Produced by Don Kostuch
[Transcriber's Note:
Welcome to the schoolroom of 1900. The moral tone is plain.
"She is kind to the old blind man."
The exercises are still suitable, and perhaps more helpful than somecontemporary alternatives. Much is left to the teacher. Explanations givenin the text are enough to get started teaching a child to read and write.Counting in Roman numerals is included as a bonus in the form of lessonnumbers.
The form of contractions includes a space. The contemporary word "don't"was rendered as "do n't".
The author, not listed in the text, is William Holmes McGuffey.
Passages using non-ASCI characters are approximately rendered in this textversion. See the PDF or DOC versions for the original images.
The section numbers are decimal in the Table of Contents but are in
Roman Numerals in the body.
Page headings are removed, but section titles are followed by the page onwhich they appear.
Don Kostuchend transcriber's note]
MCGUFFEY'S (Registered)
FOURTH ECLECTIC READER.
McGuffey Edition and Colophon are Trademarks of
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
New York-Chichester-Weinheim-Brisbane-Toronto
In revising the FOURTH READER, the aim has been—as it has with the otherbooks of the Series—to preserve unimpaired all the essentialcharacteristics of MCGUFFEY'S READERS. New articles have been substitutedfor old ones only where the advantage was manifest.
The book has been considerably enlarged, and has been liberallyillustrated by the first artists of the country.
It can not be presumed that every pupil has at hand all the works ofreference necessary for the proper preparation of each lesson; hence allthe aids that seem requisite to this purpose have been given. Briefnotices concerning the various authors represented have been inserted; themore difficult words have been defined, and their pronunciation has beenindicated by diacritical marks; and short explanatory notes have beengiven wherever required for a full understanding of the text.
Especial acknowledgment is due to Messrs. Houghton, Osgood & Co. for theirpermission to make liberal selections from their copyright editions ofmany of the foremost American author whose works they publish.
COPYRIGHT, 1879, by VAN ANTWERP, BRAGG & Co.
COPYRIGHT, 1896, by AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY.
COPYRIGHT, 1907 and 1920, by H. H. VAIL.
TITLE. AUTHOR. PAGE 1. Perseverance Charlotte Elizabeth 25 2. Try, Try Again T. H. Palmer 28 3. Why the Sea Is Salt Mary Howitt 29 4. Why the Sea Is Salt Mary Howitt 32 5. Popping Corn 34 6. Smiles 35 7. Lazy Ned 38 8. The Monkey 39 9. Meddlesome Matty 4210. The Good