The thanks of the publishers are due to very many experienced teachers, who have contributed their valuable suggestions.

June, 1879.

INTRODUCTORY MATTER.

Articulation
punctuation

Selections in Prose and Poetry.

Lessons. 1.  Evening at Home 2.  Bubbles 3.  Willie’s Letter (Script) 4.  The Little Star 5.  Two Dogs 6.  Afraid in the Dark 7.  Baby Bye 8.  Puss and her Kittens 9.  Kittie and Mousie 10.  At Work 11.  What a Bird Taught 12.  Susie Sunbeam 13.  If I were a Sun beam 14.  Henry, the Bootblack 15.  Don’t Wake the Baby (Script) 16.  A Kind Brother 17.  My Good-far-nothing 18.  The Kingbird 19.  Evening Hymn 20.  The Quarrel 21.  The Bee 22.  The Song of the Bee 23.  The Torn Doll 24.  Sheep-shearing 25.  The Clouds 26.  Patty and the Squirrel 27.  The Sparrow 28.  Sam and Harry 29.  The Little Rill 30.  The Boat Upset 31.  Mary’s Letter (Script) 32.  The Tiger 33.  The Fireside 34.  Birdie’s Morning Song 35.  Willie and Bounce 36.  Willie and Bounce 37.  The Kitchen Clock 38.  The New Scales 39.  The Bear and the Children 40.  The Little Harebell (Script) 41.  The Fishhawk 42.  What the Leaf said 43.  The Wind and the Leaves 44.  Mamma’s Present 45.  Mary’s Story 46.  Ralph Wick 47.  Coasting down the Hill (Script) 48.  The Fox and the Ducks 49.  Pretty is that Pretty does 50.  The Story-teller 51.  The Story-teller 52.  The Owl 53.  The Owl 54.  Grandfather’s Story 55.  God is Great and Good 56.  A Good Old Man 57.  The Greedy Girl 68.  A Place for Everything 69.  My Mother (Script) 60.  The Broken Window 61.  The Broken Window 62.  Frank and the Hourglass 63.  March 64.  Jenny’s Call 65.  Poor Davy 66.  Alice’s Supper 67.  A Snowstorm 68.  Bessie 69.  Bessie 70.  Cheerfulness (Script) 71.  Lullaby

ARTICULATION.

Suggestions to teachers.-Thorough and frequent drills on the elementary sounds are useful in correcting vicious habits of pronunciation and in strengthening the vocal organs.

As a rule, only one or two sounds should be employed at one lesson.  Care should be taken that the pupils observe and practice these sounds correctly in their reading.

TABLE OF VOCALS.

Long Sounds

Sound   as in    Sound   as in
a       ate        e     err
a       care       i     ice
a       arm        o     ode
a       last       u     use
a       all        u     burn
e       eve        oo    fool

SHORT SOUNDS.

Sound   as in      Sound   as in
a        am         o      odd
e        end        u      up
i        in         oo     look

DIPHTHONGS.