New National Fourth Reader by Charles J. Barnes and J. Marshall Hawkes


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Directions for Reading.--Mark the _inflection_ of the following
questions.

Where do you live?

Is your name Harry or John?

Why are you begging?

Do you wish to walk?

In such a question as the last one, if _emphasis_ be given in turn to
the words _you, wish, walk_, the answer might still be _yes_ or
_no_; and yet the meaning of the answer would be different in each
case.

Do _you_ wish to walk? Yes, I do.

Do you _wish_ to walk? No, I do not _wish_ to walk; but suppose I
must.

Do you wish to _walk?_ No, I would rather _ride_.


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Language Lesson.--Let pupils write a letter to some friend, using the
last paragraph of the lesson as a subject.


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LESSON LVI.


persist'ed, _continued_.

crip'ples, _those who have lost the use of a limb_.

merged, _united; joined_.

stal'wart, _strong; powerful_.

in'nocent, _harmless_.

pass'port, _what enables one to go in safety_.

gal'lant, _brave; noble_.

riv'en, _taken away; deprived_.


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UNITED AT LAST.


"O mother! What do they mean by blue?
And what do they mean by gray?"
Was heard from the lips of a little child
As she bounded in from play.
The mother's eyes filled up with tears;
She turned to her darling fair,
And smoothed away from the sunny brow
Its treasure of golden hair.

"Why, mother's eyes are blue, my sweet,
And grandpa's hair is gray,
And the love we bear our darling child
Grows stronger every day."
"But what did they mean?" persisted the child;
"For I saw two cripples to-day,
And one of them said he fought for the blue,
The other, he fought for the gray.

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