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"New National Fourth Reader"

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"I have told you the story to show that a foreigner might easily
represent every thing among us as equally strange and wonderful, as we
could with respect to his country."

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Directions for Reading.--Point out breathing-places in the last
paragraph.
Name the _emphatic words_ in the last paragraph.
Pronounce carefully the following words: _vegetable, foreigner, beasts,
products, across, again, also, apron_.

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Language Lesson.--Let pupils express the meaning of what is given below
in dark type, using a single word for each example.
Houses built of _earth hardened by fire_.
The walls have _holes to let in the light_.
They were covered with _a sort of transparent stone_.
They drink _water in which dry leaves have been steeped_.
Many wore cloth woven from _a sort of wool grown in pods_.

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LESSON XXIV.

lin'net, _a kind of bird_.
com pare', _be equal; have similar appearance_.
wor'ried, _troubled; anxious_.
hum'ble, _meek; lowly_.


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