Excerpt from Cobb's New North American Reader, or Fifth Reading Book: Containing a Great Variety of Interesting, Historical, Moral, and Instructive Reading Lessons in Prose and Poetry, From Highly Esteemed American and English Writers These Readers have met with such neral favor, and extensive patron age, that the huthor, ' hoping to make t em still more acceptable, has add cd several pages of new Lessons to the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Readers, which, it is believed, will make these books more valuable. These three books, however. Can be used in the same classes with the books of former editions, the pages and Lessons being the same as ihr as they extend. As the words in the former Spelling Lessons have not been te-stereotyped, a few repetitions will now be found in the three Readers, 3, 4, and 5. He has likewise compiled a Speaker, or Sixth Reader, soon to be published, which contains a large number of pieces for declamation, and a selection of dia lognes for school exercises in reading and speaking. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.