ight years had not tasted th

Er work, and a smile of peace and happiness upon her lips. The boy
believed that it was the arrival of his four little black things
which had worked this miracle, and I do not think he was mistaken.
Without the crickets, and his good little heart, would this happy
change have taken place in his mother's fortunes? _From the French of
Pierre J. Hetzel._ * * * * * Jacques (zh[:a]k), James. In the
selection, find
ten sentences that ask questions, and five that express commands or
requests.
What mark of punctuation always follows the first kind? The second?
Memorize: In
the evening I sit near my poker and tongs, And I dream in the
firelight's glow, And sometimes I quaver forgotten old songs That I
listened to long ago. Then out of the cinders there cometh a chirp
Like an echoing, answering cry,-- Little we care for the outside
world, My friend the cricket, and I. For my cricket has learnt, I am
sure
of it quite, That this earth is a silly, strange place, And perhaps
he's been beaten and

hurt in the fight, And perhaps
he's been passed in the race. But I know he has found it far better
to sing Than to talk of ill luck and to sigh,-- Little we care for
the outside world, My friend the cricket, and I. * * * * * _34_ For
Recitation: OUR HEROES. Here's a hand to the boy who has courage To
do what he knows to be right; When he falls in the way of temptation
He has a hard battle to fight. Who strives against self and