A man’s best things are nearest him,
Lie close about his feet.

WORDS OFTEN HEARD IN SCHOOL

129 130 131 132
pri ma ry cor rect ex act his to ry
writ ten schol ar ex er cise charge
prompt er ror jan i tor en e my
re peat ex cuse your self can non
ob serve taught col o ny un der stand
133 134 135 136
neg lect per fect po em a rith me tic
un ion lan guage au thor di vide
at tack cop y sen tence di vi sor
chap ter com ma ti tle div i dend
liq uid pe ri od dic tate sport
137 138 139 140
meas ure curve e rect weigh
min u end carve cough weight
bush el up per re cess o mit
draw ing up right base mod el
spel ling re cite base ball an nu al

141 142 143 144
pic nic cot ton wool dif fer ent
u su al mus lin wool en dif fer ence
jol ly col lar sweat swamp
ar ranged neck tie sweat er par ty
car riage blouse pas ture lem on ade
flan nel o ver alls or chard co coa

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THE PICNIC

Summer is the usual time for picnics, but mother arranged a jolly one for us last fall.

Instead of cotton or muslin dresses, the girls wore flannel ones. The boys left their collars and neckties at home, and wore old blouses and overalls. We all wore woolen sweaters.

We did not go in carriages. We walked across the pasture, through the orchard to the grove on the other side of the swamp. Ours was a nutting party.

Our picnic was different from summer picnics in other ways. Instead of cold lemonade we had hot cocoa, and we ate our lunch in the sunniest place we could find, by a great rock. It was almost night when we reached home, and we all ran to the fire to warm our fingers and toes.

146

Make a sentence using the following words.

scat tered crowd de cid ed search
chest nuts wal nuts
147 148
sand wich fudge squir rel club
pic kle chick en a corn tur key
nap kin hun gry rab bit crick et

149 150 151 152
false hon est prom ise faith
false hood hon est y birth faith ful
quar rel no ble knight how ev er
val or hon or knight hood loy al
for tune hon or a ble what ev er loy al ty

153

He who is honest is noble,
Whatever his fortunes or birth.

—Alice Cary.

Stand by your promise, your honor, your faith, as loyally as the knights of old.

—George Herbert.

BRAVE GOOD
AND·TRUE

Here are some of the most commonly used, most commonly misspelled, words. You have studied every one of them. Are you sure that you can and do spell every one correctly?

piece raise busy write
beginning wrote color writing
though enough guess here
coming truly says hear
early sugar believe done
instead straight knew women
easy could February always
through much Wednesday where
every minute lose been
half Tuesday loose friend
none wear would business
often answer once money
cough trouble does their
ache among heard there
break said know sure

Fourth Year Vocabulary

absent amuse attention bedroom
ache anger attic beech
acorn angry aunt before
across annual author beforehand
action answered automobile beggar
admire any awful begin
admiring anyway bald beginning
advice apron balloon begun
afterward arithmetic banana believe
against arranged base belong
agent arrive baseball below
album arrow basket beneath
alone ashamed basin between
always ashes bathroom Bible
America assist beautiful bicycle
American attack because billow
amid attempt become birch
birth breathes cabin chance
biscuit breeze called chapter
blister brief calm charge
blossom brittle camel cheap
blotter broad camp cheerful
blouse bruise candle cherry
bluebird bucket cannon chestnuts
boards bud canoe chicken
bobolink bugle capital china
body build captain chocolate
boil building cargo choice
bookcase built carpenter choose
borrow bulb carpet church
bosom bush carriage circle
bower bushel carrot cities
break busily carve city
breakfast business castle close
breast butcher cellar closet
breath cabbage chamber cloth
clothes corner curve disbelieve
club correct damp distance
coal cottage dandelion distant
cocoa cotton danger distress
collar cough daughter distressed
colony courage dawn divide
color cousin death dividend
column cove debt divisor
comb coward decided doctor
comma creature delay does
command cricket delight dome
common cripple depart done
company crowd depend dough
complete cruel depot doughnut
conduct crumb desire drawing
conductor cupboard dictate driven
content cur difference drove
continent currants different eagle
copy curtain dinner early
easy expect firm garage
eaves explain fish garden
edge fairies flannel giant
elm fairy flower glance
else faith flutter globe
empty faithful foot gone
enemy false forenoon grandma
engine falsehood forest grandpa
enjoy family forgiveness grape
enough fancy fork grateful
equal farther fort greatness
equally fault fortune grief
erect favor Franklin grocer
error fence freedom grove
evil fender front grumble
exact ferry fudge grumbling
example field fuel guess
excuse finish fur half
exercise fir furnace halves
hammock honor invite know
handsome honorable janitor labor
harbor hoop jelly ladies
harvest hope jewel lady
having hopeful jewelry laid
hawk horizon jolly lamp
headache hotel journey language
health however judge lantern
heap humble judging laughter
heard hunger juice lawn
heaven hungry juicy leap
held idle just learning
herself inch justice ledge
high inches kettle left
history indeed kindle lemon
Holland infant kitchen lemonade
home instead knew level
honest invade knight liar
honesty invitation knighthood liberty
lilac mid murder offer
linen mighty muslin officer
liquid minuend napkin often
listen minute narrow olive
locate mirror native omit
loop moan nature once
loose model nearly onion
lose modest necktie orchard
loyal modesty neglect ounce
loyalty moonlight neighbor oven
lumber morning nephew overalls
lying motion noble palace
machine motor none palm
manage mount northern pansy
maple mountain notice pantry
master mourn nurse parade
measure much obey paraded
member mud observe pardon
merry muddy o’clock parlor
party pity provide rather
pasture pleasant prune read
path pleasure public really
patient pledge pudding reap
peacock plenty punish recess
people pocket punishment recite
pepper poem purple recover
perfect polite purse remain
perhaps poor push remainder
period porch quarrel remove
piano pour quickly repeat
pickle power quietly replied
picnic praise quilt reply
piece prefer rabbit report
pier prepare radish ribbon
pigeon present railroad rich
pilgrim primary railway ripple
pillow promise raisins roam
pitied prompt rapid robber
Rome sentence slept spruce
rope servant slope square
rough serve soda squash
said severe sofa squirrel
salt shadow soft stable
sandwich shady soil station
satin shingle solid stir
sauce shoes sorrow stitch
saucer short sorry stone
says shovel sort stoop
scarlet shower soul storm
scattered showery sparrow stove
scholar silent spelling straight
scope silver sphere stranger
scour single splendid strength
search sinner spoon strict
seashore sir sport succeed
seems sledge sprinkle success
seldom slender sprout sugar
suit thousand travel upper
sure ticket traveler upright
surprise timber trip uprooted
surround tiny trolley used
swamp ’tis trooper usual
sweat title trouble vacation
sweater together truly valley
swept toil truth valor
tale-bearer toilet tulip vase
taught tomato tumble vegetable
tax ton turkey vessel
tear tongue turnip village
tender tonight uncle violet
terrible torn under visit
thankful touch understand visitor
their tough union voice
thistle toward unite waist
thorn towel united walnuts
though tower unless warm
warn whisper without wound
wash whistle wolf wreath
watch whole wolves wrinkle
wealth whose woman write
wear wigwam women writing
wedge willow wonder written
weigh window wonderful wrote
weight winner wool yellow
welcome wipe woolen yourself
wharf wisdom worth
whatever within would

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