Chapter 6 of Woodland Tales is here in full — 401 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 6 of Woodland Tales is here in full — 401 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
The animals whisper together and the Coyote comes forward, barks, then says: "Nana-bo-jou, I am the Coyote. The animals say that they will come to council if you will really make peace and play no tricks." "Tricks!" says Nana-bo-jou, "I only want to teach you the new songs from the South." Then all the animals troop in and sit in a circle.
Chapter 6 of Woodland Tales is here in full — 401 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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plural of “animal” — a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
From this reading “The animals whisper together and the Coyote comes forward, barks, then says:”
plural of “bark” — tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants
From this reading “The animals whisper together and the Coyote comes forward, barks, then says:”
a body serving in an administrative capacity
From this reading “The animals say that they will come to council if you will really make peace and play no tricks."”
small wolf native to western North America
From this reading “The animals whisper together and the Coyote comes forward, barks, then says:”
plural of “song” — a short musical composition with words
From this reading “"Tricks!" says Nana-bo-jou, "I only want to teach you the new songs from the South."”
plural of “trick” — a cunning or deceitful action or device
From this reading “The animals say that they will come to council if you will really make peace and play no tricks."”
a group of soldiers
From this reading “Then all the animals troop in and sit in a circle.”
speaking softly without vibration of the vocal cords
From this reading “The animals whisper together and the Coyote comes forward, barks, then says:”
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used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading Then all the animals troop in and sit in a circle.
(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class
From this reading Then all the animals troop in and sit in a circle.
the form of “be” used with “I”
From this reading "Nana-bo-jou, I am the Coyote.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading The animals whisper together and the Coyote comes forward, barks, then says:
plural of “animal” — a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
From this reading The animals whisper together and the Coyote comes forward, barks, then says:
plural of “bark” — tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants
From this reading The animals whisper together and the Coyote comes forward, barks, then says:
ellipse in which the two axes are of equal length; a plane curve generated by one point moving at a constant distance from a fixed point
From this reading Then all the animals troop in and sit in a circle.
move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading The animals say that they will come to council if you will really make peace and play no tricks."
plural of “come” — the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract
From this reading The animals whisper together and the Coyote comes forward, barks, then says:
a body serving in an administrative capacity
From this reading The animals say that they will come to council if you will really make peace and play no tricks."
small wolf native to western North America
From this reading The animals whisper together and the Coyote comes forward, barks, then says:
at or to or toward the front
From this reading The animals whisper together and the Coyote comes forward, barks, then says:
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading "Tricks!" says Nana-bo-jou, "I only want to teach you the new songs from the South."
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading "Nana-bo-jou, I am the Coyote.
on condition that; in the event that
From this reading The animals say that they will come to council if you will really make peace and play no tricks."
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading Then all the animals troop in and sit in a circle.
engage in
From this reading The animals say that they will come to council if you will really make peace and play no tricks."
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "Nana-bo-jou, I am the Coyote.
not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered
From this reading "Tricks!" says Nana-bo-jou, "I only want to teach you the new songs from the South."
not any; not one
From this reading The animals say that they will come to council if you will really make peace and play no tricks."
and nothing more
From this reading "Tricks!" says Nana-bo-jou, "I only want to teach you the new songs from the South."
the state prevailing during the absence of war
From this reading The animals say that they will come to council if you will really make peace and play no tricks."
participate in games or sport
From this reading The animals say that they will come to council if you will really make peace and play no tricks."
in accordance with truth or fact or reality
From this reading The animals say that they will come to council if you will really make peace and play no tricks."
express in words
From this reading The animals say that they will come to council if you will really make peace and play no tricks."
plural of “say” — the chance to speak
From this reading The animals whisper together and the Coyote comes forward, barks, then says:
be seated
From this reading Then all the animals troop in and sit in a circle.
plural of “song” — a short musical composition with words
From this reading "Tricks!" says Nana-bo-jou, "I only want to teach you the new songs from the South."
the region of the United States lying to the south of the Mason-Dixon line
From this reading "Tricks!" says Nana-bo-jou, "I only want to teach you the new songs from the South."
impart skills or knowledge to
From this reading "Tricks!" says Nana-bo-jou, "I only want to teach you the new songs from the South."
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading The animals say that they will come to council if you will really make peace and play no tricks."
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The animals whisper together and the Coyote comes forward, barks, then says:
subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors)
From this reading The animals whisper together and the Coyote comes forward, barks, then says:
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading The animals say that they will come to council if you will really make peace and play no tricks."
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading The animals say that they will come to council if you will really make peace and play no tricks."
in contact with each other or in proximity
From this reading The animals whisper together and the Coyote comes forward, barks, then says:
plural of “trick” — a cunning or deceitful action or device
From this reading The animals say that they will come to council if you will really make peace and play no tricks."
a group of soldiers
From this reading Then all the animals troop in and sit in a circle.
feel or have a desire for; want strongly
From this reading "Tricks!" says Nana-bo-jou, "I only want to teach you the new songs from the South."
speaking softly without vibration of the vocal cords
From this reading The animals whisper together and the Coyote comes forward, barks, then says:
used to talk about the future, or about willingness
From this reading The animals say that they will come to council if you will really make peace and play no tricks."
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading The animals say that they will come to council if you will really make peace and play no tricks."
Chapter 6 of Woodland Tales by Ernest Thompson Seton holds 401 sentences, grouped into 81 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the source edition, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.
Chapter 6 holds 401 sentences of Woodland Tales, unabridged, divided into 81 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 6 of Woodland Tales by Ernest Thompson Seton exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 401 sentences, grouped into 81 sections of at most 5 sentences so that a reader can take the chapter in steady, finishable pieces. The chapter also stores a coverage record mapping every one of its sentences to a part of the work, which is how the edition demonstrates that no line was dropped.
Work through the 81 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 81 sections in this chapter is short enough to read once, hear once, and then re-read with the vocabulary in view. Tapping a word plays it alone and opens its dictionary entry with IPA, part of speech and meaning, so the reader is never forced to guess a pronunciation from spelling. Working section by section keeps a long chapter from becoming an undifferentiated wall of text, which is the usual reason a reader abandons a work of this period.
Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 6 can be played aloud in United States English.
Audio covers the whole chapter: any sentence can be played, and any single word within it can be played on its own. The voice uses United States English. For a work of this period that matters, because spelling is an unreliable guide to pronunciation for vocabulary that has fallen out of daily use, and a learner who guesses wrong tends to keep the error. Hearing the word in its own sentence, and then alone, settles it.
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About 206 minutes of reading across 496 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
How to work through Woodland Tales section by section, using the audio and the tap-to-define vocabulary.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in Woodland Tales, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
