Part 2
Max, come look at the red oxen. Oh, how big the red oxen are! See how they can pull. Oxen can pull like horses. Can the oxen run, Frank? Yes, Max, oxen can run. But oxen do not like to run. They like to walk. I do not like to drive oxen. I like to drive horses. Father will show you how to drive, Max. He will let you drive the horses.
Did you see the children? They were going through the woods. They like the pretty woods. The boys like to drive the horses. Frank’s father has big horses. Did you see the big horses? Do you know how to drive?
Father lets Frank drive the horses. He lets Max drive the horses, too. Father knows how to drive the oxen. Frank said, “Look at the big, red oxen. Oxen can pull like horses. But they can not run like horses.”
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Father said, “Do you hear the birds? Do you hear them sing, Max? Look for them, as we drive. Tell me where you see them. Tell me what you see them doing. Tell me how they look. Look up in the trees, Max. The birds are over us in the trees.”
“You must know the birds, Max. You must know how they look. You must know how they sing. I hear a bird now, children. Do you know what bird it is? Do you hear it, Frank? It is not singing. What is it doing?”
I see the bird up in an apple tree. Do you see it? How pretty it is! Its head is red. It taps on the tree. Do you hear it? “Tap! tap! tap!”
I see the bird with the red head. There is sap in the tree. The bird likes the sap in the tree. It is getting the sap now. It taps on the tree. It does this to get the sap. How does the bird get the sap? It makes a little hole in the tree, Max.
[Music: M. S. WILLIS.
_Lively._
Ho! Red-cap! Lit-tle chap, Go “Tip-tap” With a rap; Make a gap, Sip the sap, Fly “flip-flap.”]
PHONIC JINGLES
PHONIC DRILL
Ho! Red-cap! cap Little chap, chap Go “Tip-tap” tap With a rap. rap Make a gap, gap Sip the sap, sap Fly “flip-flap.” flap
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We are going to school, Max. I am glad you are going with us. I like to go to school. I like to write in school. Do you? Yes, I like to write, Frank. Is your school in town? No, we do not go to school in town.
This is the way we go to school. You see we go through the woods. We see the birds on the way to school. We hear the birds sing. We find the birds’ nests. We look at the nests. I will show you the birds’ nests. Then we will go away.
Come, Alice. Come, Grace. We are going home now, Max. Which way are you going, Frank? We did not come this way. We came another way, Max. That way was through the woods. Did you like the school, Max? Yes, Frank, I like your school. I do not like to go to school in town. I like to go to this school.
I see another bird. Here it comes. It comes, hop, hop. See how it hops. What a little bird! Its head is not red. Its head is black. I hear it saying, “Quit, quit!” Now it is singing, “Chick-a-dee-dee!”
It is the chickadee you hear singing. I see the chickadee now, Max. The chickadee has another name. Tomtit is another name for chickadee. Tomtit is saying, “Quit, quit.” What are they doing to you, Tomtit?
PHONIC JINGLES
PHONIC DRILL
1. I wonder who hit hit That little Tomtit. Tom tit He said, “Quit, quit, quit!” quit
2. Why do you not sit sit Where you are, Tomtit? Tom tit You wee, saucy chit! chit
3. And now that you’ve lit, lit Tomtit, do not flit, flit But sing us a bit. bit
[Music: M. S. WILLIS.
_Lively._
4. “Twit-twit-ter! Twit-twit!” Sang lit-tle Tom-tit. Then, “Chick-a-dee-dee!”]
I see Father at the barn. He has the horses. The horses are glad to be at home. The horses and cows live at the barn. It is home for them. The pigs sleep here, too, Max. We keep the little pigs in a pen. Come this way and see the pigs. Alice has a greedy, greedy little pig. I have a pig too.
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Here is Piggie Wee. Here is Piggie Wig. Piggie Wee is Alice’s pig. Piggie Wig is my pig. Which is Piggie Wee? Which is Piggie Wig? Can you tell, Frank? Yes, I can tell.
I can tell which is Piggie Wig. I can tell which is Piggie Wee. Piggie Wig has a curly tail. Look at his curly tail, Max. But Piggie Wee’s tail is not curly. See how Piggie Wig jumps and dances. Greedy Piggie Wee goes to bed.
I know the pigs now, Frank. Your pig has the funny, curly tail. Alice’s greedy pig says, “Wee! Wee!” I like your little, greedy pig, Alice. I like your pig, too, Frank. I like its curly tail. I know a funny rime, Max. It is about little Piggie Wig.
Grace and I write rimes, Max. We write funny rimes at school. Mother writes rimes for Alice. Father writes funny rimes for her. Father writes funny rimes for us, too.
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PHONIC JINGLES
PHONIC DRILL
1. I saw a little pig pig In a curly wig, wig A-dancing a jig. jig ’Twas little Piggie Wig. Wig Jolly little pig! pig
2. Dressed in this funny rig, rig He rode in a gig, gig Till he grew so big, big He had to root and dig. dig Hungry little pig! pig
[Music: M. S. WILLIS.
_Spirited._
1. I saw a lit-tle pig In a cur-ly wig, A-danc-ing a jig; ’Twas lit-tle Pig-gie-wig, Jol-ly lit-tle pig! ’Twas lit-tle Pig-gie-wig, Jol-ly lit-tle pig!]
Let us go to the pond, Max. Where is the pond, Frank? It is over in the woods. It is a pretty pond. It is away under the big trees. Where are Alice and Grace, Frank? Will they go with us? Yes, they will go to the pond.
Alice goes to the pond for violets. We find violets there in the woods. We get violets for Mother. Alice! We are going after violets. Come and go with us. We are going over to the pond. Let Lad come with you, Alice.
What a pretty day it is, Grace! And what a pretty pond this is! Look at the ducks in the water! See that big duck with the curly tail! Yes, they are here all day in the water. They make nests here at the pond. Do all the ducks lay here, Grace? No, I have ducks at the barn. They lay at the barn. That is where they live.
A big brook runs into this pond. The brook runs through the woods. The violets bloom at the brook. They bloom under the big trees. The cows come to the brook. The sheep and lambs come too. They like the water in the brook.
Do you see where Alice is? She is going away up the brook. She finds the violets that bloom there. She finds the violets under the big trees. Can you hear what Alice says to us? She says, “Violets! Violets! Come see the violets!”
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Look at the ducks in the woods. They are the ducks that live at the barn. I see my black hen with them. She has all of her children. The duck and chicks are Jet’s children. Don’t you see them running about? That little duck’s name is Ducky Bet. Let us go where they are, Max. How came you here, Mother Jet? Where are your children going?
The ducks are going to the pond. Jet does not know where they are going. Ducky Bet knows where they are going. The ducks will get into the water. Ducky Bet may go into the water, too. She is running after the other ducks. Let us go back to the pond, Max.
Alice! Alice! Come and look at Jet! She is running after Ducky Bet. Bet is running after the other ducks. Jet says, “Cluck, cluck, cluck! Come back, baby duck, duck, duck!” The other ducks say, “Quack, quack! Ducky Bet, go back, back, back!” There! Ducky Bet is in the water.
PHONIC JINGLES
PHONIC DRILL
1. “It’s not sunset,” set Said Ducky Bet Bet To Mother Jet. Jet “These ducks I’ve met, met I can not let let Them leave me yet.” yet
2. Then Mother Jet Jet Began to fret. fret “My little pet,” pet She said to Bet, Bet “You must not get get Your feathers wet.” wet
[Music: M. S. WILLIS.
1. “It’s not sun-set,” said Duck-y Bet to Moth-er Jet. “These ducks I’ve met, I can-not let Them leave me yet.”]
I will tell Frank to get the little duck. Frank! Come here to the pond. Come quick and get Ducky Bet. There! Frank has caught the ducky. Give the ducky to her mother, Frank. Mother Jet, here is your baby duck. Go to the barn with your children. That is where you live. Shoo! Shoo!
Frank came and caught the ducky. The hen saw him after her baby duck. She ran about and said, “Cluck, cluck!” The chicks said, “Peep, peep!” The ducks said, “Quack, quack!” Frank said, “Shoo! Shoo! Shoo!” Lad ran about and said, “Bow-wow!”
What are you looking for, Frank? I am looking for frog’s eggs, Max. The frogs lay eggs in the water. Oh, do find some of the frog’s eggs! Find some, and let me see them. Do frogs lay eggs in nests, Frank? O Max! Frogs don’t make nests. Don’t you know that? How funny!
I will show you some frog’s eggs. I can find them in the pond. Here are some of them now. Come and look at the eggs, Max. Eggs? Well! They are funny eggs! They are not at all like bird’s eggs.
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Come quick, Max. Look quick! See that little frog. Don’t you see it? Watch! It will jump. Come here, Lad. Don’t go there. Pull him back, Max. See the frog jump into the water.
The boys saw a frog in the brook. Frank said, “Don’t go there, little dog. You must not go after the frog, Lad. Come back, little dog. Come, Lad.” Lad said, “Bow-wow, Bow-wow!” This made the frog jump back. It went “Ker-chog!” into the water.
PHONIC JINGLES
PHONIC DRILL
1. A little frog frog Sat on a log, log In a thick fog, fog Beside the bog. bog
2. A little dog dog Came to the log. log Frog went “Kerchog!” Ker chog Into the bog. bog
[Music: M. S. WILLIS.
_Slowly._
1. A lit-tle frog Sat on a log, In a thick fog, Be-side the bog.]
Will the frog come up again, Frank? Yes, he came up then. He has his head out now. Don’t you see his head in the water? Look! He went under the water. Now he has come up again. He is looking at us. Let us hide. There! Did you see him jump? He is out of the brook now?
It is time to go home, Max. Oh no, please don’t go, Grace. Yes, we must go, Max. Let us all go through the woods. We will go to the barn and play. Yes, Grace, please go to the barn.
Look at that rabbit. Where, Frank, where? Please show me. Look in the woods. Oh, I see him now. Look at him hop. See his little white tail! There he goes! See him jump!
That Rabbit is not like Bun, Frank. No, Max, that rabbit is Bun’s cousin. Bun’s cousins live here in the woods. They have homes in the woods. What is a rabbit’s home like, Frank? It is a hole under the ground, Max. Rabbits make the hole in the ground.
One time I saw a rabbit’s home. I went with Father to see it. The hole was away under the ground. The mother rabbit was not in the hole. The baby rabbits were sleeping there. Father said, “Pull them out, Frank. Now look at them. Then let them go back into the hole.”
Please show me a rabbit’s home, Frank. Yes, some day I will be glad to, Max. Thank you, Frank, thank you. I like to see a rabbit jump. Don’t you? Yes. I know a rime about a rabbit. It is a rime that I can sing. Please sing it for me, Frank.
PHONIC JINGLES
PHONIC DRILL
1. Wild little Bun, Bun Sit in the sun, sun Then run, run, run That is fun. fun
2. There you go “Thump!” Thump Over the stump, stump With a bump, bump As you jump. jump
3. A home you’ve dug. dug There you’re as snug snug As a bug bug In a rug. rug
[Music: M. S. WILLIS.
_Lively._
1. Wild lit-tle Bun, Sit in the sun; Then run, run, That is fun.]
Look, Frank! What bird is that? That is a bat, Max. It can fly, Frank. Yes, a bat can fly. It can fly like a bird. A bat can fly as high as a bird, too. There it goes. Up, up, it goes.
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Can you catch the bat, Frank? Yes, I will catch it with my hat. Here it is. I caught it with my hat. It looks like a rat, Frank. No, it looks like a mouse, Max. We will show the bat to Father. Then we will let it fly away again.
Did you see Frank run after the bat? I saw him catch it. The bat was flying when he caught it. Frank caught the bat under his hat. He ran after it and said,
“Bat, bat, Come under my hat. And when I bake, I will give you a cake.”
We will run up on the hay. Then we will jump down again. Alice, we will pull you up on the hay. Thank you. Now I will jump down. Jump down. Jump this way, Grace. It is your time to jump again, Alice. Max, look over your head. What is that? What is that, Frank? Look out, Max! Run, run, Max!
Do you know what made Max run? An owl came out of the barn. It flew down at Max and made him run. It flew at his head. Max did not know what it was. He said, “What is that?” Then he ran down on the hay. Frank said, “Look out, Max. Run!”
The owl flew back up on the hay. Then Frank ran up on the hay. He caught the owl under his hat. That was the way he caught the bat. Grace said, “Let me see the owl, Frank. Do you know what an owl looks like? Yes, it looks like a cat.”
Frank said, “Come back, Max. It is an owl. Come and see it.” Max went back to look at the owl. He said, “How that owl made me run! He does look like a cat, Grace. I know a rime about an owl. It is about an owl making a boy run. It is not about me and this owl. It is about another owl and another boy. I will say the rime for you.”
“A little boy went into a barn And lay down on some hay; An owl came out and flew about And the little boy ran away.”
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What are you doing, Baby? Are you watching the kitty cat? Dot is watching a little fly. Can you catch the fly, Dot? Look at little black Mink, sleeping. Mink will not catch the fly. Mink is not quick. Dot, be quick. Run to the window, Dot. Catch the fly when it comes. Catch it, Mink! Catch it, Dot! Catch it, Baby!
[Music: M. S. WILLIS.
_With animation._
1. Ba-by-bye, Here’s a fly. We will watch him, You and I.]
PHONIC JINGLES
PHONIC DRILL
2. My, my, my! my He is shy. shy That is why why He will fly. fly
3. He is sly. sly You he’ll spy. spy He is spry. spry Catch him! Try! try
4. See him fly fly Toward the sky. sky Say, “Good-by, by Little fly!” fly
Come to the window again, Baby. Look out through the window. Watch the little chickadee on the ground. Stop, little bird! Come to the window. Baby, did you see how he shook his tail? He shook it and shook it and flew away.
I saw a little bird Come, hop, hop, hop. So I said, “Little bird, Will you stop, stop, stop?” And was going to the window To say, “How do you do?” But he shook his little tail And then away he flew.
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Baby, Frank caught an owl. We have a little bat, too, Baby. The owl was in the barn. It made Max run. It flew at his head. It was funny to see Max run. Frank will show you the owl. Frank, where are the owl and the bat? Please show them to Mother and Baby.
Mother, look at the owl. Look at this bat. It is a little one. We will show them to Father. He knows where there is an owl’s nest. It makes a bed in a hole in a tree. Baby, look at the little bat. It looks like a mouse.
Bun has some rabbit cousins. We saw one as we came home. The one we saw lives in the woods. It lives in a hole in the ground. The little rabbit went hop, hop, hop. It has a funny, little, white tail. It did not look much like Bun.
We saw Mother Jet and her children. We saw all of the other ducks. Ducky Bet was with the other ducks. Mother Jet said, “Cluck, cluck, cluck! Come back, Baby duck, duck, duck!”
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It is so pretty to-day. Let us go out and swing Baby. Grace, you may swing with Baby. Come, Frank. Let us swing them. Pull, Frank. Pull the swing back. Now let it go again, Frank. You may run under the swing, Max. Don’t you hear the birds singing? They say, “Sweet! Sweet! Sweet!” Look up over your head at the birds. Sing, Baby! Sing, Alice! Sing, boys!
[Music: M. S. WILLIS.
1. Ba-by, swing, Dear lit-tle thing! Hap-py as a king.]
PHONIC JINGLES
PHONIC DRILL
1. Baby, swing, swing Dear little thing! thing Happy as a king. king
2. Birdies, sing. sing Sing on the wing. wing Sweetest music bring. bring
3. It is spring. spring Flower bells, ring. ring Wide your fragrance fling. fling
4. “Spring, sweet spring!” spring The children sing, sing “It is lovely spring.” spring
Father, we caught a bat and an owl. We caught them as we came home. Grace says the owl looks like a cat. The owl does look much like a cat. Max says the bat looks like a rat. I say it looks like a mouse. Which does it look like, Father? It looks very much like a mouse. It looks like a rat too, Frank. Father, tell about the owl and the bat. Tell about Mr. Owl and Mrs. Bat.
An owl said to a bat, “Do you know the rat, Mrs. Bat?” “No, I do not, Mr. Owl,” said the bat. “Well, you look very much like the rat, Mrs. Bat.” “Can the rat fly, Mr. Owl?” “Oh no, a rat can not fly, Mrs. Bat.” “But, you see, Mr. Owl, I can fly.” “Do you know the cat, Mr. Owl?” said the bat. “No, I do not, Mrs. Bat,” said the owl. “Well, you look very much like the cat, Mr. Owl.” “Can the cat fly, Mrs. Bat?” “Oh no, a cat can not fly, Mr. Owl.” “But you see, Mrs. Bat, I can fly.”
Said the owl to the bat, “What is that?” “That’s the cat,” said the bat. Said the owl to the bat, “Do I look like that cat?” “You do,” said the bat.
“Mr. Owl,” said the bat, “What is that?”
“That’s the rat, Mrs. Bat.” “Mr. Owl,” said the bat, “Do I look like that rat?” “You do, Mrs. Bat.”
Max, we are going to the orchard. I know you will like the orchard. The apple trees are so pretty. They have flowers now. The flowers are so sweet, too. All the birds like the orchard. I saw a nest there one day. There were some little eggs in it.
Was it a chickadee’s nest, Alice? No, it was not a chickadee’s nest. I saw the bird fly to the nest. I did not know what bird it was. Here is the orchard, Max. Let us get some flowers. The apple trees have pretty flowers. The apple flowers are red and white.
Oh, how pretty the apple trees are! Look at the bees on the flowers. Do you know what the bees say?
Down in the flower, Hear me, the bee, Going, “Zee, zee, z-ee!” Out of the flower, I come. Hear me hum, Going, “Zum, zum, z-um!”
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The pigs like to come to the orchard. They like the orchard as much as we do. They come when there are apples here. We saw all the pigs here one day. We made a rime about Piggie Wee. Tell about Piggie Wee and the bee.
You know how greedy Piggie Wee is. One day he was in the orchard. He saw an apple on the ground. But there was a bee on the apple. So the greedy pig ran after the bee. Then the bee flew at Piggie Wee. The bee made Piggie Wee run. It flew after him and said, “Zee, zee!” Piggie ran and said, “Wee, wee, wee!”
PHONIC JINGLES
PHONIC DRILL
1. Piggie-Wee Saw a bee. “See! See! See! Here’s a bee bee Under the tree. tree I’ll get that bee,” bee Said Piggie-Wee. Wee
2. Then the bee bee Said in glee, glee “Zee! Zee! Zee! Zee Piggie-Wee!” Wee This made him flee, flee And, “Wee! Wee! Wee!” Wee Cried Piggie-Wee. Wee
[Music: M. S. WILLIS.
1. Pig-gie-wee Saw a bee. “See! See! See! Here’s a bee Un-der the tree.” “I’ll get that bee,” said Pig-gie-wee.]
We will go to the meadow to-day. We will drive the cows to the meadow. They all like to go there. The sheep like the meadow, too. They will be in the meadow to-day. The meadow clover has its flowers. I like to see the clover blooms. They are sweet, red clover balls.
The bees are in the meadow all day. They hum over the clover. They like the sweet clover blooms. Some of the clover blooms are white. Some of them are as red as red can be. I like to see the bees on the clover. Let us run to the meadow.
Hear the bees hum, Max. They go “Zum, zum,” as they hum. Get down on the ground to see them. Yes, I see them, Alice. But I like to watch the lambs. Watch that little lamb run and play. Yes, that is my lamb, Max. The other lamb is Frank’s. Look at Bossy. Bossy is Grace’s cow. Bossy has a little bell. Do you see it? I like to hear Bossy’s bell.
It is time to drive the cows home. Boys, please find the cows. I don’t see Bossy. But I hear her bell. Don’t you hear Bossy’s bell? Yes, I hear it, Grace. Bossy’s bell goes “Tinkle, tinkle, tinkle!” I like to hear Bossy’s little bell.