What kind of hint in the sixth sentence? What does it tell of the children's condition? What hints in the next? What kind? "Each one had a shining tin pail." What one word in that sentence gives you a hint? What is the hint? What kind? For what was the pint? How do you know? What hints tell you so? What hints in the next two sentences about the lady who owned Prince? In the next paragraph what hints about the children? About the mother? About Mrs. Bent? What kind is each? What hint in, "She took the milk and went slowly to the house"? What kind of a hint is it? What hint in the next two sentences? Tell the kind. In the next what is the hint? What does that kind What hints in the next two sentences? What do they tell of the lady? What hint in the last sentence of that paragraph? What kind? of a hint tell? What hint in, "Hetty ran as fast as she could go"? Why did she run so fast? What does it tell of Hetty? What hint in, “All three children came back for the cow"? What hint in, " And she was well cared for, I can tell you, and not a drop of milk was wasted"? What kind is it? It tells you what of the children? What hint in the next sentence? What kind is it? What hint about Jim in the next sentence? What does that kind of a hint tell? What hint in the next to the last sentence? What kind is it? What hint in the last sentence? What kind? Be careful to get all the hint. II SELECTIONS AND STUDIES IN EMOTIONAL WORDS AND PHRASES (SEE CHAPTER II) SPRING In a green meadow The brook ripples clear; Soft in the sunshine The daisies appear. See how the dandelions Brightly unfold; They hide in the shining grass, Yellow as gold. Blow, gentle breeze On the hill and the plain; Play in the sunshine And blow off the rain. -From SPEAR'S Leaves and Flowers. [Published by D. C. Heath & Co.] STOP, STOP, PRETTY WATER "Stop, stop, pretty water!" Said Mary one day To a frolicsome brook That was running away. "You run on so fast! I wish you would stay: "But I will run after; Mother says that I may; For I would know where So Mary ran on; But I have heard say, That she never could find Where the brook ran away. Over the rolling waters go, Come from the dying moon, and blow, While my little one, while my pretty one, sleeps. Sleep and rest, sleep and rest, Father will come to thee soon; Rest, rest, on mother's breast, Father will come to thee soon; Father will come to his babe in the nest, Under the silver moon: Sleep, my little one, sleep, my pretty one, sleep. dainty Children reach to gather us With loving care As we gently sway in air. "Come the gentle bluebirds Oh no! no! We are no such pussies Sad would be the spring Did the dear birds never sing. "By and by the rain came Knocking at the door; Sleep no more. Out we sprang delighted; Now we gaily sing, Through the merry hours of spring." [By permission of The Educational Publishing Company, Boston.] STUDIES EMOTIONAL WORDS AND PHRASES swaying bough sang soft and low softest fur Dear little violet, Don't be afraid; Lift your blue eyes plashing rain loving care bluebirds gaily sing From the rock's mossy shade. |