Identifier: studiesinenglish00robb (find matches)
Title: Studies in English; work and play with language
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Robbins, Carolyn M., 1864- (from old catalog) Row, Robert Keable, (from old catalog) joint author
Subjects: English language
Publisher: Chicago, New York, Row, Peterson and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ese pictures give hints for a very interestingstory. Think out your plan, then write quite rapidlyas the ideas com§ to you. Afterwards copy yourstory to make spelling, punctuation, use of capitalletters and so on as nearly correct as you can. 1. Who are the children? Where do they live? Howare they related? How did they come to have the motherdog and the puppy? What breed are the dogs? How dothe children feel toward them? 2. Where did the larger boy come from? What is hedoing? Why? How do the children feel? Did the boylet the mother dog go purposely or did she break away?What is the boy saying? 3. Tell about the result: whether the thief was caught,and if so, how; whether the children got their puppyback. STUDY 46 Literature and Composition MY SHADOW I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me,And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head;And I see him jump before me, when I jump into my bed. 54 STUDIES IN ENGLISH
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The funniest thing about him is the way he likes togrow— Not at all like proper children, which is always veryslow; For he sometimes shoots up taller like an India-rubber ball, And he sometimes gets so little that theres noneof him at all. He hasnt got a notion of how children ought to play,And he can only make a fool of me in every sort of way.He stays so close beside me, hes a coward you can see;Id think shame to stick to nursie as that shadow sticks to me! WORK AND PLAY WITH LANGUAGE 55 One morning, very early, before the sun was up,I rose and found the shining dew on every buttercup;But my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head,Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleepin bed. —Robert Louis Stevenson. 1. Explain why your shadow suddenly grows tall orshort. 2. Why did this little boy think the shadow remainedin bed when he went out very early in the morning ? Howcould he have gotten away from his shadow at any time ? 3. When the sun is shining can you tell north,

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