understand why he has been so restless and peevish

of late-why he has kept the nurse awake nights.

Put your finger upon his dear little gum. Do you not feel the sharp edges of the tooth clear through?

Cheer up, my little fellow, the other teeth will soon come, and then you will be able to bite a piece of bread as well as anybody.

II.-PARTS OF THE BODY.

Our merry little daughter was climbing out of bed. "Don't you think that I'm a good girl?" our little daughter said.

"For all day long this lovely day, and all day long to-morrow,

I haven't done a single thing to give my mother sorrow."

called the silkworm.

When full-grown, this worm prepares for itself a yellow shell called a cocoon. This is made of an unbroken and delicate fiber of silk which the worm draws out of its body and winds around itself thousands of times. This slender fiber is at first sticky, but it soon dries and hardens.

rof' fee

VII.-COFFEE.

drained appearance

con tained' re' al ly leaves

evergreen shrub.

Coffee is the seed contained in the berry of an This shrub grows best in moist air and well-drained soil. The coffee plant is really a tree twenty or thirty feet high, but this the planter prunes down to a

height of five

or six feet, so

that it will

bear better

fruit. A coffee plantation has a beautiful ap

pearance when the shrubs are

in bloom. The

leaves are a

bright green, and the flowers are either white or

have a slight rose tint, and are very fragrant.

by buy

our hour

HOMONYMS.

VIII.-HOMONYMS.*

[Words pronounced alike, but spelled differently.]

We learn to do by doing.-Proverb.

Wealth can not buy health.-Proverb.

Our thoughts are heard in heaven.

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Every hour of a man's life has its own work.-Paton.

won one

Nothing good is lightly won.-Proverb.

One kindness prompts another.-Proverb.

would He who would rule others must first rule himself. Silence settles wide and still,

wood

On the lone wood and mighty hill.-Scott.

there their

There is no place like home.-Payne.
Mountains rob the winds of their moisture.

die

dye

all

awl

pain

pane

They never fail who die in a good cause.—Byron.
A beautiful blue dye is made from the indigo plant. ·

All that glisters is not gold.-Shakespeare.

The cobbler cheerfully plying his awl is richer than a discontented king.

Patiently take the minutes of pain,

The worst of minutes can not remain.

O, where did you come from, you little drops of rain
Pitter patter, pitter patter, on the windowpane?

bare When winter comes the trees are bare.
bear Bear wealth; poverty will bear itself.-Proverb.

feet

feat

April scatters daisies at our feet.-Sara Coleridge.
Full many a feat of arms had he performed.

*See Notes to Teachers, p. vi.