 | Willis Lemon Uhl - 1921 - 162 pàgines
...difficulty, namely, the sentence structure. The second sentence of the fifth-grade version reads as follows: "I went directly to a shop where they sold toys for...in the hands of another boy, I voluntarily offered and gave all my money for one." The fourth-grade version divides and otherwise simplifies this sentence.... | |
 | Arthur L. Murray, E. P. Wiles - 1922 - 500 pàgines
...Autobiography. B. USELESS BUYING is EXTRAVAGANCE When I was a child, seven years old, my friends on a holiday filled my pockets with coppers. I went directly to...in the hands of another boy, I voluntarily offered and gave all my money for one. I then came home, and went whistling all over the house, much pleased... | |
 | Mary Fontaine Laidley - 1922 - 410 pàgines
...daily. AN EXPERIENCE OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN'S When I was a boy seven years old, my friends, on a holiday, filled my pockets with coppers. I went directly to...in the hands of another boy, I voluntarily offered and gave all my money for one. I then came home and went whistling all over the house, much pleased... | |
 | Carolyn Wells - 1923 - 804 pàgines
...letter is here given. "When I was a child of seven years old, my friends on a holiday filled my pocket with coppers. I went directly to a shop where they...in the hands of another boy, I voluntarily offered and gave all my money for one. I then came home, and went whistling all over the house, much pleased... | |
 | Alice B. Macdonald - 1923 - 248 pàgines
...my handkerchief to wipe my nose I found that it smelt exactly as if it had wrapped up a lobster. 8. I went directly to a shop where they sold toys for children. 9. A certain Greek was so ashamed of bowing low before the king that he purposely dropped a ring and... | |
 | Howard Copeland Hill, Rollo La Verne Lyman - 1924 - 560 pàgines
...WHISTLE BENJAMIN FRANKLIN When I was a child seven years old, my friends on a holiday filled my pocket with coppers. I went directly to a shop where they...in the hands of another boy, I voluntarily offered and gave all my money for one. I then ran home and went whistling all over the house, much pleased... | |
 | Willis Lemon Uhl - 1924 - 404 pàgines
...namely, the sentence structure. The second sentence of the fifth-grade version reads as follows : " I went directly to a shop where they sold toys for...in the hands of another boy, I voluntarily offered and gave all my money for one." The fourth-grade version divides and otherwise simplifies this sentence.... | |
 | Calvin Noyes Kendall - 1921 - 344 pàgines
...oppressed by the burden; "you shall see that I can carry it quite home." And so he did. The Whistle directly to a shop where they sold toys for children,...in the hands of another boy, I voluntarily offered and gave all my money for one. I then came home, and went whistling all over the house, much pleased... | |
 | Rollo La Verne Lyman, Howard Copeland Hill - 1925 - 736 pàgines
...shop where toys for children* were sold, and, being charmed with the sound of a whistle that I heard by the way in the hands of another boy, I voluntarily offered and gave all my money for one. I then ran home and went whistling all over the house, much pleased... | |
 | William Gardiner - 1927 - 328 pàgines
...-"(Benjamin Franklin.) When I was a child of seven years old, my friends on a holiday filled my pocket with coppers. I went directly to a shop where they...in the hands of another boy, I voluntarily offered and gave all my money for one. I then came home, and went whistling all over the house, much pleased... | |
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I voluntarily offered and gave all my money for one. I then came home and went whistling all over the house, much pleased with my whistle, but disturbing all the family. My brothers and sisters and cousins, understanding the bargain I had made, told me... 
