The Mother Tongue Volume 1 (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE DATS OF THE WEEK. 19 SECTION 18. Written Exercise. THE DAYS OF THE WEEK. Read carefully, then write from memory. Compare what you have written with the text and see if you have used capitals where they are required. Learn: ? The names of the Days of the Week always begin with Capital Letters. SECTION 19. Written Exercise. Write a sentence telling one thing that you did on Monday of last week. Do the same for each of the other days of the week. SECTION 20. For Reading And Study. A NIGHT WITH A WOLF. Little one, come to my knee; Hark ! how the rain is pouring Over the roof, in the pitch-black night, And the wind in the woods a-roaring! Hush, my darling, and listen, Then pay for the story with kisses: Father was lost in the pitch-black night, In just such a storm as this is, ? High up on the lonely mountains, Where the wild men watched and waited, Wolves in the forest, and bears in the bush, And I on my path belated. The rain and the night together Came down, and the wind came after, Bending the props of the pine-tree roof, And snapping many a rafter. I crept along in the darkness, Stunned, and bruised, and blinded ? Crept to a fir with thick-set boughs, And a sheltering rock behind it. A NIGHT WITH A WOLF. 21 There, from the blowing and raining, Crouching, I sought to hide me; Something rustled, two green eyes shone, And a wolf lay down beside me. Little one, be not frightened; I and the wolf together, Side by side, through the long, long night, Hid from the awful weather. His wet fur pressed against me; Each of us warmed the other; Each of us felt, in the stormy dark, That beast and man were brother. And when the falling forest No longer crashed in warning...