Brooks's Readers: First Year Part 3

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My pretty doll, I like to play with you.

You can not run with the dogs.

You can not sing with the bird.

You can play here with me.

I have a pretty bed for you.

Here it is. Here is your bed.

I like to play with my pretty doll.

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Grace our sister she

The girl with the doll is Grace.

She is our little sister.

She is a good girl.

She likes to play with the doll.

She likes to sing to it.

She sings about the bird in the tree.

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will song

Will you sing to me, Grace?

Will you sing me a pretty song?

The bird will sing to you, sister.

Little bird, pretty bird, Little bird in the tree, Sing a song, little bird, Sing to sister and me.

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this rabbit how

See this pretty rabbit, Grace.

I like this little rabbit.

See how it can jump.

Rabbit, run to me. Jump, rabbit.

Let me see how you can jump.

I like to play with you.

I like to see you hop and jump.

Do you like milk, little rabbit?

Can you drink like my dogs?

Do you have a pretty bed like the doll?

My dogs will not catch you, rabbit.

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Bennie brother many

This is Bennie.

Bennie is my brother.

See the little rabbits with Bennie.

How many rabbits do you see?

See how the rabbits jump and play.

about gray

Here is a song I sing about Bennie.

Our Bennie Boy has a little rabbit, Our Bennie Boy has a little rabbit, Our Bennie Boy has a little rabbit, One little rabbit gray.

One little, two little, three little rabbits, Four little, five little, six little rabbits, Seven little, eight little, nine little rabbits, Ten little rabbits gray.

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Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one.

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look at top spin

Look, look, Grace! Look, sister!

Look at my big top.

See how I can spin it.

Can you spin it, Grace?

I can not spin a top, Bennie.

I like to play with my doll.

Boys like to spin tops.

Girls do not like to spin tops.

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come book give mother tell

Come here, Bennie, my little boy.

Do you see this pretty book?

I will give it to a good little boy.

Will you give it to me, mother?

Am I a good boy?

I like a pretty book.

I will tell sister Grace about it.

Grace will like to look at it.

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picture some of

Come here, Grace, and see this book.

It is a pretty picture book.

Come and look at the pictures with me.