. McGuffey's second eclectic reader . bout it a great deal. Such a good, kind mamma, and noChristmas present! Its too bad. 96 ECLECTIC SERIES. 5. I dont like it, said little Jessie,with a tear in her eye. 6. Oh, she has you, said Joe. 7. But I am not something new,said Jessie. 8. Well, you will be new, Jessie,said Joe, when you get back. Shehas not seen you for an hour. 9. Jessie jumped and laughed. Thenput me in the basket, and carry me tomamma, and say, I am her Christinaspresent.; 10. So they set her in the basket,and put green branches all around was a jolly ride. They set her downo


. McGuffey's second eclectic reader . bout it a great deal. Such a good, kind mamma, and noChristmas present! Its too bad. 96 ECLECTIC SERIES. 5. I dont like it, said little Jessie,with a tear in her eye. 6. Oh, she has you, said Joe. 7. But I am not something new,said Jessie. 8. Well, you will be new, Jessie,said Joe, when you get back. Shehas not seen you for an hour. 9. Jessie jumped and laughed. Thenput me in the basket, and carry me tomamma, and say, I am her Christinaspresent.; 10. So they set her in the basket,and put green branches all around was a jolly ride. They set her downon the doorstep, and went in andsaid, Theres a Christmas present outthere for you, mamma: 11. Mamma went and looked, andthere, in a basket of green branches,sat her own little laughing girl. 12. :Just the very thing I wantedmost, said mamma. 13. ;Then, dear mamma, said Jessie,bounding out of her leafy nest, I SECOND READER. should think it would be Christmas formammas all the time, for they see theirlittle girls every day. LESSON purple plume§ pail happened €oat shallow wadecl Charleg nap yester day MARYS STORY. 1. Father, and Charles, and Lucy, andI went to the beach yesterday. Wetook our dinner, and stayed all day. 2. 7 98 ECLECTIC SERIES. 2. Father and Charles went out alittle way from the shore in a boat,and fished, while Lucy and I gatheredsea mosses. 3. We took off our shoes and stock-ings, and waded into the shallow water.\Ve had a pail to put our seaweedsin. 4. We found such beautiful were purple, some pink, andsome brown. When they were spreadout in the water, the purple oneslooked like plumes, and the brownones like little trees. 5. Such a funny thing happened toLucy. She slipped on a stone, anddown she went into the water. Howwe both laughed! But the wind andsun soon dried LUCYS dress. t/ 6. Then father came and took us inthe boat for a row. After that we hada picnic dinner in the woods. 7. Then father spread his coat onthe grass, and took a nap whi


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