THE ELLIPTICAL PLAN OF TEACHING (part 2)

A gardener's youngest[a] ---- was walking among the
fruit[b] ---- of his father's[c] ----, he saw a little[d]
---- fly up and sit on one of the[e]---- of the trees;
the[f] ---- lifted a stone, and was going to[g]---- it at
the poor[h]---- which seemed to[i]---- most sweetly
thus:

My[k] ---- is[l] ---- of moss and hair,
The[m] ---- are[n]---- and sheltered there;
When[o]---- soon shall my young[p] ---- fly
Far from the[q]---- school[r]---- eye."

The[s]---- eldest[t]---- who understood the[u]----
of birds came up at that moment, and[v]----
out, throw down the[w] ----, you hard-hearted[x] ----
and don't[y] ---- the innocent[z] ---- in the middle of his
song; are you not[aa]---- with his swelling red-breast,
his beautiful sharp eye, and above all with the[bb] ---- of
his notes, and the familiar[cc] ---- he assumes, even in
the[dd] ---- of a[ee]---- like you? Ask your youngest[ff]
---- here if she remembers the[gg]---- which her good[hh]
---- read to her yesterday of a very[ii]---- boy, who
was very[kk]---- to a harmless green[ll] ---- which
he caught[mm] ---- for hunger, among the[nn]---- in the[oo]
---- of winter.

[Footnote a: Son]

[Footnote b: trees]

[Footnote c: garden]
[Footnote d: bird]

[Footnote e: branches]

[Footnote f: boy]

[Footnote g: throw]

[Footnote h: bird]

[Footnote i: sing]

[Footnote k: nest]

[Footnote l: built]

[Footnote m: eggs]

[Footnote n: laid]

[Footnote o: hatched]

[Footnote p: ones]

[Footnote q: roaming]

[Footnote r: boy's]

[Footnote s: gardener's]

[Footnote t: son]

[Footnote u: notes]

[Footnote v: called]

[Footnote w: stone]

[Footnote x: rogue or boy]

[Footnote y: disturb or hurt]

[Footnote z: bird]

[Footnote aa: pleased or delighted]

[Footnote bb: sweetness or melody]

[Footnote cc: air]

[Footnote dd: presence]

[Footnote ee: naughty boy]

[Footnote ff: sister]

[Footnote gg: story]

[Footnote hh: mother, aunt &c.]

[Footnote ii: naughty or good]

[Footnote kk: cruel or kind]

[Footnote ll: finch or linnet]

[Footnote mm: perishing or dying]

[Footnote nn: snow]

[Footnote oo: depth or middle.]