THE SCHOOL BOARD READERS: STANDARD III. ADAPTED TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE NEW CODE, 1871. EDITED BY A FORMER H.M. INSPECTOR OF SCHOOLS. LONDON: CHARLES GRIFFIN AND COMPANY, 10, STATIONERS' HALL COURT. 1872. 536 1872 ED-P REQUIREMENTS OF THE CODE 1871. STANDARD III. Reading. A Short Paragraph from a more advanced Reading-book. Writing. A sentence slowly dictated once by a few words at a time, from the same book. Arithmetic.-Compound rules. (Money). TO THE TEACHER. This Book contains all that is necessary to enable a child to pass Standard III. viz., Passages for Reading, Pieces for Dictation, and several hundred examples in Arithmetic for Home Lessons. The passages for Reading are interesting and instructive, and the more difficult words are placed at the head of each passage for Spelling exercises. 541338 CALIFORNIA If the sea is rich in plants, it is still more rich in living inhabitants. The different kinds of fish are far too numerous to reckon up here. They are of all sizes, from the great whale to the little shrimp, and of all sorts of shapes and colours; some, like the crab and lobster, with body and claws covered with a kind of shell armour, others living in their shells as in a house, which they always carry about with them. The variety in the shape and colour of these shells is most wonderful. There is not a more common ornament for a chimney-piece than shells; and most of us have, at some time or other, been struck with the beauty even of the commoner sorts. But we must not judge of things by their beauty. The most valuable of the shellfish in our country is very rough and unsightly this is the oyster. The best oysters are from our own coasts, in many parts of which there are great beds of them. The lower shell of the oyster is fixed upon the rocks, and the only movement |
