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Santa Claus,
What is keeping you?
Twilight and firelight,
Shadows come and go;
Merry chime of sleigh-bells
Tinkling through the snow;
Mother knitting stockings
(Pussy's got the ball!)--
Don't you think that winter's
Pleasanter than all?

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Directions for Reading.--Read the lesson with spirit, and avoid
anything like sing-song.
Do not make the last word of each line _emphatic_, unless it is really
an _emphatic word_.

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Language Lesson.--Syllabify, accent, and mark sounds of letters in the
following words; _Marjorie's, chestnuts, peaches, afternoon_.
What part of the year is described in each stanza?
What two words can be used for each of the following: _May-time's,
summer's_.

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LESSON XIII.

col'o ny, _a number of people living together in one place_.
set'tlers, _those people who form a colony_.
shy, _easily frightened; timid_.
es tab'lished, _formed; settled_.
war'rior, _a soldier; one who fights in war_.


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