THE NEW MCGUFFEY FIRST READER
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clock minute call things
hour round tick tack

Can you tell what time it
is? Look at the clock, and
then tell me.

The clock has a round face.

It has two hands.

We call the long hand the
minute hand, for it tells the
minutes.

We call the short hand the hour
hand, for it tells the hours.

How many hours are there in a
day? How many minutes in an hour?

If you listen, you can hear what the
clock says. Tick, tack, tick, tack.

Our clock at school tells us many
things. It tells us when to work
and when to play.

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SONG OF THE CLOCK.
[Musical notation omitted.]

Tick, tack, tick, tack, tick, tack, tick, tack, Little clock
saves
me all care. Tick, tack, tick, tack, tick, tack, tick, tack,
Tells me when the right hours are, For eating, for sleeping,
for play and all, For rising and bathing, it sounds the call;
Beat by beat with forward, back, Ever tick and ever tack.

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REVIEW.

ship brown made sand meadow
sheep brother make soft window
shells brings wake sail minute
shall bloom fade wind winter
should blow face wake summer
shade horn stay wish teacher
those short steep white sister
these north asleep each brother
things hour feel obey every

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TO BE MEMORIZED.

Children who may read my lay,
This much I have to say;
Each day and every day
Do what is right.
Right things in great or small;
Then, though the sky should fall,
Sun, moon, and stars and all,
You shall have light.