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 95
ard in throve? J The Quarrelsome Cocks. 1. Here is a story about two foolish cocks thatwere always quarreling, which is very naughty. You 90 MCGUFFEYS SECOND READEP. do not quarrel ? No, I am glad of it; but if youlseeany little boys that quarrel, you may tell them thestory of the cocks. 2. There… … 3. The chickens were all very good, except twococks, that were always quarrehng with one another.They were hardly out of the shell, before they beganto peck at each other; and when they grew larger,they fought till they Avere all bloody. 4. If one picked up a grain of corn, the other alwayswanted…
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