MISCELLANEOUS SPELLING LESSON

[Including common words not found in preceding lessons.]

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(1.) The Bi-ble tells us, that a-bout six thou-sand years a-go, the great God made this world. It was very ea-sy for him to do this.

(2.) He could have made it in a moment just as well and just as ea-si-ly as he could do it in a month, or a year. But he chose to be just six days in do-ing it.

(3.) In the place where God made the world, it was, be-fore, ve-ry dark. There

was no land to tread up-on, and no clear sky. I was all dark and empty..

(4.) God said, Let there be light, and all at once there was light. The time while the light shone he cal-led day, and when dark-ness came a-gain, he cal-led it night.

(5.) Did you ev-er think how pleas-ant the light is?

(6.) O! how much a blind child would give to have one look at the sky, and the trees, and the gay flow-ers.

(7.) The Bi-ble says: Tru-ly, the fight is sweet, and a pleas-ant thing it is for the eyes to be-hold the sun.

(8.) The cre-a-tion of day and night was the work of the first day

(1.) On the sec-ond day God made the air. You know what the air is, though you can-not see it.

(2.) Ev-e-ry time you breathe you draw the air into your bod-y, and this it is which keeps you a-live.

(3.) We could not live an hour without air. If you should get all the air out

of a glass, or cup, and then put a fly, or a mouse, or a bird in it, you would soon see the little crea-ture lie down and die for want of air

(4.) We some-times see the wind move the trees. It oft-en drives large ships up-on the rocks, and breaks them in pieces, and the poor sai-lors sink to the bot-tom of the sea. How strong the wind must

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(5.) In the pic-ture we see a ship in a storm. She is far from the shore. sails and the masts are all gone.

(6.) We see cne fal-ling in-to the wat-er from the top of the bro-ken mast. Oth-ers are sink-ing near the shore, and some climb up-on the rocks

(7.) When the wind blows sharp and cold, we put a coat or cloak on.

(8.) The wind is the air mov-ed a-bout, and it was in making the air that God employ-ed the sec-ond day.