The Alberta Public School Speller. Anonymous
curve
Arthur
ruin
bruin
bruise
butter
cripple
choking
wound
group
croup
crown
shower
drowsy
In sky, candy, lily, copy, dolly, kitty, change y to i and add—es; as, The sky is blue. The skies are blue.
Arthur is an honest player. He is tired and drowsy. Emma's maid has curly hair. Her eyebrows curve downward. The mail bag. Lilies are fair to see. The maid sighs. Butter will ruin the maid's gown. Bruin has a bruise on his nose and a cruel wound on his body. A group of children watch the wounded bear. A cripple is choking with croup. The sun's warm rays and summer showers will crown the fields with grain.
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earth
heard
pearls
aim
ail
aid
cousin
country
courage
whistle
thistle
bristle
nestle
glisten
cottage
In spy, party, poppy, pussy, change y to i and add—es; as, Is this a spy? Are these spies? Copy—A steel pen.
I heard rain patter. A load of earth. Dew-drops glisten like pearls. Aid cousin Anna. Her wrist is bruised. Aim to please. What ails the children? The country air will cure the croup. Scotch thistles have sharp points. Bristles are stiff hairs. Arthur is able to whistle a tune. Have courage; be brave. The humble cottage nestles beside the stately castle. Listen, I heard my cousin whistle.
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ruin
suit
debt
earns
group
cells
busily
curve
juicy
doubt
easily
drowsy
glisten
heard
bruise
pearls
cousin
owner
courage
thistle
Will the moist air ruin Lucy's suit? Does Thomas owe debts for coal? Groups of drowsy children. These young bees work busily making honey-cells. The pears are juicy. Arthur, no doubt, earns money easily. We heard of cousin John's painful bruise. The thistle blossom is light. Wear your necklace of pearls. The owner of the cottage lives at the curve in the road. Courage! my boys, dare to do right. The dew glistens.
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arrow
hollow
swallow
flown
grown
mown
Stephen
nephew
cotton
crayon
yonder
beyond
staircase
breakfast
beefsteak
In carry, fry, try, cry, dry, copy, change y to i and add—es—ed; I carry wood. He carries wood. He has carried wood.
Like an arrow from a bow the swallow skimmed the grassy hollow. The larks had flown before the mower had mown the field. Stephen, my nephew, has shown us cotton, grown in the fields. See the chalk or crayon marks on yonder cupboard beyond the staircase. I found some cold beefsteak. After breakfast I slept an hour.
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Ruth
Susan
Luke
eaten
squeal
squeak
fully
bitten
middle
believe
cabbage
suitable
cases
cocoon
wander
In sheaf, shelf, half, wolf, calf, loaf, thief, change f to v and add—es; as, One leaf, Two leaves. Copy—Weigh the bee-bread.
Ruth cleans the beans. Luke eats prunes. Mice squeak; pigs squeal. Look at Susan's cabbage plants! A number of leaves have been eaten off. Others have pieces bitten out. I believe this worm lying along the middle of the leaf has done it. Others are climbing the stalk, just the color of the cabbage. These worms, when fully grown, will wander away. In some suitable place they will cover themselves with little cocoons.
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silken
girdle
almost
dreary
weaving
creature
higher
flight
unlike
potted
flitting
sipping
basking
sunshine
spinning
In beauty, pity, mercy, fancy, change y to i and add—ful. In lazy, greedy, happy, pretty, change y to i and add—ness.
All the long, dreary winter the green worm sleeps in its silken cocoon. This robe or girdle is made from its own spinning and weaving. Later on, a beautiful white butterfly will appear. This lovely creature with black-spotted wings is quite unlike the worm. Soon it will be flitting about among the blossoms. It is almost always sipping nectar and basking in the sunshine. It does not make higher flights.
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Ralph
Joseph
Philip
sleigh
weight
neighbor
couple
double
trouble
parcel
cancel
celery
attic
music
public
In make, shine, have, tumble, store, close, curve, pile, drop e and add—ing; as, Make bread. Are you making bread?
Joseph is taking the trouble to pick us a couple of pecks of nice pears. Double as many, or four pecks, is a whole bushel. Philip weighs parcels of sugar. Cancel my order for raisins. I'm giving full weight. Ralph is busy driving the