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Page 9
"Let's see," said the giant; "he always says 'Pretty soon.' No, that
isn't it. What is it, my fine fellow, that you always say to your mamma
when she asks you to do any thing for her?
"It isn't 'Pretty soon,' nor 'In a minute.' What is it? They all mean
about the same thing, to be sure, and bring every body to me in the end;
but I must know exactly, or I can't put you in the right place."
Johnny hung his head, and did not want to tell; but an extra hard poke
of the giant's big finger made him open his mouth and say with shame,
that he always said, "I'm going to."
"O that's it!" said the giant. "Well, then, you stand there."
So he unwound a bit of the web from his fingers--just enough so that he
could hold the Procrastinator's Primer--and stood him at the end of a
long row of children, who were saying over and over again, just as fast
as they could speak, "Going to, going to, going to, going to," just
that, and nothing else in the world.
Johnny was tired and hungry by this time, and longed to see his mamma,
thinking that, if he could only get back: to her, he would always mind
the very moment she told him to do any thing.
He made a great many good resolutions while he stood there. At last the
giant called him to come and say his lesson.
"You shall have a short one to-day," said he, "and need say it only a
thousand times, because it is your first day here. To-morrow, you must
say it a million."
Johnny tried to step forward, but the web was still about his feet, so
he fell with, a bang to the floor.
Just then he opened his eyes to find that he had rolled from the rock
to the grass, and that mamma was calling him in a loud voice to come to
supper, and this time he didn't say, "I'm going to."
* * * * *
Directions for Reading.--The words in quotation marks should be read in
the same manner as in Lesson I.
Read words in dark type in the following sentences with more force than
the other words:
"Has he _come?_ Did you _get_ him?"
Words that are read more forcibly than other words in a sentence are
called _emphatic words_.
Which are the _emphatic words_ in the following sentences?
"You shall have a short one to-day."
"I must know exactly."
* * * * *
Language Lesson.--Divide into syllables, accent, and mark the sounds
of the letters in the following words: _extra, primer, moment,
coal-black_.
* * * * *
LESSON III.
remark'able, _worthy of notice; unusual_.
moist'ure, _wetness; that which makes wet_.
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