First Lessons in English and Tamil. Assigned to assist Tamil Youth in the Study of the English Language

He saith among the trumpets Ha! ha! and he smeleth the battle afar off the thunder of the catains and the shouting. [...] The drake or male is larger than the duck or female and has a curl of feathers on his rump.13 The head of the drake is of a fine green colour his wings spangled and the other parts of his body are marked with a rich diplay of colour. [...] always ride the horses to the field and bring up the cows and run to the town on errands; and that is as good as play you know. [...] After standing on the fence and peeping through all the rows of corn he went back totake the bag from the child and began to pick the ears of corn. [...] I returned; the verdure was nipt by the east-wind the branches were lopt away by the axe; the worm had made its way into the trunk and the heart thereof was decayed; it mouldered away and fell to the ground.