Johnny was tired and hungry by this time, and longed to see his mamma,
thinking that, if he could only get back: to her, he would always mind
the very moment she told him to do any thing.
He made a great many good resolutions while he stood there. At last the
giant called him to come and say his lesson.
"You shall have a short one to-day," said he, "and need say it only a
thousand times, because it is your first day here. To-morrow, you must
say it a million."
Johnny tried to step forward, but the web was still about his feet, so
he fell with, a bang to the floor.
Just then he opened his eyes to find that he had rolled from the rock
to the grass, and that mamma was calling him in a loud voice to come to
supper, and this time he didn't say, "I'm going to."
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Directions for Reading.--The words in quotation marks should be read in
the same manner as in Lesson I.
Read words in dark type in the following sentences with more force than
the other words:
"Has he _come?_ Did you _get_ him?"
Words that are read more forcibly than other words in a sentence are
called _emphatic words_.
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