1836 First Eclectic Reader: Lesson XXIX. - The Story Teller

Dictionary look up: civil. Could this story be true? In what counties could it have happened? What kind of dog might it be? Have you taught your dog to do something? What is a story teller?

The Story Teller.

Peter Parley was a great story teller. This is known to all children who have read his books. One day as he was going by the school, the children came around him, and they all wished him to tell them a new story. "Well," says Peter, "I love to please good children, and as you all appear kind and civil, I will tell you a story which you have never heard. Before we begin, let us go and sit down in a cool shady place. And now, master John, you must be still as a little mouse. And Mary, you must be careful not to let Towser bark and make a noise." "A long way from this place, in a land where it is very cold, and where much snow fall, and where the hills are so high that their tops appear to reach the sky, there live some men whose joy it is to help folks who pass by these hills. These men keep large dogs, which they teach to go out and hunt for persons who may be lost in the snow drifts. The dogs have so fine a scent or smell, that they can find folks by means of it. Even when it is too dark to see, or when the folks for whom they are searching, lie hidden in the deep snow drifts, they find them"

Vocabulary

whose,
begin, scent,
much, high, deep,
great, drift, Parley, please,
hid, Towser, appear, story, Mary,
down, books, master, these, going, wished,
teller, persons, never, have, children, careful, read,

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