The child nodded and drew nearer; then opened its hand. "Look!" it said; and the street rang with its happy

laughter.

The man looked, and in the child's hand lay a penny. "Hurrah!" said the child.

"Hurrah!" said the man.

Then they parted and the child went and bought a stick of candy, and saw all the world red and white in stripes.

The man went and put his eight hundred dollars in the savings bank, all but fifty cents, and with the fifty cents he bought a hobbyhorse for his own little boy, and the little boy saw all the world brown with white spots.

"Is this the horse you wanted to buy, father?" asked the little boy.

"It is the horse I have bought," said the man.

"Hurrah!" said the little boy.

"Hurrah!" said the man.

And he saw that the world

was a good place after all.

- LAURA E. RICHARDS.

Used by permission of Little, Brown & Company.

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Copy the following outline of "A Fortune":

1. INTRODUCTION

a. The man, sad.

b. The reasons for his sadness.

C. How it made the world look to him.

2. THE STORY

a. The child, its appearance.

b. The conversation.

C.

What the child did.

d. How it made its world look.

e. What the man did.

f. How his little boy saw the world.
g. What they said.

3. CONCLUSION

(The point of the story.) How the world looked to

the man at last.

Tell the story in class, following the outline.
Discuss the meaning of the story.

Why did the man's own little boy see the world. brown with white spots?

Why did the man at first think the world a bad place? Why did he at last see that the world is a good place?

Let each pupil write a paragraph on "How to be Happy."

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The Semicolon

In "A Fortune," give the reasons for the use of all the punctuation marks that you can.

Notice the mark (;) after dull. It is called a semicolon. This mark is used often when two parts of a sentence or two expressions need to be separated a little more than by a comma and not quite so completely as by a period. In most cases either a comma or a period would answer the purpose. In your writing, unless you are sure, it is better not to try to use semicolons.

King Ethelwulf had five sons. The youngest, named Alfred, was loved by both his father and his mother beyond

all his brothers. Indeed, he was the favorite with every one, for he was most noble in looks and words and ways. Though Alfred loved to go hunting in the great dark forest with his father, he also longed to become wise.

But in those days there were few books in England, and very few people who knew how to read. Then, too, there were no good teachers.

Yet, one day, when Alfred was about twelve years old, it happened that his mother was showing to him and to his brothers a book of songs which she had in her hand. The letters of the book were beautifully colored and the boys looked at it with wonder.

"I will give this book," said she, "to the one of you who can soonest learn it."

It seemed almost too good to believe!

Though he was the youngest, Alfred spoke eagerly, "Will you truly give this book to the one of us who soonest learns to understand and repeat it to you?"

Then she smiled for very joy, and answered, "Yes, indeed I will."

Alfred at once took the book from her hand and went in search of some one in the place who could teach him to read it.

When he had read the book, he took it back to his mother and said it all to her by heart. Then she gladly gave him the book and said, "Take it.

Discussion:

Tell the story in class.

It is yours."

- ETTA UNDerwood.

Discuss Alfred's eagerness to have a book.

Tell how you would feel if books were so scarce now that even kings' sons could not have them.

Make an outline of the story, like the one given for "A Fortune."

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Write a story on "How I learned to Read," telling who taught you and what book you used. Make first an outline.

I-za-na-mi had three beautiful children.

His daughter, Am-er-at-su, he sent to dwell in the sun. She was lovely to behold. Inside the sun she had her home, and there she and her maidens sat and spun sunbeams.

I-za-na-mi had two sons, one quiet and peaceful, who went to live in the moon. The other was sent to rule the winds, the clouds, and the sea. This was Susano. When his sister Ameratsu was sent to the sun, Susano was angry, because he had wished to be sent there himself. He rolled up great storms with purple black clouds, and in many ways tried to annoy his sister Ameratsu.

Within the palace of the sun goddess were thousands of busy looms, made of gold and jeweled with diamonds. At each loom sat a sun maiden in shining garments, whose fairy fingers spun sunshine. Ameratsu took the golden threads and flung them over heaven and earth, where they shed light and warmth.

Every one in earth and heaven loved Ameratsu.

One day Susano, floating sulkily upon the waters of the ocean, caught the sunbeams upon his fingers and twisted and braided them into long golden ropes, which hung from the sun to the sea. Laughing to himself, Susano sprang to his feet, caught hold of the golden ropes, and began to climb rapidly to the sun.