One day his owner, while riding with some friends, wished to show them what a wonderful dog Nero was. So he marked a shilling, showed it to the dog, and put it under a stone by the side of the road. After they had ridden three miles, the master said, "Nero, go and get the shilling," and Nero trotted away. Greatly to the disappointment of every one, he did not return all that day. But Nero was doing his duty as he saw it. When he reached the stone with the shilling under it, he tried to turn it over, but could not; it was too large. So he stood there, barking, until two travelers came by. They, thinking that Nero had some animal under the stone, turned it over. Then, seeing the shilling, one of them put it into his pocket and they rode off. Nero followed them at a distance, for twenty miles, and watching his chance, stole into the room where the man who had the shilling slept, and hid under the bed. In the night, after all were asleep, Nero took the trousers with the shilling, jumped out of the window, and ran home with them. Tell this story in class. What two things have we learned that sentences do? Do you find any sentences in the story that ask questions? Read this sentence, "Nero, go and get the shilling." Does it either make a statement or ask a question? What does it do? What, then, is a third thing that sentences do? 1. Sentences make statements. 2. Sentences ask questions. 3. Sentences command or direct. Search your reader for sentences that command. Write five sentences giving commands or directions. XXVII A PLAYHOUSE Names of Things Here are pictures of a playhouse that some little boys and girls made. The janitor of the school helped them. Conversation: Talk over playhouses. Tell whether you ever made one. Where you made it. What kind of playhouse it was. How you made it. What material you had to make it with. Do boys and girls ever make playhouses of other things besides boxes? What are the different kinds of playhouses that you know about? |