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Chambers's narrative series of standard reading books
Chambers's narrative series of standard reading books Author:Chambers W. and R. ltd Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Some time after the boy passed that way, and found the cherry-stone grown into a little shrub. The old man still tended it, and preserved it from injury. ' Wh... more »at is the use of all this trouble V thought tho boy. When he became a man, he one day passed along the same road, and found the shrub now a tree, and laden with fruit, and at length he understood the old man's conduct. [Writefrom dictation the last sentence.] OLD WORLD STORIES. TALES OF HEECULES. BIRTH AND EDUCATION. [SpeU and write] pleasure, behaved, javelin, guitar, inattentive. Hercules was tho son of Jupiter and Alcmena. Amphitryon was the stepfather of Hercules, but he loved Hercules as if he had been his own son. Amphitryon and Alcmena had a son, whose name was Iphicles, and he was the step-brother of Hercules. Hercules and Iphicles did not lie in a cradle, like other babes, but in a great iron shield; in this their mother had made their bed, and when they had to be put to sleep, they were rocked in the shield. Hercules never cried. Juno hated Alcmena, and wished to have Hercules The proper names are so difficult in the following lessons, that very simple words are used. killed. It was midnight. Amphitryon and Alcmena were asleep, and by their bed both the infants were also asleep in the shield. Then crept two great snakes through a hole under the door into the sleeping- chamber, and glided along to the shield. The eyes of the snakes were as bright as fire, so that the whole room was lighted up. They raised their heads upon the side on which Hercules lay, and were about to bite him. But in trying to do so, they moved the shield, and Iphicles awoke. When he saw the great snakes, he began to cry fearfully, because he was afraid. Alcmena awoke, and seeing the light in the room, roused he...« less