Excerpt from Second Book of Reading Lessons: For the Use of Schools in the British-American ProvincesIN the First Book of this series, the pupil has been carried through the range of the various words of one syllable. In this, the Second Book, the pupil is carried on from words of one syllable to those of two and three syllables; and the same principle has been adopted, namely, the combination of interest and improvement.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.