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if we put feet on it and
a tail and a BILL. The word BIRD begins with a B.
BIRDS come in all colors. This BIRD is BLUE.
George loved to watch BIRDS.

    This is a small b
It could be a bee.
    This bee is busy buzzing around a blossom.
The bee's body has black and yellow stripes.
George kept away from bees.
They might sting, and that would be bad.

    This is a big C
    We will make it into a CRAB—
a big CRAB,
with a shell, and feet, and two CLAWS.
    This is a small c
The small c is like the big C, only smaller,
    so it becomes a small crab. It's cute.
Crabs live in the ocean.
They can swim or run sidewise and backwards.
Crabs can be funny, but they can also pinch you.

    "You now have three
letters, George," the man said,
"A and B and C. With these three letters
you can make a WORD, the first word

    you can read yourself. The word is
    C A B
    c a b
    You know what a cab is. I once took you
for a ride in a cab, remember? And now
let's draw the next letter."

    The big D
could be a DINOSAUR.
    There are no live DINOSAURS TODAY,
they have DIED out.
Those you see in museums are DUMMIES.
George had seen DINOSAURS in a museum once.

    The small d
looks like a dromedary.
    A dromedary is a camel with one hump.
Riding on a dromedary can make you dizzy because
it goes up and down—up and down—up and down.
    desert

    The big E
    is an ELEPHANT.
He is eating his EVENING meal: EGGPLANTS.
George loved ELEPHANTS.

    The small e
    could be the ear of a man,
    or the ear of a monkey.
People's ears and monkeys' ears
look very much alike.

    The big F
    is a FIREMAN FIGHTING a FIRE.
Never FOOL the FIRE DEPARTMENT,
or you go to jail, and that's no FUN.

    The small f
    is a flower.
George's friend was fond of flowers.
George preferred food.

    The big G
    is a GOOSE.
GOOSE starts with a G, like GEORGE

    The small g
    is a goldfish.
He is in a glass bowl and looks gay.

    DAD ED
BAD
bag cage
bed feed
    "Now you know seven letters, George," said the man, "A, B, C, D, E, F, G. With these letters we can already make quite a few words. I have written some of them down: you read them while I get you your lunch."

    "It seems the only word you can read is BAD," said the man when he came back. "I think we had enough for one morning. I'll feed you now and then you take your nap. After your nap we'll go on with our letters."

    The big H
    is a HOUSE.
It stands on a HILL behind a HEDGE.
George's HOME used to be the jungle.
Now he lives in a HOUSE.

    The small h
    is a horse.
He is happy because he has heaps of hay.
George had his own horse—a hobby horse.

    The big I
    is just a long line
going straight down. It does
not look like much. It could be an
ICICLE
    BRRR!

    The small i is a line with a dot on top.
It could be an iguana.
    An iguana is a sort of lizard.
Iguanas don't like ice. They like the warm sunshine.
So does George.

    The big J
is a JAGUAR.
    JAGUARS live in the JUNGLE.
George knew JAGUARS.
He had lived in the JUNGLE once.

    The small j
    is a jack-in-the-box.
George had a jack-in-the-box as a toy.
He just loved to make it jump.

    The big K
    is a big KANGAROO called KATY.
    The small k
    is a small kangaroo.
He is Katy's kid.

    The big L
    is a LION.
He is LUCKY. He is going to have
LEG of LAMB for LUNCH, and he LOVES it.

    The small l
    is a lean lady.
She is strolling along a lake licking a lollipop.
George liked lollipops.

    The big M
    is a MAILMAN.
His name is MISTER MILLER. He brings a letter.
Maybe it's for ME, thinks George.

    The small m
    is a mouse.
He is munching mints.
    "And do you know what else it is?" said the man to George: "M is the thirteenth letter of the A B C. The whole alphabet has only

    26 letters, so thirteen is just half of it. You can make lots of words with these letters. Why don't you try? Here's a pad and pencil."
    George started to think of words, and then he wrote them down. It was fun to make words out of letters.

    "Let me see," said the man. "Ball – Milk – Cake – Ham – Jam