. McGuffey's second eclectic reader . ndfather will tell you a strangestory. 2. One bright summer day, I wasin a garden in a city, with a rested underneath a fig tree. Thebroad leaves were green and fresh. 118 ECLECTIC SERIES. 3. We looked up at the ripe, purplefigs. And what do you think camedown through the branches of the figtree over our heads ? 4. Oh, a bird, grandfather, a bird!;said little Jane, clapping her hands. 5. No, not a bird. It was a fish;a trout, my little girl. 6. Not a fish, grandfather! A troutcome through the branches of a treein the citv ? I am sure YOU must be
. McGuffey's second eclectic reader . ndfather will tell you a strangestory. 2. One bright summer day, I wasin a garden in a city, with a rested underneath a fig tree. Thebroad leaves were green and fresh. 118 ECLECTIC SERIES. 3. We looked up at the ripe, purplefigs. And what do you think camedown through the branches of the figtree over our heads ? 4. Oh, a bird, grandfather, a bird!;said little Jane, clapping her hands. 5. No, not a bird. It was a fish;a trout, my little girl. 6. Not a fish, grandfather! A troutcome through the branches of a treein the citv ? I am sure YOU must be tJ V in fun. 7. No, Jane, I tell you the friend and I were very much sur-prised to see a fish falling from afig tree. 8. But we ran from under the tree,and saw a fishhawk flying, and an eagleafter him. 9. The hawk had caught the fish,and was carrying it home to his nest,when the eagle saw it and wanted it. 10. Thev fought for it. The fish f was dropped, and they both lost it Somuch for fighting! SECOND READER. 119 LESSON flow wide steep lakes twinkling GOD IS GEE AT A^D GOOD. 1. I know God made the sun To fill the day with light;He made the twinkling starsTo shine all through the night. 2. He made the hills that rise So very high and steep; 120 ECLECTIC SERIES. He made the lakes and seas,That are so broad and deep. 3. He made the streams so wide, That flow through wood and vale;He made the rills so small,That leap down hill and dale. 4. He made each bird that sings So sweetly all the day;He made each flower that springsSo bright, so fresh, so gay. 5. And He who made all these, He made both you and me;Oh, let us thank Him, then,For great and good is He. LESSON LVI. hoe grave knock ex §ept droll hymn prayed -eottage SECOND HEADER. 121
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