frog sit? Where did the little froggies stay? Were they all good students? After they finished their course, what did they do? Tell about the school. Do you think you can see the froggies at school this

summer?

Read this story:

Practice Exercise

The Boys and the Frogs

One day some boys were playing near a pond. There were many frogs in the pond. When the boys saw a frog in the water, they threw a stone at it. They hit some of the frogs. One of the frogs said this might be fun for the boys but it was death to the frogs.

Practice reading the following forms taken from the story:

Some boys were playing.
There were many frogs.

The boys saw a frog.
They threw a stone at it.

They hit some of the frogs.

One frog said this was fun for the boys.

Tell the story to the class. Be careful to use the correct form of each word in the story.

Write each sentence in the story as your teacher reads it to you. When you have finished writing it, see if each sentence that you have written is exactly like the sentence in the book. Write at the bottom of the page the number of errors.

A STORY TO FINISH

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LESSON 67

White Bunnie's Day Off

It was the first day of May, and the grass was green, and the sun was warm. White Bunnie was in his box in the backyard. He wanted to get out and get some of the green grass. He wanted to run about in the sunshine. He wanted to do anything but stay shut up in his box.

First he trotted along the front of the box, rubbing against the wire. Then he stood on his hind legs and pushed his nose against the wire.

Bunnie's master went by on his way to school. Master Bob was in a hurry because he wanted to see some boys about a ball game. Bob had time only to whistle to White Bunnie as he passed.

If White Bunnie had been a boy or girl, he would have cried, but as he was only a rabbit he trotted back and forth, back and forth, faster and faster, across the dry straw, and pushed his nose a little harder against the wire.

Then something happened. The wire at one end of the box came loose, and White Bunnie slipped through the hole. It was fine out in the sunshine with the green grass growing all about.

White Bunnie soon slipped through a hole in the fence into the next yard because the grass seemed greener over there. Then he went into the next yard and the next. Soon he saw the biggest yard of all with the greenest grass and the most beautiful flowers in the world. There was no house in this yard. You see it was not a yard at all, but a park that he had come to.

You see this story of White Bunnie's Day Off is not finished. Let us finish it. What happened to White Bunnie in the park? Did something come

along and frighten him? Did he want to go back to his box? Did he know the way back? Did some one that knew White Bunnie come along and take him back?

Let us see if each one cannot let White Bunnie have a different way of getting back to his box.

Perhaps your teacher will let groups of three or four pupils work out the story together. Then they may choose one to tell it to the class.

LESSON 68

The Long Vacation

The long vacation is coming, and your classmates will like to know how you are planning to spend it and what you are planning to do.

What games are you planning to play? Where shall you play them and with whom shall you play? Are you planning to go to any other town or city? What are you planning to do on the Fourth of July?

An Invitation

Perhaps you have a friend whom you are planning to invite to spend a day or a longer time with you during the vacation. This will be a good time to write the invitation. Write a short letter to that friend, inviting him or her to visit you. Tell your friend some of the jolly things you are planning to do.

PART II

LESSON 1

Fun In a Tent

Have you ever made a tent? Betty and Ruth once made a tent by throwing an old tablecloth over a limb of a tree on their lawn. The limb was quite low and ran out straight from the tree. What good times the girls had in this tent! They had a little tin stove and a set of toy dishes, and they madebelieve keep house. They had afternoon teas and invited their dolls. The picture shows one of the many good times that they had. Their father saw how much they enjoyed the tent so he bought a new real tent and set it up on the lawn for them; but for some reason they did not care so much for it as for the old tent that they had made, and they seldom played in the new tent. Why do you suppose they liked the old tent better?

Play that you are one of the girls and tell about making the tent and the good times that you had in it. You may make up the story. Then tell about the new tent and tell why you did not play in it. Have you ever made a tent like the one that the two girls made? Perhaps you have a real tent that

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