_The Hare and many Friends_, " 125 36. Maxims, _Selected_ 128 37. How to be Happy, _Child at Home_ 129 38. Obedience and Disobedience, _Child's Companion_ 133 39. Obstinacy, _Lessons without Books_ 139 40. King Edward and his Bible, _L.H. Sigourney_ 144 41. What does it Mean to be Tempted? _Rose-bud_ 147 42. Same subject, continued, " 151 43. " " " " 154 44. " " concluded, " 157 45. _Mary Dow_, _H.F. Gould_ 163 46. _It Snows_, " 165 47. _The Dissatisfied Angler Boy_, " 166 48. _The Violet: a Fable_, _Children's Magazine_ 168 49. Captain John Smith, _Juvenile Miscellany_ 170 50. Same subject, continued, " 173 51 " " " " 176 52. " " concluded, " 179 53. John Ledyard, " 180 54. Same subject, concluded, " 183 55. Learning to Work, _Original_ 185 56. Same subject, continued, _Abbott_ 187 57. " " concluded, " 189 58. The Comma, _Parker's Rhetorical Reader_ 193 59. The Semicolon, " 199 60. The Colon, " 202 PARKER'S SECOND READER. LESSON I. _The Author's Address to the Pupil._ 1. I present to you, my little friend, a new book, to assist you in learning to read. I do not intend that it shall be a book full of hard words, which you do not understand. 2. I do not think it proper to require children to read what they cannot understand. I shall, therefore, show you how you may understand what is in this book, and how you may be able, with very little assistance from your teacher, to read all the hard words, not only in this book, but also in any book which you may hereafter take up. 3. But first let me repeat to you a saying, which, when I was a little boy, and went to school, my teacher used to repeat to me. He said that any one might lead a horse to the water, but no one could make him drink. The horse must do that himself. He must open his own mouth, and draw in the water, and swallow it, himself.