The Alberta Public School Speller. Anonymous

      senior

       junior

       period

      figure

       arrive

       pudding

      12 m. means noon; a.m., before mid-day; p.m., after mid-day, as 9 a.m., 4 p.m. Sen., Senior; Jun., Junior.

      I poured sauce over the pudding. Hugh's daughter is as high as my shoulder. We've a coop for poultry. Birds and fowl moult. By the court-house is a huge boulder. Mould two clay figures. A piece of wood smoulders in the furnace. The senior scholars recite in an hour. They arrive at 9 a.m. The juniors leave at 4 p.m. They dismiss us at 12 m. Make a cipher or naught. Cider is made by crushing apples.

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      vein

       skein

       weigh

      Peter

       fever

       lever

      linen

       muslin

       chisel

      metal

       cocoa

       coffee

      Samuel

       tangled

       smother

      Write—er after play, mow, preach, print, paint, bank, mill, fish, sell. Add—en to short, tight, cheap, slack, thick.

      Notice the veins in Peter's wrist. The heavy coat will almost smother baby. Weigh the skein of tangled yarn. Iron is a useful metal. Rev. Daniel Robb will preach on Sunday, 9th inst., at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. Samuel Johnson, Jun., was ill of fever. Dr. Brown uses cocoa and coffee. The chisel and the strong lever are made of steel. I spoilt my muslin dress and linen coat.

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      wreath

       wretch

       wriggle

      wring

       wrestle

       wrinkle

      object

       subject

       earnest

      aged

       ashore

       kindled

      drunken

       wrapped

       blanket

      N. stands for North; S., for South; E., for East; W., for West; N.E., North-East; S.W., South-West; St., Street.

      A wreath of flowers. The drunken wretch had sunken eyes and a wrinkled brow. I wring clothes. Sleigh bells tinkle. Boys wrestle. Eels wriggle. Learn the object of the busy black ants. Study four subjects. Aren't they in earnest? An Indian, his squaw, and his aged mother crossed the river in a canoe. He tenderly lifted ashore the old woman, wrapped in a blanket. Then he kindled a fire and cooked some food for her.

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      blouse

       cinder

       quince

       centre

       answer

      view

       weigh

       metal

       skein

       lever

      wrestle

       junior

       cocoa

       wretch

       cipher

      doctor

       question

       cistern

       smother

       earnest

      Daniel

       wrinkle

       period

       circle

       poultry

      Dr. Jolly is visiting an unhappy wretch. A cinder lodged in his eye. Her blouse is wrinkled. Will you wrestle Daniel? He ciphers with the juniors. Answer my question. Weigh the cocoa, John. The centre of the cistern is a circle. A lever is made of metal. Let us view the poultry. Pare the quinces. A skein of yarn. For a short period we almost smothered.

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      berry

       cherry

       cherries

      suit

       fruit

       juice

      nectar

       number

       bumble

      honey

       perfume

       humming

      beauty

       quarrel

       blossom

      In berry, fly, baby, pony, story, city, change y to i and add—es. Use each word; as, One berry. Two berries.

      Spring! The berry bushes are clothed in green. The fruit-trees, cherry, apple, pear, and peach, have lovely white and pink suits. They are full of perfume and beauty. Hear the humming sound made by numbers of insects. See the honey-bees, bumble-bees, flies, and wasps. They are feeding on nectar, the sweet juice within the blossoms. Do bees often quarrel?

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      busy

       busily

       family

      owe

       tidy

       tiny

      debt

       doubt

       waist

      owner

       sower

       earning

      tongue

       shining

       bottom

      In busy, easy, lazy, happy, pretty, merry, change y to i and add—ly. Use each word; as, The busy bee. John works busily.

      We owe each tidy, busy worker a great debt. A bee tumbles down to the bottom of a flower. Here it reaches with tiny, shining tongue, the clear, sweet nectar. It is busily storing up for its own family, and no doubt earning money for its owner. But it is also doing another and a greater work for us. Without the bee's help we should have few juicy berries, apples, or pears. A sower sows the seed. The pail leaks. A girl's waist.

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      pollen

       yellow

       gather

      drones

       spines

       inside

      cells

       peal

       fleas

      hairy

       pocket

       slender

      rubbed

       setting

       carried

      In easy, lazy, greedy, happy, merry, change y to i and add—er—est; as, An easy chair. An easier chair. The easiest chair.

      In the bee-hive is the comb of six-sided cells, made of wax. Bees gather pollen, the yellow dust on the tiny, slender spines inside the bloom. From this the workers make combs and bee-bread. The queen and the lazy drones have no wax pockets. A bee pushes its head and hairy body into a flower. Pollen clings to it and is carried into another blossom. There it is rubbed off and the setting of fruit is sure. Fleas bite dogs. Bells peal.

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