LESSON VI.

bet ween' bu'reau (-ro) stairs nee'dle

a fraid' shad'ow held stir

AFRAID IN THE DARK.

1. "Willie, will you run upstairs, and get my needle book from the
bureau?"

2. But Willie did not stir. "Willie!" said mamma. She thought he had not
heard.

3. "I'm afraid," said Willie.

4. "Afraid of what?"

5. "It's dark up there."

6. "What is the dark?" asked mamma. "See! It is nothing but a shadow."
And she held her hand between the lamp and the workbasket on the table.

[Illustration: Mother, seated in rocking chair, kerosene lamp on table,
boy standing, examining his shadow on the wall.]

7. "Now it is dark in the basket; but as soon as I take my hand away, it
is light."