The Granville Series.

READING

BOOK.

FIFTH STANDARD.

LONDON: BURNS AND OATES.

1882.

Price One Shilling and Threepence.

3987.4.15.

220CT65

OXFO

NOTICE.

THE selections in this book are from Standard Authors. The best thanks of the author are due to those who have generously given permission for the insertion of extracts from their works.

Thanks are also due to Messrs. CASSELL, PETTER, & GALPIN for leave to insert illustrations from some of their special publications.

CONTENTS.

NOTE.-Lessons marked with an asterisk (*) are in Poetry.

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1. Friends and neighbours, the taxes are indeed very heavy. If those laid on by the

government were

the only ones we

had to pay, we o

might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, much harder to bear for some

of us.

2. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three b

times as much by

our pride, and four

obem at

times as much by our folly: and from these