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He gulped down his coffee, loaded his pipe, and went below to relieve Scraggs, for although experience in acting as McGuffey's relief had given Captain Scraggs what might be termed a working knowledge of the Maggie's engine, McGuffey was never happy with Scraggs in charge, even for five minutes.
Smith paid five hundred dollars for it, in three notes payable in three, twelve, and eighteen months after the delivery of the manuscript. The book was issued in 1844 as McGuffey's Rhetorical Guide. Its material, revised by its author, later became, in modified form, the Fifth Reader in the five-book series, and again much of the same material was used in the Sixth Reader published first in 1855.
Now you have 'healed my lame leg, as the dog said in McGuffey's Third, what can I do for THIS poor dog?" "Nothing," said Kate. "I've got to hold still, and take it. Life will do the doing. I don't want to croak, but remember my word, it will do plenty." "We'll come often," he said as he turned to go back. Kate slowly walked up the path, dreading to meet Adam.
Sally leaned back all pinksome and blushful, and while she laughed at him she "Carelessly tossed off a curl That played on her delicate brow." exactly like Mary Dow in McGuffey's Third. "Well, what did I SAY?" she asked. "Come to think of it, you didn't say anything." Sally's face was all afire with dancing lights, and she laughed the gayest little laugh.
One of the most eminent political leaders of the present day attributes his power in the use of English largely to the study of McGuffey's Sixth Reader in the common schools of Ohio. At a dinner lately given in New York to Marquis Ito of Japan, the marquis responded to the toast of his health returning thanks in English. He then continued his remarks in Japanese for some eight minutes.
It was about a tree exactly like this that an Englishman wrote a beautiful poem in McGuffey's Sixth, that begins: "A song to the oak, the brave old oak, Who hath ruled in the greenwood long; Here's health and renown to his broad green crown, And his fifty arms so strong." I knew it was the same, because I counted the arms time and again, and there were exactly fifty.
There are probably as many men in prison, sent there by Reading, as by Rum. "Oh, not good Reading!" says the publisher. "Not good Rum, either," says the publican. Fight it out. Still, merely as a matter of taste, I will defend the quality of McGuffey's School Readers against all comers.
But I'm hungry for a smell o' Channel creek at low tide. I tell you, Gib, rovin' and wild adventure's all right, but the old green-pea trade wasn't so durned bad, after all." "You bet!" McGuffey's response was very fervid. "Them was the happy days," supplemented the commodore. He was as joyous as a schoolboy.
The first four editions of McGuffey's Readers were printed from the actual type, as all books were once printed; but before 1840 the readers were produced from stereotyped plates. The use of such plates enabled the publisher to secure greater accuracy in the work and also enabled him to present books that in successive editions should be exactly the same in substance as those already in use.
That'll scare 'em so they'll leave us alone and we can help ourselves to the coral." Scraggs's cold blue eyes glistened. "Lord, Gib," he murmured, "you've got a head." "Like playin' post-office," was McGuffey's comment. The commodore smiled. "I thought you boys would see it that way. Now to-morrow I'm going ashore to buy three divin' outfits and lay in a big stock of provisions for the voyage.
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