13. If you have a dictionary, and do not know how to find out the words
in it, ask your teacher to show you; and when he has showed you how to
use it, be sure never to pass over a single word without knowing what it
means.
LESSON VII.
_How to find out the Meaning of Words._--ORIGINAL.
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1. Many years ago, when I lived in a small town, near the Merrimac
river, a little Spanish girl came to board in the same house.
2. She could speak very well in her own language; but the people in her
country speak a language very different from ours: and when she first
began to speak, she heard nothing but Spanish words; and she learned no
other.
3. She could not speak a word of English, and did not understand a word
that was spoken to her by any of the family.
4. Her parents were very rich, but they placed her in the family, that
she might learn to speak English.
5. She had no dictionary to turn to, to look out the meaning of words;
and if she was hungry, she could not ask for bread, and if she was
thirsty, she could not ask for water, nor milk, nor tea, for she did not
know the meaning of either of the words, _water_, _tea_, nor _milk_.
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