Chapter III

When the first warm days of spring came, she made her garden.

She could hardly wait for the dry, brown seeds to grow into the flowers she loved so well.

Sometimes she made boats out of the pieces of wood on the shore.

Then she cut sailor boys out of sea wood, and put them in the boats. With merry shouts she sent them out on the great sea.

Often she sailed shell boats in the pools of water which she found in the rocks.

These pools were filled with wonderful sea plants and animals. She called them the gardens of the sea.

Celia Thaxter was the name of the little maid of the lighthouse.

When she grew to be a woman she went to live on the mainland. But the sea was always singing in her ears like a hollow shell.

She wanted others to know how beautiful it was, so she wrote many poems about the sea.

GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD MORNING.

A fair little girl sat under a tree
Sewing as long as her eyes could see;
Then she smoothed her work and folded it right,
And said, “Dear work, good night! Good night!”

Such a number of rooks came over her head,
Crying “Caw! Caw!” on their way to bed;
She said as she watched their curious flight,
“Little black things, good night! Good night!”

The horses neighed and the oxen lowed,
The sheep’s “Bleat! Bleat!” came over the road;
All seeming to say, with a quiet delight,
“Good little girl, good night! Good night!”

She did not say to the sun, “Good night!”
Though she saw him there like a ball of light;
For she knew he had God’s time to keep
All over the world, and never could sleep.

The tall pink fox-glove bowed his head,
The violet curtsied and went to bed;
And good little Lucy tied up her hair,
And said on her knees her favorite prayer.

And while on her pillow she softly lay,
She knew nothing more till again it was day;
And all things said to the beautiful sun,
“Good morning! Good morning! Our work is begun.”

LORD HOUGHTON.

WORD LIST

The following is a list of the words used in the Second Reader, omitting those previously used in the Primer and First Reader. They are grouped by pages, in the order in which they first occur.

ix seasons

x goldenrod
orchards
fruit
bending
tokens
September
beauty
cheer

11 Indian
ago
tent
skins
bark
wigwam
wore
deer
beads
swam
hunt
arrows
food
tied
branch

12 feathers
hair
painted
face
fierce
cried
else
wanted
brave

13 people
Pilgrims
ground
place
pile
found
belonged
paid
taken
taught
useful

14 Hiawatha
chief
dressed
Mondamin
wrestle

15 grew
win
lie
stood
tall
showed
gift
always

16 Arabella
Ruth
Peter
many
rag
queer
squash

17 ready
Patty Corncob
pink
almost
Betty Clothes-pin
drew
hat
Dinah
silk
smiled
seemed

18 caterpillar
fuzzy
crawling
though
we’ve
tight
snug
cocoon
spun
slept
stirring
spy
spreading
gorgeous
free
creature
flutters
gaily

19 Rumpel-Stilts-Kin
wicked
daughter
spin
straw
filled
die
locked
brownie
chain
lo
behold
reel

21 ring
queen

22 nothing
held
unhappy
land

23 dancing
bonfire
brew
to-morrow
nobody
Tom
Robert
told

24 October
orange
hosts
princes
they’ll
ghosts
leathery
pears
russet
late
’twill

25 canoe
Birch-tree
cloak
waved
Cedar
bent
frame
Larch-tree
sadly
pulled

26 Fir-tree
balm
sailing
rushing
stately
valley
float
water-lily

27 Lady Gray
hid
each
porch
kept
became
gentle
pockets
shoulder

28 fur

29 elves
shoemaker
pair
standing
sold
bought
four
done
evening

30 wife
rapped
quickly
rich
Christmas eve
across

31 Hallowe’en
Ben
Polly
Martha
pumpkins
Jack-o’-lantern
chose
stem-end
nose
mouth
candle
much
threw
hurrah

33 toast
pop
roast
march
rug
joined

34 Cinderella
coach
poem
learned
moments
stories
clack
kernels
whirl
skip
fellow
leap
snap
crack
tossing
pour
swift
fit

35 Philemon
Baucis

36 ever
traveler
door-step
shouting
meet
welcome
strangers

39 grant
knees
linden

40 November
ah
Thanksgiving Day
guest
moistens
lip
past
pie

41 first
harvest
blessing
Governor
feast

42 plenty
gathered
wild
plums
grapes
ashes
breakfast
whole
games
God
goodness
since

44 kitchen
burning
strings
dried
above
taking
care
pudding
rows
loud

45 uncle
sleigh
aunt
drove

46 drifted
stings
toes
bites

47 first-rate
bells
ting-a-ling-ding
trot
dapple-gray
hound
straight
yard
gate
extremely
slow

48 Whittier
bare
feet
swimming
merry
whistle
strawberries
feed
knew

49 another
Snow-Bound
pole

50 cave
rooster
closed
roared

51 cloth
Rachel
carded
fine
smooth
fastened
spindle
Zum
sounded
thread
fleecy
hum
twist
twirl

53 questions
answer
buttons
color
Joe
chestnut
dye
dipped
guessed
loom
treadle
shuttle
woven

54 snip
scissors
stitch
Jack Frost
I’m

55 forth
holly
box
bay
deck
cottage
December

56 carol
angels
heaven
souls

58 Santa Claus
grain
wonderful
happens
bunch
twittering

59 Piccola
Fred
because
church

60 stocking
toys
awoke

61 candy

62 dearly
also
servant
darkness
same

64 fallen
sorry
close
ribbon

65 leads
sight
they’re
dawn
sink

67 Raphael
master
artist
clay
vases
buy
Luca
duke
wants
neck

68 seven
try
harm
draw

69 tears
joy
kneeling

70 January
rosy
cozy

71 stove
Karl
pictures

72 deal
thought
floor
wagon
climbed
inside
quite
listened

74 thankful

75 flock
world
wilderness
downy
plumed
feathery
flakes
below
poppy
cunning
beneath
touch
fair
grown
wrought
fence
array
folded
pinions

76 tones
rang
sped
Nannie
alive
hush
frighten
whisper
delight
crept
wondrous
joyfully
clasped
cheeks

77 midnight
Naka
nearly
hands
short
noon
dim

79 rocks
reindeer
northern

80 Michael Angelo
Grand Duke
statues
faun
stopped

81 spent
among
become

82 February
valentine
least
don’t
really

83 own
write
shaped

84 between
Abraham Lincoln
George Washington
spoiled
either
pay
Abe

85 unkind
speech
clapping
turtle
shell
coward
gently
muddy
wise
President

87 flag
Philadelphia
Betsy Ross
husband
money
General
soldiers
war
England
planned
thirteen
stripes
later

88 Longfellow
poet
blacksmith
shop
sparks
anvil
wrote
village
felt
pennies
writing

89 road
heart
Robert Louis Stevenson
verses
island
forest
foxes
bats
miles
town
led
packhorses
banks
bathe
lemons
bananas

90 bathing
knife
women
wear
Tusitala
means
writer
prison

91 speckled
sailor
ropes
Japan
Spain
organ

92 March
blusters
glows
summon
rose

93 Freddy
scamper
begin
heat
Katy
peaches
redden
Arty
shivering
lane
Bessie
low

94 Ulysses
traveling
toward
Æolus
sails
quiet

95 safely
tossed
waves
afterward

97 happiest
third
boxes
store-room
early
rice
tea
undressed

98 fifth
top

99 raise
hollow
carp
waterfalls
America
eagle

100 Benjamin Franklin

101 lightning
pointed
wire
key
rainy
brought
strange
street-cars
electricity

102 prettier
bridges

103 shone
diamonds
sparkling
happened

104 heavy
formed

105 April
Rollicking Robin
doesn’t
coaxes
shadow
Easter
vest

106 princess
fairies
twelve
dishes
angry

107 fifteen
prick
finger
spinning
tower

108 hedge
thorns
rode

110 secret
Pussy Willow
purred
stroked
velvet
hummed
blossoms
scarlet
brimming
chattered
fro
clear

111 course
surprise
coop

112 combs
Ki-ki-ri-ki

115 rabbit
laid

116 merrily
cherries
drive
worms

117 music
cages

118 May
pray
arise
crocus
mantles
purple
daffodils

119 squire
Saxon
cowslips
forgot

120 can’t

122 crown
wand
crowd

123 left
wound
sandwiches

124 gown
frown
you’ll

125 Proserpina
Mother Ceres
chariot
dragons
sea-maids

126 noise
King Pluto

127 pearls
rubies

128 sobbed

129 torch
month
bloom
hungry
begun

130 swallowed
spend

131 Nathaniel Hawthorne
lake

132 coasting
weeds
giants
Tanglewood Tales

133 June
lilies
swells

134 Thumbling
pot
tulip
inch

135 ugly

136 bug
claws

137 legs
daisy
dew

138 beggar
clean

139 dead

141 Maia

143 Midsummer
Titania
Oberon
Puck
sorts
tricks
acorn

144 teeter
weest
won’t
sprightly
broadest
blade
balanced
stone

145 Nixie
Nils
born
Sunday
true
perhaps
famous
violin

146 schoolmaster
lessons

147 although

149 July
’tis
spangled
banner

150 liberty
thee
pride
mountain
freedom
native
noble
rills
templed
rapture
thrills

151 breeze
mortal
tongues
breathe
partake
silence
prolong
author
holy
protect
might

152 Fourth of July
written
number
signing

153 Independence Hall

155 perch
camp
beak
front

156 army
drill
captain
battles

157 calico
cotton
burst
wasn’t
stretched

159 woolly
machine
loaded

160 printing
roller

161 August
wet
luminous
jellyfish

162 shut
promised

164 storm
saved

166 cricket
festival
forward
lute

167 sung

168 King Solomon
believe

169 lonely
morning-glories

171 dashed

172 pools
Celia Thaxter
mainland

173 rooks
curious
flight
neighed
lowed
bleat

174 glove
curtsied
favorite
prayer
pillow