First lessons in language . Ostrich and Storks. 129 II. Describe all that you see in the picture, noticing especially thestorks. Give ivhat information you can about them. 1. What kind of legs would you expect wading birds to have ?2. What kind of food would they get by wading ? Storks are fondof rats, mice, and frogs. 3. Do you think it safe or dangerous tobuild as they do upon high towers ? 4. What is thought of thestork in Holland ? Give the reason. LESSON Selection to Study TWO GIRLS. My mother says a girl she knowsWhose face with love and kindness glows,Who carries sunshine where s
First lessons in language . Ostrich and Storks. 129 II. Describe all that you see in the picture, noticing especially thestorks. Give ivhat information you can about them. 1. What kind of legs would you expect wading birds to have ?2. What kind of food would they get by wading ? Storks are fondof rats, mice, and frogs. 3. Do you think it safe or dangerous tobuild as they do upon high towers ? 4. What is thought of thestork in Holland ? Give the reason. LESSON Selection to Study TWO GIRLS. My mother says a girl she knowsWhose face with love and kindness glows,Who carries sunshine where she goes —A darling human rose. Another girl she knows well, too,Who frets at all she has to do;With sulky face she scowls at you,While anger clouds her eyes of blue. And all the time tis plain to seeFrom mothers laughing face that sheMeans one of those two girls for me. —Now which, I wonder, can it be ? — A. G. Plympton in Wide Study the first stanza till you get a clear idea of the girl describedthere, and try to express the idea in different words of your own. Then read the second stanza carefully, and in a separate para-graph describe the other girl. Use synonyms when you can, andmake sure that what you say does not sound like poetry. Lastly, explain how many girls are really meant, and what youthink of the one in the picture. —o 130°— LESSON 209. —Adverbs: to show How, When, or Where. I. Walk briskly. Speak gently. Eat slowly. 1. Read the words that show what some one is to do. What are such words called ? 2. What word shows how one is to walk ? to speak ? 3. What does slowly show ? 4. Supply words to show howone may — skate talk stand drive wait sing A word that shows hoiv anything is done is called anAdverb. II. Stand there. Go yonder. Move forward. 1. What shows where one is to stand? 2. For what is yonderused? and forward? 3. Put each of the following words with theverb of a sentence to sh
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