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Title: Reading and Literature First Reader
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Treadwell, Garuuette Taylor and Margaret Free
Subjects: reading
Publisher: Chicago: Row, Peterson & Company
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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her hand.The fisherman looked at her and said,You are queen now.We can wish for nothing more.I must have more power, said she.What shall it be? 104 The next morning she said,What shall I wish for? The sun was just coming up.She looked out of the window and said,I know what I want.The sun must obey me, and the moon must obey me.They must rise and setwhen I wish it. So she went to the fisherman and said,The sun and moon must obey me!Go quickly and tell the fish. I can not ask that, said he.The fish is angry, and the sea is wild.Go, she cried, I am queen, and you must obey. 105 So he went back to the shore. There was a great storm.The sky was black.The lightning flashed, and the thunder roared.The wind blew, and the waves beat high. The fisherman was frightened. But he stood by the sea and shouted, 0 prince of the sea!Come listen to me,For my wife IsabelHas a wish to tell. What does she want now?shouted the fish. She wants to rule the sun and moon.She wants to tell them when to rise. 106
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Go home now,said the fish. You will find your wife in her hut. The fisherman went home, and there sathis wife in the little hut. And there they live to this very day. — German Folk Tale.107 The Lad and the North Wind Once there was a poor woman. She had one son. One day he went to the safe for meal. Along came the North Wind, puffing and blowing.He caught up the meal, and away he went. The lad went to the safe for more mealThe North Wind came again.He carried the meal off with a puff.And he carried the meal off a third time. Then the lad became angry. I will go to the North Wind, he said. I will ask him for my meal. So off he went. 108 He walked and walked. At last he came to the North Winds house, Good-day, North Wind/said the lad. Good-day, said the North Wind.Thank you for coming to see me.What do you want? You took our meal yesterday.Will you give it to me ? said the lad.We shall starve without our meal. I have no meal, said the North Wind.But I will give you this cloth.You have

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