[_The Poetical Extracts are designated by Italic Letters_]
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Preface v
1. The Author's Address to the Pupil 9
2. Same subject, continued 13
3. " " " 17
4. The Discontented Pendulum, _Jane Taylor_ 19
5. Address of the Author to the Pupil, continued 23
6. " " " " " " " concluded 26
7. How to find out the Meaning of Words, _Original_ 29
8. Same subject, continued " 31
9. " " concluded " 34
10. Words " 38
11. Definitions " 42
12. Reading and Spelling " 48
13. Importance of Learning to Spell, _Original Version_ 51
14. Demosthenes, _Original_ 53
15. Hard Words, " 57
16. Fire: a Conversation, " 63
17. Same subject, continued " 67
18. " " concluded " 73
19. The Lark and her Young Ones, _Altered from Æsop_ 79
20. Dogs, _Original_ 82
21. Same subject, concluded " 85
22. Frogs and Toads, _Bigland_ 87
23. Maida, the Scotch Greyhound, _Altered from Bigland_ 90
24. Gelert, " 94
25. Knock again _Child's Companion_ 96
26. Same subject, continued, " 98
27. " " concluded, " 100
28. Make Good Use of Time, _Emma C. Embury_ 102
29. Same subject, continued, " 107
30. " " concluded, " 111
31. Verse, or Poetry, _Original_ 116
32. _A Morning Hymn_, _Anonymous_ 121
33. _Evening Hymn_, " 122
34. _The Gardener and the Hog_, _Gay_ 123
35. _The Hare and many Friends_, " 125
36. Maxims, _Selected_ 128
37. How to be Happy, _Child at Home_ 129
38. Obedience and Disobedience, _Child's Companion_ 133
39. Obstinacy, _Lessons without Books_ 139
40. King Edward and his Bible, _L.H. Sigourney_ 144
41. What does it Mean to be Tempted? _Rose-bud_ 147
42. Same subject, continued, " 151
43. " " " " 154
44. " " concluded, " 157
45. _Mary Dow_, _H.F. Gould_ 163
46. _It Snows_, " 165
47. _The Dissatisfied Angler Boy_, " 166
48. _The Violet: a Fable_, _Children's Magazine_ 168
49. Captain John Smith, _Juvenile Miscellany_ 170
50. Same subject, continued, " 173
51 " " " " 176
52. " " concluded, " 179
53. John Ledyard, " 180
54. Same subject, concluded, " 183
55. Learning to Work, _Original_ 185
56. Same subject, continued, _Abbott_ 187
57. " " concluded, " 189
58. The Comma, _Parker's Rhetorical Reader_ 193
59. The Semicolon, " 199
60. The Colon, " 202