The Fifth Reader
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217585538
Paperback|9780217585538
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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: Study. Read the poem carefully, close the book, and tell the story. What shows the great ease with which the mare could be managed? How did the curate try to keep out of the briers while getting the berries? What thoughtless error did he make? With what result? What is the lesson, or moral, as stated in the last line? How many lines in each stanza? How are the rimes arranged? In reading the lines notice that the swing of the words seems to imitate the easy movement of the mare. This music in the line is called rhythm. Read some lines so as to bring out the music prominently. THE HORSESHOE HENDRIK CONSCIENCE In the village of Westmal, some two or three miles from Antwerp, on the road toward Turnhout, stood a little smithy, in which four men?the master and his three journeymen?were busy at various work in the way of their trade; and at the same time were convers- B ing?as much, that is, as the noise of hammers and files would let them ? about Napoleon and his mighty deeds of war. One of the journeymen, who had lost two fingers of his left hand, was just beginning a story of the Italian wars, when two horsemen pulled up before i the door, and one of them called out: . Hola, my men my horse wants shoeing. The journeymen looked curiously at the strangers, who by this time had dismounted. They were evidently both military men. One of them had a great s scar right across his face, and wore a red ribbon in his buttonhole; the other, though dressed like a gentleman, seemed in some sort his subordinate; he held the horse by the bridle, and asked: Which shoe, colonel? The near forefoot, lieutenant, was the reply. One of the journeymen took the horse and led it into the shed, and meanwhile the colonel entered the smithy, looked about him, and took up, fi...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217585538 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217585531 |
| Weight | 0.68 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.47 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 206 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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