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McGuffey's Third Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey
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his leave.
3. "I tell the people the time to rise, to go to dinner, and to
come to church.


74 ECLECTIC SERIES.
4. "Hark! I am going to strike now; one, two, three, four.
There it is for you. How silly you look! You can say
nothing."
5. The sun, at that moment, broke forth from behind a
cloud, and showed, by the sundial, that the clock was half an
hour behind the right time.
6. The boasting clock now held his tongue, and the dial
only smiled at his folly.
7. MORAL.--Humble modesty is more often right than a
proud and boasting spirit.

LESSON XXIX.


REMEMBER.
1. Remember, child, remember,
That God is in the sky;
That He looks down on all we do,
With an ever-wakeful eye.

2. Remember, oh remember,
That, all the day and night,
He sees our thoughts and actions
With an ever-watchful sight.
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