The Eclectic Second Reader by McGuffey William Holmes 1800-1873

Author:McGuffey, William Holmes, 1800-1873
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: readers
Published: 1836-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

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LESSON L. The Quarrelsome Cocks.

1. Here is a story about two foolish cocks that were always quarreling, which is .very* naughty. You do not quarrel ? No, I am glad of it; but if you see any little boys that quarrel, you may tell them the story of the cocks. This is it:

2. JJThere was once a hen who lived in a farmyard, %nd she had a large brood of chickens. She took a great deal of care of them, and gathered them under her wings every night, and fed them and nursed them very well.

3. The chickens were all very good, except two cocks, that were always quarreling with one another. They were hardly out of the shell before they began to peck at each other ; and when they grew larger they fought till they were all bloody. m .

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4. If one picked up a grain of corn, the other always wanted to have it They never looked pretty, because their feathery were pulled off in fighting, till they were quite bare; and they pecked at one another's eyes till they were both almost blind.

5. The old hen very often told them how naughty it was to quarrel so ; but they did not mind her.

6. So, one day these two cocks had been fighting, as they always did ; and the largest cock, whose name was Chanticleer, beat the other, and crowed over him, and drove him quite out of the yard.

7. The cock, that had been beat, slunk away and hid himself; for he was vexed that he bad been conquered, and he wanted sadly to be revenged ; but he did not know how to manage it, for he was not strong enough himself.

8. So, after thinking a great deal, he went to an old sly fox that lived near, and said to him? Fox, if you will come with me, I will show you? where there is a large fat cock in a farm-yard? and you may eat him up if you will.

9. The fox was very glad, for he was hungry enough ,• and he said, Yes, I will come, with all my heart, and I will not leave a feather of him; come now, and show me where he may ^ found.

10. So they went together, and the cock showed Renard the way into the farm-y^' and there was poor Chanticleer asleep upon the perch. And the fox seized him by the necfc and ate him up ; and the other cock stood by and crowed for joy.

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11. But when the fox had done, he said, ttticleer was very good, but I have not had ough yet; and so he flew upon the other cock, ' in a moment ate him up too.

Que*tiosi*.—l. What is this stay about 1 2. What was the deposition of two of the chickens 1 3. Did they foster this foarrelsome disposition 1 4. What did it lead them to dot 9.

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