The Ontario Readers: Third Reader

If I can I’ll come again, mother, from out my resting-place; Tho’ you’ll not see me, mother, I shall look upon your face; Tho’ I cannot speak a word, I shall hearken what you sa...

When I saw any one too ambitious of the favor of the great, wasting his time in attendance on public dinners, sacrificing his repose, his liberty, his virtue, and perhaps his fr...

Recalling to mind the leaf of the apple, buckwheat, morning-glory, oak, rose, Virginia creeper, maple, and sassafras, we have pretty good models after which nearly all leaves ar...

Fig. 2 represents a twig of the Hemlock Spruce Fir, a tree well-known to nearly every young person in Canada. Looking at this illustration, we at once observe that the leaves ar...

On that day, there came to the king, Fitz-Stephen, a sea-captain, and said, “My liege, my father served your father all his life, upon the sea. He steered the ship with the gold...

By this time the grand air had taken flight, and the officer, so pompous a moment before, looked as if the steady gaze and the quiet voice of the traveller had reduced him to th...

“Stern, all!” echoed Barnstable; when the obedient seamen, by united efforts, forced the boat in a backward direction, beyond the reach of any blow from their formidable antagon...

The king did not believe that he would keep his word, and said, “I will not let you go unless you find some friend who will come and stay in your place. Then, if you are not bac...

1. Lonely mood.--2. His heart was beginning to sink.--3. Low despair.--4. Silken clew.--5. Ceiling dome.--6. Bruce could not _divine_.--7. Strong endeavor.--8. Slipping sprawl.-...

All peacefully gliding, the waters dividing, The indolent batteau moved slowly along; The rowers, light-hearted, from sorrow long parted, Beguiled the dull moments with laughter...

1. _Stalwart_ grain.--2. _Serried_ shields.--3. Unrecking harm.--4. The black crescent crept.--5. _Whirr_ of bullets.--6. Reeled but an instant.--7. Met their _doom like men_.--...

King John, very well knowing that Hubert would never do it, but that he evasively sent this reply to save the prince or gain time, despatched messengers to convey the young pris...

Midas paused and meditated. He felt sure that this stranger, with such a golden lustre in his good-humored smile, had come hither with both the power and the purpose of gratifyi...

It is very fond of sliding down hill. On the slopes by ponds and rivers, it enjoys itself in a very odd fashion. It lies with its fore-feet bent backward, and pushes itself forw...

Entered according to Act of the Parliament of Canada in the Office of the Minister of Agriculture by the Minister of Education for Ontario, in the year of our Lord one thousand...