
Parker's Second Reader / National Series of Selections for Reading, Designed For The Younger Classes In Schools, Academies, &C.
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- PARKER'S SECOND READER.
- NATIONAL SERIES
- SELECTIONS FOR READING;
- ADAPTED TO THE STANDING OF THE PUPIL.
- PREFACE.
- CONTENTS.
- PARKER'S SECOND READER.
- LESSON I.
- The Author's Address to the Pupil.
- LESSON II.
- The same subject, continued.
- LESSON III.
- The same subject, continued.
- LESSON IV.
- The Discontented Pendulum.—Jane Taylor.
- LESSON V.
- Address of the Author to the Pupil,—continued from Lesson 3d.
- LESSON VI.
- The Author to the Pupil.
- LESSON VII.
- LESSON VIII.
- The same subject, continued.
- LESSON IX.
- The same subject, continued.
- LESSON X.
- LESSON XI.
- Definitions.
- LESSON XII.
- Reading and Spelling.
- LESSON XIII.
- LESSON XIV.
- LESSON XV.
- Hard Words.
- LESSON XVI.
- Fire,[A]—a Conversation between a Mother and her little Daughter.
- FOOTNOTE:
- LESSON XVII.
- The same subject, continued.
- LESSON XVIII.
- The same subject, concluded.
- LESSON XIX.
- The Lark and her Young Ones.—Altered from Æsop.
- LESSON XX.
- LESSON XXI.
- The same subject, concluded.
- LESSON XXII.
- Frogs and Toads.—Bigland.
- LESSON XXIII.
- Maida, the Scotch Greyhound.—Altered from Bingley.
- LESSON XXIV.
- Gelert.—Bingley, altered.
- LESSON XXV.
- Knock Again.—Child's Companion.
- LESSON XXVI.
- The same subject, continued.
- LESSON XXVII.
- The same subject, concluded.
- LESSON XXVIII
- Make Good Use of your Time.—Emma C. Embury.
- LESSON XXIX.
- The same subject, continued.
- LESSON XXX.
- The same subject, concluded.
- LESSON XXXI.
- Verse, or Poetry.
- LESSON XXXII.
- God Present Everywhere.
- LESSON XXXIII.
- Devotion.
- LESSON XXXIV.
- The Gardener and the Hog.—Gay.
- LESSON XXXV.
- The Hare and many Friends.—Gay.
- LESSON XXXVI.
- Maxims.—Selected.
- LESSON XXXVII.
- How to be Happy.—Child at Home.
- LESSON XXXVIII.
- Obedience and Disobedience.—Child's Companion.
- LESSON XXXIX.
- Obstinacy.—Lessons without Books.
- LESSON XL.
- King Edward and his Bible.—Mrs. L.H. Sigourney.
- LESSON XLI.
- What does it Mean to be Tempted.—M.H., in the Rose-bud.
- LESSON XLII.
- The same subject, continued.
- LESSON XLIII.
- The same, subject, continued.
- LESSON XLIV.
- The same subject, concluded.
- LESSON XLV.
- Mary Dow.—H.F. Gould.
- LESSON XLVI.
- It Snows.—H.F. Gould.
- LESSON XLVII.
- The Dissatisfied Angler Boy.—H.F. Gould.
- LESSON XLVIII.
- The Violet: a Fable.—Children's Magazine.
- LESSON XLIX.
- Captain John Smith.—Juvenile Miscellany.
- LESSON L.
- The same subject, continued.
- LESSON LI.
- The same subject, continued.
- LESSON LII.
- The same subject, concluded.
- LESSON LIII.
- John Ledyard.—Juvenile Miscellany.
- LESSON LIV.
- The same subject, concluded.
- LESSON LV.
- LESSON LVI.
- The same subject, continued.—Abbott.
- LESSON LVII.
- The same subject, concluded.
- LESSON LVIII.
- The Comma.
- Examples.
- LESSON LIX.
- The Semicolon.
- Examples.
- Examples.
- Examples.
- LESSON LX.
- The Colon.
- Examples.
- THE END.
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