write--let'ter--pens--goose quill--spilled.
Mamma, Agnes, and baby went to visit grandpa.
"I will write you a letter," Agnes answered.
You shall see that I can write a letter."
One day she said, "Grandma, may I take a pen?
"Yes," said grandma, "there are pens on the desk."
In old times everybody used to write with quill pens."
In a little while she went back to the desk.
"O baby, baby! what did you do that for?"
We are having a very good time. Grandpa has a big bay horse. Sometimes he puts me on the horse's back. It is such fun! I play in the field a great deal. Grandpa lets me walk on the haycocks. I pick berries for grandma. They give us cheese with our coffee. I wish you were here with us. Baby has written you a letter. She took grandma's quill pen, and she spilled the ink. Can you read her letter? She says she wrote "How are you, papa? I love you a great deal."
Una niña pobre fué a la escuela con Consuelo.
Su madre no le podía comprar otro vestido.
Consuelo se había puesto un nuevo delantal blanco.
Hubiera querido tener un delantal como aquél.
Cuando Consuelo volvió a casa, se fué adonde estaba su mamá.
Y le dijo: Mamá, ¿puedo dar mi delantal a Juana?
Su mamá dijo: Sí, puedes dárselo, si quieres.
Consuelo dijo a Juana que fuera a su casa con ella.
Nunca me he puesto un delantal tan bonito.
Juana se puso el delantal para ir a la escuela.
--No me parecía tan bonito cuando yo lo usaba,--se dijo.
A poor girl went to school with Consuelo.
Her mother could not buy her another dress.
When Consuelo got home, she went where mamma was.
And she said to her, "Mamma, may I give Jane my apron?
Her mamma said, "Yes, you may if you want to."
Consuelo told Jane to come home with her.
"Thank you very much, Consuelo," said she.
"It did not look so pretty to me when I wore it," she said to herself.
"Now I can look at it as much as I want to."
She was never sorry she had given it to Jane.
--Tú tienes pulmones, niña. Tú respiras con tus pulmones. Nosotros respiramos con nuestras agallas.
Las agallas están en ambos lados de nuestra cabeza.
Me gustaría que pudieses vivir en el agua.
Me gusta mirar las cimas de las montañas y el cielo.
The gills are on both sides of our heads.
When they take us out of the water we die.