Scanned page 213 of Book 2
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A child’s school-exercise sheet in pencil, on lined notebook paper torn at the top. Three numbered sentences printed in block capitals:

  1. I will ride this horse.

  2. Father and Mother have a black cow.

  3. Every night I hear a story.

Below the sentences, the teacher’s grade in red crayon, underlined twice:

S — Good

A vertical spelling-list column further down the strip, ten words in print:

buy

live

store

some

bread

bring

here

long

gone

dinner

AI Notes

A narrow strip torn from a sheet of three-hole notebook paper, showing a child’s school work in pencil. Three sentences are written in printed capitals at the top, followed midway down the strip by the teacher’s grade ‘S Good’ (or ‘Good’ with an ornate flourish ‘S’ — possibly ‘Satisfactory’) written in red crayon and underlined. The lower half of the strip has a vertical column of ten spelling words. The reverse of this sheet (page 214) carries the rest of the lesson and the heading ‘Chris Friday’ — almost certainly Chris (Christopher) McEwan, who would have been roughly six to ten years old in the mid-1950s. Show-through of words from page 214 (went, go, red, bed, stop, etc.) is visible faintly in the right margin.