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此套书为在原版本基础上重新修订精装版，后两册字号较之前有所放大，并且修正了原有的错误之处，以方便学生阅读。
This series of schoolbooks teaching reading and moral precepts,
originally prepared by William Holmes who was a professor at Miami
University McGuffey, had a profound influence on public education
in the United States. The eclectic readers, meaning that the
selections were chosen from a number of sources, were considered
remarkably literary works and probably exerted a greater influence
upon literary tastes in the United States more than any other book,
excluding the Bible.
It is estimated that at least 120 million copies of McGuffey''s
Readers were sold between 1836 and 1960, placing its sales in a
category with the Bible and Webster''s Dictionary. Since 1961 they
have continued to sell at a rate of some 30,000 copies a year. No
other textbook bearing a single person''s name has come close to
that mark. McGuffey''s Readers are still in use today in some school
systems, and by parents for home schooling purposes.
LESSON 1 THE SHEPHERD BOY
LESSON 2 JOHNNY’S FIRST SNOWSTORM
LESSON 3 LET IT RAIN
LESSON 4 CASTLE-BUILDING
LESSON 5 CASTLE-BUILDING
LESSON 6 LEND A HAND
LESSON 7 THE TRUANT
LESSON 8 THE WHITE KITTEN
LESSON 9 THE BEAVER
LESSON 10 THE YOUNG TEACHER
LESSON 11 THE BLACKSMITH
LESSON 12 A WALK IN THE GARDEN
LESSON 13 THE WOLF
LESSON 14 THE LITTLE BIRD’S SONG
LESSON 15 HARRY AND ANNIE
LESSON 16 BIRD FRIENDS
LESSON 17 WHAT THE MINUTES SAY
LESSON 18 THE WIDOW AND THE MERCHANT
LESSON 19 THE BIRDS SET FREE
LESSON 20 A MOMENT TOO LATE
LESSON 21 HUMMING BIRDS
LESSON 22 THE WIND AND THE SUN
LESSON 23 SUNSET
LESSON 24 BEAUTIFUL HANDS
LESSON 25 THINGS TO REMEMBER
LESSON 26 THREE LITTLE MICE
LESSON 27 THE NEW YEAR
LESSON 28 THE CLOCK AND THE SUNDIAL
LESSON 29 REMEMBER
LESSON 30 COURAGE AND COWARDICE
LESSON 31 WEIGHING AN ELEPHANT
LESSON 32 THE SOLDIER
LESSON 33 THE ECHO
LESSON 34 GEORGE’S FEAST
LESSON 35 THE LORD’S PRAYER
LESSON 36 FINDING THE OWNER
LESSON 37 BATS
LESSON 38 A SUMMER DAY
LESSON 39 I WILL THINK OF IT
LESSON 40 CHARLIE AND ROB
LESSON 41 RAY AND HIS KITE
LESSON 42 BEWARE OF THE FIRST DRINK
LESSON 43 SPEAK GENTLY
LESSON 44 THE SEVEN STICKS
LESSON 45 THE MOUNTAIN SISTER
LESSON 46 HARRY AND THE GUIDEPOST
LESSON 47 THE MONEY AMY DID NOT EARN
LESSON 48 WHO MADE THE STARS?
LESSON 49 DEEDS OF KINDNESS
LESSON 50 THE ALARM CLOCK
LESSON 51 SPRING
LESSON 52 TRUE COURAGE
LESSON 53 THE OLD CLOCK
LESSON 54 THE WAVES
LESSON 55 DON’T KILL THE BIRDS
LESSON 56 WHEN TO SAY NO
LESSON 57 WHICH LOVED BEST?
LESSON 58 JOHN CARPENTER
LESSON 59 PERSEVERE
LESSON 60 THE CONTENTED BOY
LESSON 61 LITTLE GUSTAVA
LESSON 62 THE INSOLENT BOY
LESSON 63 WE ARE SEVEN
LESSON 64 MARY’S DIME
LESSON 65 MARY DOW
LESSON 66 THE LITTLE LOAF
LESSON 67 SUSIE AND ROVER
LESSON 68 THE VIOLET
LESSON 69 NO CROWN FOR ME
LESSON 70 YOUNG SOLDIERS
LESSON 71 HOW WILLIE GOT OUT OF THE SHAFT
LESSON 72 THE PERT CHICKEN
LESSON 73 INDIAN CORN
LESSON 74 THE SNOWBIRD’S SONG
LESSON 75 MOUNTAINS
LESSON 76 A CHILD’S HYMN
LESSON 77 HOLDING THE FORT
LESSON 78 THE LITTLE PEOPLE
LESSON 79 GOOD NIGHT
內容試閱：
LESSON 2 JOHNNY’S FIRST SNOWSTORM
1. Johnny Reed was a little boy who never had seen a snowstorm
till he was six years old. Before this, he had lived in a warm
country, where the sun shines down on beautiful orange groves, and
fi elds always sweet with fl owers.
2. But now he had come to visit his grandmother, who lived where
the snow falls in winter. Johnny was standing at the window when
the snow came down.
3. “O mamma!” he cried, joyfully, “do come quick, and see these
little white birds fl ying down from heaven.” 4. “Th ey are not
birds, Johnny,” said mamma, smiling. 5. “Th en maybe the little
angels are losing their feathers! Oh! do tell me what it is; is it
sugar? Let me taste it,” said Johnny. But when he tasted it, he
gave a little jump—it was so cold. 6. “Th at is only snow, Johnny,”
said his mother. 7. “What is snow, mother?” 8. “The snowflakes,
Johnny, are little drops of water that fall from the clouds. But
the air through which they pass is so cold it freezes them, and
they come down turned into snow.” 9. As she said this, she brought
out an old black hat from the closet. “See, Johnny! I have caught a
snowfl ake on this hat. Look quick through this glass, and you will
see how beautiful it is.” 10. Johnny looked through the glass.
There lay the pure, feathery snowfl ake like a lovely little star.
11. “Twinkle, twinkle, little star!” he cried in delight. “Oh!
please show me more snow-fl akes, mother.” 12. So his mother caught
several more, and they were all beautiful. 13. Th e next day Johnny
had a fi ne play in the snow, and when he came in, he said, “I love
snow; and I think snowballs are a great deal prettier than
oranges.”
LESSON 5 REVIEW
The cat and the rat ran.
Ann sat, and Nat ran.
A rat ran at Nat.
Can Ann fan the lad?
The man and the lad.
The man has a cap.
The lad has a fan.
Has Ann a hat?
Ann has a hat and a fan.
LESSON 6
Nat’s cap a fat dog
Has the lad a dog?
The lad has a fat dog.
The dog has Nat’s cap.
Nat and Rab ran.
Rab ran at a cat.
LESSON 30 REVIEW
There is ice on the pond, and the mill wheel can not go
round.
The boys are all out on the ice with their skates.
I will let you and Tom try to skate; but do not fall, for you
will be hurt. Look! here come the cars.
John and Nat try to skate as fast as the cars go, but they can
not. John has had a fall.
The girls are not on the pond; but some of them have skates which
roll on the floor.
LESSON 1
ANECDOTE OF THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE
A laughable story was circulated during the administration of
the
old Duke of Newcastle, and retailed to the public in various
forms. This
nobleman, with many good points, was remarkable for being
profuse
of his promises on all occasions, and valued himself particularly
on
being able to anticipate the words or the wants of the various
persons
who attended his levees, before they uttered a word. This
sometimes led
him into ridiculous embarrassments; and it was this proneness to
lavish
promises, which gave occasion for the following anecdote:
At the election of a certain borough in Cornwall, where the
opposite
interests were almost equally poised, a single vote was of the
highest
importance. This object the Duke, by well applied argument and
personal
application, at length attained; and the gentleman he
recommended,
gained the election. In the warmth of gratitude, his grace poured
forth
acknowledgments and promises without ceasing, on the
fortunate
possessor of the casting vote; called him his best and dearest
friend;
protested, that he should consider himself as forever indebted to
him;
and that he would serve him by night or by day.
The Cornish voter, who was an honest fellow, and would not
have thought himself entitled to any reward, but for such a
torrent of
acknowledgments, thanked the Duke for his kindness, and told
him
the supervisor of excise was old and infirm, and, if he would
have the
goodness to recommend his son-in-law to the commissioners, in
case of
the old man’s death, he should think himself and his family bound
to
render his grace every assistance in their power, on any future
occasion.
“My dear friend, why do you ask for such a trifling
employment?”
exclaimed his grace; “your relative shall have it the moment the
place is
vacant, if you will but call my attention to it.”
“But how shall I get admitted to you, my lord? For in London,
I
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understand, it is a very difficult business to get a sight of you
great folks,
though you are so kind and complaisant to us in the
country.”
“The instant the man dies,” replied the Duke, “set out posthaste
for
London; drive directly to my house, and, be it by night or by
day, thunder
at the door; I will leave word with my porter to show you
upstairs
directly; and the employment shall be disposed of according to
your
wishes.”
The parties separated; the Duke drove to a friend’s house in
the
neighborhood, without a wish or desire to see his new
acquaintance
till that day seven years; but the memory of the Cornish elector,
not
being burdened with such a variety of objects, was more
retentive. The
supervisor died a few months after, and the Duke’s humble friend,
relying
on the word of a peer, was conveyed to London posthaste, and
ascended
with alacrity the steps of that nobleman’s palace.
The reader should be informed, that just at this time, no less a
person
than the King of Spain was
expected hourly to depart
this life, —an event in which
the minister of Great Britain
was particularly concerned;
and the Duke of Newcastle,
on the very night that the
proprietor of the decisive vote
arrived at his door, had sat up
a n x i o u s l y e x p e c t i n g
dispatches from Madrid.
Wearied by official business
and agitated spirits, he retired
to rest, having previously
given particular instructions
to his porter not to go to bed,
as he expected every minute a
messenger with advices of the
greatest importance, and
desired that he might be
shown upstairs, the moment
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of his arrival.
His grace was sound asleep; and the porter, settled for the night
in his
armchair, had already commenced a sonorous nap, when the vigorous
arm
of the Cornish voter roused him from his slumbers. To his first
question,
“Is the Duke at home?” the porter replied, “Yes, and in bed; but
has
left particular orders that, come when you will, you are to go up
to him
directly.”
“Bless him, for a worthy and honest gentleman,” cried our
applicant
for the vacant post, smiling and nodding with approbation at the
prime
minister’s kindness, “how punctual his grace is; I knew he would
not
deceive me; let me hear no more of lords and dukes not keeping
their
words; I verily believe they are as honest, and mean as well as
any other
folks.” Having ascended the stairs as he was speaking, he was
ushered into
the Duke’s bedchamber.
“Is he dead?” exclaimed his grace, rubbing his eyes, and
scarcely
awakened from dreaming of the King of Spain, “Is he dead?”
“Yes, my lord,” replied the eager expectant, delighted to find
the
election promise, with all its circumstances, so fresh in the
nobleman’s
memory.
“When did he die?”
“The day before yesterday, exactly at half past one o’clock,
after being
confined three weeks to his bed, and taking a power of doctor’s
stuff; and
I hope your grace will be as good as your word, and let my
son-in-law
succeed him.”
The Duke, by this time perfectly awake, was staggered at
the
impossibility of receiving intelligence from Madrid in so short a
space of
time; and perplexed at the absurdity of a king’s messenger
applying for
his son-in-law to succeed the King of Spain: “Is the man drunk,
or mad?
Where are your dispatches?” exclaimed his grace, hastily drawing
back his
curtain; where, instead of a royal courier, he recognized at the
bedside,
the fat, good-humored countenance of his friend from Cornwall,
making
low bows, with hat in hand, and “hoping my lord would not forget
the
gracious promise he was so good as to make, in favor of his
son-in-law, at
the last election.”
Vexed at so untimely a disturbance, and disappointed of news
from
Spain, the Duke frowned for a moment; but chagrin soon gave way
to
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mirth, at so singular and ridiculous a combination of
circumstances, and,
yielding to the impulse, he sunk upon the bed in a violent fit of
laughter,
which was communicated in a moment to the attendants.
The relater of this little narrative, concludes, with observing,
“Although
the Duke of Newcastle could not place the relative of his old
acquaintance
on the throne of His Catholic Majesty, he advanced him to a post
not less
honorable—he made him an exciseman.”
—Blackwood’s Magazine.
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