McGuffey's newly revised eclectic second reader : containing progressive lessons in reading and spelling. Revised and improved. (1848)
Engel, Irving, donor, McGuffey, William Holmes, 1800-1873, ed, Shepard, Edwin, stereotyper, Winthrop B. Smith & Co. publisher · Cincinnati: : Winthrop B. Smith & Co., publishers. · leaf 110
y beautiful, and may,be :taught to perch upon your shoulder, and eat from your |hand: and many other wonderful things that would :astonish you, if you were to see them. | 7. A Ffenchm.an once exhibited some Canary birds \in London, that performed several very amusing tricks, I OF THE ECLECTIC… … 8. Another balanced itself, and was swung forwardand backward on a kind of slack rope. A third suf-fered itself to be shot at, and falling down as if dead,was put into a little wheel-barrov/, and wheeled awayby one of the other birds. >^9. At a signal from their owner, some of the birdswould…
