The New Normal Fourth Reader (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906. Excerpt: ... 9. For here I am, wild for a cherry, And cross with the summer's delay; How can I be nimble and merry, With starving and scolding all day? Rose Terry Cooke. Questions.--What is the meaning of "to nab"? Of " delay"? Of "doleful?" What is meant by "the saffron tf dawn"? What is'a "new-comer"? What is the meaning of "nimble"? Memory Gems from Addison. When vice prevails and impious men bear sway, The post of honor is a private station. A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants; and, secondly, how much more unhappy he might be than he really is. 19.--What Dapple had to Say. 1. I May say without vanity that I am a very handsome horse. I am gray, streaked and spotted likea mackerel sky. Jim can make my coat shine like a looking-glass when he chooses to take the trouble; but Jim is a lazy, sulky old fellow, and it is not often that he does me justice. 2. When he is curry-combing me he "sisses" at me as spitefully as a goose, and he stops every two minutes tcTgrumble out, "Blow grays says I; they take twice as much groomin' as other 'osses," But DEFINITIONS. Ruddy, reddish. Crest, the top of the head. Loitered, lingered. Amazement, astonishment. if other horses only get half as much grooming as Jim generally gives me, I pity them. iFHoes not matter so much in my case, because I'm so goodlooking, but not all horses have my natural advantages. 3. I do think that Jim is the only person belonging to the place who isn't proud of me, and even Jim is proud of me sometimes. Instead of giving a wrench or two at my mane and tail as if he wanted to pull them out by the roots, he'll brush and comb them till they look as silky as my mistress's hair, and he'll make my hoofs shine like master's boots, and rub me down and polish me up, as I was saying, un...