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PREFACE The success with which my Combined Course of Literary Reading and Composition has met, and the suggestions of practical teachers, have encouraged me to produce this companion volume, which is intended for the use of younger pupils. It is perhaps unnecessary to repeat in detail the...

THE FOUR MISS WHITTHiGTONS. CHAPTER I. the burning of the boats. "T is not," said Barbara impetuously, "as if we were young. If we were, why, of course, the whole thing would be different." "And it is not as though we were giddy or flighty either. Even Bess's mother-in-law allows that we are...

Táblája kopott, sérült. Több oldalon ceruzás széljegyzetek. In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare creates a violent world, in which two young people fall in love. It is not simply that their families disapprove; the Montagues and the Capulets are engaged in a blood feud. In this death-filled...

THEIR MAJESTIES WASH UPThe King of Pennidip came cheerfully down to breakfast, kissed the Queen good morning, and turned the wireless on.'Sque-e-e-e, pip-pop, gurgle/ said the wireless.The King twiddled the knobs.'Tum-te-tiddley-um-te-tum,' said the wireless, beginning to play the Teddy Bear's...

Topsy and Tim and their Granny were on their way to see the Tower of London. They sat in the front seats, upstairs, on a big, red London bus.

Publishers' Note The great variety of reading matter now offered for school use makes the task of selection difficult, and has resulted in a demand for somé central English Course which shall provide all the material required at the various stages of the elementary school for the systematic study...

Topsy and Tim were busy preparing a pet show. They hoped to earn somé money to buy equipment for Tansy's playgroup, but it was for fun, too.

54 III J jj*- Topsy and Tim and their Granny were on their way to see the Tower of London. They sat in the front seats, upstairs, on a big, red London bus.