Page images
PDF
EPUB

shut up every night in the fold. She thought, as many foolish children think, that she was big enough to take care of herself. So she came to her mother, who was a wise old sheep, and said to her, "I wonder why we are shut up so, every night? The dogs are not shut up, and why should we be shut up? I think it very hard, and I will get away if I can, I am resolved; for I like to run about where I please and I think it is very pleasant in the woods by moonlight."

Then the old sheep said to her, "You are a very silly creature, you little lamb; you had better stay in the fokl. The shepherd is so good to us, that we should always do os he bids us; and if you wander about by yourself, I dare say you will come to some harm." "I dare say not," said the little lamb. So when the evening came, and the shepherd called them all to come into the fold, she would not come, but crept slily under the fence and hid herself; and when the rest of the lambs were all in the fòld, she came out, and jumped, and frisked, and danced about; and she got out of the field, and got into a great thick wood, full of trees; and a very fierce hungry wolf came rushing out of a cave, and howled very loud. Then the silly lanıb wished she had been shut up in the fold; but the fold was a great way off. So the wolf saw her, and seized her, and carried her away to a dismal dark den, all covered with bones and blood; and there the wolf had two cubs, and the wolf said to them," Here I have brought you a young fat lamb." And so the cubs took the lamb, and growled over her a little while, and then tore her to pieces and ate her up.

Little children should always mind what their parents say to them, and remember that those who are older, know better than they do, what is good for them. Children who do

what their parents forbid them, or what they tell them they had better pot do, very often get hurt by having their own

way.

Little Lambkin, silly ranger,

Keep your pasture safe and sure;
Rambling only leads to danger,
Such as you can ne'er endure.

Eriendly is the hand extended,
Hazarding his life for thine;
Straying souls are thus befriended,
By the Shepherd's grace divine.

Words alike in pronunciation, but different in signification and orthography

[blocks in formation]

bale, a pack of goods

gether

al-le-ga/fion, affirmation bait, an allurement

ǎl-li-gallon, a tying to- bāte, to take less

âl'tar, a place for sacri- ba'ting, except

[fices bai'ting, refreshment

âi-ter, to change

baize, a sort of cloth

ăn, a particle

bays, garlands

ǎnn, a woman's name

bald, void of hair

of a ship

àre, part of a circle

àrk, a chest

ǎnch'er, an instrument

ǎnker, a liquid measure bâwl, to cry out

ǎr-rear', what is unpaid base, vile

ǎr-riere', the last body bass, a part in music

bâwl'd, cried out

bâll, a globe

báre, naked

bear, to carry

of an army

bay, a colour

bey, a Turkish governor bold, daring

bē, to exist

bee, a kind of insect
beach, a shore
bēĕch, a tree
beat, to strike

bēēt, a kind of root

bō, a word of terror

bow, an instrument

beau, a fop

bowl'd, he did bowl
bole, a kind of earth
böll, a round stem
bowl, a basin
bōrne, supported
bourn, a limit

borough a corporation

town

bur'rōw, a rabbit-hole

been, per. part. of to be bòûgh, a branch

bin, a repository for corn bòw, to bend

bēēr, a malt liquor
bier, a carriage for the
dead

bell, a sounding vessel
belle, a gay lady
běr'ry, a kind of fruit
bar", to inter
bět'ter, more good
bět'tor, one who lays

braid, a knot bray'd, he did bray brake, fern break, to part by force breach, a gap breech, the hinder part of a gun

bread, a kind of food

a brěd, brought up

wager

breast, a part of the

bight, one round of

a

body

[place

rope

brěst, the name of a

bīte, to pierce with the breese, a stinging fly

teeth

blew, did blow

blue, a colour

blōat, to swell

blōte, to smoke

bōar, a kind of beast

bōre, to make a hole

[blocks in formation]

board, a piece of wood bruit, a report

bōr'd, he did bore

brute, a beast

bŭr, a rough head of a seel, to close the eyes

plant

burr, lobe of the ear bút, except

butt, a kind of vessel buy, to purchase bỹ, near

tain, a man's uame

čane, a walking stick tăl ́ĕn-dăr, an almanac

tǎl'ĕn-děr, to linen

smooth

tâlk, to stop scams

ceiling, the top of a

room

sealing, a fastening

cell, a hut

sell, to dispose of čellar, a part of a house seller, one who sells cense, a public tax sense, meaning cent, a hundred scent, a smell sent, he did send

čere, to wax

tâuk, a kind of spar

tâll, to name

tâul, a membrane

tăl loŭs, insensible

sear, to burn

seer, a prophet

sere, withered

tăl'lus, an induration of cession, a giving up

the fibres

đăn‘did, honest

dy

ses/stun, act of sitting

cha-grin', vexation

căn'died, part. of to can- shǎ-green', a rough fish

tǎn'non, a great gun

čǎn'on, a rule

task, a barrel

skin

chap, a beast's jaw
chop, to cut

[headire, 24 sheets

[blocks in formation]

čingle, agirth for altom'pli-ment, an act of

[blocks in formation]

Fla'mănt, crying out

civility

con-sent', agreement

kon-cent', harmony

čon-ċession, a grant

con-session, a sitting

together

tôôm, soot

čôomb, a corn measure

of four bushels

eo-quet', to deceive in love

who co-quette', a jilting, airy

girl

Core, the hear

blause, part of a sentence corps, a body of forces laws, the feet of a bird cousin, a relation

en, to cheat

[blocks in formation]

one

ns

črk, to make a noise

trêēk, a small bay

rew', worsted

érůěl, inhuman

rews, ships' companies

Cruise, to sail for plunder

eyg'nět, a young swan sig'nět, a seal

dăm, a mother

dămn, to condemn

dāne, a native of Den

mark

who deign, to vouchsafe
day, a part of time

čom plē-ment, the full day, a Moorish govern

[blocks in formation]
« PreviousContinue »