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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Little Frankie at School, by Madeline Leslie
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+Title: Little Frankie at School
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+Author: Madeline Leslie
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+MRS. LESLIE'S BOOKS
+FOR
+LITTLE CHILDREN.
+
+THE LITTLE FRANKIE SERIES.
+
+
+
+
+
+BOOKS WRITTEN OR EDITED
+
+By A. R. BAKER,
+
+AND SOLD BY ALL BOOKSELLERS.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+QUESTION BOOKS on the Topics of Christ's Sermon on the Mount.
+
+ VOL. I. FOR CHILDREN. VOL. II. FOR YOUTH.
+ VOL. III. FOR ADULTS.
+ LECTURES ON THESE TOPICS, _in press_.
+
+
+MRS. LESLIE'S SABBATH SCHOOL BOOKS.
+
+ TIM, THE SCISSORS GRINDER.
+ SEQUEL TO "TIM, THE SCISSORS GRINDER."
+ PRAIRIE FLOWER.
+ THE BOUND BOY.
+ THE BOUND GIRL.
+ VIRGINIA.
+ THE TWO HOMES; OR, EARNING AND SPENDING.
+ THE ORGAN-GRINDER, _in press_.
+
+
+QUESTION BOOKS. The Catechism tested by the Bible.
+
+ VOL. I. FOR CHILDREN. VOL. II. FOR ADULTS.
+
+
+THE DERMOTT FAMILY; or, Stories Illustrating the Catechism.
+
+ VOL. I. DOCTRINES RESPECTING GOD AND MANKIND.
+ " II. DOCTRINES OF GRACE.
+ " III. COMMANDMENTS OF THE FIRST TABLE.
+ " IV. COMMANDMENTS OF THE SECOND TABLE.
+ " V. CONDITIONS OF ETERNAL LIFE.
+
+
+MRS. LESLIE'S HOME LIFE.
+
+ VOL. I. CORA AND THE DOCTOR.
+ " II. COURTESIES OF WEDDED LIFE.
+ " III. THE HOUSEHOLD ANGEL.
+
+
+MRS. LESLIE'S JUVENILE SERIES.
+
+ VOL. I. THE MOTHERLESS CHILDREN.
+ " II. PLAY AND STUDY.
+ " III. HOWARD AND HIS TEACHER.
+ " IV. TRYING TO BE USEFUL.
+ " V. JACK, THE CHIMNEY SWEEPER.
+ " VI. THE YOUNG HOUSEKEEPER.
+ " VII. LITTLE AGNES.
+
+
+THE ROBIN REDBREAST SERIES.
+
+ THE ROBINS' NEST.
+ LITTLE ROBINS IN THE NEST.
+ LITTLE ROBINS LEARNING TO FLY.
+ LITTLE ROBINS IN TROUBLE.
+ LITTLE ROBINS' FRIENDS.
+ LITTLE ROBINS' LOVE ONE TO ANOTHER.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+THE LITTLE FRANKIE SERIES.
+
+ LITTLE FRANKIE AND HIS MOTHER.
+ LITTLE FRANKIE AT HIS PLAYS.
+ LITTLE FRANKIE AND HIS COUSIN.
+ LITTLE FRANKIE AND HIS FATHER.
+ LITTLE FRANKIE ON A JOURNEY.
+ LITTLE FRANKIE AT SCHOOL.
+
+[Illustration: FRANKIE WHEELING THE CRIPPLE.]
+
+
+
+
+
+LITTLE
+
+FRANKIE AT SCHOOL.
+
+BY
+
+MRS. MADELINE LESLIE,
+
+ AUTHOR OF "THE HOME LIFE SERIES;" "MRS. LESLIE'S
+ JUVENILE SERIES," ETC.
+
+[Illustration: divider]
+
+ BOSTON:
+ CROSBY AND AINSWORTH,
+ 117 WASHINGTON STREET.
+
+
+
+
+ Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, by
+ A. R. BAKER,
+ In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of
+ Massachusetts.
+
+
+ ELECTROTYPED AT THE
+ BOSTON STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY.
+
+
+
+
+LITTLE
+
+FRANKIE AT SCHOOL.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER I.
+
+FRANKIE'S NEW TEACHER.
+
+
+WHEN little Frankie Gray was nearly seven years old, a lady came to
+reside in the town where he lived, hoping to collect a small school.
+
+Frankie's mother called upon her, and was so much pleased with her
+frank, cheerful manners, her sunny smile, and her Christian
+conversation, that she promised, with her husband's consent, to send
+Frankie and Nelly to be her pupils.
+
+The young teacher's name was Fanny Grant. Nelly laughed merrily when she
+heard it, and said she should always think of her great doll, Fanny,
+when she saw her.
+
+Papa had for a long time feared it was an injury to his wife to be
+confined so many hours as she thought it necessary to be in order to
+attend to the children's studies, and he was very glad to find a good
+teacher for them.
+
+Miss Grant hired a pleasant room in a house only a short distance from
+Mr. Gray's. Then she commenced furnishing it to suit her own fancy.
+First she fastened white shades to the windows, and then hung the walls
+with bright colored maps, and large pictures of animals and birds. On
+one side there was a nice blackboard, and next it a card containing the
+alphabet in large letters.
+
+When all this was arranged, Miss Grant engaged a carpenter to work for
+her a day in making a gallery of four steps, and in drawing a large
+circle on the floor, which he marked by driving in large brass headed
+nails.
+
+Nelly and her cousin, who had watched these arrangements with great
+interest, were very curious to know their use. The teacher, smiling,
+bade them wait and see.
+
+"Is all ready now?" asked Frankie.
+
+"Not quite," said the teacher. "I must have some small chairs for my
+little scholars; also some more apparatus."
+
+"What is apparatus?" inquired Nelly.
+
+"It is any thing by which we can illustrate or explain our ideas. This
+blackboard, and these cards, are apparatus. You will see, when school
+begins, how I shall explain to you many things by their help. Then I
+have a large globe, a numeral frame, and an orrery."
+
+"I had an orrery once," shouted Frankie. "It was made of wire, with
+potatoes and turnips. Is yours like that?"
+
+"O, no," said the teacher, with a hearty laugh. "The planets are made of
+wood, or plaster, and painted very prettily."
+
+"I shall like to see it," said Frankie.
+
+"So shall I," said Nelly.
+
+The children then took their leave, after bidding the lady good by; but
+presently Frankie returned, all out of breath, to say, "Miss Grant, I
+have a whole box of beautiful great cards. They were my birthday present
+from papa and mamma. You may take them, if you want to, and hang them
+around the room."
+
+"Thank you, my little friend," said the teacher, giving him a kiss. "I
+am going now to my boarding place, and you may walk with me, if you can
+stop until I put on my bonnet."
+
+"I should like that," said Frankie. "I'll run out and tell Nelly to
+wait."
+
+Miss Grant locked the door, and taking a small vase in her hand, joined
+the children who were waiting near the gate.
+
+"What is that flower pot for?" asked Nelly.
+
+"When school begins, I shall beg some flowers from the lady where I
+live," answered the teacher. "I like to have the room look cheerful and
+bright, so that the little scholars will like to be there."
+
+"I wish Monday would come quick," exclaimed the boy. "I want to begin to
+go to school. I mean to carry a great big bouquet, out of my own garden.
+Did you know I had a garden, Miss Grant?"
+
+"No, I did not; but I am very glad to hear it. I love flowers almost as
+well as I do good little boys and girls."
+
+"I should think you would love your mother better than either. I do."
+
+Miss Grant's lip quivered, and tears gushed to her eyes. "I do love my
+mother," she said, softly, "but she is in heaven."
+
+"I'm real sorry," said the sympathizing child, affectionately kissing
+the hand he held. "If you were little, like Nelly and me, mother would
+let you be her daughter, I guess."
+
+When the children reached home, Mrs. Gray was most happy to see what an
+influence the young teacher had already established over them. She
+encouraged their love for her, and appealed to their sympathies by
+saying, "She is an orphan, without father or mother; we must all try to
+make her forget her sorrows by showing her that she has still many warm
+friends."
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER II.
+
+ONE DAY AT SCHOOL.
+
+
+I SUPPOSE you will wish to know how Frankie and Nelly liked their new
+school, and whether they continued to love their teacher.
+
+In answer to these questions, I shall give you an account of a day they
+passed about a week after the school commenced.
+
+It was a lovely morning in June. After breakfast and prayers in the
+family of Mr. Gray, Frankie ran out into the garden to gather a bouquet
+for his teacher. He and Nelly kept her vase well filled with flowers. He
+put the bouquet into a pitcher of water to keep it fresh, and then ran
+to the sink to wash his face and hands very clean; after which he went
+into the nursery for Sally to pin on a clean collar, and to brush his
+hair.
+
+While she was doing this, he called out to his mother, who was in the
+next room, "Mamma, mayn't I learn to part my hair myself? I'm almost
+seven, you know."
+
+"Yes, indeed," she answered. "You may learn as soon as you please. Sally
+will show you how to hold the comb to make the parting straight."
+
+"I wish my hair would lie down," exclaimed the boy, giving the brush a
+quick, impatient jerk. It curls up so close, I can't make it look
+smooth. And he brushed the front lock with all his strength.
+
+"There, now, that looks well enough," said nurse in a comforting tone.
+"You might as well try to keep the wind from blowing as to try to keep
+your hair from curling. It will form little rings, do all you can."
+
+"Now I'm ready!" shouted Frankie, taking his bouquet in his hand.
+
+In the mean time, Nelly had been to her aunt's room, and had her long
+hair combed out smoothly, and then brushed over the curling stick. It
+was quite a tedious operation, and required to be very wet before the
+comb could be passed through it; but Nelly bore it patiently, as her
+aunt always tried to pass the time away agreeably, by giving her some
+easy example in arithmetic, or hearing a line of the multiplication
+table, or telling her a short story. By the time this was done, Sally
+had turned the mattress; and the little girl made up her bed, laying on
+the sheets and counterpane very smoothly, so that not a rumple could be
+seen. Then she hung up such of her clothes as were lying about the room,
+put her shoes into the bag on the inside of the closet door, then
+dressed herself in a clean apron, and was ready, by the time Frankie
+called, to take the flowers Willie had gathered for her, and walk out
+with him to meet their dear teacher.
+
+Sometimes, when they were early, they went as far as the house where she
+boarded, and stood at the gate until she appeared; but generally they
+sat down on the stone wall under the shade of the large maple tree at
+the entrance to their avenue, and watched until she came in sight. Then
+they ran eagerly to give her their morning kiss, and present their
+little offering of flowers.
+
+On this pleasant June morning, they each took a hand as usual, and
+walked on rapidly toward the school, talking merrily as they went.
+
+When they reached the building, they found nearly all the other
+scholars, eighteen in number, waiting the arrival of Miss Grant. They
+went into the school room, took off their hats and bonnets, hung them up
+in the closet, and then went quietly to their seats on the steps, the
+little ones on the lower steps, and the others above them on the higher.
+
+When the church clock struck nine, the teacher rang the small bell,
+when every eye was closed, and every head was bowed for prayer. The
+little voices all joined in repeating the Lord's Prayer, after which
+they sung a verse of the hymn,--
+
+ "There is a happy land,
+ Far, far away,
+ Where saints in glory stand,
+ Bright, bright as day."
+
+After this, they pass down from the gallery, and march along to their
+seats. For the next half hour the school is quite still, while the
+pupils are studying the reading and spelling lessons: when the bell
+strikes again, they march out in order to the front of the chair where
+their teacher sits.
+
+As soon as one class has recited, another is called, until every little
+pupil has read and spelled.
+
+When this has been done, every face begins to brighten, for they know
+what the next exercise is; and they like it very much. The largest girl
+takes her place on the circle, and the others follow her according to
+their size, until they come down to the smallest one, who is a pretty
+blue-eyed little urchin of four summers.
+
+Miss Grant then strikes up a lively tune to the words,--
+
+ "This is the way we wash our face,
+ This is the way we wash our face,
+ This is the way we wash our face,
+ So early in the morning,"--
+
+each little hand is vigorously employed in rubbing the face, as they
+merrily follow each other around the circle. As soon as they finish one
+verse, they stop a moment, to avoid being made dizzy, and then begin
+again:--
+
+ "This is the way we comb our hair,
+ This is the way we comb our hair,
+ This is the way we comb our hair,
+ So early in the morning.
+
+ "This is the way we brush our teeth,
+ This is the way we brush our teeth,
+ This is the way we brush our teeth,
+ So early in the morning.
+
+ "This is the way we clean our nails,
+ This is the way we clean our nails,
+ This is the way we clean our nails,
+ So early in the morning."
+
+After this marching and singing, the children return to their seats to
+prepare a lesson in geography, which they recite standing near the
+globe, the teacher pointing out the places upon it.
+
+Recess and the various sports recommended by the teacher follow, and
+then come arithmetic and the numeral frame. This is a wooden frame
+about a foot square, with twelve stout wires passing from one side to
+the other. Strung on each of these wires are twelve round stones, about
+the size of marbles. With this frame Miss Grant taught her little
+scholars to add, subtract, and multiply numbers, in the same manner that
+Mrs. Gray had taught her little pupils with marbles.
+
+At the close of the morning session, the children marched in the circle
+again, singing five times five are twenty-five, and five times six are
+thirty, to the tune of Yankee Doodle.
+
+In the afternoon, the exercises were quite as varied. The lessons mostly
+being committed in the morning, the children were allowed to tell
+stories, which the teacher wrote for them on the blackboard,--or they
+recited hymns and verses they had learned; sung, marched, and listened
+to the instructions of their teacher.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER III.
+
+THE NEW SCHOLAR.
+
+
+IN a house near the one where Miss Grant boarded was a little girl whose
+name was Hitty Moran. Her real name was Mehitable, but her mother and
+all her companions called her Hitty. She belonged to a very poor family,
+and as she was the eldest of a number of children, her mother thought
+she could not spare her to attend school.
+
+From the windows of her chamber, Miss Grant often saw Hitty sitting on
+the doorstep, holding a large baby in her arms. She noticed that Hitty
+was always kind to her baby brother; that she sung to him, let him pull
+her long hair, and never became impatient or fretful with him. All this
+interested the kind teacher in the child, and she longed to be of some
+use to her.
+
+One day, when she was returning from her school, she overtook Hitty, who
+was carrying a heavy basket of potatoes. "Let me help you," said the
+teacher, taking hold of the handle.
+
+As they walked along, Miss Grant asked, "Did you ever go to school?"
+
+"No, ma'am," said Hitty; "though I staid in a house once where the
+lady's son taught me my letters."
+
+"Should you like to learn?" asked the teacher.
+
+"O, yes, ma'am; sure I should be proud if I could read; but mother has
+so much work, and Bobby takes kindly to me, so that she can't spare me
+to go to school."
+
+"I should think it could be planned somehow for you to learn," said
+Miss Grant, kindly. "I will go in and see your mother this evening."
+
+She did so, and talked with Mrs. Moran of the advantage it would be to
+Hitty, if she could learn to read and write.
+
+"Only think," said the lady, "she could teach her brothers their
+letters, and read them pretty stories to keep them quiet while you are
+busy at work."
+
+"Feth, ma'am, sure, and I've sinse enough to see the truth of what
+you're saying," said the poor mother. "Her father often gets a paper
+from the ould country; but it's little use to us, you see, because the
+spelling and the pronouncing are quite beyont him. I've often enough
+wished we could have the luck to give one of the childer an education."
+
+"Can't you spare her to go to school a part of the time?"
+
+"Sure, ma'am, and that's the trouble intirely. The teachers complain
+when the childer don't be regular."
+
+Just at this moment one of the children fell down, and began to cry so
+loud, that Miss Grant took her leave. She was in earnest about doing
+something for Hitty; and she walked as far as Mrs. Gray's, to ask her
+advice about it.
+
+"Why don't you allow her to attend your school?" inquired the lady.
+"One hour in the day would be better than nothing."
+
+"I should be glad to do so, if I thought the parents would not object,"
+answered the teacher. "I think with a little trouble she could be made
+to look tidy."
+
+Miss Grant was not at all rich, but when a lady is resolved to do a
+kindness, she always finds out a way. She knew that Hitty had no dress
+suitable to wear to school. She opened her purse after she had reached
+home, and taking out some money she had laid by to purchase a new book,
+she walked to the store, and bought some calico to make a child's dress.
+
+On her way back she called at Mrs. Moran's, and told her Hitty might
+come to her school every afternoon if her mother could not spare her in
+the morning, and that if her mother would try to send her, she would
+provide a new gown.
+
+Mrs. Moran was very grateful for this kindness, and promised to get
+along without Hitty whenever she could. In three days, the little girl
+called for her teacher, her face and hands so bright, and clean, and
+rosy, that you would scarcely know her. The dress fitted charmingly, and
+the grateful smile and look of delight with which, she regarded herself
+when Miss Grant tied on a neat apron with pockets in it, quite repaid
+the lady for all her expense and trouble.
+
+Most of the scholars were kind to Hitty, and willingly lent her a slate,
+pencil, or book, when their teacher requested it. But one little girl,
+whose name I am sorry to say was Nelly, did not like to play with Hitty,
+because she lived in such a poor house.
+
+She was ashamed to refuse when her teacher asked her to show the new
+scholar how to make the figures on her slate; but she had a pout on her
+lips, which Miss Grant had never seen there before, and her voice did
+not sound sweet and kind.
+
+When the lady saw these marks of pride in her beloved pupil, it made her
+heart ache. She had been so full of love to the poor, ignorant child,
+and so anxious to do her good, that she could not bear the thought of
+any one in her school treating Hitty unkindly. For a moment she gazed
+sorrowfully in Nelly's flushed face, saw her move away from her new
+schoolmate as far on the seat as she could, and then she called, "Hitty,
+come and sit by me."
+
+Presently Frankie raised his little fat hand, and when she nodded to him
+that he had permission to speak, he asked, "May the new girl see me
+make pictures on the blackboard?"
+
+"Yes, darling," answered the lady, rising and patting him on his curly
+head. "Perhaps you can teach her to make a picture too."
+
+"See, Hitty," said Frankie; "this is the way to do it;" and the dear boy
+stood very erect and proud of the confidence of his teacher.
+
+When Miss Grant glanced toward Nelly, she was sorry to see that the
+little girl looked angry, that her cousin was taking so much pains with
+the new girl, and that he seemed so happy in doing it.
+
+Shall I tell you what I think the bad spirit was whispering in her ear?
+It was this: "Nelly, your father is rich; you live in a fine house and
+wear nice clothes; you are right not to like to sit by Hitty, who is
+very poor and ignorant."
+
+Ah, my little girl, do you remember who has given you so many blessings?
+It is God; but if you are not grateful to him, and kind to those who are
+less favored, he may take away your father and mother, and leave you
+without home or friends.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER IV.
+
+THE INJURED GIRL.
+
+
+MISS GRANT was very much pleased with Frankie's kindness to Hitty; and
+she hoped Nelly would see how lovely it made him appear, and try to
+imitate him.
+
+When the school closed, Hitty felt so grateful to Frankie for showing
+her the figures, that she stood by him in the closet, to see whether
+she could not do something for him. His cap was on a low hook, where he
+could reach it; but the scarf he wore with it, was hung up higher. Hitty
+saw him trying to jump and catch the end to pull it down, and she said
+quickly, "I can reach it. I will get it for you;" and she gave it to him
+with a bright smile.
+
+"Thank you," said Frankie, pleasantly.
+
+When they were out by the gate the scarf blew off, and Hitty ran to pick
+it up, when Nelly snatched it from her, and said, "Let alone my cousin's
+things, you ugly girl;" at the same time she gave Hitty a rough push to
+get her out of the way.
+
+I do not think Nelly was so very wicked as to wish really to hurt the
+little girl, but she was angry, because her conscience was telling her
+she had done wrong.
+
+She heard Hitty scream, but she ran on, pulling Frankie along, though he
+urged her to go back, and see what was the matter with the poor girl.
+
+"No, no!" she cried; "I don't like Hitty, and I don't want to walk with
+her." Then she began to talk about Ponto, and said she wished he would
+come and carry her basket for her.
+
+Almost always, when Nelly went home from school, she and Frankie ran up
+stairs to the chamber where Mrs. Gray sat at work; but now she proposed
+that they should play in the garden with the dog.
+
+The lady heard their voices, and wondered they did not come in to see
+her before they began to play. In about fifteen minutes she heard some
+one ring the bell at the back door, and presently Sally came up stairs
+into her room, leading a little girl by the hand.
+
+It was Hitty, but with such a great swelling on her forehead that Mrs.
+Gray did not at first recognize her. Her eyes were red and swollen with
+crying, and even now she could scarcely keep back her sobs.
+
+As she came in, she walked straight across the room to the lady, and put
+a note into her hand.
+
+Mrs. Gray opened it, and read with great sorrow the following words:
+"Nelly pushed this little girl against the stone post, at the school
+house gate. I am exceedingly grieved, and as I cannot see Nelly
+to-night, I have sent Hitty to you. Please do what you think best in the
+case."
+
+"Come here, poor child," said the lady, tenderly; "that is a dreadful
+bunch on your forehead. How did it happen?"
+
+"I was picking up your little boy's scarf when it fell off his neck,
+and Nelly snatched it away, and pushed me so hard that I fell against
+the post. She called me names, too;" and Hitty began to sob again.
+
+"What did Frankie do?" asked his mamma.
+
+"Nothing at all, ma'am. It's very kind to me, he was."
+
+The lady bade the child sit down. She then went to the closet and poured
+some arnica from a bottle into a bowl of water, and after wetting a
+cloth in it, bound it upon the forehead of the child. Then she rang the
+bell, and sent Margie to find Nelly and bring her into the house.
+
+While she was waiting, she talked with Hitty, and soon became as much
+interested in her as the teacher had been.
+
+Presently Nelly came in, followed by her cousin. She started and
+blushed when she saw Hitty; but Frankie ran to the little girl, asking,
+"What is the matter with your head? Have you hurt yourself?"
+
+"No," replied Hitty; "she did it," pointing to Nelly.
+
+"Look here," said her aunt, raising the cloth and pointing to the
+swelling, which was half as large as an egg.
+
+Frankie exclaimed, "O, dear! I'm sorry. Does it ache bad?"
+
+Nelly held down her head and began to cry. She was very much frightened
+at what she had done.
+
+"Frankie," said his mother, "you may go down with Hitty to the cook, and
+ask her for a piece of cake for the little girl. Then you may walk with
+her as far as your teacher's, and wait till I come. Hitty, you may go
+home and tell your mother I shall bring Nelly there soon, to have her
+say what punishment so naughty a girl deserves."
+
+"O, don't, aunty! don't take me there! I'm afraid to go!" sobbed Nelly,
+catching hold of her aunt.
+
+"Sit down," said Mrs. Gray, gravely.
+
+"What are you going to do with me?" asked the child, in an agony of
+fear.
+
+"I am going to talk with you, and I wish you to tell me how this
+dreadful thing occurred. O Nelly, I can't tell you how very grieved I
+am, that you should do so! I thought you had conquered your bad temper,
+and had become a lovely, amiable child."
+
+The tears stood in Mrs. Gray's eyes, and her voice trembled as she
+spoke. Nelly sobbed as if her heart would break; but as her aunt waited
+for her to reply, she said, "I am sorry, aunty. I didn't mean to hurt
+her so; but I didn't want her to touch Frankie's things."
+
+"Why not? I am sure it was kind of her to pick up his scarf."
+
+Nelly covered her burning face with her hands.
+
+"Tell me the truth, my child," said her aunt, firmly.
+
+"She is so poor," whispered Nelly. "I don't like poor girls; and then
+she lives in such an old house."
+
+"Why, Nelly!" exclaimed the lady, "I can hardly believe you have so
+proud and wicked a heart. Suppose your father should lose all his
+property, and you should be obliged to go to the poorhouse, and wear an
+old, shabby dress; should you think that was a good reason why another
+little girl, whom God had blessed with a good home and kind friends,
+delighting to supply her with the comforts of life, should treat you
+unkindly?"
+
+"No, indeed, aunty! I did not think how very wicked I was." Then Nelly
+confessed truthfully all the naughty feelings which had made her so
+unkind to the new scholar, though she sobbed so much that she could
+hardly speak.
+
+Mrs. Gray talked a long time with her, explaining where her sin lay;
+first, in cherishing pride, and then in giving way to anger, which was
+the very spirit of Cain when he killed his brother. After this they
+knelt down together; and Nelly, in a voice broken with weeping, asked
+God to forgive her great sin, and help her to be a good child.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER V.
+
+NELLY AT MRS. MORAN'S.
+
+
+"COME, now, my dear," said the lady, putting on her bonnet; "we must go
+to Mrs. Moran's and inquire about Hitty."
+
+"I am afraid to," screamed Nelly, clinging to her aunt. "O, I am sure I
+shall never do so again! I don't dare to go there."
+
+"Why, Nelly?" asked her aunt, pitying her distress. "If any little girl
+had injured you so, I should think it was a very small thing for her to
+do, to come and say she was sorry, and ask your forgiveness. You are
+really sorry, I think. It is but right you should tell her so."
+
+As they approached the house the poor child seemed in such an agony of
+fear, that her aunt was obliged to soothe her to lead her on. Her
+conscience told her she had been unkind, even cruel, to her companion,
+who had in no way injured her, and she feared Hitty's father and mother
+would be very angry.
+
+Mr. Moran lived in the upper part of a building which had once been used
+as a shop. A pair of wide stairs went up outside the house to the door,
+which opened into their room. A man was at work chopping wood at the
+foot of the stairs, and as soon as Nelly saw him she ran behind her
+aunt, whispering, "O, I dare not go! that's Hitty's father."
+
+"I will take care of you," answered the lady, knocking at the door.
+
+Mrs. Moran presently opened it, and they saw Hitty sitting on a low
+stool, playing with the baby, who was cooing and crowing with delight at
+having her back again.
+
+"I have come," said Mrs. Gray, "with my little niece, who injured your
+daughter at school. She wishes to ask you to forgive her."
+
+Nelly was crying bitterly, so that she could scarcely speak; but at last
+she sobbed out, "I didn't mean to hurt her so. I'm very sorry."
+
+"Don't cry, pet!" said Mrs. Moran, kindly. "I dare say you meant her no
+harm; and if you did, sure and we all are in the wrong sometimes. Hitty
+lays up nothing against you. There, honey, stop a bit, and she'll tell
+you the same. Come, Hitty, tell the little girl you forgive her, since
+the lady is so kind as to ask it."
+
+Hitty came forward with Bobby still in her arms, and when Nelly held out
+her hand, shook it cordially, saying, "My head is almost well now, and
+by to-morrow I'll never think of the blow again. I'm sorry for you,
+Nelly, to see you crying so."
+
+Mrs. Gray sat for a time talking with Mrs. Moran, and encouraging her to
+allow Hitty to learn to read. There was one little boy just Frankie's
+age, whom the lady advised her to send to the public school.
+
+This, the poor woman said, she should be glad to do, if the lad had
+clothes.
+
+The next day, when Hitty returned from school, Nelly, Frankie, and
+Ponto accompanied her, each of them carrying a bundle as large as they
+could lift, with dresses, jackets, and sacks, the children had outgrown.
+
+Mrs. Moran hardly knew how to express her gratitude, as she held up one
+article after another, and saw how nicely they would fit Ned or others
+among her children.
+
+This lesson, though severe at the time, was never forgotten by Nelly.
+After this no one was more eager than she to show kindness to Hitty, or
+more pleased when the poor girl succeeded in learning to read.
+
+In the afternoon most of the scholars repeated a hymn which they had
+learned at home, or a few verses from the Bible. Nelly noticed that
+Hitty never repeated any, and one day asked her the reason.
+
+"I haven't any books," answered the child, "and then I couldn't make out
+the hard words, you know."
+
+Nelly looked thoughtful for a minute, and then jumped up and down in her
+glee. "Ask your mother to let you come to aunty's to-night, or else come
+early to school and stop there to-morrow," she cried, "and I will teach
+you one of my pretty songs."
+
+Two days later, when Miss Grant said, "Now we will hear the hymns or
+verses," Hitty, with a timid air and a blushing face, took her stand on
+the floor. She cast a glance at Nelly, whose whole countenance was
+glowing with pleasure, and then repeated the following pretty hymn:--
+
+ "'Who was that, dear mamma, who ate
+ Her breakfast here this morn?
+ With tangled hair and ragged shoes,
+ And gown and apron torn?'
+
+ 'They call her lazy Jane, my dear;
+ She begs her bread all day,
+ And gets a lodging in the barn,
+ At night, among the hay.
+
+ 'For when she was a little girl,
+ She loved her play too well;
+ At school she would not mind her book,
+ Nor learn to read and spell.
+
+ '"Dear Jane," her mother oft would say,
+ "Pray learn to work and read;
+ Then you'll be able, when you're grown,
+ To earn your clothes and bread."'
+
+ But lazy Jenny did not care;
+ She'd neither knit nor sew;
+ To romp with naughty girls and boys
+ Was all that she would do.
+
+ So she grew up a very dunce;
+ And when her parents died,
+ She knew not how to teach a school,
+ Nor work, if she had tried.
+
+ And now, an idle vagabond,
+ She strolls about the streets;
+ And not a friend can Jenny find
+ In any one she meets.
+
+ And now, dear child, should you neglect
+ Your book or work again,
+ Or play, when you should be at school,
+ Remember Lazy Jane."
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VI.
+
+FRANKIE AND THE CRIPPLE.
+
+
+ONE evening, near the close of the term, Nelly walked home in company
+with one of her schoolmates, and did not notice that her cousin went
+another way. One, two hours passed by, and Frankie did not make his
+appearance; and at last his mother became so anxious, that she sent his
+brother out to search for him.
+
+Willie went to the square to see whether he had stopped at any of the
+stores, then, as he did not find him, to the houses of some of his
+schoolmates, but none of them had seen him since school.
+
+"Where can he have gone?" said Willie to himself. "Perhaps he was at his
+teacher's, and has returned before this time."
+
+He walked back toward home, looking around on every side.
+
+He was passing a house, when he heard a noise in the yard, and looking
+through the trees, saw a company of boys standing round a curious little
+carriage, in which sat a boy who was talking to them. He ran eagerly
+into the yard, for he thought Frankie was among them.
+
+As he drew nearer, he found it was not a boy in the carriage, but a man
+without legs. He had met with a dreadful accident, and been obliged to
+have both his legs cut off; and now he was trying to support himself by
+selling pictures, rolling himself in his carriage from house to house by
+means of a crank wheel. This was very hard work for him, especially when
+he was going uphill; sometimes he was obliged to get boys to push
+behind.
+
+Willie saw his brother Frankie standing by the man, helping him hold his
+pictures, which he was exhibiting to the lady at the window. Frankie's
+face was very red, and great drops of perspiration stood on his forehead
+and nose.
+
+"Why haven't you been home?" asked Willie. "Mother is very anxious about
+you."
+
+"O, Willie, see this poor man!" exclaimed Frankie. "I have been pushing
+his wagon for him ever since school. He says he is a cripple, and can't
+walk at all. I'm going to push his carriage home now, as soon as he has
+sold pictures here, and then ask mamma to give him some supper."
+
+"Why, Frankie Gray," called out the lady at the window, "is that you?
+Well, come and take this money, dear, to pay for three pictures."
+
+When the carriage started, the boys all ran along; but none of them
+offered to assist in rolling it, except Willie and Frankie.
+
+"You are tired," said Willie; "I'll push now." So Frankie took off his
+straw hat, and wiped the perspiration from his forehead. His hair was
+wet through, and curled in small rings all over his head.
+
+Mrs. Gray was looking anxiously from the window when they entered the
+avenue, and ran eagerly down to meet them.
+
+"O, mamma!" cried Frankie; "I met a poor man. He has no legs, and can't
+walk at all. He has to wheel himself about in a little carriage, to get
+enough money to buy his food. It's very hard work, and so I waited to
+push it for him a little while. Was it naughty, mamma? Will you please
+to give him some supper?"
+
+Mrs. Gray looked in her son's earnest, loving eyes, and all her
+displeasure against him vanished. She caught him to her heart, and
+kissed his cheek and lips. "Yes, my dear," she said, "you shall have the
+pleasure of giving him a good supper. But are you not hungry yourself?
+It is long past tea time."
+
+"I did not think any thing about it, mamma," said Frankie, "I was so
+sorry for the poor man. There, Willie has pushed his carriage up to the
+back door. I wonder how he can get out."
+
+In a few minutes the poor cripple had walked on his knees to the table,
+where Jane had set him a bountiful meal. Frankie seemed to consider the
+man his especial charge, and Mrs. Gray drew Willie into the entry,
+where, through the door, they could see what passed.
+
+As soon as the food was before him, the cripple began to eat; and
+Frankie, who was seated opposite, so as to be ready to attend to his
+wants, gazed at him in great surprise. "Why!" said he, "you didn't pray
+to God."
+
+I suppose the dear child had never before seen any one begin to eat
+without first asking a blessing. Even when he and Nelly were playing
+tea, one of them always shut their eyes, and solemnly asked God to bless
+the food.
+
+The man stared at him and went on eating, while Mrs. Gray smiled as she
+peeped through the door, to see how serious the boy looked.
+
+"Don't you love God?" asked Frankie.
+
+"I dun know," said the man.
+
+"I love him," continued the child, "and I should think you would;" then,
+after waiting a moment, he asked, "Did he cut your legs off?"
+
+"No," said the man, laughing; "the doctor did it."
+
+"I'm glad of that," said Frankie. "You ought to love God, and pray to
+him every day. Perhaps, if you did, he would let your legs grow again."
+
+Willie almost laughed aloud; but Frankie was so eager to do the man
+good, that he did not hear him.
+
+"I am afraid you are a wicked man," he said, "if you don't pray any."
+
+Mrs. Gray saw the cripple lay down his knife and fork, and gaze at the
+child; presently he spoke, but his voice trembled as he said, "I used to
+pray when I was a little shaver like you. My mother taught me."
+
+"Where is she now?" asked the boy.
+
+"She has gone up there, long ago," said the man, softly pointing his
+finger upward.
+
+"Well," said Frankie, earnestly, "you can't go to heaven and live with
+her there, unless you are a good man and love God. I used to be naughty
+once, but my mother whipped me to make me good."
+
+"That's too bad," said the cripple.
+
+"No; it's just right. The Bible says she must. I'm trying now to be a
+good boy; and I wish you would try too."
+
+"I guess there isn't much danger of you," said the man. "You're the
+most wonderful chap I ever saw."
+
+"I don't know what _chap_ is," replied Frankie. "When I say my prayers
+to-night, I am going to ask God to give you a new heart; and then you
+can't help being good."
+
+"I wish you would," whispered the man, drawing his shirt sleeve across
+his eyes.
+
+He pushed his chair back from the table, saying, "I've had a first-rate
+supper; and I thank you and your mother a thousand times for all your
+kindness."
+
+Willie then stepped into the kitchen, and helped him from his chair into
+his carriage, at the back door. The man gave Frankie two of his
+handsomest pictures, saying, "Don't forget what you promised to do for
+me to-night. I have nobody else to pray for me now."
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VII.
+
+THE RAINY DAY.
+
+
+MISS GRANT gave her scholars Wednesday and Saturday afternoons for play.
+
+One Wednesday morning it rained very hard; and as Nelly was not quite
+well, her aunt thought it not best for her to go to school. Margie too
+had been unwell for a few days; so Mrs. Gray sent for her to come up to
+the nursery, that they might amuse themselves with their dolls.
+
+Margie was eleven years of age; but she liked to play as well as ever.
+She had Frankie's black Dinah for her child; and then she had a large
+rag baby of her own, while Nelly had great Fanny and two smaller dolls.
+
+These they set up in a row, and played school; but just as they were
+ready to begin, Ponto walked into the room, and tipped the scholars
+over.
+
+"O Ponto, how naughty!" exclaimed Nelly, laughing aloud, as he carefully
+stepped over the pupils, who were lying on their faces. "Now let us
+begin again."
+
+So Dinah, and Fanny, and Lily Gray, and Jenny, Margie's doll, were all
+placed in nice order again, their backs up against the wall; and after a
+few words, charging the scholars to be very good and say their lessons
+well, Nelly rang her aunt's small table bell, for them to take their
+places in the class.
+
+But not one of the dollies stirred; and so Nelly took Dinah's hand, and
+led her out to the floor.
+
+They played in this way for more than an hour, and then Nelly complained
+of the headache; and so her aunt sent her to lie down and rest till
+dinner.
+
+In the mean time, Frankie had put on his India rubber boots, and holding
+a large umbrella, started off for school, as happy as possible. He had
+never been absent or tardy a single day; and his teacher had promised to
+paint him a beautiful card, if he continued his good conduct to the end
+of the term.
+
+The dear boy was very much pleased at this, and was trying in every way
+to be good. He trudged gayly on right through the puddles of water, the
+rain pattering upon his umbrella, and dripping off upon the ground.
+
+"I don't care," said Frankie to himself. "It's hard walking, I know; but
+I shall have a good time when I get there. My teacher will say, 'I knew
+you would be here, Frankie, because you belong to the Try Company.'"
+
+When he reached the schoolroom, he found no one there but his teacher
+and Hitty; and how do you think they came so safely in all the rain?
+Frankie laughed most heartily when they told him. They rode with the
+butcher in his covered cart.
+
+They had kindled a nice fire in the open grate, and after the little
+fellow had stamped off the mud in the porch, he came in and stood by it
+to dry himself.
+
+The clock struck nine; but not one more of the scholars came, because it
+was only a half day, the teacher said; and so Frankie and Hitty stood
+before her, instead of going on the gallery, and repeated the Lord's
+Prayer.
+
+Then she told them to bring their chairs close to the fire.
+
+"What a funny little school!" said Frankie, laughing.
+
+The teacher laughed too, and said, "I think we shall have a very
+pleasant time." She rang the bell, and Frankie marched out alone to his
+class. Then she rung it again, and Hitty read and spelt. She could read
+quite well now, and was getting to be a very good scholar.
+
+After this, Miss Grant said, "I must march with you, I suppose;" and so
+she stepped upon the circle; and they marched around and around,
+singing,--
+
+ "This is the way we wash our face,"
+
+the teacher washing hers as hard as any of them.
+
+At recess she took a piece of paper from her desk, and drew a pretty
+picture of a dog carrying a basket in his mouth, and told Frankie to
+draw one like it.
+
+Frankie was delighted, and said, "This dog is like Ponto, only that it
+has a short tail instead of a long one."
+
+Miss Grant then cut a paper doll for Hitty, and afterward one for
+Nelly. She made paper dresses, and aprons, and capes, and paper hats for
+their heads; and was so much engaged when she saw how delighted the
+children were, that she forgot she was teaching school, and never rang
+the bell for the close of recess for more than an hour.
+
+They all laughed merrily, and Frankie, clapping his hands, said, "I like
+rainy days best of all!"
+
+After recess, Miss Grant gave the children a lesson in geography, and
+then related a story of a boy, named Charles Huntington, who, by his
+honesty, uprightness, and faithfulness to his employer, became a great
+and good man. Having gained wealth, he gave freely of it to the poor and
+needy, and, after a long life of happiness and usefulness, died lamented
+by all who knew him.
+
+Frankie listened attentively to the story, and then said, "I'm going to
+ask God to help me be like Mr. Charles Huntington."
+
+And here we must leave our young friend, with the hope that the promise
+of early youth was verified in his manhood; that the seed sown in his
+young and tender heart, and watered by his mother's tearful prayers,
+sprang up and bore abundant fruit.
+
+As for his cousin Nelly, she continued with her aunt for many years,
+until her mother died, when she returned home to comfort and bless her
+father, and help train her little brother as she had herself been taught
+by her kind friends. She always entertained for Frankie the deep
+affection of a sister; and when he graduated from college with the first
+honors of his class, no one rejoiced or felt more proud of his success
+than his cousin Nelly.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+
+Transcriber's Note:
+
+Obvious punctuation errors repaired. The quotation marks around the poem
+on pages 79-81 was not repaired as the author's intent could not be
+ascertained. The marks were left as printed.
+
+
+
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