Old-time schools and school-books . Frontispiece to Websters Elementary, 1829. ethical lessons. Four of the little fables were re-tained unaltered, but instead of the other four we 182 Old-time Schools and School-books find The Dog, The Stag, and The Squir-rel described, a paragraph to each. Then therewas a half-page disquisition about time. The read- ?1 WPWIPIIiii .M, ggS*f|fl;ji ^K^S^lL;^ $M soft; ?1 w^^vi^i 1 A Virago is a Turbulent, Masculine the illustrated edition of 1829. ing otherwise consisted of short disconnected sen-tences containing as a rule wise advice, or state-ments
Old-time schools and school-books . Frontispiece to Websters Elementary, 1829. ethical lessons. Four of the little fables were re-tained unaltered, but instead of the other four we 182 Old-time Schools and School-books find The Dog, The Stag, and The Squir-rel described, a paragraph to each. Then therewas a half-page disquisition about time. The read- ?1 WPWIPIIiii .M, ggS*f|fl;ji ^K^S^lL;^ $M soft; ?1 w^^vi^i 1 A Virago is a Turbulent, Masculine the illustrated edition of 1829. ing otherwise consisted of short disconnected sen-tences containing as a rule wise advice, or state-ments of interesting facts. Nearly every page had. An Orator makes the illustrated edition, 1829. some of these sentences, and they numbered overa thousand in all. Below are selections from them,beginning with the shortest and simplest: — an ox is it so I am to go in He has got a new tub Noah Webster and his Spelling-book 183 The man can put on his wig I love the young lady that shows me how to read. Vipers are bad snakes, and they bite men. I saw a rill run down the hill. Visitors should not make their visits too long. Style not in verse is called prose. The birds fly from branch to branch on the trees andclinch their claws fast to the limbs. Wolves howl in the woods, in the night. Never pester the little boys. The lark will soar up in the sky to look at the sun. Forks have two or three tines. Shut the gate, and keep the hogs out of the yard. The dysentery is a painful disease. Our blood is often chilled at the recital of acts of cruelty. When large hailstones fall on the house they make agreat racket. Pompions are co
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