THE NEW MCGUFFEY FIRST READER
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leaves should ripe eat wish

Let us sit here in the shade under
our old apple tree.

You can look up and see the
green leaves and the little
green apples.

I should like to have one of the
apples. I wish you would get
it for me, Frank.

Why do you want it? It is not ripe.

All the apples on the tree are green,
and you must not eat them.

Do you see how little they are?

But the bright sun will shine on
them day after day.

They will grow and grow; and
after a time they will be
ripe, and yellow, and good to eat.

Then we will come and sit here in
the shade, and you may have
as many apples as you can eat.

sh shine shade should wish sh

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This is what Henry can write:

My name is Henry.
My name is Henry.

Can you write your name?

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listen hear wonder honey shut into

Come here, Lucy, and listen. What
do you hear in this flower?

Oh, mother! I hear a bee. It
goes buzz, buzz, buzz! I
wonder how it came to be
shut up in the flower?

It went into the flower for some
honey, and then the flower
shut it in.

Shall we let it out, Lucy?

Oh yes, mother; then it can go to the
other flowers and get honey.

o some other wonder honey does o

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Robin Redbreast Pussy Cat sat ran

Little Robin Redbreast
sat on a tree,
Up went Pussy Cat,
down went he;
Down came Pussy Cat,
away Robin ran;
Said little Robin Redbreast,
"Catch me if you can!"

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river fish line hook near

One warm day in June, Frank's
father said to him: "Frank, I
think I will go down to the
river and catch some fish."

"Oh, father," said Frank, "I wish
I could go too. Will you let
me go and help you?"

"Yes, Frank. Run and; get your
hook and line."

"Thank you, father, I am so glad
that I may go."

Here is Frank at the river, with
his hook and line.

How bright the sun shines on the
water!

I wonder where all the fish have
gone. Frank can not see them.

The fish are far down in the water.

Frank has let his hook down, and