Osgood's progressive second reader : embracing progressive lessons in reading and spelling . ight greet. Osgoods second reader. 197 5. I have a secret I would like The little girls to know;But I wont tell a single boy—They rob the poor birds so. 6. We have four pretty little nests, We watch them with great care;Full fifty eggs are in this tree—Dont tell the boys theyre here. 7. Joe Thomson robbed the nest last year, And year before, Tom Brown;Ill tell it loud as I can every one in town. o? 8. Swallow and sparrow, lark and thrush, Will tell you just the same:To make us all so sorrowful.


Osgood's progressive second reader : embracing progressive lessons in reading and spelling . ight greet. Osgoods second reader. 197 5. I have a secret I would like The little girls to know;But I wont tell a single boy—They rob the poor birds so. 6. We have four pretty little nests, We watch them with great care;Full fifty eggs are in this tree—Dont tell the boys theyre here. 7. Joe Thomson robbed the nest last year, And year before, Tom Brown;Ill tell it loud as I can every one in town. o? 8. Swallow and sparrow, lark and thrush, Will tell you just the same:To make us all so is a wicked shame. 9. Oh, did you hear the concert This morning from our tree ?We give it every morningJust as the clock strikes three. 10. We praise our great Creator,Whose holy love we share;Dear children, learn to praise Him too,For all his tender care. Questions.—1. Where was the robins home? 3. What shadoJ it?6. What secret had the uhin? Why wouM it not tell the boys?10. What Jo the bu-ds sing every morning ? What should little chlld-dren learn ? 17* 198 PROGRESSIVE fragrance acorn 1 iria sower portion ruins LESSON LVI. 2 2 2 2 3 2 elpt, olpt; elps, ulps; alts, , Ipt; Ips, Ips; Its, Its. 4 , 3 scatters modest an 3 aster pushes tendrils mountain Uries color mixes caused written beneath 3 a broad 2 garden erpro duoes 2 wbisper ingmurmur ing THE WORKS OF GOD. 1. Come, let us walk abroad; let us talk ofthe works of God. Take up a handful of sand; Osgoods second reader. 199 number the grains of it; tell them one by one,into your lap. 2. Try to count the blades of grass in thefield or the leaves on the trees. You cannotcount them; no one can number them; norcan any one number the things which God hasmade. 3. The pine grows on the high mountain,and the mllow stands by the side of the gentleriver, and dips its leaves in the quiet vine lays hold with her tendrils, and clingsto the tall forest tree; the oak pushes its rootsfar into the ground, an


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