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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Little Girl Who Was Taught by Experience + +Author: Anonymous + +Release Date: December 9, 2010 [EBook #34614] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LITTLE GIRL *** + + + + +Produced by Heather Clark and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was +produced from images generously made available by The +Internet Archive) + + + + + + +</pre> + + + + + +<p class="center" style="font-size:100%">THE</p> +<p class="center" style="font-size:150%">LITTLE GIRL</p> +<p class="center" style="font-size:90%">WHO WAS</p> +<p class="center" style="font-size:125%">TAUGHT BY EXPERIENCE.</p> + +<div class="figcenter"> +<img src="images/titlepage.png" alt="THE LITTLE GIRL WHO WAS TAUGHT BY EXPERIENCE." title="Title Page" /><br /> +</div> + +<p class="center" style="font-size:125%">BOSTON.</p> +<p class="center" style="font-size:90%">BOWLES AND DEARBORN, 72 WASHINGTON STREET.</p> + +<hr style="width: 5%;" /> + +<p class="center" style="font-size:90%">Isaac. R. Butts and Co. Printers.</p> +<p class="center" style="font-size:125%">1827.</p> + +<hr /> + +<p class="center"><span class="smcap">district of massachusetts</span>, <i>to wit</i>:</p> + +<table> +<tr><td style="width:140px"></td><td><i>District Clerk's Office.</i></td></tr> +</table> + +<p class="blockquot">Be it remembered, that on the nineteenth day of +June, <span class="smcap">A. D.</span> 1827, in the fifty-first year of the Independence +of the <span class="smcap">United States of America</span>, <i>Bowles and +Dearborn</i> of the said district, have deposited in this office +the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, +in the words following, <i>to wit</i>: "<span class="smcap">The Little Girl, +who was Taught by Experience</span>."</p> + +<p class="blockquot">In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United +States, entitled, "An act for the encouragement of learning, +by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to the +authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times +therein mentioned," and also to an act entitled "An act +supplementary to an act, entitled, an act for the encouragement +of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts +and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, +during the times therein mentioned; and extending the +benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving and +etching historical and other prints."</p> + +<table> +<tr><td style="width:120px"></td><td style="width:120px" rowspan="2">JNO. W. DAVIS,</td><td rowspan="2" style="font-size:200%">{</td><td><i>Clerk of the District of</i></td></tr> +<tr><td></td><td> <i>Massachusetts</i>.</td></tr> +</table> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[Pg 3]</a></span></p> + +<p class="center" style="font-size:100%">THE</p> +<p class="center" style="font-size:150%">LITTLE GIRL</p> +<p class="center" style="font-size:90%">WHO WAS</p> +<p class="center" style="font-size:125%">TAUGHT BY EXPERIENCE.</p> + +<hr style="width: 5%;" /> + +<p>Little Lucy's mother had died when +she was a very small child;—this was a +great misfortune to Lucy, for her mother +loved her very tenderly, and she +would have taken the trouble to tell +her what she did wrong, and when she +<i>felt</i> wrong, and would have taught her +to correct all her faults; she would +have taught her that happiness could +not dwell in her heart, while she permitted +wicked passions to rise up and +grow strong there, any more than the +beautiful flowers which she planted in<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[Pg 4]</a></span> +her little garden-bed, could thrive and +bloom when she allowed all the rank +weeds which sprang up with them, to +become strong and remain there to +choke them: wicked passions like +troublesome weeds, grow very fast, +and they soon root out all the mild, +gentle virtues which are just budding +into beauty, if we do not take great +pains to check them, and pluck them +out of our hearts.</p> + +<p>Lucy's mother would have taught +her all this, for she saw these evils +were already springing up to destroy +the lovely blossom of virtue in her +young bosom; but she died, and Lucy +was left to the care of a most indulgent +father; he did not like to correct +his little girl, for he only saw her when +his busy day was over, and then he +wished to gratify all her desires, to +fondle over her and play with her and +bless her while he thought of her dear<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</a></span> +mother whom he had lost; he did not +see her faults the little time he was with +her, the servants did not like to tell him +of them, and poor Lucy was growing +up a <i>vain</i>, selfish, self-willed, prying +little girl, with an obstinate temper +which could bear no contradiction.</p> + +<p>Lucy had a <i>pretty face</i> and her father +and the servants talked to her so much +about it, that at last she really thought +it was something good in her to be +pretty, that she was in some way better +because she was handsomer than other +little girls; no kind friend ever said to +Lucy, "that as she had not made her +own face, she could not be more good for +its being a pretty one; and that as she +could not by any care keep it a moment, +if it should please her heavenly +Father to take it away, that it was very +silly in her to be vain of it, and value +it so much; but that she could do a<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</a></span> +great deal, to make herself good, and +amiable, and obliging, and affectionate; +and therefore she would be more +dear to her friends and more happy in +herself every time she even tried to +correct a wrong feeling."</p> + +<p>It was a <i>sad</i> thing that Lucy had no +one to teach her all these things, for +she might have learnt them easily then, +and she was growing more selfish, and +vain, and obstinate, and disobedient as +she grew older, she thought a great +deal about her dress, fine things to +wear, and nice food to eat, and she +liked to pry into things which did not +concern her to know.</p> + +<p>Lucy had an aunt living in Boston, +who was a sensible and a very kind-hearted +woman. She heard that Lucy +would become a disagreeable if not a +wicked child, if some friend did not have +compassion and try to save her from her<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</a></span> +growing faults. She kindly sent to +Lucy's Father who lived in New York, +and persuaded him to let his daughter +come and pass one year with her; she +had a little girl of her own about the +same age as Lucy, who had been +watched, and guarded, and taught by +this kind mother, and she was now a +lovely child, so good—obedient—and +amiable, that every one who knew her, +saw that she would grow up a blessing +to her family and friends; her mother +had early taught her, and made her +feel from experience, that she was always +happier when she governed her +temper, corrected a fault, and thought +more about making others happy than +she did of pleasing herself; she told +her that her heavenly Father always +looked down with peculiar love upon +her, when she resisted a wicked feeling +or a selfish action, and sent his <i>best</i> and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</a></span> +sweetest reward of peace and joy into +her heart, a reward he bestows only on +goodness, but which is more delightful +than any pleasure which the wicked +can purchase. Now the little Emily +had already learned to feel this delightful +peace, and she would give up any +thing to obtain it.</p> + +<p>It was on her birth day morning, +about a month after Lucy's arrival at +her aunt's, that she received a very +kind letter from her father enclosing +two beautiful crown pieces which he +said "he thought would be an acceptable +present for herself and cousin, and +he hoped this would make his little darlings +happy." Lucy <i>did</i> feel happy +for one moment, and she looked at the +pretty shining pieces again and again, +then she began to feel dissatisfied, and +went slowly and with a sullen countenance, +into the parlour where Emily<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span> +was finishing her work.</p> + +<p>"My father has sent me these two +crown pieces," said she, "but he says +I must give one of them to you, Emily, +I'm sure I don't know what for;" and +Lucy looked unhappy, and selfish, and +sour, because she could not keep both +the pieces which her father had sent, +and no one who had seen Lucy then +would have thought she could ever have +a pretty face; the naughty temper in +her heart, looked out at her eyes, her +scowling brows, and her pouting lips, +and made her quite disagreeable, as +she threw down the piece of silver +upon the table with a loud noise.</p> + +<p>"Oh how good your dear father is," +said Emily, "what a beautiful bright +piece it is—but do not give it to me, +dear Lucy, if you don't wish to," continued +she, as she looked up at Lucy's +unhappy face, "I should like<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</a></span> +to have it to be sure, because I am +saving all my money for a particular +purpose, 'tis to get poor nurse Hooper +a new gown, mother says she has not +been to meeting all this summer because +she has had nothing decent and +whole to wear, and she told me that if +I would save all my money till I had +enough I should have the pleasure of +getting her one my own self; and I +should be so delighted to see how happy +she would look, for mother says all +the pleasure nurse has is going to meeting; +we you know go to dancing,—and +learn music—and read entertaining +books—and have a great many pleasures, +but poor old nurse never leaves +off hard work from morning to night, +laboring with all her strength—only +when as <i>she</i> calls it 'the blessed day +of rest comes;'—how I should like to +get her a nice new pretty gown, and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span> +see her walking along to meeting with +it on, and her psalm book and fan +wrapped up neatly in her clean checked +handkerchief as she used to last +year. But," added she, as she looked +a <i>second</i> time at Lucy's sour face, "not +if you don't wish to give me the money +Lucy."</p> + +<p>"But I must give it to you, I suppose, +if I do not like to," said Lucy, +"for papa will ask you when he comes +next week what you did with it and all +about it, and I know you will tell him, +'tis just like you."</p> + +<p>"If he asks me I must tell him, you +know Lucy, I can't help it, can I; but +if he does not ask me, I will not tell +him any thing about it, if you don't +wish me to."</p> + +<p>"Oh but I know he will ask you, so +you may as well have it, and spend it +too as foolishly as you choose; I know<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span> +what I shall do with <i>mine</i> though, I will +buy that pretty pair of silk slippers +which I saw at Miss Rust's yesterday, +and wished for so much, and I will +wear them with my new silk frock with +Barage trimmings, when we go next +week to Brookline, for there I shall +see that proud Miss Prince again, with +all her fine clothes;—she thought nobody +could dress as smart as she did, +but I will show her that I can,"—and +Lucy began to smile with pleasure at +the thought of mortifying Miss Prince.</p> + +<p>"But I would not dress so much just +to go out to Mrs. Russel's," said Emily, +"we shall wish to walk out in the +grounds, and you will be obliged to +take so much care not to hurt your +dress, you will not have half the pleasure; +how can you jump about the +grass, and gather flowers?"</p> + +<p>"I don't care for that," said Lucy,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span> +"I will wear the gown and the slippers +too. Papa always lets me dress as I +like. I shall take care enough."</p> + +<p>Emily did not say any thing more, +but she ran away to show her mother +her present, and to ask her if she would +be so kind as to tell her what sort of a +gown she should get for Nurse Hooper, +and to count over all the silver pieces +she hoarded in her purse. Her mother +told her she was much pleased to find +she remembered the poor friendless +old woman, and that she should have +the pleasure of getting the gown the +next day,—and she said she would advise +her all about it. Then her mother +counted her money and found she +would have some left after the gown +was bought, which she could spend for +herself. Emily said she would not determine +what she should do with it +then, but put it away till she wanted<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span> +something very much. Her mother +told her that was a very prudent and +wise determination.</p> + +<p>The day at last came for their visit +to Brookline, the carriage was ordered, +and Emily came down with her +plain Cambric slip and thick shoes, +which looked very proper, and comfortable, +and neat. But Lucy put on her +trimmed silk dress, and the lilac satin +slippers she had bought to wear +with it.</p> + +<p>"Why my little girl," said her aunt, +as she came into the room, "what +could induce you to put on that rich +silk to day? you can have no enjoyment +of play in such a dress, and those +delicate slippers too,—you cannot <i>walk</i> +in them; remember we are going into +the country, and shall wish to taste the +sweet air of the fields, you had better +run and change your dress now my<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</a></span> +love, there is quite time enough, and +Emily will go and assist you."</p> + +<p>"O no, aunt," said Lucy, "I had +rather not go at all, than do that, I +shall take care, I am big enough to +take care I hope;" and she again looked +sullen and sour.</p> + +<p>"I shall not compel you my dear, +most certainly, because that would not +convince you that you are wrong, but +I advise you once more to go and +change your dress for a more proper +one; I warn you that you will not have +half the comfort, but a vast deal more +trouble in going as you are; I wish indeed +that you could believe, that I +must know better than yourself about +such things, because it might save you +from much suffering, but if you prefer +to learn by your own experience, you +certainly shall;—experience is an excellent +instructer, but we often pay very<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</a></span> +dearly for her lessons: well what do +you say?"</p> + +<p>"I am not at all afraid," said Lucy, +impatiently. "Papa always lets me +dress as I like."</p> + +<p>"Let us go then," said her aunt.</p> + +<p>The day was balmy and mild as possible, +and the ride to Brookline was +without accident, and perfectly pleasant. +Lucy forgot all that her aunt had said, +she was thinking how all the company +would admire her fine dress and how +mortified, and vexed, and surprised, the +proud Miss Prince would be. At last +they reached the beautiful seat of Mrs. +Russel, and were received most kindly +by that excellent lady. But what can +express Lucy's disappointment to find +there was to be no one besides themselves, +not even Miss Prince, whom she +was so sure of meeting, and that after +Mrs. Russel had permitted a smile of<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</a></span> +pity to pass over her face as she looked +at her dress, there was no more notice +taken of it in any way.</p> + +<p>Presently a walk in the garden was +proposed, and they all proceeded to +view the grounds. Emily went skipping +about with a heart light with innocence +and peace, smelling the sweet +flowers, and eating the rich fruit which +was ripening in profusion around her;—Lucy +also took some fruit for she was +very fond of it, and she thought she +ate it very carefully; but presently she +felt something wet upon her arm, and +when she looked to see what it was +she found she had dropped some of +the juice on the front part of her dress, +which had already taken out the color +in several places.</p> + +<p>Now this was her best and her favorite +dress, it was a present from her +father when she left New York to visit<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</a></span> +her aunt, and it was quite new. She +felt very uncomfortable at this sad +sight, and she already began to wish +she had not put it on:—however she +could do nothing to it, and she continued +to walk slowly and carefully +through the shrubs and flowers, until +she saw the party all collected round +a fish-pond at the bottom of the garden, +viewing something very attentively.</p> + +<p>"O the beautiful gold fish," exclaimed +Lucy, "I had quite forgotten to ask +about them, I dare say they are in that +pond, and I do long to see them," and +away she ran with all her speed, thinking +only of the pretty gold fish which +Emily had told her about so often; but +the wind filled out the light folds of her +beautiful silk dress, and as she passed +a turning in the walk, the trimming +was caught by the briars of a rose-bush +and torn almost entirely off, before she<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</a></span> +could stop herself. Lucy stood aghast +at this sad rent! the delicate trimming +was quite in tatters, and the thought +of what her aunt had said to her (for +she now remembered it every word) +made her ashamed to look her in the +face; however, she pinned it on as well +as she could, and again she walked +slowly and carefully, quite forgetting +the gold fish and every thing but her +misfortunes and her shame, and wishing +she had not been so self-willed and +perverse. But when little children +will not be guided by the experience +and judgment of their best and wisest +friends, and will try for themselves, they +often learn through much suffering and +trouble, and pay dearly for the instruction +which they might have had for +nothing.</p> + +<p>While Lucy was thus sauntering +along, one of Mrs. Russel's little girls<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</a></span> +came running up to her full of spirits. +"Come with <i>us</i> dear Lucy," said she, +"we are going to the bottom of the +pasture-field to look into Mr. Barrel's +beautiful garden, 'tis much handsomer +than ours, and there is an opening in +the fence so that we can see it all +plainly through the cracks. There are +a great <i>many</i> images in the garden. +In one place there is an old woman +feeding chickens, and she is holding +up her apron of corn so naturally, exactly +as our Betsey does when she +feeds our little ones; and her gown is +pinned away behind her, and shews her +quilted petticoat and she <i>does</i> look <i>so</i> +funny; and then in another part of the +garden, there is a man raking hay, he +looks as natural as <i>life</i>—come—this +way, my dear, there is Emily just jumping +over the stone-wall."</p> + +<p>The pasture was very large. It was<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</a></span> +made perfectly dry by a ditch which +was dug along on one side; this drained +off all the water, so it was easy and dry +walking. The girls went on jumping +and springing, and Lucy once more +forgot her troubles, and began to enjoy +herself, while Emily felt <i>so</i> innocent +and happy, that she could not express +her delight. They came at last to the +opening in the fence which gave them +a good view of this fine garden; the +flower beds were all laid out in squares, +and diamonds, and circles, which were +all bordered with beautiful green box. +And Lucy saw the old man with his +rake, who looked exactly as if he could +move and was just going to turn his +hay; and she saw the droll looking old +woman holding up her apron of corn; +and they were very much amused, discovering +new beauties in this garden for +a long time, but at last they were startled<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</a></span> +by hearing the snorting of a horse very +near to them. They had not seen that +there was any horse in the pasture before, +but when they looked up they saw +Mr. Russel's great black horse galloping +up to them, rearing and kicking up his +hind feet in the air, while John the +stable-boy was running after him with +a halter to catch him.</p> + +<p>The little girls were very much +frightened when they saw such a great +loose horse so near to them, and they +began to run towards the house as fast +as their limbs would carry them, for +they thought the black horse was close +at their heels, and they did not stop to +look behind them. Sarah Russel and +Emily got on a great deal faster than +Lucy, because her slippers were tight +and her dress troublesome, but she used +her utmost speed, and had nearly reached +the stone wall over which the girls<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</a></span> +were jumping, when in attempting to +leap across the ditch her foot slipped +in, and down came poor Lucy flat upon +her face. What a sad situation she +was in! she had lost her shoe in the +black muddy ditch,—her unfortunate +silk frock was all covered with green +slime, from the slippery grass on the +banks,—she had hurt her ancle so badly +she could scarcely stir,—and she expected +every moment that the great +black horse would be upon her, and +trample her to death,—the other little +girls thinking she had kept up with +them had jumped over the wall and +were gone out of sight and hearing, and +she could not possibly get up alone.</p> + +<p>"Oh! dear, what shall I do?" cried +Lucy, "will nobody come to save me."</p> + +<p>Now it happened that young Mr. +Thomas Russel had come out to assist +John in catching his horse, (because<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</a></span> +he was a frolicksome and troublesome +horse to catch) and he was already so +near that he heard Lucy's cries. He +came to her, kindly took her up and quieted +her fears, and showed her that the +horse was a long way distant, and then +he felt with his stick round in the ditch +to find her beautiful lilac slipper. Alas! +it was beautiful no longer; for when he +fished it out of the muddy gutter on +the end of his cane, it was so filled +and covered with the filth that no color +could be seen. Mr. Russel kindly carried +her in his arms to the house, and +then he took her slipper to the pump and +pumped upon it till he got it clean enough +to dry at the fire. An old shoe of Sarah +Russel's was found for Lucy to put on, +after her stockings and her clothes had +been wiped, but it was much too large +for her to walk in, if she had been in +a condition to walk.</p> + +<p>While the rest of the party were enjoying<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</a></span> +the garden, the summer house, +the shrubbery and the lawn, eating +fruit and gathering flowers, poor Lucy, +placed in a chair by a roasting kitchen +fire to dry, her beautiful dress <i>tattered</i> +and <i>filthy</i>, her fine satin slippers quite +and <i>entirely</i> ruined, her face bruised, +and her ancle lame, had time to +feel all her folly and perverseness.</p> + +<p>"If," said she to herself, "I had not +been so self-willed and so very silly as +to put on this silk dress, any other, +even my best muslin, might have been +washed and repaired, and if I had only +worn my thick, easy shoes, I should not +have slipped at all; and if I had slipped, +any other shoes but <i>these</i> might have +been made tolerably clean again; but +now my beautiful silver crown might +as well have been thrown into the sea, +for it is <i>all</i> gone and has only purchased +pain and disgrace. O how ashamed<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</a></span> +I shall feel to look at aunt and Emily, +for they both told me almost exactly +how it would be if I would wear this +improper dress, though aunt did not +know that I wanted to wear it just to +vex that proud Miss Prince; and after +all she was not here to see it, and will +only rejoice to hear of my mortification +and disgrace. I dare say that +Emily is as clean and as nice as she +was when she came, at least she don't +feel so sore, and so dirty, and wet, and +uncomfortable as I do, nor so much +ashamed."</p> + +<p>Lucy shed most bitter tears. She +had not the consolation under all these +accidents, of feeling that she had had +good or innocent motives for wishing +to wear the improper dress, and that +her friends would pity her; and again +she wept over her vanity, her wilfulness, +her envy, and malice.</p> + +<p>At last she heard the happy party<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</a></span> +returning to the house full of mirth +and gaiety, and as they entered she +heard Emily say, "I have looked all +round for Lucy, I wonder where she +has hidden herself; I suppose she has +found something new and delightful in +this charming place, but she will soon +be here now, because the sun is almost +down—our <i>happy day</i> is ended, for +mother has ordered the carriage to be +ready as soon as tea is over," and she +came bounding into the house rosy and +smiling with innocent delight; but her +countenance became sad as she caught +sight of Lucy through the open door, +sobbing at the kitchen fire, in the deplorable +condition which we have described +her.</p> + +<p>Emily was immediately at her side, +trying with kind words and an affectionate +manner, to sooth and comfort her. +She was too good-natured to tell Lucy<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</a></span> +that she suffered for her own faults, she +was too kind <i>once</i> to say to her "I <i>told</i> +you so, I <i>knew</i> you would be sorry, <i>now</i> +don't you wish you had done as <i>I</i> advised +you?"—Emily did not say any +thing like this; but she looked kindly +at her, took hold of her hand, and +wiped her eyes, and said, "come, never +mind it now dear Lucy, but think of +all the pleasures we have had, and +what a pleasant ride home we shall +have in the moon-shine—and besides, +I dare say we shall be able to mend +the trimming, I will help you, and see +if we can't get out these spots with Cologne +water, and some of mother's patent +soap, which is made on <i>purpose</i> to +take out spots from silk; come, never +mind, accidents will happen, and I am +so thankful that the horse did not kick +you, how frightened we were when he +looked so wild."</p> + +<p>Thus Emily kindly tried to divert poor<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</a></span> +Lucy till supper was ready. Now Lucy +had thought a great deal about the +nice supper, and the good things which +she expected to see on the table, but +she had cried till her stomach was sick, +and her appetite quite gone; she could +not taste any of the delicacies on which +she had depended so much, and besides, +she did not wish to show herself before +her aunt and Mrs. Russel in such a +condition, so she crept into the carriage +which had been drawn up to the door, +and waited there till her aunt and cousin +were ready.</p> + +<p>Lucy's aunt had been told before +she reached the house of what had +happened, by Mr. Thomas Russel, who +had gone out to meet her; but, as he +told her that Lucy was not so much +hurt as she was mortified and frightened, +she spared her the pain of seeing +her before company, and even after<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</a></span> +she was in the carriage, and had begun +their ride home, this kind aunt said +nothing about the accident; for she +thought it best to let Lucy reflect in +silence upon the events of the day, that +the <i>lessons of experience</i> for which she +had paid so very dearly, might induce +her to correct those faults from which +all her sufferings proceeded.</p> + +<p>When they arrived at home, and +were all collected in the parlour, Lucy's +aunt desired to look at the bruises, +and as she kindly bound them up, said +to her,—"You have had your first lesson +of experience my dear little girl +to-day; it has indeed been a hard one, +and I dare say will be long remembered; +you were much frightened, much +bruised, much disappointed, and very +much mortified. I am sure I am <i>sorry</i> +for your sufferings, but if you will let +them convince you, that pride—malice—<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</a></span>selfishness—wilfulness—and +obstinacy, +are all faults which will make +you suffer more and more as long as +you keep them, you may <i>yet</i> bless this +day, as I shall most certainly, as the +most fortunate of your life, and worth +a <i>purse full</i> of such pieces as that which +you have so foolishly thrown away. +You start, my little girl, but I assure you +that all these dreadful faults were in +your heart when you determined to +use your father's present as you did, +and kept to that determination; for I +heard all your conversation with Emily +on the day it was received.</p> + +<p>"<i>Pride</i> and <i>malice</i>, my dear Lucy," +continued her aunt, "induced you to +desire to dress yourself so richly, to +astonish your friends, and to mortify +(as you thought it would) the proud +Miss Prince. Selfishness made you +unwilling to part with the piece which<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</a></span> +was in fact sent to Emily, and did in +no way belong to you. Wilfulness united +to make you resist her advice, when +she told you (and from her own experience) +that you would be sorry if you +dressed in this manner; and lastly, obstinacy +made you feel that you 'would +rather stay at home' than give up to my +wishes and recommendation:—let <i>to-day's</i> +experience be sufficient for you, +and I shall truly love you; go now, my +dear, to bed."</p> + +<p>Lucy, however, was more mortified +and angry than repentant; she had +thought so little about correcting her +faults, and submitting to the government +of older and wiser people, that +she had a great deal more to suffer before +she could resolutely set about becoming +docile, obedient, humble, and +submissive; she had never restrained +her inclination, or controlled any of her<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[Pg 33]</a></span> +desires or passions, and knew very little +about self government; for no one had +taught her till she came to her aunt's, +that she ought to do so.</p> + +<p>Emily's mother had done as she said +she would, for she always kept her word +in every thing. She had advised her +about the gown she was to get for poor +Nurse Hooper, the day after she had +received her crown piece; she had done +more than she had promised; she had +cut and fitted the gown, and shewed +Emily just how to make it all herself, +so that she had double pleasure in giving +it to her. It was now done and +folded neatly, and Emily went with her +mother to carry that, and some other +little comforts, to the poor woman.</p> + +<p>Emily's delight was full and <i>complete</i>, +when she witnessed the brightened eyes +and grateful countenance of Nurse +Hooper, and heard her say, that, "now<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</a></span> +again she should be able to hear her +dear minister, and to thank her heavenly +Father for all his mercies to her, in the +Lord's own blessed house;" and when +on the following Sabbath, Emily stood +at her mother's window, and saw the +good woman walking to meeting, exactly +as she had pictured her, with her +psalm book and her fan nicely folded +in her handkerchief, and looking so +peaceful and happy, Emily thought +she felt more pleasure than she had +expected, and would not have exchanged +her feelings, for any thing which +could have been offered her.</p> + +<p>Time passed on, and the adventures +we have related were over and nearly +forgotten. Lucy sometimes thought +of her faults, and of the lessons which +had been given her; she sometimes +thought she would try more to correct +them, to be more amiable, and good;<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[Pg 35]</a></span> +and when she saw how happy Emily +always appeared, and how much she +was beloved, she wished she too had +learned to control herself, and resist +temptation, that <i>she</i> might be as happy; +but she did nothing in earnest, and +when temptations came, she did not +try at all. Her aunt, however, continued +to take the kindest care of her, she +watched for every opportunity to instruct +and amend her, and she hoped +that her heart was a little less selfish, +her temper a little more restrained, +and that she began to have more +fear of doing wrong, to remember +more constantly that the eye of God +was ever upon her, even when she was +alone and in thick darkness, and could +see not only what she did do, but what +she even wished to do in her mind.</p> + +<p>One morning a few months after +their ride to Brookline, while Lucy<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[Pg 36]</a></span> +was sitting in her chamber opposite to +the open door, putting together a dissected +map which her father had just +sent to her, she saw her aunt come up +stairs and go into her own room, with +a little package in her hand, wrapped +in white paper and tied with twine. +Lucy supposed that it had come from +New York with her map, and she felt +very curious to know what it could be, +that her aunt had folded up so neatly in +white paper. She immediately thought +that her aunt had received some +pretty present from New York, and +she watched her to see if she opened +the paper, and what she did with it, +and saw that she went to her closet, +stood up in a chair, and reaching +to the highest shelf of her closet, +opened a small trunk, and put the +parcel into it; then she went to her +bureau drawer, opened that, and laid<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</a></span> +something in, shut the drawer and left +the chamber.</p> + +<p>All this puzzled Lucy exceedingly; +so she determined to ask her aunt as +she went down stairs, what was in the +paper, though she ought to have known +it was impertinent to question her aunt +about a thing which did not at all concern +herself, and that she ought to restrain +her curiosity.</p> + +<p>"Did you get that little bundle from +New York, aunt?" said Lucy.</p> + +<p>"No, my dear," replied her aunt.</p> + +<p>"What was in it, aunt?" continued +the inquisitive little girl.</p> + +<p>"It is nothing which it concerns you +in the least to know, my dear," said +her aunt; "nothing that would please +you, or interest you in any way; you +should be less curious."</p> + +<p>"I wish I could see it, though," said +Lucy to herself, as her aunt left her,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[Pg 38]</a></span> +"I don't doubt papa has sent something +pretty, and I think she might +have shewn it to me. I can't think +what it can be; it was such a nice little +package, all tied up in white paper; +I wonder if it was not a pair of new +ear rings. I <i>heard</i> her say she needed +a new set; I do <i>wish</i> I could see +them."</p> + +<p>She continued to allow her curiosity +to puzzle over the little white bundle, instead +of trying to forget it, till her map no +longer pleased her in the least; so she +left it on the table, and sauntered into +her aunt's room, and would not attempt +to conquer her idle curiosity, but +kept wondering, and wishing to know +what was in the paper, that her aunt +had taken so much trouble to put up +so high and so secretly. It came into +her head that she might get up into +the same chair and look into the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[Pg 39]</a></span> +trunk! She saw her aunt walking at +the very bottom of the garden, and +thought she would never know any +thing about it.</p> + +<p>Now when this thought first came +into Lucy's mind, she knew it was a +wicked thought, and she did not intend +at first to do so very wrong a thing; +but she let it remain in her mind, and +thought how easily she might do it if +she pleased, till after thinking, and +thinking, she determined just to try if +she could reach the trunk by standing +up in the chair, as her aunt had done; +so she crept softly to the closet, placed +the chair and got up into it, but she +was not tall enough to reach the trunk; +so she looked about to see what there +was to put into the chair, and make it +high enough, and she saw the little +cricket on which she had been sitting +to play with her map; so she brought<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[Pg 40]</a></span> +that and placed it on the chair, and +then she found herself quite tall enough, +for she could reach the shelf with ease; +she put out her hand tremblingly, for +Lucy's conscience told her plainly that +she <i>was doing very, very wrong</i>, and the +thought made her tremble very much, +but she put out her hand and tried to +open the trunk. It was locked.</p> + +<p>"Now I do know, almost, that it was +something very important, since aunt +has taken such particular pains to hide +it away, and very likely it is something +for me too, that papa has sent me, and +she won't let me even see it," said +Lucy; "I wonder if it was not the +very key to this little trunk, that she +put into her bureau drawer. I saw +her go there after she left the closet. +If it was the key, 'tis easy enough to +get it, the <i>bureau</i> is not high, I shall +not hurt the bundle just to look at it,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[Pg 41]</a></span> +and I don't mean to touch it; besides, +she ought to have shown it to me, if +my papa sent it to her."</p> + +<p>Lucy crept down carefully from the +chair and stood before the bureau—she +stopped there—for something +said to her that "she was sinning;" +but she did not turn resolutely away +and busy herself about something else—she +did not fly from temptation—but +kept thinking that she might easily +enough open the drawer, and see if it +really was the key which her aunt had +put there; till at last she said to herself, +"there is no harm in just seeing if the +key is in here, I am not obliged to +touch it."</p> + +<p>She gently opened the drawer; the +little key lay down in front, so that +she could reach it without opening +the drawer any wider. She stood looking +awhile—and then this temptation<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[Pg 42]</a></span> +also was too strong; she slipped in her +hand and took up the key to see if it +was the very same; having it in her +hand she no longer hesitated, but once +more got upon the chair and put the +key into the lock—she turned it—the +trunk was opened—and Lucy saw the +little package tied up in its white paper, +laying in one corner.</p> + +<p>O, why did not she then stop and +sin no more. Alas! when we go so +far wrong it is hard to find the +right path back; every step we take +renders return more difficult. Lucy +had now gone so far out of the path +of duty, that she no more thought of +any thing but satisfying her curiosity. +She took up the parcel, and untied +the string; but what can express her +great disappointment when she found +it contained—only a little white sugar, +as she thought it was. Lucy loved<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[Pg 43]</a></span> +sugar, and had often taken a little +pinch from the sugar dish on the table, +and as she had untied the paper, +thought she would just taste a little +before she did it up again; she took a +pinch of the sugar and was beginning +to fold up the paper.</p> + +<p>But all this had taken much more +time than Lucy had expected; and before +she could get it folded up, as she +had found it, she heard her aunt on +the stairs. And now that the poor +girl was likely to be <i>caught</i> doing this +naughty thing, she felt <i>all at once</i> how +<i>very</i> bad it was; she was <i>dreadfully</i> +frightened at the thought of her aunt's +finding her in such a guilty situation, +and she tried to jump down quickly, +but in doing so, her sleeve caught in +the fatal key, pulled over the trunk +with all its contents upon her; the +cricket was unsteady in the chair, it<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[Pg 44]</a></span> +was jostled by her agitation, and Lucy, +the cricket, and the trunk, all came +together upon the floor with a loud +noise.—Her aunt was just then at the +door; she was greatly alarmed by the +crash, but her fright was intolerable +when she entered the chamber; the +first glance told her what had happened.</p> + +<p>"O, my poor child," said she, "have +you <i>tasted it</i>," for the paper of sugar lay +scattered all around the floor. Lucy +was in such pain she could not answer, +but the sugar on her mouth spoke for +her,—"Oh run, run quickly for the +Doctor," said her aunt, "she has tasted +the arsenic!—she is poisoned!"</p> + +<p>The servant who had been alarmed +at the noise, and was with her in the +chamber, went instantly for the Doctor. +Poor Lucy, though she was suffering +dreadfully from a broken leg, heard<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[Pg 45]</a></span> +all her aunt had said, and she was +certain she had spoke the truth, her +countenance was so full of pity and of +fright; she well knew what she suffered +on her account. Lucy thought she +must surely die, and to die in the very +moment when she was sinning so sadly, +to die in consequence of her own wicked +conduct, to die in such agonies +and convulsions as this poison produces—how +shocking! she was already +in so much distress from her broken +leg, that it was exceedingly difficult to +get her on the bed. No one who has +not been so unfortunate as to break a +bone, can tell how very painful it is.</p> + +<p>At last the Doctor came; but before +he could set the bone and relieve the +distress in which poor Lucy lay, he +said "he must give her most disagreeable +medicines, for he feared he might +already be too late." No one could tell<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[Pg 46]</a></span> +how much or how little she had taken +of the arsenic, because it was all spilled +from the paper and mixed with +other things; so the Doctor gave her +the most powerful emetics. Fortunately +for Lucy she had spilled the most +of the poison as she carried it to her +mouth and had but tasted it, so that +the immediate attention prevented her +suffering so much from that as was expected; +but the fright and the pain +she endured, and the quantities of +medicine she took, all united to confine +her a long time, and made her +suffer prodigiously. Lucy remained +some months very feeble; she lost +much of the beauty which she had +prized so highly. She was but the +shadow of herself. The hours of penitence +and sorrow she had passed—the +tears of grief which had flowed for +her many transgressions during this long<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[Pg 47]</a></span> +confinement had reduced her strength, +but they purified her heart, her repentance +was sincere and her amendment +sure, because she was now in earnest.</p> + +<p>One day while her affectionate aunt +was sitting beside her, Lucy looked +into her mild, patient, and benevolent +face, bent over her in tenderness and +pity; and her little heart which had +been almost bursting with its load of +grief, could no longer contain its emotion. +"Oh, my dear, <i>kind</i>, forgiving +aunt," said she, "I do hope this last +dreadful lesson of experience will make +me a better girl. I would not learn +from you, though you talked to me so +very kindly and so often too. Nor +when I suffered so much from my foolish +and wicked conduct about the dress, +that disagreeable day at Brookline. +You shewed me then as clear as day, the +lesson my heavenly Father was teaching<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[Pg 48]</a></span> +me, by all the bad accidents I met +with and all the shame I felt; but I +soon forgot all that—though you told +me that if I did not correct my +faults with a little suffering, something +worse would be sent to me. And now my +great sins have brought this great punishment. +Oh my dear aunt," continued +Lucy, sobbing with deep repentance, +"tell me, shall I forget this too?—shall +I forget how patiently you have watched +by me all through my sickness, and +how kindly you have spoken to me, +just as if I had not brought it all on +myself—and though I have often, very +often been cross to Emily, and never +liked to share any of my good things +with her, she has left all her companions, +and all her plays and pleasures to +come and sit up in this dark, dull room, +to amuse me and wait upon me—shall +I—can I forget all this as I did the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[Pg 49]</a></span> +other things?"</p> + +<p>"No my dear, penitent girl," said her +aunt, kissing her affectionately, "you +have indeed paid most dearly, (as I +have feared you would) for your instruction. +I rejoice to see that you are +determined to improve by these painful +lessons, they will not I am sure be lost +upon you; God has mercifully spared +your life. When I think of your dreadful +fall, and all the circumstances of that +sad day, I am truly astonished that you +have lived through them all, that your +neck as well as your limbs was not +broken; and when I remember the +chance there was of your taking so +much of that horrible poison into your +stomach, as would have rendered all +medicines useless, I shudder at the +thought; you have felt the danger, and +have suffered much pain—you know +your own faults have caused it all—you<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[Pg 50]</a></span> +say you repent, and if you do so +sincerely you will amend."</p> + +<p>"Oh, I do, I do repent," sobbed +Lucy.</p> + +<p>"Then be comforted my love—you +will amend, and be forgiven, I am +certain, and we shall all have reason to +rejoice with you, and bless these distressing +but most useful lessons of +<i>experience</i>.</p> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Little Girl Who Was Taught by +Experience, by Anonymous + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LITTLE GIRL *** + +***** This file should be named 34614-h.htm or 34614-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/3/4/6/1/34614/ + +Produced by Heather Clark and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was +produced from images generously made available by The +Internet Archive) + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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