wonderful music on a kind of harp called a lyre.
Men loved him, but they were a little afraid of him, too; he was so
bright and strong.
His sister was the Moon. Her name was Artemis, or Diana. She rode
through the sky at night in a silver car, and she, too, had a bow and
arrows.
Her bow was a silver bow, and her arrows were the moonbeams.
She loved hunting, and often at night she would come down to earth and
roam through the woods with her bow in her hand and her arrows at her
side or on her back.
In pictures she is always seen with a little new moon in her hair.
Artemis was so beautiful that men were afraid to look at her. It was
said that if any man should look full at her he would lose his mind.
So when she came to those whom she did not wish to hurt, she covered
herself with clouds.
For a time the good giant Orion helped Artemis in her hunting, for he
too was a great hunter. Artemis loved him as well as she loved any
one, but she was very cold and did not care much for anybody.
After a time Orion left her. He wanted to marry the daughter of a king
in one of the islands of the sea. The king said that he might if he
would drive all the wild beasts out of the island. Orion did this, but
the king did not keep his word.
Instead of that, he put out the eyes of Orion, but Orion went to
Apollo, and was made to see again.
Then Orion went back to help Artemis with her hunting, but Apollo did
not like that and wished to get rid of him.
He did not wish, himself, to hurt Orion, so he made Artemis do it.
"Sister," he said to her one day, "some men say that you can shoot as
well as I can, but we all know that is not so."
"I should like to know why it is not so!" said Artemis.
"Well, let us try," said Apollo. "Do you see that little black speck
away out there in the sea?"
"Yes, I see it," said Artemis.
"Can you hit it?" asked Apollo.
"Indeed I can," said Artemis; and with that she let an arrow fly from
her bow. It went straight through the black speck.
The black speck was the head of Orion. He was swimming back to Artemis
from the country of the bad king.
The speck at once went under the water and was seen no more.
When Artemis found what she had done, she was very sad indeed. She
could not bring Orion back to earth, but she took him up into the sky
and put him among the stars, and there he is standing to this day.
If you will look up into the sky on any clear winter night, you can
see him. Just before him is his dog. We call it the Dog Star.
THE WIND AND THE CLOUDS
The Sun and the Moon had a brother, the Summer Wind. His name was
Hermes, but sometimes he was called Mercury.
He had shoes with wings on them, which always took him very quickly
wherever he wished to go, and he had a magic cap which kept him from
being seen.
He ran on errands for his father and his older brothers. He went
everywhere, and he often picked up things that lay in his way, and
that didn't belong to him.
One day, when he was a small child, he crept down to the seaside and
there found the shell of a tortoise. He stretched some strings
tightly across it, and blew upon the strings, and made wonderful
music.
He called this thing a lyre.
On the same day, toward evening, he looked across the meadows and saw
some beautiful white cows. His brother Apollo was looking after them.
"What fun it would be to drive those cows away!" he said.
So he crept up behind the cows while Apollo was not looking, and he
drove them away. He drove them far, and at last shut them up in a
cave, where he thought Apollo could not find them.
Apollo saw that the cows were gone, and went to look for them, but he
had a hard time.
He thought that Hermes might have had something to do with them. So he
went to Hermes.
Hermes was playing upon the lyre which he had made, and was singing
gently to himself.
The music was so beautiful that Apollo forgot all about his cows.
"Where did you find that wonderful thing?" asked Apollo.
"O, I made it," said Hermes.
"Let me see it!" cried Apollo. "Show me how to play upon it."
Hermes showed him, and Apollo sat down and played until it grew dark.
"O, give me this thing! I must have it," said Apollo.
So Hermes gave it to him, and Apollo played upon it, gently at first,
and then louder. He made such wild, sweet music as had never before
been heard.
To pay for the lyre, Apollo gave Hermes a magic stick which would
bring sleep to men and would stop all quarreling.
One day Hermes saw two snakes fighting. He touched them with the
magic stick, and they stopped at once and wound themselves around it,
and stayed there ever after.
In the pictures of Hermes you will see this magic stick with the
snakes around it. You will see, too, the cap and the shoes, with the
wings upon them.
When Hermes and Apollo had made these gifts to each other, Apollo
said:
"Hermes, my dear boy, you like my white cows so well that I am going
to let you take care of them. I shall not have much time to take care
of cows now, for you know I am learning to play upon the lyre."
Hermes took care of the white cows after that, and on summer days he
used to drive them across the blue meadows of the sky.
When the Greeks saw the white clouds running before the wind, they
would say:
"It is Hermes driving his cows to pasture."
THE RAINBOW BRIDGE
Hermes was so useful that Juno, the queen of the heavens, thought she
must have a messenger, too. So she took Iris, a little sky fairy.
Iris lived up among the clouds, and played with the stars, and romped
with the little winds.
At night she used to sleep in the silver cradle of the Moon.
Sometimes Apollo, the Sun, took her in his golden car. Sometimes she
slipped down to earth with the rain. Sometimes she went to visit her
grandfather, the gray old Sea.
Her grandfather was always glad to see her, and when she came down, he
would hitch up his white sea horses and drive her over the tops of the
waves. What fun that was!
Old grandfather Sea loved Iris very much, and Apollo loved her, and
Juno loved her.
No one who saw her could help loving her; she was so bright and
beautiful and good.
When Juno sent her down to the earth on errands, the old Sea always
wanted her to stay.
But Apollo, the Sun, wanted her, too, and Juno wanted her.
At last the Sun and the Sea and the Air and the Rain all said they
would make a bridge for Iris, so that she might go back and forth
more quickly between the earth and the sky, on the errands of Juno.
The Earth brought the colors of all her beautiful flowers--rose, and
blue, and violet, and yellow, and orange, and the green of the grass.
The Sea gave silver mist.
The Clouds gave gray and gold.
The Sun himself spun the bridge out of all these colors.
Then he fastened one end of it to the sky and hung a pot of gold on
the other end, to keep it from blowing away; and it is said that the
pot of gold is still there in the earth at the end of the rainbow
bridge.
But no one has ever found it.
POEMS OLD AND NEW
THANK YOU, PRETTY COW
Thank you, pretty cow, that made
Pleasant milk to soak my bread,
Every day and every night,
Warm, and fresh, and sweet, and white.
Do not chew the hemlock rank,
Growing on the weedy bank;
But the yellow cowslip eat,
That will make it very sweet.
Where the purple violet grows,
Where the bubbling water flows,
Where the grass is fresh and fine,
Pretty cow, go there and dine.
JANE TAYLOR
PLAYGROUNDS
In summer I am very glad
We children are so small,
For we can see a thousand things
That men can't see at all.
They don't know much about the moss
And all the stones they pass;
They never lie and play among
The forests in the grass;
But when the snow is on the ground,
And all the puddles freeze,
I wish that I were very tall,
High up above the trees.
LAURENCE ALMA-TADEMA
SLEEP, BABY, SLEEP
Sleep, baby, sleep!
Thy father watches his sheep;
Thy mother is shaking the dreamland tree,
And down comes a little dream on thee.
Sleep, baby, sleep!
Sleep, baby, sleep!
The great stars are the sheep;
The little stars are the lambs, I guess,
And the gentle moon is the shepherdess.
Sleep, baby, sleep!
FROM THE GERMAN
A CHILD'S PRAYER
When it gets dark, the birds and flowers
Shut up their eyes and say good night;
And God, who loves them, counts the hours
And keeps them safe till it gets light.
Dear Father! Count the hours to-night,
When I'm asleep and cannot see;
And in the morning may the light
Shine for the birds and flowers and me!
WILLIAM HAWLEY SMITH
PHONETIC TABLES
NOTE TO THE TEACHER. The vocabulary of this book is here rearranged
for class drill. This should be given daily until the pupils are able
to pronounce at least thirty words per minute either by following the
columns or the lines.
In this grade children may be expected to give the reasons for the
several vowel sounds herein taught, but should not be required to
commit and apply phonetic rules. As the words in a column are
generally in the same phonetic group, column drills tend to fix the
principle there presented. But in the line drills and in the review
tables children must rely upon their own knowledge of the phonetic
elements.
Table I consists of monosyllabic words of not more than four letters
in which a single consonant precedes a short vowel or in which a short
vowel begins the word. There is a column for each vowel.
Table II contains words with two consonants final or initial or both.
Table III introduces vowels made long by final silent _e_.
Table IV is a mixed review with some additional words.
Table V contains long vowel digraphs and _y_ equivalent to long _i_,
and has a review column of forms ending in _s_.
Tables VI, VII, and VIII contain lists of words illustrating the
remaining vowel sounds in frequent use throughout the book.
Table IX presents groups of words taught by analogy. It also
illustrates _c_, _g_, and _dg_, followed by silent _e_.
Table X is a review of monosyllables with some additional words.
Table XI teaches words of two syllables with the endings _ing_, short
_y_, and _er_; also the elision of _e_. Column five is largely a
review.
Table XII presents three columns of words of two syllables
illustrating the phonetic principles previously set forth. Column four
illustrates the long vowel ending an accented syllable; column five
gives final _ed_ pronounced as _d_ or _t_.
Table XIII, column one, gives _a_ and _be_ as prefixes and _ful_ as a
suffix; column two, silent letters; column three, contractions and
possessives; column four and column five, unclassified phonetic words.
Table XIV contains unphonetic words or words but partly phonetic.
TABLE I
sad met dim box sun
ax yet dig fox cup
bag wet bill top dug
cap bell fit pop puff
hand web kiss hop fun
man nest lid dot husk
sand bend hid not dust
camp felt lit got but
rap send rid pot must
bad bent hit on run
TABLE II
rich drop still switch things
ring spun dress struck banks
neck flax flop swept ships
witch than fresh whish pranks
rank swim shell pluck wings
hitch shot swift drink frogs
bank thin crept spent rocks
such sled stand string logs
fish shop speck spring crabs
TABLE III
safe these fine shone tune
crane here white those spoke
plate cave life stone rode
state shape pine hole rope
spade flame side woke froze
vale sale dine shore rove
shake lake shine drove grove
brave name drive smoke more
TABLE IV
when spade grove thin yes
husk shine pranks these dwell
ring smoke mist same drive
must spent lent banks drove
skin whish end tune puff
shell logs snake shore here
witch white things flame man
drink gift melt frogs went
drops elk stand pip spring
thank still step such crabs
dress wave mine dust struck
TABLE V
bee tea sail boat grapes
sweep each pain goat boats
three year rain road goats
freeze bleat trail throat snakes
thee leaf plain cloak shapes
queer meat wait foam kites
free scream pay toad miles
wheel dream play roam flows
feet wheat gray coat holes
sweet feast bay soak seas
need leaves sky goes years
green beasts sly bow grows
seek clear dry row tales
deer grease try show rains
deep beads thy low stones
feel clean pies snow times
week near lie grow seems
peek stream tied grown waves
sheet heat tried new skies
cheese speaks cried knew Greeks
TABLE VI
far sharp sir nor burn
car hard first for hurt
dark scar birds corn turn
lark stars birch north burst
barn marks skirts storm purse
hark yards perch horse purr
TABLE VII
ball glass moo true foot
hall past shoo flue stood
small grass room blew full
tall ant root chew put
paw fast moose rude pull
walk last choose rule push
TABLE VIII
soft air word cows sour
toss hair words town south
moss fair worm brown round
cross chair work owl loud
strong care works tower wound
long fare world flowers hours
TABLE IX
high kind old ice rage
light mind gold mice orange
bright find fold face hedge
right grind hold place bridges
night child told peace head
fright wild cold prince spread
TABLE X
bars trail shore peace grass
town grease shape child talk
rage dance swift tight blew
drink room watch freeze stood
struck fair clear flows birch
smoke snake soak worm sharp
spade noise gray clouds bread
south spoil world beasts hold
strong counts small hitch shine
grown harp wound white skirts
queen quite storm bear true
throat waves leaves care perch
cried brown hedge cross burst
TABLE XI
spinning grassy never feeble Bossy
mumbling woolly summer uncles every
hunting ferry rivers needles gipsy
pecking stormy owner castle Bobby
barking funny sister bottle kippy
hanging happy whiskers little Jippy
filling sandy blower purple Jimmy
shaking empty dinner puddles Fanny
passing ugly gather gentle valley
shining sorry pitcher beaten lilies
trembling marry silver golden fairies
sitting greeny hunter gardens teasing
tacking thirsty otters wooden evening
living angry thunder maiden perching
begging lily farmer given camel
driving lonely winter frozen jewel
camping merry slumber hidden kernels
swimming hurry hither frighten ragged
growing gently either happen scolded
bubbling weedy neither broken floated
TABLE XII
until errands snowflakes secret saved
arrows cowslip boatman faded seemed
billows seaside sunbeams waded turned
swallow jackals moonbeams table tired
yellow carried thousand blazes twirled
shadow forests rainbow tigers growled
hollow princess wampum tulip happened
maybe hundred housetops roses rubbed
basket hemlock ourselves lady grumbled
magic insects shepherd music surprised
flowers forgot wigwam quiet drowned
timid within merchants giant tangled
visit himself bonfires baby roared
sunset window darkness finer used
spirit appear strangest wider showed
ashes indeed playgrounds cradle brushed
voices forget dreamland stories dropped
daisies outside sun-struck going stretched
linen herself perhaps open romped
coral mistake married Iris slipped
TABLE XIII
ago knew I've God fluttering
arise comb I'll Ellen passenger
around climb I'm Juno woodcutter
ashamed lambs it's Hermes hollyhock
across lambkins we'll Orion umbrellas
ashore wrens you'll Diana bumblebee
along wrong you've Childe lackaday
afraid answered you're Jeremy shivering
aboard sword they'll Mercury everything
among honest they're Indian everywhere
Apollo autumn didn't suddenly shepherdess
belongs fastened don't overtops elephants
before fighting who'll different buffaloes
beyond tightly haven't coconut everybody
because ought doesn't violet messenger
beneath fought won't shouldn't Rowland
beside brought ladies' mammy's Limberkin
became taught she's myself Tom Tit Tot
useful naughty there's polite Artemis
faithful daughter dolly's speckled Thursday
TABLE XIV
son elves prayer building wonderful
fro eyes colors together hovering
sure to-day touched quarrel to-morrow
blood floor instead eleven shoulders
meant rolled months dreadful everywhere
heard skeins obeyed feathers blossomed
guess fruit twelve to-night neighbors
warm built toward island hastening
love ribbon beggar monkey steadily
dove above fortune youngest pictures
field pearls voyage seasons overhead
piece forth country diamonds grandfather
view ready coming chimney wherever
buy acorn enough pasture pleasant
folk friend anyway backward sugar cane
both idly ancient forward learning
does ghosts halfway prairie covered
earth often loving trouble beautiful
lyre sailor pretty anybody prettier
lose ocean heaven nobody Englishman
WORD LIST
This list does not include words used in Book One. The numeral before
each group refers to the page on which the words first appear.
11. Childe Rowland
princess
name
Ellen
ball
12. elves
dark
tower
far
13. youngest
14. sword
things
15. country
head
speaks
16. drop
thirsty
forget
eyes
knew
18. around
each
20. dim
light
seemed
himself
hall
gold
silver
diamonds
shone
sad
21. turned
stone
golden
22. floor
free
noise
outside
fee-fi-fo-fum
blood
Englishman
fought
23. enough
bottle
24. hand
sister
left
25. Tom Tit Tot
hard
daughter
those
meant
soft
26. herself
27. spinning
mumbling
to-day
heard
spun
skeins
28. fine
eleven
months
every
year
29. anyway
everything
30. room
wheel
flax
before
goes
31. twirled
window
guess
pay
work
32. try
33. brought
34. together
hunting
queer
hole
nimmy
I'm
35. table
because
36. never
37. lambkins
grassy
banks
pranks
woolly
feet
watch
bleat
38. ferry
across
boatman
you've
purse
I'll
step
boat
39. coral
sailor
ashore
white
dig
nor
pluck
feeble
insects
stormy
40. swallow
sun-loving
summer
41. wrens
hedge
building
perching
pecking
fluttering
everywhere
42. sail
rivers
ships
clouds
sky
prettier
than
these
bridges
pretty
bow
heaven
overtops
road
earth
43. paw
woke
44. saved
life
45. honest
ax
woodcutter
stood
46. kind
sir
47. Mercury
met
49. crane
throat
bill
51. town
visit
mice
52. rich
barking
music
53. safe
54. quarrel
cloak
care
55. warm
56. ant
dove
leaf
blew
shore
58. lark
nest
field
owner
59. neighbors
uncles
60. yet
ourselves
61. shadow
piece
meat
63. grapes
sweet
hanging
still
high
don't
sour
fit
64. birds
north
south
wider
view
spread
wings
65. bark
basket
kippy
peek
maybe
funny
learning
secret
speckled
66. Jeremy
covered
growled
sly
Limberkin
dreadful
scream
dream
67. snowflakes
feathers
filling
air
they're
shaking
swift
love
we'll
kiss
true
68. hollyhock
bend
need
dolly's
tea
acorn
plate
feast
state
69. pine
valley
beautiful
needles
green
70. leaves
happened
passing
shining
71. carried
glass
72. perhaps
74. happy
75. faithful
beasts
seek
fortune
along
teasing
monkey
hurt
pain
76. tied
77. spent
box
fastened
lid
78. floated
round
rolled
magic
wherever
79. castle
gardens
merchants
built
80. showed
81. ribbon
82. whiskers
rubbed
drove
83. swim
84. mind
frogs
85. brown
sand
flows
either
86. foam
mine
past
hundred
miles
87. seaside
wooden
spade
sandy
empty
cup
rain
umbrellas
88. autumn
vale
bonfires
smoke
trail
pleasant
flowers
blazes
gray
seasons
bright
89. toss
kites
ladies'
skirts
grass
loud
90. different
hid
felt
push
strong
cold
blower
child
91. timid
afraid
coconut
shot
92. running
93. answered
elephants
tigers
94. buffaloes
deer
jackals
95. first
show
97. husk
fruit
98. top
place
both
wrong
root
string
side
99. owl
among
stand
100. does
102. camel
sugar cane
crabs
waded
103. haven't
104. dinner
105. deep
feel
106. bumblebee
tulip
mistake
lake
107. Bobby
barn
Bossy
lackaday
who'll
shoo
drive
moo
mammy's
108. Jippy
Jimmy
logs
wet
thin
crept
dry
ki-hi
109. shivering
roam
won't
until
pip
pop
flippety
flop
ready
clear
gather
chimney
row
hop
110. kernels
sharp
yellow
small
burst
shake
steadily
backward
forward
you'll
low
111. ugly
spring
112. indeed
pitcher
gift
jewel
scolded
sorry
113. roses
pearls
114. send
Fanny
myself
115. grumbled
lady
116. polite
snake
toad
spoke
117. prince
118. surprised
married
119. sitting
evening
same
120. week
Thursday
121. bell
ring
122. bent
123. coat
trouble
witch
123. marry
yards
124. lent
horse
125. switch
126. rode
comb
128. boo-oo-oo
roared
tired
130. sale
132. to-morrow
grease
134. rage
135. greeny
bay
tacking
island
beneath
ought
aboard
drowned
ocean
billows
136. fare
passenger
voyage
sheet
137. wound
living
tune
naughty
cross
rude
tangled
spoil
138. scar
quiet
wigwam
Indian
moose
maiden
marks
snow
sled
ice
139. brave
hunter
wonderful
choose
140. sunset
end
angry
ashes
141. shell
beads
dress
142. skin
145. broken
birch
fresh
clean
brushed
146. hair
147. rainbow
faded
stars
148. forgot
neck
elk
wampum
used
spirit
shoulders
obeyed
149. belongs
ashamed
150. rocks
cave
twelve
otters
camp
foot
151. climb
hollow
middle
struck
152. dug
153. mist
storm
thunder
voices
155. peace
given
grown
tall
near
baby
taught
156. lily
ago
stories
halfway
shape
157. became
lonely
plain
prairie
158. wild
toward
159. blossomed
lilies
160. beggar
ragged
begging
161. friend
dust
lose
stream
163. bee
linen
fair
shop
buy
shouldn't
164. web
everybody
swept
finer
neither
165. worm
farmer
son
166. hours
nobody
grow
167. winter
froze
168. melt
frozen
coming
169. idly
fro
pasture
merry
housetops
sweep
shepherd
driving
hastening
within
fold
hurry
beyond
170. shine
trembling
bars
darkness
slumber
171. ghost
fairies
lit
tales
dwell
forgotten
ancient
172. quite
strangest
folk
anybody
flue
rove
gypsy
camping
grove
hither
hidden
flame
hovering
appear
sure
suddenly
puff
whish
173. daisies
overhead
dot
often
arise
there's
skies
she's
dropped
174. giant
Greeks
car
heat
arrows
sunbeams
sun-struck
gently
175. Apollo
harp
lyre
Artemis
Diana
176. pictures
moonbeams
new
Orion
177. word
instead
rid
178. hit
speck
swimming
180. Hermes
cap
errands
181. stretched
tightly
fun
184. quarreling
fighting
touched
themselves
186. useful
messenger
Juno
Iris
romped
cradle
slipped
grandfather
187. hitch
waves
188. forth
colors
violet
orange
189. soak
chew
hemlock
rank
growing
weedy
cowslip
purple
bubbling
dine
190. playgrounds
thousand
moss
lie
forests
puddles
freeze
above
191. thy
dreamland
thee
lambs
gentle
shepherdess
192. prayer
God
counts
to-night