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Title
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The School Reader: Third Book
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Sanders Series
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Description
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This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
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Charles W. Sanders
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Creator
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Sanders, Charles W.
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Date
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2016-01-25T20:10:24Z
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2011-07
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1844
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T20:10:24Z
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Date Issued
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1844
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Abstract
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There are a number of acknowledged fables among the hundred-and-one Lessons here. The first is The Groom and the Horse (41), which is new to me and seems to say that he who seems to promise food without offering it is a deceiver. Other fables include The Squirrel and the Weasel (55, illustrated); The Peacock and the Oyster (67); GA (86); The Maiden and the Tulip Bulb (123); The King and the Hawk (128, illustrated); Nature and Education (157); The Ant and Caterpillar (167); The Honey-Guide and the Bear (217); and The Silk-Worm's Will (229). Nature and Education may be all too typical of these fables. I believe that such personifications do not engage a reader. Better are The Ant and Caterpillar and The Honey-Guide and the Bear; they build nicely off of natural phenomena. The King and the Hawk is frequently in the standard western corpus of fables: the hawk dashes a cup from the king's hand because he knows it contains poison. All in all, this is a good sample reader from the first half of the nineteenth century. The half-page illustrations are infrequent and occur among fables with only the two named above. Both the book's covers are loose. The book's overall condition is fair to poor.
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Identifier
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7538 (Access ID)
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Language
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eng
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Publisher
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William H. Moore & Co.
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Cincinnati
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Subject
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PE1117.S26 1844
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Reader
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Title Page Scanned
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Type
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Book, Whole