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"Third Reader," called Graybeard, and some ten or twelve boys and girls marched to the place of recitation, and put their toes on a straight crack in the floor. The reading lesson was some verses on "Summer," prettily illustrated with a picture of a boy and a dog, the lad racing over a meadow, and the dog frisking at his side.
"Now, Robert, begin! " said Graybeard to little Bob, who in some unaccountable way had reached the head of the class.