1836 First Eclectic Reader: Lesson XIX. - The Lame Dog.

Ask the children if they have seen or taken car of a lame animal. Have them write a paragraph about what they have seen or done. Make a family of words that rhyme with ground and found, and another family of words for town.

The Lame Dog.

One day a man went to take a walk in town. On his way home, he saw a little dog which had hurt his leg. The poor dog was so lame he could not lift his foot off the ground without great pain. When this kind man saw there was no one to take pity on the poor dog, he took him in his arms, and brought him home and bound up his leg. Then he fed him and made a warm place, and kept him in his house for two days. He then sent the dog out of his house, to his old home. Since it was not his own dog, he had no right to keep him, but each day the dog came back for this kind man to dress his leg. This he did till he was quite well. In a few weeks, the dog came back once more, and with him came a dog that was lame. The dog that had been lame and was now well, first gave the man a look, and then he gave the lame dog a look, as much as to say: " You made my lame leg well, and now pray do the same for this poor dog that has come with me."

Vocabulary

day poor there town could same right pain and quite kind take
great found saw off house gone been went lame has home foot
good dog feet man for arms once his then little ground kept