A Phonic Reading Book (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: to overturn it; but his strength was not sufficient to do either. At last, seeing some small pebbles at hand, he dropt a great many of them, one by one, into the Pitcher, and so raised the water to the brim, and quenched his thirst. Skill and patience will succeed where force fails. Necessity is the mother of invention. 3.?THE BUNDLE OF STICKS. A Husbandman who had a quarrelsome family, after having tried in vain to reconcile them by words, thought he might more readily prevail by an example. S5 he called his sons and bade them lay a bundle of sticks before him. Then having tied them into a fagot, he told the lads, one after the other, to take it up and break it. They all tried, but tried in vain. Then untying the fagot, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, "Thus you, my sons, as long as you remain united, are a match for all your enemies; but differ and separate, and you are undone." Union is strength. 4.?THE LION AND HIS THREE COUNSELLORS. The Lion called the Sheep to ask her if his breath smelt. She said, Ay; he bit off her head for a fool. He called the Wolf, and asked him. He said, No; he chapter{Section 4tore him in pieces for a flatterer. At last he called the Fox, and asked him. Truly he had got a cold, and could not smell. Wise men say nothing in dangerous times. 5.?THE BOY AND THE FILBERTS. A Certain Boy put his hand into a pitcher where great plenty of Figs and Filberts were deposited; he graspt as many as his fist coiiZd possibly hold, but when he endeavoured to pii.ll it out, the narrowness of the neck prevented him. Unwilling to lose any of them, but unable to draw out his hand, he burst into tears, and bitterly bemoaned his hard fortune. An honest fellow who stood by, ...