.
Bats have wings, although I had been told that
they did not fly as high as my fifth floor
apartment. The wings on this creature were
not clear, although they might have been
there. On the other hand, a squirrel would have
no wings at all and could not have gotten to
my window in any way.

I didn't know what to think.

And that was only
one small
and one smaller
And, to make matters even more awful,
at just that very second Dad walked in
and asked,  Did you put those ten pennies in your bank, young lady?
And then I really cried . I mean, what else can you do when all but
one tiny nickel of a whole dollar is just GONE?
I don't have change for a dime,  I
cried, in a voice racked with pain. But
he was very helpful and pulled ten dirty,
brown pennies from his pocket and handed them to me. Then he handed
me my red penny bank and watched as I dropped the coins in, one by
one. Then he patted me on the head and left. Dear old =Dad !

He could hear nothing but screaming
drivers, beeping police whistles, and the crazy
blaring of car horns. A cat rested in the
shade under =Smerb's car. Someone leaned
on the car, thinking it was parked there.
And then, turning down Fifth Avenue,
=Smerb headed the =UltimateAuto into a
space between a big truck and a bus. It was
just the right size for his small car, but the
space kept getting smaller and smaller. And
then the truck stopped. And the bus stopped.
=Smerb stopped, too. So did the taxi behind
him, and the =MotherMile's pie truck behind
the taxi, and the police car behind the pie
truck, and   well, everything came to a stop.
In fact, not even a bicycle could have moved
on any street anywhere in the whole city.


=Jamie lives in a big old house in the country.
There are apple trees and cherry trees, grapes and
wild roses all around the house. The back porch
is starting to fall down, but =Granny always says
the way those roses are climbing, they'll hold it up
another hundred years. It is a good house to live
in, warm inside and full of happiness.
=King is =Jamie's dog. =King is so old now that he
sleeps most of the time in the kitchen, by the
stove where it is warm. All day he sleeps there on
his old red blanket, and sometimes he dreams, and
groans in his sleep.

Together they sit down in =Granny's chair by
the window, and they watch the sky turn bright
and golden as the sun comes up. The birds are
singing and hopping in the grass. The mist is
rising from the pond.  You are too small yet to
have a name,  says =Jamie to the puppy.  You need
some growing time. I guess I'll wait and see what
kind of a puppy you are. Then I'll think of a good
name for you.  The puppy is quiet now. He is warm in the
rocking chair with =Jamie. He cocks his little head
and listens carefully to everything =Jamie says.
=Jamie talks to him for a long time. The puppy
listens and watches =Jamie with his bright little
eyes, waiting to see what will happen next.
&&000 NOBLE AND NOBLE (1970)  3RD GRADE              NOB9703R.ASC
LOOKING HERE AND THERE by Lawrence W. Carrillo et al
Reader 3  Chandler reading program
Source: Hobart WS 

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Mrs =Walker told the children that there were beetles
under the bark of the tree. A woodpecker has a special
kind of beak that can hammer a hole through the bark and
get at the beetles.
Some birds find their food on the ground,  she said.
What could a bird find to eat on the ground? 
I know,  said =Charlie.  They eat worms. 
Worms!  said =Maria.  I sure wouldn't want to be a
bird and have to eat worms. 
Well, everybody has his own taste,  said =Charlie.
Right,  said Mrs =Walker.  And that's why so many
different things are going on here in the forest. Each plant
and animal is doing what it needs to do to live and grow,
and each one is doing something different. 
There sure is a lot happening out here,  said =Sandra.
I didn't know the woods was such a busy place. 

Where does the tunnel go?  asked =Joe.
Let's go see,  said =Steve. And off the children ran
into the tunnel, planning to go to the very end of it.
 Come back!  shouted Mr =East. That tunnel will take
you all the way to =Oakland. 
The children laughed as they turned around. They
came walking back, stepping along on the track ties. I'd
like to go to =Oakland anyway,  =Joe said.
Wait a while and ride on a =BART train,  Mr =East said.
We'll have tracks down on these ties soon, and the other
tunnel all finished. Then you can travel from =Berkeley to
=Oakland in just a few minutes. 
How fast will the trains run?  asked =Willie.
They can travel up to =80 miles an hour. Mostly, they
will go about =50 miles an hour. You know the trains will
start and stop and run by themselves, don't you? 
You mean they won't have a driver?  asked =Ruthie.
 No driver,  said Mr =East, smiling. UThe trains will be
run by a computer system. The computer will decide how
fast each train should go. 
In morning and afternoon rush hours,  Mr =Field said,
=thousands of people will be traveling. One train will come
right after another. They'll be about a minute and a half
apart. A computer system can keep them a safe way apart
on the tracks. 
A minute and a half apart? Going =50 miles an hour?
They'd better stay a safe way apart!  said =Steve.


=BART is short for =Bay =Area =Rapid =Transit. It is a
network of tracks for fast trains. =BART's trains will let
people travel quickly and easily between the cities of the
=Bay =Area. The people of the area decided to build rapid
transit lines because they have too much traffic trouble and
car-parking trouble.
Big cities all over the world have the same trouble, 
too many cars. This is because many of the people who
work in big cities don't live in them. They live in the
smaller places around the cities. They travel to and from
their jobs every day, and a great many of them travel by
car.
In the =Bay =Area, most people travel by car or bus. So
every morning the highways and freeways around the big
cities fill up with heavy traffic. Every day, cars fill the
city streets and parking lots. Every afternoon, traffic is
heavy again as people leave the cities. Cars, trucks, and
buses get stuck in the traffic. They wait in long lines to
get on or off the freeways. Traffic is tied up on city streets.
No one gets anywhere very fast.
Everyone knew that =BART would be a big job. But
everyone knew the trains would be faster than cars. Trains
don't get stuck in traffic because they run on their own
tracks. One train can carry more people than a =hundred
cars. And if people left their cars at home, the big cities
would be nicer places, for both the people who live in
them and those who come to work in them.



The sea seemed very rough to =Greg. The =Annabelle
went up and down with the waves. Gramp stood easily at
the wheel, but =Greg had to hang on. I guess it's rougher
today than most days,  he said.
his grandfather laughed. Does this seem rough? The
sea is always like this. If I waited until the ocean was quiet,
=I'd never make a living. The only time that =Carlo and I
stay home is when the fog is heavy. If a small boat like the
=Annabelle ever ran into a big ship in fog, it would be
good-by, =Annabelle! 
=Greg had been in fog on land, fog so thick it looked
like smoke. He'd been in a car with his dad in thick fog.
You couldn't see headlights until an oncoming car was very
close. At sea, you might not see a big ship's lights until it
was too late to get out of her way. He wouldn't want to
run into a big ship like the one he'd seen earlier, leaving
=San =Francisco =Bay.

The =Annabelle sailed on out to sea. But they were still
in sight of the hills along the coast. They would stay in
sight of shore, =Greg knew. In these waters close to shore,
the salmon trollers could find the big fish. The =Annabelle's
course would take her through the chief salmon-fishing
waters to the west-northwest of =San =Francisco =Bay.
Gramp slowed the engine.  We'll let =Carlo take the
wheel now, =Greg,  he said,  and get us out to the fishing
grounds. It's time for us to start work. 



As he was singing, =Otakla thought about the salmon
tale. A salmon wasn't just a fish. It was the body of a
salmon spirit. Salmon spirits lived far out in the sea, where
men could no longer go. A long time ago, though, men
had visited the salmon spirits. They had found the spirits
living in men's bodies. They lived under the water in
houses just like the house of =Otakla's father.
Once a year, when the spirits got ready to come up
the river, they put on salmon bodies. The salmon bodies
died after they swam up the river, but each salmon spirit
returned to its home in the sea. Year after year, each
spirit would again put on a salmon body to swim up the
river.
Because the salmon were spirits, everyone was very
careful not to hurt their feelings. If their feelings were
hurt, the salmon wouldn't come next year and the village
would have no food for the winter months.
The singing ended, and the fish was cooked for the
feast. When it was ready, everyone was given a piece. This
year the first salmon was very large, and everyone could
have a taste of it. =Otakla remembered last year, when the
first salmon was so small that a second one had to be
caught and cooked. He chewed the salmon meat slowly.
It tasted fresh and good in his mouth.
The first salmon had been welcomed. Tomorrow,
=Otakla's father and the other men of the village would start
to fish for the winter's food.



Making hair for a sculpture is not the only way you
can give it texture. Put a smooth texture on some parts
of the sculpture by rolling or smoothing them carefully.
Make a part of it seem rough by drawing lines on it or
picking little holes in it with a toothpick.
Experiment with different ways to give texture to
baker's clay. Use a toothpick to outline the stones or
boards of a house. Try the edge of a spoon or a coin.
You can use the edge of a coin or spoon to make scales
on a fish. You can make lines that look like feathers
in this way too. Or just use a toothpick to draw lines.
A fork is a good tool for giving texture to clay. Try
pressing a fork on the hand of the sculpture to make
fingers. Use a fork to make the claws of a bird's foot
or the edges of wing feathers.
Keep experimenting. Look around the house for other
things that can be used to give your sculptures texture.
All kinds of things can be pressed on the clay to leave
a stamp or a print on it.
And keep experimenting with your sculptures. Use a
rolling pin to flatten out clay. Cut it in small shapes,
like a moon or sun for the sky in a scene. Use a garlic
press to make grass for the ground.
Once you begin working with baker's clay, you will
find yourself full of ideas for sculptures. Try out your
ideas. Experiment with different shapes and all kinds
of textures, smooth, rough, lumpy, hairy.



The hour went by quickly. After they ate lunch, the
children went outdoors to play for a while. Running
around in the fresh air felt good after spending such a
long time sitting in the kitchen. But soon =Ruth called
them to come back in.
She had already taken most of the sculptures out of
the oven and put them on the table to cool.  =Christopher
looked at his sculptures as =Ruth took them out. The clay
had changed from white to a light brown color and was
very hard. There you are, =Christopher,  said =Ruth.  You'll
have to let the clay cool before you begin painting it.n
=Last of all, =Ruth took out the sculpture she had made.
It was one of the funny picture-sculptures she liked to
make out of baker's clay.

=Oona brought =Cuhullin back to the house and put
some food on the table. She brought out the cakes of
fresh bread she had baked, the bread with the solid iron
pans inside.
=Cuhullin was hungry after all his work. He put one
of the cakes of bread to his mouth and took a big bite.
His teeth cracked on the solid iron pan, and he let out
a mighty roar. What's this? Here are two of my teeth
broken off! What kind of bread is this, woman? 
 Why, what's wrong?  asked =Oona, quiet as ever.
Wrong!  roared =Cuhullin.  Here are my two best
teeth gone, broken on your hard bread! 
Well now,  she said, that's =Fin's bread, the only
bread he ever eats. The truth is I forgot to tell you
no one can eat it but =Fin himself. Fin and that child
sleeping in the cradle. I thought since you are so
strong, you could eat it as easily as they. Here, try
another cake. Maybe this one will not be as hard as
that first one. 
Since =Cuhullin was terribly hungry, he had a try at
the second cake. He roared even louder than before as
his teeth hit the iron in the bread.  Take away your
bread, woman,  he roared, or I'll have no teeth left
at all! There's another pair of them gone. 
If you can't eat the bread,  said =Oona, =Usay so
quietly. Don't be waking the child in his cradle. There
now, you've waked him with all your noise! 
At the time of this story, =Fin and his wife lived in
a house at the very top of a high hill. =Knockmany =Hill,
it was called. It was a windy and lonesome spot to build
a house.
Many people had thought it strange for =Fin to build
a house in such a spot. They had told him so. UWhat
can you mean, Mr =M'Cool,  they said, living at the top
of =Knockmany where it is so windy and lonesome? 
Whenever he was asked that, =Fin would say it was
because of the view.  I have always liked a good view, 
he would say. And where could I find a better spot for
a view than the top of =Knockmany? 
&&000 OPEN COURT BASIC READERS  (1970)  3RD GRADE  OPN9703R.ASC
THE MAGIC WORLD (3-1)  by Arthur S trace Jr. et al
Source: Hobart WS xerox scan edit by DPH    February 12, 1993

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The cat heard these words and looked up at his master.
Do not worry,  he said.  You will not have to eat me. Only
give me a bag and get me a pair of boots, and I will show you
how we can live very well. 
The young man did not see how the cat could help him to
live, but he knew the cat was clever. Besides, what else could
the young man do?
So he got the cat a bag and a pair of boots. Puss put on
the boots and tied the bag around his neck. Then he set off
for a place where there were some rabbits.
He filled the bag with grain and left the mouth of the bag
open. Then he lay down and pretended to go to sleep. Soon a
young rabbit smelled the grain and saw the open bag. He
crawled into the bag to eat the grain. Quickly the cat drew
the strings of the bag closed and caught the rabbit.
Puss now went to the palace and asked to speak to the king.
The guards took him to the king. He made a low bow and said,
Sire, this is a rabbit which my master asked me to give to you. 
And who is your master?  said the king.
 He is the =Marquis of =Carabas,  said the cat, bowing low.
 Tell your master that I gladly accept his gift,  said the king
with a smile.  Here are some coins for your master to show him
that I like his gift. And before you go, get something for
yourself in my kitchen. 
=Puss returned home and gave the coins to his master and
said,  =Now you need not go to bed hungry or sleep on the
ground. And I have something else for you too. 
What can that be?  said the young man amazed.
 A new name,  said the cat.  From now on you are to be
the =Marquis of =Carabas. 



When =Wilbur and =Orville heard about this comment, they
didn't hesitate a moment. They prepared for the demonstration
at =Fort =Myer, =Virginia, where a huge crowd had assembled.
The =Secretary of =War and his generals and at least =fifty  
reporters came to see the flight. For no one really believed that
the =Wright brothers could fly in this strange machine.
=Orville calmly climbed aboard and took off as usual. He
circled the field for one hour. When he landed, the crowd was
wild with excitement. Then he took a passenger aboard with him to
show that their heavier-than-air machine could fly with heavy
loads. They circled the field three times and then landed. The
crowd cheered wildly, for they could hardly believe what they saw.
The next day every newspaper in the country had headlines
about the sight. The two brothers were now famous  
worldwide. Everywhere they went people cheered for the first men
in history to fly.



On the morning of a clear day you can see the sun rising
in the east, and in the evening you can see it going down in the
west. This makes you think that the sun is going around the
earth. And this is why long ago most people used to think
that the sun went around the earth. They thought that the
stars and the planets moved around the earth in big circles.
They thought that our earth was the center of these circles.



=Robert =Bruce was a brave man who lived in =Scotland. He
made up his mind to set his country free from =England.
When the =Scots saw that =Robert =Bruce was a very brave
man, they made him their king. But this made the =English
people very angry. They set out to kill =Bruce and take the
crown from him.
Before the =Scots were ready for battle, the =English army
came upon them. The =Scots fought bravely, but they were
beaten, and =Bruce had to flee for his life.
For some time after this, =Bruce had to hide out in the
mountains. Once he hid in a deserted cabin. As he lay there,
tired and hungry, he was very sad. He thought that he could
never again drive the =English out and make =Scotland free.
As he was trying to think what he should do, he saw a
spider at work in the cabin. The spider had spun a long thread
and was trying to swing by it from one part of the wall to
another.
It tried again and again.  =Bruce counted six times. This was
the same number of times that he had failed in battle against
the =English. Then he thought the spider would give up and
not try again.



In =England, many =hundreds of years ago, there ruled a
famous king named =Alfred the =Great. King =Alfred was one
of the best kings =England ever had. He was both kind and
just to his people.
One time =Alfred's country was invaded by the fierce and
warlike =Vikings. During one battle, the =Vikings took =King
=Alfred's small army by surprise, and =Alfred himself was forced
to flee for his life.
=Alfred disguised himself as a shepherd and wandered
through the woods and swamps for several days until finally
he came upon a poor woodcutter's hut.
Weary and hungry, he knocked on the door. The  
woodcutter's wife answered. Courteously =Alfred asked if she could
spare him something to eat and a place to sleep in the little
hut. The woman looked at the ragged stranger in pity. She did
not know who he was.  Come in , she said.  Our hut is poor,
but what we have we will share. You can earn your supper
by watching these cakes I am baking, while I go out and milk


I mean,  said =Rabbit,  that having got so far, it seems a
pity to waste it. 
=Christopher =Robin nodded.
 Then there's only one thing to be done,  he said.  We shall
have to wait for you to get thin again. 
 =How long does getting thin take?  asked =Pooh anxiously.
 About a week, I should think. 
 But I can't stay here for a week. 
 You can stay here all right, silly old =Bear. It's getting you
out which is so difficult. 
 We'll read to you,  said =Rabbit cheerfully.  And I hope
it won't snow,  he added.  And I say, old fellow, you're taking
up a good deal of room in my house, do you mind if I use
your back legs as a towel-horse? Because, I mean, there they
are, doing nothing, and it would be very convenient just to
hang the towels on them.
 A week!  said =Pooh gloomily.  What about meals? 
 I'm afraid no meals,  said =Christopher =Robin,  because of
getting thin quicker. But we will read to you. 
=Bear began to sigh and then found he couldn't because he
was so tightly stuck, and a tear rolled down his eye, as he
said,


=Robinson =Crusoe was an =English sailor who loved the sea.
One time as he was sailing near =Africa, his ship struck a reef
and was shipwrecked. The men climbed into a lifeboat, but
that was soon dashed to pieces on the rocks. All the sailors were
drowned except =Robinson =Crusoe, who was luckily washed to
the shore of a deserted island. There was no one to help him
find food or shelter, and there was no way to leave the island.
But =Robinson =Crusoe knew how to do things for himself.
He built a raft and rowed out to the broken ship, which was



off to the well, grumbling. Instead of a heavy bucket, however,
she carried a handsome silver pitcher.
As soon as she reached the well, a lady dressed in beautiful
silks came up and politely asked for a drink of water. This lady
was the fairy who had appeared to the younger sister dressed
as an old woman, but this time she dressed as a princess to see
how rude the older daughter would be.
 Why should I draw water for you?  answered the girl.  If
you want water, get it yourself! 
You are ill-mannered and have a bad temper,  said the
fairy.  Because you are unkind and impolite, I will give you the
gift you deserve. From now on, when you speak, a toad or a
viper will fall from your lips.  When the girl returned home, the
stepmother met her at the door and said,  Well, =Daughter, how did
you make out?   I saw no old woman at the well,  replied the girl, 
but only a girl dressed like a princess.  As she spoke an ugly toad
and a green viper fell from her mouth.
 What is this I see?  cried the stepmother.  It is your sister
who has done this, but she shall pay for it. 
With these words the stepmother drove her younger  
daughter out of the house.
The poor girl wandered about in the forest sad and lonely.
But just before sunset a young and charming prince rode by.
 What are you doing alone in the woods, my pretty maid? 
he asked.
 Alas, sir, my stepmother has driven me out of doors and
I have no place to go.  =As she spoke these words, diamonds and
roses fell from her lips. The prince was astonished at so strange
a sight, and then the girl told him all that had happened.
&&000 RAND MCNALLY  (1981-also 1978)   3rd GRADE       RAN9783R.ASC
MOONBEAMS AND MICROSCOPES -3-1
TELEPHONES AND TANGERINES -3-2
Source: SUNY Cortland xerox, scan edit by DPH February 1, 1993

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As the building grew older, the city
became more and more crowded. Buildings
were built higher and higher, and land
became more and more valuable. At last
the land on which the old building stood
was worth much more money than the
building. So the landlord sold the building.
The new owner didn't really want the
building. He wanted the land it stood on.
On the land he could build a tall new
building, a skyscraper. In the same space
where =thirty families had lived in the old
building, three =hundred could live in the
new one.
So the new owner told all the people in
the building to move out. He gave them a
month to find new places to live. Then the
old building stood empty, waiting for the
wrecking crew.
Today is the day of the wrecking. A few
people are standing in front of the shabby
old building. =Grandmother and I are
watching from the window of my room.



As soon as the =Count had placed his
notice on the tree, he made his way back to
his castle. He had been home no more than
a minute when there came a knocking at
the =Coursington castle door.
The =Count opened the door. In stepped a
man as round and plump as a freshly
picked peach.



=ROBBERS: What did you find?

=FIRST =ROBBER: Oh! It was awful! There
was a great witch by the fireplace, and
she scratched me with her bony fingers.
Then a man with a knife stabbed me in
the leg. In the yard was a monster who
beat me with a club. And on the roof sat
a judge. The judge was crying,  Bring
him up here! Bring him up here! 

=ROBBERS: Well, we can never go there
again. That much is clear. Let's get out
of here before they catch us.

=NARRATOR: And so the robbers fled from
the country. The four friends were very
happy in their new home. And it is said
that they are still there today, eating
and singing.



As they inched toward the west, the
prairie changed. The grass was thinner.
There were fewer watering places. The sun
beat down on the travelers and beasts.
Now everyone wanted to be at the front
of the wagon train. The ground was so dry
that the wagons stirred up thick clouds of
dust. The wagons at the end of the train
had to pass through everyone else's dust.
Everyone was burned brown by the sun
and caked with the fine dry powder.



In =Apache land there is a valley
that comes from the southeast
and goes on toward the west,
along the sides of the mountain.
On the mountains, wild poppies bloom,
green grasses grow and cattle graze
Far below a silver stream is running.
I love this land where I was born,
This =Apache land.



 Fight! Fight!  the boys shouted. They
didn't care that =Pete was not as big as =Jeff.
=Pete didn't like this game.  Why do we
have to fight?  he asked.
=Jeff laughed.  I knew it! I knew you were
afraid of me!  he shouted. And he gave
=Pete a big push.
Pete didn't like to be pushed. He said,
 Don't do that! Don't push me! 



Now she is gone, and I have my morning
in the sun.
I go to the bubbler and press my mouth
against the water and feel it on my tongue,
soft and warm. I put my finger on the
place where the water comes out and walk
around and around the bubbler. Then I
try to find my bench.
I walk over to the telephone booth,
touching the four benches on the way. I
stand inside the booth. I feel to see whether
there is any money in the telephone, but
there is none. My sister says I should
always check the telephone for money, but
I have never found any.
I practice dialing our number; then I
put my dime in and call. I let it ring two
times, and then I hang up and get my dime
back. My sister says that way my mother
will know I am all right.
I blow on the glass and it blows back
to me. I tap my good luck song on it.
I play one of my games. I listen to every
sound and wonder what each sound would
do to me. Some sounds would scratch me;
some would pinch me; some would push
me. Some would carry me; some would
crush me; and some would rock me.



One bright spring morning =Esther woke
up earlier than usual. She took the jug
and started off, singing happily.
 On a morning like this,  she thought,
 how could anyone be cross?  She dipped
her jug into the spring and lifted it to her
shoulder. Just then she heard a sound
behind her.
She turned around. And there was the
oldest woman she had ever seen. The
woman was dressed in dirty rags, and she
seemed to be the only dark spot on the
sunny morning. She was very ugly and
leaned upon a crooked cane.
 My child,  croaked the old woman.  I
have traveled far, and I am so tired and
thirsty. Pray, give me a bit of your water
to drink. 
 Of course, =Grandmother,  answered
=Esther.  Sit down here on this bank. The
jug is very heavy. Let me hold it for you. 
The old woman drank deeply from the
jug. Then she gave a deep sigh.  Thank
you, my child,  she said.  That was good. 

Then it was =Pete's turn. He stood up
straight, clenched his fists, and gave =Ella
another wink. He took a deep breath and
bent to the bar. He pulled once. He pulled
twice. Then he set in for a long hard pull.
His face turned red, then purple. And one
end of the bar moved just high enough for
an ant to crawl under. Then he let out his
breath and dropped it.
 Well,  he said when he straightened
up.  I moved it more than anyone else. 
 But you didn't lift it off the ground, 
said =Steve.



 Don't talk to me in =Spanish,  =Miguel
had said one night.  Speak =English. Some
of my friends don't know =Spanish. They
don't know what you're saying. Their
fathers and mothers only speak =English,
and my friends feel funny when they hear
you talking in =Spanish. 
 Why should they feel funny?  Mr =Diaz
asked =Miguel.
 Because =Spanish is different,  =Miguel
answered.  That's why. 
 Is it so bad to be different?  Mr =Diaz
wanted to know.
 Yes, =Father,  =Miguel answered.  It's
very bad to be different. I want to be like
all my friends. 
 Why?  Mr =Diaz asked again.
 I just do,  said =Miguel. He felt cross
because he didn't know why he couldn't
give his father an answer.  And it's not
only that you speak =Spanish,  he went on.
 But you also go to school. I thought that
schools were made for children. 
 But I go to learn! Is it not a good thing
to learn, my son?  Mr =Diaz asked.
 It's not that,  the boy said.  You are
too old to go to school. 



 =Humph!  said the =Camel.
 I shouldn't say that again if I were
you,  said the =Djinn.  You might say it
once too often. Bubbles, I want you to
work. 
And the =Camel said  =Humph!  again,
but no sooner had he said it than he saw
his back, that he was so proud of, puffing
up into a great big lolloping =humph.
 Do you see that?  said the =Djinn.
 That's your very own =humph that you've
brought upon your very own self by not
working. Today is =Thursday, and you've
done no work since =Monday, when the
work began. Now you are going to work. 
 How can I,  said the =Camel,  with this
=humph on my back? 
 That's made on purpose,  said the
=Djinn,  all because you missed those
three days. You will be able to work now
for three days without eating, because
you can live on your =humph; and don't you
ever say I never did anything for you. Come
out of the Desert and go to the Three, and
behave.  =Humph yourself! 
&&000 SCOTT, FORESMAN  (1978)   3RD GRADE         SF19783R.ASC
RIDE A RAINBOW (3-1) by Ira E. Aaron et al 
STEP RIGHT UP (3-2)
Source: Elmira College  xeroxed, scanned and edited by DPH
January 17, 1993

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One day a little boy left school early because he
had a secret to tell his mother. He was in a hurry to
get home. So he took a short cut through some
woods where three terrible giants lived. He hadn't
gone far before he met one of them standing in the
path.
The giant looked down at the little boy.
 What are you doing here?  he roared.  Don't you
know whose woods these are? 
 I'm on my way home,  answered the boy.
 I have a secret to tell my mother. 



=Patsy explained what had happened. Then she told
him to lie still while she got the flares from the trunk
of the car. She lit them as she had seen her father do
before.
Soon the police arrived. Patsy and her father were
taken to the hospital to make sure they weren't hurt.
Luckily both of them were fine, so they decided to go
on to =Grandma's party.

When they arrived, =Grandma looked at =Patsy and said,
 My, what a big girl our =Kitten is! 

 Yes,  said Mr =Wesaw, smiling proudly.  But her
name is =Patsy. 



=Mary picked up a stone and threw it down
toward the river. It made a lot of noise, but the
animal kept coming. Mary grabbed a large stick. A
moment later a brown and white animal ran out of
the woods.  That's not a wolf,  said =Mary. She
looked again.  Tweed!  she cried. She rushed up
and hugged the dog.  Tweed, you must bark and
get =Father. Speak, =Tweed! Speak! 
=Tweed's bark was still sounding through the
woods when =Mary heard her name called.
 =Mother! =Father! We're down here!  In a minute her
parents were hugging her and =Ataline.


 Yes, =Papa,  said =Roberto. Those geese! There were
dozens of big white geese. In the spring, they were
turned into the strawberry fields to eat the weeds.

=Mama saw them coming. She held open the screen
door.  Phone the doctor,  said =Mama as she helped
=Papa toward the bedroom.
=Roberto picked up the phone. It would not work.
 The phone doesn't work, =Mama,  he said.  The
storm must have broken the wires. I will run down
to the next house. 

=Mama followed =Roberto outside.  Hurry!  she
begged.  =Papa is hurt inside. 

=Roberto started to run. The only house near them
was a long way down the road and across the
bridge. =Roberto's bare feet squished in the muddy
places as he ran. He saw the damage caused by the
storm. Fences had been knocked down. And the
stream was almost running over.



Meanwhile, a big snapping turtle had been
napping on the bottom of the pond. It woke up and
spotted the worm drifting in the water.
 That could make a good dinner,  thought the
turtle. Quickly it swam to the worm and tried to pull it
down to the bottom of the pond.
=James saw the fishing line suddenly sink lower
and lower. He leaped forward and began to pull in
his line. But as fast as he pulled it in, the line was
pulled deeper into the pond.
The turtle was completely confused. It tugged and
tugged. This was the strongest worm the turtle had
ever found. But it wanted the worm just the same.
The turtle began to dive.
=James held on. His fishing pole bent until he was
sure it would break in two.
 This has got to be the biggest fish in the pond,  .
he shouted to =Horse.  Maybe even in the whole
world! 



The face at the window of the brown house was
there again. Some boys and girls had gathered to
play ball in the roped-off part of =King =Street. It
made them uneasy to be watched all the time.

 Who is that boy, anyway?  asked =Rosa.

 I don't know,  said =Jerry.  Some new people must
have moved in. Come on. Forget him. Let's play
ball. 

But =Rosa could not forget the watching boy. The
next afternoon his face was at the window again.

 For =Pete's sake,  said =Jose.  I wish he'd come out
and play instead of staring at us. 



=Wendell was six years old. He lived with =Marr
=Papa, =William, =Alice, =James, =Julie, =Walter, and
=Anthony, the baby. Mama and =Papa and the
children all liked each other and everybody
laughed most of the time.

But even when a family is happy, there is
always work to do.  =Mama and =Papa couldn't do i
all alone.

=William,  =Papa would say,  put the clothes in
the dryer for me. 

But =William would say,  I don't have time right
now. Send =Wendell.  And =William would hurry.

Or =Mama would say,  =Alice, go over to Mrs
=Turner's. Ask her if I may have a cup of sugar. 

But =Alice would say,  I don't have time right
now. Send =Wendell. 



The =Glossary in the back of this book can help
you find out what words mean and how to pronounce
them.

You might find this sentence as you read: =All the
characters breathed,  =Oh, no!  You might not know
what characters means. But you know that the entry
words in a glossary are root words. So you could
take off the ending s and find the meaning of
character in your =Glossary.

What could you do if you didn't know how to
pronounce breathed? You could use the =Glossary to
find out! Find the root word breathe in the =Glossary
and look at the pronunciation. Is the vowel sound in
breathe like the vowel sound in let or the first vowel
sound in equal?

Now read the rest of the entry for breathe. Which
definition tells what breathed means in the sentence
All the characters breathed,  Oh, no!  Read the
sentence after definition . It helps you understand
the third meaning of breathe.

What are the guide words on the page on which
you found the entry word breathe?
Which definition of breathe tells what the word
means in the following sentence?
He was breathing hard after his fast run.



There were papers all over the schoolyard. It
looked awful.

=Debbie said,  Litter is a kind of pollution, I think. 
Then she said,  We don't have to throw things on
the ground. And when we see litter, we can do
something about it. 

 Great idea!  said =Carlos.  That's one kind of
pollution we kids can help get rid of! 

The other children agreed. Mr =Tanaka, their
teacher, said,  It's a fine idea. It can be a class
project. Let's see who picks up the most papers.
We'll keep a record of how many each of you
picks up. 

When recess time came, =Debbie and her friends ran
i outside. They began to pick up the papers that
littered the schoolyard. When they got through,
they counted the papers they had picked up.

There was a big trash can at the corner of the
building. The children dumped all the papers into
the can. Then everyone turned around for one last
look at the schoolyard.

 It looks great now!  said =Tai.

 See, we can make a difference!  said =Bob.



Good morning, =Neighbor =Hare,  the friendly
hedgehog called.

The hare seemed very surprised to see the
hedgehog.  Why are you out so early?  asked the
hare.

 I want to find out how my turnips are growing, 
answered the hedgehog.  I'm taking a walk to the
turnip field. 

The hare gave a loud laugh.  Taking a walk!  he
said.  It must be very hard to walk on legs as short
as yours. 



In =January, =1977, there was a snowstorm in the
city of =Buffalo, =New =York. It was the most snow
=Buffalo had ever had. More than twelve feet of
snow fell.
The snow that fell in =Buffalo caused schools and
businesses to close. Snow blocked doorways and
streets and no one could go anywhere. Trains
stopped running because there was too much snow
on the tracks. The airport closed because the planes
couldn't take off or land. People who were at
school or work when the storm began had to stay
in firehouses, police stations, and schools. They
couldn't get home because of the snow.




Whether =Kitty does a stunt in her work or races a car
for her hobby, she first makes a careful plan to be
sure everything will be done right. Many people help
her too.

The picture on the left was taken shortly before =Kitty
broke the =Woman's =World =Land =Speed =Record. In the
other picture, =Kitty is making a final check to make
sure everyone who helps her understands what to do.

Because =Kitty =O'Neil is deaf, she often insists that
things be written down so she knows everyone
understands exactly the same directions. =Kitty is bold
and daring, but she's careful too.