Reading Conversation Composition (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Reading Conversation CompositionAnd Nature, the old nurse, took The child upon her knee, Saying, Here is a story-book Thy father has written for thee. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.Once on a time, a little boy was taken from the noise and bustle of city life to a sparsely settled land where a great forest stretched away in every direction. To this land his parents came to make a home in the heart of the deep wood. A large log house had been built in an open space from which great oaks, beeches, maples, and other trees had been removed and here, surrounded by nature's forms and activities, they lived many years.What a great change this experience was to this little boy! How wonderful this new world seemed to him! Here were ¿owers of every hue, bees, birds, butter¿ies, and many other interesting things to excite his childish wonder. He soon learned the names of the shrubs, the trees, the wild fruits, and the ¿owers, and the habits of the honey gatherers, the feathered folk, and the little animals of the. Wood.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.