The elementary spelling book : being an improvement on The American spelling book . THE SQUIRREL. The squirrel is a beautiful little animal The gray an< black squirrels live in the forest and make a nest of leaves an< sticks on the high branches. It is amusing to see the nimbi squirrel spring from branch to branch, or run up and dowi the stem of a tree, and dart behind it to escape from sighi Little ground squirrels burrow in the earth. They subsist 01 nuts, which they hold in their paws, using them as little boy use their hands. «? » FABLE OF THE BOY THAT STOLE APPLES. An old man fo
The elementary spelling book : being an improvement on The American spelling book . THE SQUIRREL. The squirrel is a beautiful little animal The gray an< black squirrels live in the forest and make a nest of leaves an< sticks on the high branches. It is amusing to see the nimbi squirrel spring from branch to branch, or run up and dowi the stem of a tree, and dart behind it to escape from sighi Little ground squirrels burrow in the earth. They subsist 01 nuts, which they hold in their paws, using them as little boy use their hands. «? » FABLE OF THE BOY THAT STOLE APPLES. An old man found a rude boy upon one of his trees stealing apples, and desired him to come down; but the youmsaucebox told him plainly he would not. Wont vou ? sai< SPELLING BOOK. 141 the old man, then I will fetch you clown; so he pulled upsome turf or grass and threw at him; but this only made theyoungster laugh, to think the old man should pretend to beatlim down from the tree with grass only. Well, well, said the old man, if neither words nor grasswill do, I must try what virtue there is in stones; so the oldnan pelted him heartily with stones, which soon made thepoung chap hasten down from the tree and beg the old manspardon. MORAL. If good words and gentle means will not reclaim the wicJced,\hey must oe dealt with in a more severe manner. FABLE II
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