The First-[fifth] Reader, Band 4

Cover
Harper, 1860
 

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Abuses of the Digestive OrgansLaws of their Healthy Action
35
The Fable of the Two Bees
38
The Complaint of a Stomach
39
Cornaro the Italian
42
Advantages of Temperance in Diet
44
The Confession
47
A Hymn Air and Exercise
48
Abuses of the Lungs
53
The Skinits complicated Mechanism
59
Growth and DecayLife and Death
63
Abuses of the Skin
66
The Years of Mans Life
68
Healtha Letter to Mothers
69
Rest and Sleep
71
Early Rising Extracts from Thomson and Hurdis
74
The Old Cottage Clock
75
Health Proverbs
76
PART II
77
Birds
82
BIRDS OF PREY THE FALCON TRIBE
84
Habits of the Eagle
90
The Osprey or Sea Eagle
93
The American Eagle
94
Vultures and Owls
96
Song of the Owl
99
The Mockingbird
104
The Bluebird Wilsons Description of
106
THE CLEFTBILLS
108
The Fowls of the Air shall Teach thee
112
The Swallow Party
113
The Swallows
116
THE CONEBILLS
118
The Snowbird Miss Goulds Description of
122
The Songsparrow Pickerings Description of
124
The English Skylark
126
The Lark and the Rook
127
Birds in Summer
128
THE THINBILLS Hummingbirds etc
129
Lesson Page XXIII III CLIMBERS Toucans Lories Parrots Wrens etc
133
Parrots Campbells Description of
136
The Cuckoo and the Swallow
138
The Cuckoo
139
SCRATCHERS OR POULTRYBIRDS Pheasants Doves
140
The City Dove
145
THE RUNNERS Ostriches Bustards etc
146
THE WADERS Spoonbills Cranes Flamingoes Herons Storks
149
THE SWIMMERS Penguins Auks Pelicans Ducks Gulls Swans
154
The Harmony of Nature
159
Birds of the Sea
160
The Stormy Petrel
161
To a Waterfowl Birds of Passage by Night
162
What is that Mother?
164
The Birds of Heaven
165
Questions to the Birds and their Answers
166
A SouthSea Rookery
168
PART III
171
Introductory View of Botany
174
The Elementary Parts of PlantsCell Life
178
The Roots of Plants Planting
182
Changes produced by Cultivation
185
The Stems of Plants The Baobab Cactus
186
BudsBudding Grafting etc
213
Leaf Arrangement
214
Vegetable ReproductionFlowers
217
Hymn to the Flowers
221
Vegetable Reproductioncontinued Stamens Pistil Fruit Seeds
223
Flowers the Stars of Earth
227
Dispersion of Seeds
229
PART IV
231
Abram and Zimri
234
Sorrow for the Dead
236
Forgive and Forget
239
Cleon and 1
240
Spectacles or Helps to Read
241
The May Queen
242
The Bishop and the King
246
The Chameleon
248
We are Seven
250
On Goodbreeding
252
The Heritage 254
254
Schemes of Life often Illusory
256
A Psalm of Life
259
Practical Precepts
260
The Inquiry
261
The Hour of Prayer Prayer
263
The Three Sons
264
The Blind Preacher
266
Father William
268
Lesson Page XXII John Littlejohn
269
The Vision of Mirza
270
Christs Second Coming
275
PART V
276
The Volunteer Philosophy Class
280
The Properties of Matter
283
The Properties of Mattercontinued
288
Motion and its Laws
293
Gravity and Falling Bodies
300
Mechanical Powers
309
Mechanical Powerscontinued
320
Miscellaneous Mechanical Matters
325
PART VI
332
The Curse of Cain
333
Hagar in the Wilderness
334
Hagar and Ishmael
336
The Passage of the Red Sea
337
Overthrow of the Philistines
338
Israel under the Judges
339
Jephthahs Daughter
340
Ruth and Naomi
342
Ruth pleading with Naomi
343
The Reign of David
344
Davids Lament for Absalom
345
The Kingdom of Israel
347
Elijahs Interview with God
348
The Kingdom of Judah
349
Destruction of Sennacherib
350
Advent of the Messiah
351
The Nativity
352
The Miracles of the Savior
353
The Widow of Nain
355
The Healing of the Daughter of Jairus
358
The Crucifixion
360

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