Country Life Readers: Second BookB.F. Johnson Publishing Company, 1916 - 160 pages |
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A-berrying acres alfalfa ALICE CARY apple tree baby ballot beef tea better biscuits boil Boston Miller bridge broth build clean clover consolidated school cook vegetables corn meal cottage cheese country faith Country Life Readers country's flag cover crop cowpeas crop dishes Drag the road drunkard farmer feed foods fruit and grain gallons garden going green things growing gruel Hazel Green itches James Jordan's Jordan keep kind learn to cook legumes live stock LUCY LARCOM moonlight schools mush never One-crop farming one-room school pasture pipe water plant the tree plenty of water porch potatoes poultry Praise prune and spray raise road in front rows seed corn Select sell sick silo sing soil sour stalks Sunday school sweet table manners teacher teeth tell tenant unto vineyard vote weed seed WILLIAM GOODELL wish woman
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Page 156 - And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on. The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment.
Page 155 - And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God...
Page 152 - Then began he to speak to the people this parable; A certain man planted a vineyard, and let it forth to husbandmen, and went into a far country for a long time.
Page 156 - Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, That Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Page 150 - Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds. For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation ? The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.
Page 118 - Somebody said that it couldn't be done, But he with a chuckle replied That " maybe it couldn't," but he would be one Who wouldn't say so till he'd tried. So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin On his face. If he worried he hid it. He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn't be done, and he did it. Somebody scoffed: "Oh, you'll never do that; At least no one ever has done it...
Page 156 - Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap ; which neither have storehouse nor barn ; and God feedeth them : how much more are ye better than the fowls ? And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?
Page 129 - Sign of a nation, great and strong To ward her people from foreign wrong: Pride and glory and honor, — all Live in the colors to stand or fall. Hats off! Along the street there comes A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums; And loyal hearts are beating high: Hats off! The flag is passing by!
Page 149 - There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise : the ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer ; the conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks; the locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands; the spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings
Page 114 - MINE be a cot beside the hill ; A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear ; A willowy brook, that turns a mill, With many a fall, shall linger near.