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HARRINGTON'S GRADED SPELLING-BOOK-PART II.

A GRADED

SPELLING-BOOK

BEING A COMPLETE COURSE IN SPELLING FOR
PRIMARY AND GRAMMAR SCHOOLS

IN TWO PARTS

BY

H. F. HARRINGTON

SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS, NEW BEDFORD, MASS.

NEW YORK

HARPER & BROTHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1880, by

HARPER & BROTHERS,

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

All rights reserved.

PREFACE TO PART II.

SOME features have been introduced into Part II. of this work which would have been inappropriate in Part I., and which may need a word of explanation.

Lessons will be found distributed through Part II. made up of the words which the pupil will encounter in the studies now to be undertaken, such as geography, arithmetic, and grammar. These words have not been placed in sentences, as it is expected that they will be fully explained by the teacher on their occurrence in the pages of the textbooks.

The lessons occurring from time to time in Part I., made up of words to be framed in intelligible sentences, are here continued, with the suggestion that they are also to serve, at the discretion of the teacher, as introductions to the study of synonymy. One of the richest features of our language is the copiousness of its synonymes, and there is no branch of study more interesting and profitable.

This attention to synonymes, if it be judiciously and thoroughly carried on, will require the use of the dictionary. This is as it should be. As soon as a pupil enters the grammar-school he should be furnished with a dictionary, and taught how to use it to the best advantage; and it should be his inseparable companion thenceforward throughout his school career.

August, 1880.

H. F. H.

ᏢᎪᎡᎢ II.

LESSON 1.

"I love it, I love it; and who shall dare
To chide me for loving that old arm-chair?
I've treasured it long as a sainted prize,

I've bedewed it with tears, and embalmed it with sighs; 'Tis bound by a thousand bands to my heart;

Not a tie will break, not a link will start.
Would ye learn the spell? a mother sat there,
And a sacred thing is that old arm-chair."

[In this form of lessons the pupil may be required to give one or more synonymes of each word, or may, at the option of the teacher, continue to construct sentences as in Part I.]