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The KISS Presentation and Analysis of
McGuffey's Second Eclectic Reader
Revised Edition. N.Y. American Book Company, 1879, 1896, 1920.

Links from the Lesson Column lead to the texts.*
The "#" column indicates the lesson number in the original.
"Page" indicates the beginning page in the original.
# Lesson Page
1. Evening at Home 11 AQ AK IB02
2. Bubbles 13
3. Willie's Letter  14
4. The Little Star 16
5. Two Dogs 17
6. Afraid in the Dark 19
7. Baby Bye 22
8. Puss and her Kittens 24
9. Kittie and Mousie 26
10. At Work 28
11. What a Bird Taught 29
12. Susie Sunbeam 30 AQ AK G2; IB02
13. If I Were a Sunbeam 33
14. Henry, the Bootblack 35
15. Don't Wake the Baby 37
16. A Kind Brother 38
17. My Good-for-nothing 40
18. The Kingbird 41 AQ AK IB02
19. Evening Hymn 43
20. The Quarrel 44
21. The Bee 46 AQ AK IB02
22. The Song of the Bee 49
23. The Torn Doll 51 AQ AK IB02
24. Sheep-shearing 54 AK G6; IG5 L5.7
25. The Clouds 56
26. Patty and the Squirrel 57 AQ AK IB02
27. The Sparrow 59
28. Sam and Harry 61 AQ AK IB02
29. The Little Rill 63
30. The Boat Upset 65
31. Mary's Letter 67
32. The Tiger 68
33. The Fireside 70
34. Birdie's Morning Song 73
35. Willie and Bounce 74
36. Willie and Bounce 76
37. The Kitchen Clock 79
38. The New Scales 81
39. The Bear and the Children 84
40. The Little Harebell 86
41. The Fishhawk 88
42. What the Leaf Said 90
43. The Wind and the Leaves 93
44. Mamma's Present 94
45. Mary's Story 97
46. Ralph Wick 99
47. Coasting down the Hill 102
48. The Fox and the Ducks 104
49. Pretty is that Pretty does 107
50. The Story-teller 109
51. The Story-teller 111
52. The Owl 113
53. The Owl 115
54. Grandfather's Story 117
55. God is Great and Good 119
56. A Good Old Man 120
57. The Greedy Girl 124
58. A Place for Everything 126
59. My Mother 129
60. The Broken Window 131
61. The Broken Window 133
62. Frank and the Hourglass 136
63. March 139
64. Jenny's Call 140
65. Poor Davy 144
66. Alice's Supper 148
67. A Snowstorm 150
68. Bessie 152
69. Bessie 156
70. Cheerfulness 158
71. Lullaby 160

*  Because these are intended as instructinal material for young students, minor changes in punctuation have been made in some of the texts to reflect current practice. 


This border is adapted from the illustration  on the titlepage of the original text.
(The illustrator is not identified.)