The Alberta Public School Speller. Anonymous

"Daily News" praised Daisy's courage. In the dairy we make butter mainly. Hail the sailboat. See the arched rainbow toward the south. The railroad fences are wired. Explain why mustard seed is ground. I've a pailful of bait and two custard pies. The tired oxen were nearly mired. The surface of a leaf contains small pores for breathing. In the stalk are tough fibres or threads.

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      palm

       balm

       calm

      gnat

       gnaw

       bathe

      capsize

       allowed

       drowned

      canoe

       beaver

       healing

      borne

       divide

       purpose

      Add—ing to oil, bowl, seal, suit, cloud, aim, cook, boat; as, oil, oiling. Notice the two vowels before the last consonant.

      Healing balm will cure the sores in the palm of your hand. We'll bathe in the calm lake. My boat floats. Are we allowed to paddle canoes? We might capsize and be drowned. The air is full of gnats and flies. Beavers gnaw down trees and build storehouses. Trees have boughs with leaves borne on the twigs. Hidden in the earth are the roots, which divide into rootlets. Their main purpose is to obtain food from the soil.

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      icy

       icing

       icicle

      argue

       value

       avenue

      eaves

       except

       through

      alarms

       annual

       beneath

      reckon

       timber

       lumber

      To set, skim, spot, hum, sip, snap, plug, add—ing; as, setting. To pat, dip, spin, blot, chop, skip, drum, add—er; as, patter.

      Coasting down icy hills alarms me. Icicles hang from the eaves. Spread icing over the cake. Oak is of great value. We wheel on the avenue. We argued for and against it. Trunks of trees never grow higher except through cutting off some lower boughs. New growth is added just beneath the inner bark. Woodcutters observe these annual rings and reckon the tree's age. Timber and lumber are scarce and dear.

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      saddle

       peddle

       meddle

      reels

       beetle

       steeple

      syrup

       maple

       purple

      spruce

       balsam

       walnut

      molasses

       Tuesday

       Wednesday

      Add—ed—ing to camp, dress, scald, lunch, track, clinch, thank, plough; as, camped, camping. Tues., Tuesday; Wed., Wednesday.

      Don't meddle with pony's saddle and bridle. Peddle ice. The beetle has curious wings. He prizes the flowers. The church steeple is ninety feet high. The maple, beech, birch, alder, poplar, and walnut lose their purple leaves every autumn. The pine, spruce, fir, cedar, and balsam remain green. The sap of the sugar maple, when boiled, yields syrup or molasses. Tuesday and Wednesday, the third and fourth of February.

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      knit

       knot

       knob

      knack

       knock

       knuckle

      tempt

       prompt

       glimpse

      whittle

       prattle

       bubbles

      coarse

       hoarse

       uproar

      Add—ed and—ing to groan, cheer, fear, aim, spoil, thread, seat, pout, fool; as, groaned, groaning.

      The knave has the knack of knitting quickly. The old knight kneels. Cut the knot with a knife. He knocked the door knob with his knuckle. Be prompt to do your duty. Tempt no one. We caught a glimpse of a vessel afloat. The captain had coarse clothes and a hoarse voice. Indians whittle. Hear the uproar. Babies prattle. We blew soap bubbles on Wednesday.

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      knit

       calm

       bathe

       gnaw

      tempt

       borne

       fibres

       pores

      argue

       syrup

       divide

       walnut

      purple

       icicle

       balsam

       peddle

      hoarse

       knuckle

       glimpse

       Tuesday

      I knit mitts. A walnut tree. Calm music quiets us. He argues in a hoarse voice. We purpose using boughs of spruce and balsam for fires. The dog gnaws the bone. He ate fibres of lean beef. Peddle maple syrup. A purple ribbon tempts me to buy. We had a glimpse through a glass of the pores of the skin. The long icicle was borne away. The boys skinned their knuckles wiring stove pipes. Bathe my sore heel.

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