THE NEW MCGUFFEY FIRST READER
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Come here, Henry, and sit by me at
the table.

Your mother has gone out to buy
a new book for you.

She says you must learn to read.

I am sure you will try to learn.

Then you can read about the pretty
birds, and the tall sunflowers,
and good children at school.

Soon you may take your book to school.

See this picture, Henry.

It is a picture of a little bird.

I think it is a yellow bird.

The bird has a pretty nest
in the woods.

Would you not like to see the little
ones in it?

By and by, they will come out and
try to fly.

Very soon you may see them as
they fly from bush to bush.

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WRITING LESSON.

I have a book.
I learn to read in it.
I can write my name.

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bee busy buzz sing work

We fly about from flower to flower.

We sing as we work.

Would you like to know what we sing?

We sing, "Buzz, buzz."

You will say,
"What a funny way to sing!"

But we do not care what you say.

We are too busy to think about it.

You must not keep us from our work.

What is as busy as a bee?

All day it sings as it works,
"Buzz, buzz, buzz!"

How doth the little busy bee
Improve each shining hour?
It gathers honey all the day
From every bud and flower.

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A B C SONG. [musical notation omitted]

A B C D E F G
H I J K L M N O P
Q R S T U V W
Q R S T U V W
X... Y... Z, O dear me!
I can not say my A B C.

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when warm walk these

One morning when the sun was
warm these children went out
to take a walk.

Do you know who they are?

I see May and Rose and little Lucy.

There are two other girls with them,
but I do not know their names.

They took a little wagon with them,
and went up the hill.

They went to the field on the hill to
find some violets.

They found some sunflowers in the
field, but violets do not grow there.

They saw a wild rose, but a busy
bee was on it.

"Now," said Lucy, "let us go to the
well and see if it has water in it."