> ?j$&3 " C5 te^' THE FIRST DIXIE READER; TO SUCCEED THB DIXIE PRIMER. BT MBS. M. B. MOORE- Second Edition. RALEIGH, N. C, BRANSON & FARRAR, FAYETTBVILLE STREET. 1884. THE <> ♦ mi mm mmht; DESIGNED TO FOLLOW DIXIE PRIMER BY MRS. M. B. MOORE. RALEIGH : BRANSON, FARRAR & CO, 1868. A. M. GOPMAN, PRINTBR. *9i PREFACE. Tbi« little volume ia intended to follow the Dixie Primer : also to accompany a Speller, which will be brought out as early as circumstances wfli permit. At no distant period we kope to com plete the series of Readers. The author hopes the book will recommend it- rfelf to Edacators in the Southern Confederacy . '/ NOTE TO TEACHERS, This little work is intended as a stepping-stone from the Primer to the largo Speller. The first principles of spelling and readiDg, are here con- tinued, before the child is far enough advanced to understand properly the sounds of letters, and the rules of pronunciation. Children frequently destroy a spelling book or two before they are readv for such a book. FIRST DIXIE READER LESSON I. Cat bet bit oat cut bat get dit dot gut fat fet - fit got mut mat met lit lot put pat pet pit pot nut rat set sit sot sut A NEW BOOK. 1. See ! here is a new book ! Can you read it ? 2. I cannot read well ; but I can spell. 3. If you love to spell you will soon read. 4. Be sure you spell each word right. Some boys and girls do not take pain? t spell well. FIRST DIXIE READEK. LESSON II. Ban' ben bin bun can den din dun fan fen fin fun man hen kin gun pan men pin pun tan pen tin tun THE NEW SLATE. 1. Bob has a new slate. Can lie write on it? 2. No, but he will soon learn. His pa gave it to him. It is a nice slate. 3. Does he write with a pen ? 4. No, he writes with a bit of slate. See him make ABCD. 5. He will soon write his name. When he learns to write well, he can have a pen. first dixie READER. LESSON III Cab deb bib bob dab gab feb fib cob cub jab neb jib bob bub nab peb nib job lub tab reb rib lob rub rab web sib mob tub WHO MADE YOU ? 1. Who made you, child ? 2. God made me of dust. 3. For what did he make you ? 4. To be good, and to do good. 5. Who loves good boys and girls ? 6. Pa, and ma, and all good men. 7. Who else loves them ? 8. God loves them. 9. Can you be good of yourself? 10. No, I mu3t ask God to help me. 11. Will God hear a child pray ? 12. He says he will. 10 NIMT DIXIE RIJLDIR. LESSON IY. Ball bell bill doll dull call dell gill ooll cull fall fell fill joli gull gall hell hill moll bull hall sell pill poll mull pall tell mill roll null THE SUN. 1. God made the sun to give us light and heat. 2. It is far from us, and this makes it look so small. 3. It is quite large, and so hot we could not live near it. 4. The earth moves round the sun once in a year. 5. The heat of the sun makes the grass and corn and fruits grow. 6. God is good to make us such a sun to give us light and heat. We should love him for his care, ?t«T D1ZI1 READER. LESSON V. Art end bone dine dart bend cone fine hart lend bone mini! mart mend lone pine part send pone tine tart tend tone vine n THE NEW HAT. 1. Mark has a new hat It is a straw hat. 2. Who made it? 3. Jane made it of wheat straw. 4. It is a nice hat. I wish she wouM make me one like it 5. She will make you one, if you ask her to do so. She plaits well. 6. She is a good girl to make us hats. She can spin too. She has spun me a new coat. 7. I love to see girls work. Jane will grow up to be good and all will love her. 12 FJMT DIXI1 RKAD1R. LESSON VI. Ask best irk bunk bask jest dirk bunk cask lest kirk junk mask pest mirk punk task test quirk sunk THE FROG. 1. The frog hops. He cannot run like you can. He sleeps in the day and hops at night. 2. Some boys kill frogs ; but this is bad. They do us no harm and we must let them hop at night. 8. The frog lives on worms and flies. He pokes his tongue out, and the flies stick to it. 4. God made his tongue with glue on it, so he could thus get his food. God is good> even to the frogs* *IRST DIXIE R1ADE&. LESSON vir. Bale * bile bole use oale file dole cuse dale mile cole fuse gale pile hole muse pale tile m«le ru*e bale wile pole tuse THE OWL. ii 1. The owl has a large head. He has large eyes too, so he can see in the dark. 2. He sleeps all day in a tall tree, and at night he flies out to get a hen, or a duck, or a goo'se. 3. He is bad to get our hens. If pa can see him he will kill him with his gun. 4. It is not bad to kill the owl for he doe* us harm. His'wing will make a good fan. •5. The owl cries " who, who) who/' at night 14 FIRST DIXIB READER LESSON VIII. And end bind old band bend find cold land lend hind fold mand mend kind gold *and send mind mold sand tend wind sold THE COLT. 1. James had a small colt. His pa gava it to him, and he was fond of it. 2. But it was wild and his ma told him he must not go near it, lest it might kick him. 3. But one day James got a rope and put round the colt's neck, and then got on his back to ride. 4. The colt did not like this, so he ran off at fujl speed, and James fell off and got hurt. 5. Then he thought he would mind his ma next time. FIR!? DIXIB RBADRR. 15 LESSON IX. Back beck dick dock back deck chick hook jack check kick lock lack peck lick mock naok reck pick pock pock wreck tick sock THE MOON. 1. Do you see the bright full moon ? Last Week it was a half moon, and now it is full. 2. The moon has a dark side and a light side, and when she turns all of her bright side to us, we have a full moon. S. When her dark side is to us we call it aew moon. 4. She has no light of her own. When the sun shines on one side it makes it light, and as the moon keeps moving, she turns some-times one side, and then the other. 16 FIRST DIXIE RBADER. LESSON X. • Bar fc berk cork duck dark derk dork huck hark jerk fork luck lark merk pork muck mark perk work puck park yerk york tuek THE PIG. 1. See how the pig eats ! He does not know when to stop. ' 2. He eats and eats till he looks as if big sides must burst. But still he eats. 3, Now some boys and girls are much like this pig. They do not know w T hen to stop till they get sick. 4. If I were a boy or a girl, I would not eat like a pig. I would eat like a lamb, a 1 then skip and play, and be so happy. FIRST DIIXE KEADBR. 17 LESSON XL Barn bern born burn darn cern corn furn cam fern horn chum tarn kern morn hum Tarn tern torn spurn yarn rem worn turn THE CROW. 1. This is a large black bird. It says caw, caw, when it flic?. 2. It wears a nice black dress, but it is a bad bird. 3. When it sees the men plant corn, it ggev and hunts in the row, and gets the grains. 4. The men some-times make holes in a few grains of corn, and tie long horse hairs in them. These are put in the rows. o. When the crow. eats these the hair stwl rtflfl in his throat, and is the cause of hi* death. 13 FIRST DIXIE REABE". LESSON XII. Ann end dine cake charra bend fine hake farm fend kine jake harm lend lice pake marm pend mine wafce warm Tend . pine yake TIME TO GET UP. 1. Come Grace, it. is time to get up. Night is the time to sleep. When day comes you must rise and wash your face. , 2. God made the day for us to work /and do good. . If we do not im-prove it, He will not love us. 3. The birds are all up. One.singsa song, one brings a stick for her nest, and one goes to get a worm to eat. 4. First pray, then wash, then brush your hair. Now for a kiss ! S3RST DIXIE READER. 1* LESSON xnr. Beep deed beer btet keep feed deer feet peep heed cheer meet sleep meed jeer greot steep speed leer Btrftet ■wee'p seed peer weet THE EAR. 1. Do you know why we have two ears ? It is that we may hear more, and speak less. 2. If we hear a bad thing we must not tell it a-gain. 3. Some bad boys heaT bad words, and learn to say them. 4. Girls too, hear things that are not nice, but they must not say them a-gain. 5. Ood does not love boys and girls who say bad words. Christ did not say a word that was bad or ug-ly, in all his life. L'rt 1 FIRST DIXTH READER. ' LISSON XIV An ell ill doll dull ball bell bill coll ccrTl call cell dill boll - gull ball fell bill goll bull fatf hell mil* loll lull pall rnell pill moll * mull THE CALF. 2. You all know what a calf is. All it cares for is to go with the:>eow, and get her milk. 2. You can-not learn a calf to spell. Wheu a boy will not learn to spell and read; and cares only for good, things to eat, and fine- oiothes to wear, we call him a calf... 3. Such boys will' not make wise men. No one cares to have a calf pay him a vis-it. 4. God has giv-cn boys minds to learn ; afld He' ex-peota them to do it. *?* roan dixik reader. « LESSON XV. Loud bound burn proud found chure ♦iijroud bound upurfl" ounce moirod turn bounce pound fume trounce round pluare OT:R fc BAB& 1. We bave a new babe at our house. It is a sweet babe. We call bim Tommy. 2.. Bob is bis nurse. Bob loves Tommy. He says be may ride in bis wag-on. 3. Tom-my will soon- learn to love Bob, and tben wbat fun tbey will have ! 4. God gave Tom-my to us. How glad I am^to bave such a sweet broth-er ! He will «oon be old e-nough to play with me. . 12 first Dixra reader - . . LESSON XVI. Chftii bain bean ear fair dain dean dear hair fain lean leaf lair main mean bear pair pain pean neat- »Uir vain wean tea* OLD AUNT ANN. 1. "Here comes eld aunt Ann. She is quite old. See how she leans on her srick. 2. When she was young she did good work, but now she can not work much. But she is not like a poor white wo-man. 3. Aunt Ann knows that her young Miss 7 as she calls her, will take care of her as long as she lives. . 4. Ma-ny poor white folks would be glad to live in her house and eat what Miss Kate sends out for her din-ner. •P* fUtST DIIIB R1ADBK. LESSON XVII. P>ang ding dong bung dang cling gong clang fang fling long hung hang ring prong lung pang iing song rung rang wing wrong HOTf IT RAINS! sung 1. Ma, where do the rain drops come from ? 2. Tney drop f rom the clouds, my child, 3. But how do they get up there ? 4* Do you know what fog is ? 5. It is fine drops of rain. f>. When wa-ter is in such fine drops, it is light and ri-ses up. When they get high up, where the air is cool, they come to geth-er, an cow cat haw haw how fox jaw mow mow calf paw paw plow oolt Baw sew VOW dolt • DO NOT DRINK A DRAM. ^ l..Do you see old Mr. Smith ? How 'gad he looks! His hat is torn and his clotEes in rags. ' 2. When he was a boy his pa gave Jiim drams to drink, and ho soon got to love it. 3. When he came to be a man, he was a sot, and got drunk, and beat his nice wife. 4. Poor wo-man ! she soon got sick £n/l died, and left two small babes. 5. Now the poor old man and his boys s'Jay there, and drink and fight. Is it not sad ? St HMT DUII MI4.DKR. LESSON XX. -. i)ass beis boas buss 0ft«8 • MS dross fiss glttS 1MB gloss guss fflMS mess loss musfl pMS guess moss rusi rasa tress ross trass THE STARS. 1. How I lore to look at the stars ! Who cat£ count them ? 2. God can count them, for he made them all,. They are a great way off. 3. Wise men look through a large glass, gfcid tell us that these small stars are as large as "our sun. -. 4L How great God is ! He holds them all by his might, and makes them run tjieir rounds. And yet this great God counts all our, hairs. nittr Dim riadbr. LESSON XXt Vt Free boo bush eye tree coo cash bje spree loo puth ly« flee moo rush rje glee too brush eye • KA-W HID. 1. How the Ka-ty Did does sing t How large is she ? 2. She is large as a ver-y small bird. Do you know how she sings ? 8. No ; please tell me, ma-ma. 4. She has a small saw on each wing, and ru6s them to-geth-er. 5. How strange ! Can I see her sing ? 6. No, she sings at night. 7. She is quite pret-ty and wears a green dress. 28 ilk** DIXJ1 MAbBK. LESSON XXII. \ Compel dis-pel ox-pel re-pel - au-tii ex- til un-til ful-fil ja-pan ire- pan tro-jan 'rat bd propel co- pel un-fill re-fill di ran co-man A CROSS' GIRL, * 1. Mat«ty "was a cross girl. No one couM please her. 2. She would corn-plain at her mam-ni;i, and pa-pa, and her nurse. 3. Her ma's friends did not like to go to her house, for Mat-ty was so cross she made them feel had-ly.' 4. When she grew up her face was wry, and her eyes red. The young men did not admire her, for they said she* would make a cross wife. FIRST DIII1 B1ASIR. -9 LESSON XXIII. Bri-ar sa-go ci-der fri-ar . bu-bo ri-der li-ar ty-ro sni-der prjr-or ha-lo ud-^er mayror Do-gro rud-der pray-er ua-to • SPRING. shud-der 1. Sweet Spring has come again ! Se3 bow the -snow melts anjl runs a-way. 2. The suniB now high-er up, and ehines near-er straight down. This makes the ground warm. 3. As the sun gets high-er the weath-er gets warm-er.. 4. It is so nice to see the pret-t-y flow-er3 of Spring ! $)o you not hear the bird's sing ? See how bu-sy they are ma-king their nests. 50 1 riMT dixii *BADia. L1SSON XXIV. Dap per sal-ler bet-ter clap-per wel-ler let-ter [flap- per •hel-ler fet-ter lap-per spel-ler gefe-ter tap-per tel-ler set-ter sap-per dwel-ler THE GOOD GIRL. Ut- ter 1. A-da is a good girl. She loves her pa- pa, and mam-ma, and does what they bid her. 2. She is just four years old, but she can be-have well. She loves her book. 3. The la-dies love to have her vis-it them, for she gives them so^ lit-tle trouble. 4. When three years old, she would go to her mam-ma, and say, " 'Ell me, mam-ma/;" then she would put her head down in her lap, and say her lit-tle pray-ers. FIRST DIXIE BBADBR. .34 5. Af-ter this she would kiss all, and get iniier lit-tle bed, and go to sleep. % A-da's pa-pa and inam-ma are glad to see- their lit-tle girl learn-ing to be good. They hope she will grow up to be a good woman. 7. God loves good, lit-tle girls. But he is angry with the wick-ed ev-e-ry day. 8. All good people lovej good girls, too ; but no one loves bad chil-dren. 9. Then good girls are hap-py ; but bad ones are not. If I were a lit-tle girl I would be the ve-ry best one I knew how to be. ** M riatT dlxh 1 KIADBK. LESSON XXVI. Biin bean loan dame Jain dean moan fame fain jean groan game gain lean roan lume Iain mean moon home pain weal /P°° n • tame THE SHEEP, 1. The sheep is fine for food and for wool. Of the wool we make hats, socks, coats, &c. i 2. The best broad-cloth is made of the sheep's coat. Some fops when dress- ed up, forget that they owe their best suit, toa poor sheep. 3. The flesh of the sheep is call-ed lamb, or mut-ton. This is very fine for the table. 4. Boys and girls love to look at the young lambs, and 6ee them skip and play.. riSST. DIXIE BEADKR. 2U o. X must tell you of an old sheep and her two lambs. 6. An old ewe had a black and a white Iamb. Strange to tell, she loved the black one the best, though she was white her-self. * 7. So she drove the .white one a-way, and would not nurse it. Then lit-tle Ma-ry beg- ged it of her pa-pa, and took it in the yard and fed. it. 8. She called it Kate, and when Kate saw her with her gourd of milk, she would run to meet her and bleat till she got the milk. 9. So you see Ma-ry was bet-ter to the lamb than its moth-er was. A few boys and girls, have bad moth-ers, like the ewe. How glad you should be if you have a good moih-er ! riHST I>!XIK WAD**. LESSON XXVIII. Ca-ble fid- die Eod-dU» fa-bb mill-die tod-die ga-ble pid-dle scut-tle ya-bie g'g*gle tut- tie sta-ble pig-gle turtle ta- lie wrig-gle OLD BALL. TRJF-tlo J. Old Ball was a largo, no-ble horse, ant! was so docile, that his mas-t'er and all his fa-m-ily was very fond of him. 2. Ho would ear-ry the chil-d^en on his back, or draw the bug-gy, or pull tw€. wag- on 3. Ho was so large that when the chit- FIRST DIXIE MADE*. 35 dren rode him, they look-ed like frogs, and they of-ten kept as much noise. . 4. At last one day while Old Ball was help-ing Jim to draw his har-row, Jim got cou-tra-ry ; and the youth who held the line cculd not make him turn a-round at the end ©f "the row. 5. So while they were step-ping a-bout,,the har-row turned o-ver, and Ball fell down on -the teeth. 6. In three days he died of his wound. When the chil-dren saw Old Bill dead, they cried as if thoir hearts would break. 7. I have seen some boys who put me in mind of Old Ball and Jim. A head-strong boy will push a good one in-to danger, while be may e-scape un-hurt. 36 FIRST DIXIE READBR. 8. But a good boy will al-ways stop the rao-mcnt he is told ; and thus save him-self and friends much trouble. LESSON XXIX. 1 A- base d is- claim com- m and j de-base pro-elaim demand in -case re-claim remand mis-place e-rase ' de-claira ex-claim fore-hand by-hand etn-braee en chain GOD SEES US. off-hand 1. The eye of God is up-on us all the day long. If you think a bad thought he knows it. If you do a bad thing he sees you. You can-not de-ceiye him. nerr dixib riade°. 37 2. Some boys and "girls seem to think if no per-son sees them do a bad thing, they are safe. 3. But Godknows all, and will judge us for all we do. How sad ma-ny will be, to have their deeds all made known in the last day. 4. The Bi-ble tells us that such per-sons will call up--on the rocks, and hills to hide them. that will be an awful time to the wick-ed ! 5. But good people do not /ear to meet God in judg-ment. They Hvj so they feel He* is their friend; and they dread not to meet him. 6. Dear children, if you wish to be hap- py in this life and have no fear of death; you must be good. FIRST DIXIE READER. 7. The way to be good is to ^nev-er do a thing which you wou!d not like for your pa-rents to know. 8. When I see chil-dren hid-ing things from their pa-pa and mam-ma, I feel ver-y gad; for I know they are in the road to ruin. Don't do it, chil-dren ! LESSON XXX. Ban quet bra-ver quiv er gas set cra-ver •riv-er • ras-sct do vcr ehiv er pos set tro-vcr silver vel-vet clo-ver un-der pallet ro-vGr blun der UNCLE NED. 1. Un*cle Ned was a good old dar^key and lov ed his mas-ter well. 2. They liv-ed near the Yun-!; j lines, and when the Yan-kee ar-my come, old Ned FIRST DIXIE READER. J9 and his wife and children, wen J; a* way with them. o. They told Ned that he should be free, and live like white folks ; but he soon found they -had not told him the truth. He did not fare so well as he did at home wtth hi,* master. 4. So one dark night he slipped away. *nd kept goring till he got back to his kind masster. 5. The mas ter did not know what to think of seeding old Ned alone, so he sail i; Ned, how come you to Jeave Nan^ny and the =ed ey« ery day for God to send Nan-ny and the. ba-bies back. I hope they have come back ere this. 8. Ned says "he wants eb ry nig ger to stay at home and mind his work, 'and let dem Yankees do der own work." LESSON XXX. Prim-mer ov-er Biin-mer clev-er trim- mar Dsv-er glim-mer riv--er swim-mer qmiv-tr stem-mer cov-cr THE LUNGS. 1. This is the part of our bod-y which, con-taing the air we breathe. 2. They con-sist of two parts or lobes. char-nel dar-nel chis-el hov-'el dov- el • mar-rel - FIRST DIXIE READER. 41 When we draw breath, or in-hale, these fill up with air, and cause the chest to swell out. 3. They have two sets of cells, one for bleod, and one for the air. These lie close to each oth-er, and when the blood, and air come near to-gether ; the blood turns a bright. red col-or, and be-comes pure. 4. Then as it pass-es all round through the bod-y it be-comes dark again. Thus, when the lungs get sick the whole bod-y be- comes lean, and sick. 5. Now you see how im-por-tant it is for us to take care of our lungs. No one can have good health, when this part is weak. 6. Ev-e-ry child should learn to sit up straight, to walk e-rect. and to nev-er let the shoul-ders stoop. • 7. Thou-sands have died from it. When the lungs can not take in e-nough, the blood 42 FIRST DIXIE BEADBR. mes bad, the face grows pale, and beau- ty is gone. be^ware, girls ! 8. A^gain, children should nev^er sit with clamp feet. This of-ten brings on dis- ease. While walking it will not hurt much ; but when you sit down you must take oft' your, shoes and dry them. LESSOR XXXI. A -way be-fit ad-mit be-tray re-fit re-mit a!-vray un-fit per-mit cs-say coin- fit trars-mit vn-say out- fit com-mit be-wray sand-pit Eub--ir.it THE CHATTER BOX. 1. Do you know Fan-nie Finch ? She is no-ted for be-ing a great talk.«er. No mat- er who talks, Fan^nie's tongue still runs. FIRST DIXIE RBADBR. 2. If she comes with her mam«ma to vis-it youi, she talks on un-til her mam-ma sends her out to play. But still she chat-ters on, and you find no timo to speak at all. .3. Now it would not be quite so bad if Fan*nie was a wise lit>tle girl. She loves to talk too well, she does not take time *• read her book. 4. So she knows nothing to talk abou4, save her dolls, her can-dy, her fine dress-es, her pret-ty curls, &c. 5, People soon be come tired of hearing such prat-tle, and wish Fan me would go home. They say she is a vain little girl, and vcr-y sil-ly. ■ t>. They alwso think s l ^e is not po-lite, be- cause she does not be qui.-et, while her mam- ma and the oth-er laddies talk. Lit*t& folks should be seen and not heard. 44 FIRST DIXIE READER. 7. I hope none of you will act like Fan* nie. While young is'the time to learn ; and think when you are ol-der, you will have some* thing to talk a.-«bout. LESSON XXXII. Borrow minn-ow taKlow morrow win now waklow, sorrow wid c crw baisrbw cUbow meadow far-row feh low fal-low ir.aisrow mclclow mallow sparrow LEARNING TO SPIN. 1. Well Ma ry ! you wish to learn to Spin, now I am read y. Hand me the carcte, andjut the band up on the wheel. FIRST DIXIE READER. 45 2. Here are some rolls, now try to spin one. Turn stead y, and draw slow ly, now twist, and run it up on the spin die. 3. But the wheel .turns hard ly. It wants *iL Now see how much bet ter it runs. A wheel with out oil, is like a child with out good na ture. 4. So when you see chil dren harsh, an4 in pleasant, you will re member how bad ly the wheel did, un til you put the oil up on . t ; and then you will try to get all to use the oil of good na ture, 5. Now my child, you have done welk — tf ou may try a gain to mor row, I love to have you learn how to spin. 6. As soon as you are old e nough you jbfll learn how to w«ave. Then yon oaa 4<3 . FIRST DIXIE READER weave your self nice dress es,and your pa ha a suit. of clothes. How proud he will be to wear a suit which your lit tie* hands have spun and wove. 7. I love to see girls use ful, and the« spin ning, and weav ing are so health y. — You seldom hear of a girl dy ing of con- ork tump tioii, who has been ustd to suoluw Then it does not pre vent girls from pwre m.; ough the world. LESSON XXXIV, Ca«ress a^roasa mo Tars du-ress re-pa83 cui »rab8 e-gress uo*pass er. -gross in«-gTefs £ n iv pass a- mis'? pro grees com-rasB re-tote dis»trcBe i»u*pa£8 acfc-misR FI11ST PIXIE HEADER. 47 THE FACE. L The face is the in»dex to the heart of man. As you look on the face of a clock, and tell the time of day ; so you may look on the hu : man face and read the heart. 2. If you no-tice tho faces of small ba-bies they look near-ly a-like. Some eyes are black, some blue, and some lia-zel ; while tho noises of some are larg-er than oth ers. 3. But when ehil-dren be-gin to grow, and some to havt bad tem-p#rs, you per-ceive a gr*at dif-fer-ence. 4. The child who has a bad tem-pei, and 6ries, and pouts, and quarrels, is al-most sura to hare red eyes, thick ug-ly lips and «;f-ten a red nose. £. Oth er chil-dren are too proud to cry, aixd sulk : but they smile a Wt-ter smile, and ut-ter a few bi-ting words ; while' their eye-s, look like those of an an-gry snake. 48 FLKST DIXIE READER. G. These tem-pers, too, tell upon the face. The lips will fit tight to-gether, while you 'can al-rnost see the sparks of mal-iee dart from un-der the eye—lids. Such fa-ces are not call-ed hand-some — people fear them. 7. So you see the way to have a pret-ty face, is to feel pret ty, and airways try to do right. An hon.est face, is the prettiest facs yet. All can have thta. LESSON xxxy. House loud bout louse cloud lout grouse croud flout IBOUSO proud spout BOUSC shroud trout trouse crowd TOUt FIKST DIXIE 'RlrVDE-*. 40 THE CANE MILL. 1. Do you see the cane mill ? It is made of i ron. It looks ver y strong. 2. Now Mr. Hicks is go ing to make sv- rup. Sea him poke the long canes be tween the roll ers ; and see how the rich 'uice run£ down ! 3. This is put in the large ket tle3 on the furn ace. and boil ed until it is fit for use — The scum is fed to the hogs, and makes them grow fast. See ! it takes one hand all the time to skim it well. 4. The sy rup is good food for girls and boys. It is cheap er than ba con, or but fcer and is much- more whole some. Then most ohil dren are very fond of it. 5. Chil dren who live most ly on sy rup, oO PISST DIXIE IcEADEK. arc not so sub jcct to croup ; and it is said thajt per sons us in g much of it arc not apt to have fc vers. G. Then three chqcrs for the cane mill I It is a fine time for boys and gills, --and the . or vants too enjoy it finely. 7. See them with their pots boil ing over ihe last skim ming. Some of them will have four or five gal Ions by the time the sea son closes. Well done for the dar kies. Ma uy poor white pco pie would be glad of what they leave for the hogs. LESSON XXXVI. A corn ro form re turn a down per form sun bura green born trans form con corn for s\vo:n mis form dis ccrn ii,k horn de form cis tern in form eon form Ian tcra FIRST DiXIE reader. 51 THE SABBATH. 1. This is God's dav ; in it, he has said. 44 Ye shall do no work, nor think jour own thoughts." 2. Now if it is wrong to work, and e yen to think of com raon things, on the Sab bath ; it is wrong to play. 3. But some chil dren think it is a ga la day, when Sunday comes ; so they get on thdir clean clothes, and run off for fun. 4. All day long they play and whoop ; and nev er once think of what God has said. 5. If their fath er had sev en fine mel ens, and*were to give them six, and save one for dura self; do you think they would touch it? I think not. 6.- Well God has giv en us six days, and kc£t one for him self. In tho six days we 52 FIRST DIXIE READER. may do wkat we choose, if we do do not break God's com mands. 7. But sad to say, some children, and .grown people too, are so wick ed, as to take God's day a way from him. But I do not think they take timeto think how had it is. 8. I hope, dear readers, you will re mem- ber to keep the Sab bath ho ly. .At tend church i( you can ; and if you have no Church nor Sunday school to go to, read your Bible and pray God. to make you hap py. LESSON XXXVII. On coon mush room boon dra /oon . bride groom coon la go >n tran somi moon rac coon a gloom loom mcr: soon heir loom goon FIRST LUXIE READER. ' 53 LULA'S PRAYER. ; 1. Lu la was a good lit tie girl, and loved her pa pa and mam ma dear ly. 2. She of ten thought hor pa rents might die and this made her ver y sad. But she soon learn- ed to pray, and she thought God would not be an gry, if she ask ed Him to let her pa rents live to raise all their chil dren 3. So Lu la grew up still pray ing that God would grant her de sire. 4. At length Lu la's moth er was ta ken sick, ancl ma ny thought she would die. But Lu la nursed her du ring her ill ness, and^nev er gave her up. 5. She was quite ill for ma ny weeks but still Lu la pray ed on, and toil ed on. At length she be gan to im prove, and to Lu la's great joy, she got well. Lu la was now in her teens, and took all the caies of the fam i ly on her self. S4 FIRST DIXIE R1ADS3. 6. Thus she had ma ny du ties, but she uM not to go a wry alone, a bout sun set eve ry eve Ling, and thank Gcd for his mcr cy. 7. I am hap py to tell you, that Lu la's pa rents lived to raise all their chil dren, and see tnem good and use ful. [LESSON XXXVIII. # Ap per tain • dc com pose en ter tain re com pose as cer tain .in ter pose su per vene im po lite in ter vene dis u nite un fore seen , re u ni.te GRAND MA. 1. Have you a grand ma? If so, bow old is she ? 2. Yes, I have a grand ma. She is a bout fif ty years old. All her teeth are gone and she has to eat soft food. FIRST DIXTR READK'l. 55 3 Do you not love to sit by her, and cat hei erusf; ? She is glad to have some one to eat crust, for when she sees it tic by, she feara some one wi! think it a large heap. 4. My grand ma tells me pret ty *to ries. How I love to hear her talk of fhisgs which took place when she was a girl ! 5. But of all the sto rics, I love most to hear he: talk of Jesus. She talks so Bweet ly.of heav- en, an J how Jesus loved lit tie chil the grave yard. 1. There in a deep h*oh , call ed a grave, they but down t he dead bod y, and cov er it op. Now the pa rents can see it no more. x. Its lit tie loe chiL- dren whose pa-rents are too poor to help them get a.n ed a ca-tion ? Poor chiUdren ! 6. Yon must look to the Lord to raise you up lends I have known poor chiUdren pray to frien God to'pclp them get an ed u-ea s tion. DM FIRJT DIXIE KRADER. 1. And soori some kind per-son would take them and scud them to school. In the Sec-ond itei-der I must te.U you of several boys and girls' who thus prayed, and who made use ful men and wo men. 8. I hope now if any of yon lack auy thiDg, , you will know where to go to find it. And by alll means, you must ask God to give you a new lieaWl] Adieu, atpresent I'M NOT TOO rOlTNG FOR GOD TO SEE. il I'm not too youog for God to see, He kmwa my aaroe and nature too; And all day long lie looka at me, And sses my actions through and thru. 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