READING LESSON III.

the boys

had found the nest, they did not see how they

should get up to it, it was so

high.out

(2.) But one boy, whose name was Pe-ter Price, said he would climb the tree.

(3.) Then he got a board, and put one end of it on the tree, and stood up on the board, and was now nearly as high as the limb on which the nest was.

(4.) Then he sprang up, and crept with his hands and knees a-long the limb of the tree till he got near the nest.

(5.) But just as he put out his hand to take the nest, the limb broke, and down came Pe-ter, and the nest, and the eggs; and far off the poor bird flew, and they saw no more of her.

READING LESSON IV.

(1.) The

next day

Pe-ter Price was not at

school, and the mas-ter ask-ed

the boys what was the mat-ter with Pe-ter.

(2.) Not a word was said.

(3.) What is the mat-ter with Pe-ter? Do you know, Hen-ry Pond?

(4.) Hen-ry did not like to tell of boys who had done wrong; but when the master ask-ed him, he felt as if he ought to tell the whole truth, and he did tell it. (5.) Poor Pe-ter! His arm was bro-ken in two pla-ces very bad-ly. He was kept

on the bed ma-ny days; and it was quite twelve weeks be-fore he came to school a-gain.

(6.) How much one sin may cost us!

SPELLING EXERCISE

ON

READING LESSON IV.

What word next a-ny with

know twelve bound arm wrong weeks cost done whole quite

a-gain mas-ter mat-ter ask-ed be-fore

READING LESSON V.

(1.) I can-not see God, but God can see me.

(2.) His eye is up-on me by night and by day.

(3.) What I say he can hear; what I do he can see.

(4.) At home and a-broad; at school and

at play.

(5.) He gave me my sight, and does he

not see?

(6.) He gave me my hearing, and can he not hear?

(7.) Yes. He sees, and he knows all I think, do, and say.

(8.) Then let me o-bey him, and live in his fear.