Summer is the usual time for picnics, but mother arranged a jolly one
for us last fall.
Instead of cotton or muslin dresses, the girls wore flannel ones. The
boys left their collars and neckties at home, and wore old blouses and
overalls. We all wore woolen sweaters.
We did not go in carriages. We walked across the pasture, through the
orchard to the grove on the other side of the swamp. Ours was a nutting
party.
Our picnic was different from summer picnics in other ways. Instead of
cold lemonade we had hot cocoa, and we ate our lunch in the sunniest
place we could find, by a great rock. It was almost night when we
reached home, and we all ran to the fire to warm our fingers and toes.
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Make a sentence using the following words.
scat tered crowd de cid ed search
chest nuts wal nuts
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sand wich fudge squir rel club
pic kle chick en a corn tur key
nap kin hun gry rab bit crick et
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false hon est prom ise faith
false hood hon est y birth faith ful
quar rel no ble knight how ev er
val or hon or knight hood loy al
for tune hon or a ble what ev er loy al ty
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He who is honest is noble,
Whatever his fortunes or birth.
--ALICE CARY.
Stand by your promise, your honor, your faith, as loyally as the
knights of old.
--GEORGE HERBERT.
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Here are some of the most commonly used, most commonly misspelled,
words. You have studied every one of them. Are you sure that you can
and do spell every one correctly?
piece raise busy write
beginning wrote color writing
though enough guess here
coming truly says hear
early sugar believe done
instead straight knew women
easy could February always
through much Wednesday where
every minute lose been
half Tuesday loose friend
none wear would business
often answer once money
cough trouble does their
ache among heard there
break said know sure