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Baptist, +Methodist, Congregationalist, Episcopal, Presbyterian and Reformed +Dutch. Not more than three of the members can be of the same +denomination, and no book can be published to which any member of the +Committee shall object. + +------------------------------------------------------------------------ + + + + + A DAY + IN + MARY CARROW’S SCHOOL. + + -------------------------------- + + +After the roll had been called, the little boys and girls were invited +to say a lesson first; because Mary, the teacher, thought the bigger +ones could better understand why they were to wait. + +They took their places in the class, and she gave out words of two +syllables for them to spell; such as Cam-el, Pea-cock, Hen-coop, +Par-lor, Tea-cup. + +When they had done spelling, she allowed them to ask questions. + +One little boy, whose name was Harry Linn, asked what a camel was? And +Mary took down a large book from the shelf, and showed him a picture of +a camel, and told him that it was a native both of Arabia and of Africa, +and that it could travel eight or nine days without water, over the +sandy deserts of those countries. It is covered with a hairy fur, which +it sheds in the spring, and this fur is used to make coarse cloth +shawls. The camel kneels down to receive burdens, and when it is loaded +it will rise again. + +Harry was very much surprised, when his teacher told him that the camel +could carry men and burdens like a horse or an ass, and could travel a +great distance with a weight of eight hundred or a thousand pounds upon +its back; and that it gave milk for drink, like a cow. + +Harry asked why we had not camels in America, instead of horses and +cows? + +Mary told him that God had made this a very large world, and that it is +divided into many countries. In some countries the weather is very hot, +and in some countries it is very cold. + +The animals and people, who are born in hot countries, such as Arabia +and Africa, could not endure the cold of America. They are happier and +more useful in the climate where they are born. + +And Mary said, our heavenly Father was so good and kind to every thing +that he had made, that he designed all animals, as well as little boys +and girls and men and women too, to be useful and happy where he placed +them. + +Harry asked if a little boy like him could be useful and happy? for +Harry was only four years old. + +Mary told him, yes; and that when she had leisure, she would read aloud +to him and his school-mates the story of a little girl who was only four +years old, who was happy because she was useful. + +Harry loved his teacher, because she was so kind to him, and though he +wanted very much to know how he could be useful and happy, he knew she +had not time to answer any more questions now; and he was willing to +wait, for his teacher always did what she said she would do, and Harry +was sure she would not forget her promise. + +So he went to his seat as the other little boys and girls did, and while +Mary heard the larger scholars say their definitions, Harry’s class made +O’s, and strokes, and pothooks on their slates, as they are called, in +this way. + +[Illustration: handwriting practice] + +Mary had only eight scholars, and she had leisure to attend to each one, +and make them understand all their lessons, that they might have +something to think about when they went home from school. + +On this morning the scholars were exercised in spelling, reading and +arithmetic. The large boys and girls did sums in multiplication and +subtraction, and the smaller ones made figures, after Mary had written a +line upon their slates for them thus:— + + 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0. + +After they had been two hours in school, Mary rang a little bell. As +soon as they heard it, they knew it was recess-time, and they all went +out to play for fifteen minutes. + +The school was in the country, on the farm where Harry Linn’s father and +mother lived, and Mary lived with them. + +Mary had been to the best schools to receive her education; and she was +very fond of two things—learning and children. So, she agreed to come +and live with Harry Linn’s father and mother, and teach school: and she +had five of the neighbouring children, besides Harry and his brother and +sister, for scholars. + +[Illustration: + + ~First Day.~ + The School House at the edge of the wood. p. 13. +] + +The school-room was built at the edge of a piece of “woods,” not far +from the house, and it was very cool and shady round about, all summer. + +In the winter, when the leaves had fallen off from the trees, the sun +shone in at the school-room windows, and it was so light and cheerful +that the teacher and her scholars liked to be there better than anywhere +else. + +Harry Linn’s father used to say that Mary’s face was sunshiny, because +it was so good-humoured. When her little flock went out to play, at +recess-time, she sometimes went too, for the sake of the exercise; and +they were always glad when Mary went with them. She would take turns +with them in jumping rope, and playing “Let us see who can run fastest;” +and she would show the boys how to trundle their hoops; and she knew how +to fix the paper sails to the little boats which the boys made for +themselves; and then she would take them along by the side of the little +brook of water that was down in the woods, and find a place for them +where they could stoop down without getting their feet wet, to sail +their boats. + +One of the home-made boats was such a fast sailer that Charles Linn, who +was quite a little carpenter, asked Mary to print a name on his boat. +She asked, “What shall its name be?” But they could not agree upon a +name, for one wanted one name, and another wanted something different. +So Mary cut up a piece of paper which she had in her hand into nine +slips; and then she went round to each scholar, and told every one to +whisper to her the name he or she liked best; and she wrote down the +choice of each one on a separate slip of the paper, and lastly, on the +ninth slip, she wrote down the name which she herself preferred. + +After this was done, Mary read the names written down, aloud. + +Two of the scholars had chosen the name of “Swan.” Three had chosen the +name of “Mary,” and four had chosen the name of “Water-witch.” So the +little fast-sailing boat was named “Water-witch.” I suppose they had +talked about this name before. + +“Now,” said Mary, “we will all go back to school;” and her happy little +scholars were ready to do as she wished. + +“All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.” + +Mary remembered her promise to Harry Linn, to read him a story which +would teach him how a little girl of four years old could be useful and +happy. And she said all who wished to hear it might put by their books +and slates, while she read it to them. + +They all liked to have Mary read to them, and all the scholars put up +their work to listen to her. + + + Story of Anne Lyle, + + A LITTLE GIRL OF FOUR YEARS OLD. + + A little girl am I, + With sisters, two, three, four, + A father, and a mother, + One brother, and no more. + + My name is Anne Lyle, + I hardly ever cry, + And in a little trundle-bed, + In mother’s room, I lie. + + I wait on my mamma, + And tend our little Will, + I play with him, and sing to him, + And try to keep him still. + + I play “Come, peaches buy”— + “Buy peaches, half a peck;” + Then Willy holds his arms both out, + To hug me round the neck. + + Pa rolls him all about, + And jumps him up and down; + He rides him on his foot, and says, + “Now here we go to town.” + + As soon as Willy hears + The front-door dead-latch key, + He knows it’s papa coming home, + He knows as well as we. + + And then we’re all so glad, + And Willy tries to say + After mamma—“Pa-pa come home, + With Wil-ly boy to play.” + + He cannot stand alone— + He creeps about the floor— + When mamma says, “Come, precious one!” + He laughs, and creeps some more. + + He’s little, and don’t know + He ought to mind my mother— + Pa says he’ll be a noble man, + My little baby brother. + + I’ve got a pretty dove, + My uncle gave to me, + And papa holds it on his hand + For little Will to see. + + He strokes its feathers down, + They feel as soft as silk, + And then I try if it will drink + Out of my bowl of milk. + + Trip wags his tail, and comes + To sit by papa’s feet; + When he is hungry, he will beg, + On his hind legs, for meat. + + I have a grandpapa: + He’s old, and cannot see— + He kisses me, and strokes my hair, + And holds me on his knee. + + We have a garden green, + Where pretty flowers grow; + When I walk there with grandpapa, + I lead him very slow. + + And I can bring his chair, + And a cricket for his feet, + And put away his hat and cane— + He calls me, “Anne, sweet!” + + He puts his face to mine, + He has shiny, soft, white hair; + And then he hugs me very close, + To feel if I am there. + + He tells me about God, + And teaches me to pray, + “Keep me, O heavenly Father, out + Of every naughty way.” + + My heavenly Father’s child, + Oh, I would like to be! + I love Him, I am very sure, + When I sit on grandpa’s knee. + + I love my father then, + And my little brother Will, + And everybody, and mamma, + And my sisters, and old Phil. + + Old Phil’s a beggar-man— + He goes from door to door + With a little basket on his arm, + Because he’s very poor. + + Poor Phil! he must be cold— + His clothes are full of holes; + He has no stockings, and his shoes + Are ragged in the soles. + + When I’m a bigger girl, + I’ll make old Phil some clothes, + And I’ll buy a pair of shoes for him + That won’t let out his toes. + + Mamma has made a place + For my pennies, in her drawer, + And she shows me how to put by some + For Phil, till I get more. + + Our cook is named Cathleen; + Nice gingerbread she bakes; + And little pies, with our names on, + She very often makes. + + Cathleen gets sick sometimes + In bed she has to stay; + And then I take to her up stairs + Some good things every day. + + I have four sisters: Kate, + Sophy, and Jane, and Grace; + And when they all come home from school, + We run a merry race. + + Mamma just looks at us, + With Willy on her lap, + And Willy jumps, and crows, and tries + His little hands to clap. + + Pa thinks it makes us grow, + To swing and play and run; + And grandpa says he likes young folks + To have a little fun. + + My grandpa cannot read + His Bible, now he’s blind, + But all the pretty stories there, + He knows just where to find. + + And when it gets quite dark, + Before I go to bed, + He says, “Come hither, Anne Lyle, + My little curly-head.” + + And when he takes me up, + Right in his face I look; + I love to sit and hear him tell + About the Holy Book. + + The stories there are true, + And I wish, on grandpa’s knee, + Some other little boys and girls + Could hear as well as me. + + When I go up to bed, + Ma stays by me awhile; + She says, “God keep thee safe and good, + My little Anne Lyle.” + + * * * * * + +Mary’s scholars were all very still and attentive while she was reading +to them about Anne Lyle, and when she had finished it, she asked Harry +if he did not think Anne Lyle was a useful, happy, little girl? She +waited on her mother, and walked in the garden with her blind, old +grandfather, and put away his hat and cane for him, and kept her little +brother quiet; and she was a kind little girl too, for she took +something good to the sick cook, and saved some of her pennies to buy +shoes for a poor beggar. + +Harry said, “Yes: and if I knew how, I would like to be useful too.” +Mary reminded him that one of his school-mates had lost her sponge, and +when she wanted to rub from her slate some crooked strokes that she had +made, she asked Harry for his sponge, and he had refused to lend it to +her, because he wanted it himself. + +“You might have been useful, then, Harry,” said Mary, “but you did not +choose to be so.” + +Harry hung his head and looked ashamed; but presently he ran away to his +desk, and brought out his sponge, and gave it to Lily Forester; (for +that was the little girl’s name who had asked him for it.) Lily said, +“Thank you, Harry,” and she cleaned her slate off nicely with it, and +gave it back to him. + +His teacher stroked Harry’s hair with her hand, and said, + +“Now, has not my little boy of four years old learned to be useful?” + +Harry hid his curly head behind Mary’s apron for a few moments, and then +he peeped up into her kind face, and she knew he meant Yes, though he +did not say any thing. + +“Oh,” said Mary, “my little Harry has discovered that he can be useful; +and that when he is useful, he is happy.” + +Harry scampered off, and sat close by Lily Forester till school was out. + +In the afternoon, Mary’s scholars were all collected around the +school-room door before she arrived. As soon as they saw her coming, +they ran to meet her, and Susan Field brought a bunch of beautiful +flowers for her. Mary was very fond of flowers, and she thanked Susan, +and said she would keep them in water for her little scholar’s sake. + +Then she took a china vase which she kept for flowers, and allowed all +her scholars to go with her down to the spring for fresh water; and she +filled the vase with water and arranged the flowers, and then she said, + +“Now we will all go to school, and enjoy them together.” + +Three afternoons in the week Mary taught her scholars to sew, and knit, +and work samplers on canvas. She thought every little girl should know +how to use the needle, and cut out garments. Then, when she grew up to +be a woman, she could keep her own wardrobe neatly, and be _helpful_ in +her family besides; and if she had leisure, after doing her share of the +family sewing, she could teach poor little children, and make garments +for the sick and old, who were not able to help themselves. + +This was sewing afternoon. As soon as they were all in their seats, Mary +took out a large work-basket, that was filled with little parcels, +nicely wrapped up, and the owner’s name was written on each parcel. Lily +Forester and Harry Linn stood beside Mary to pass along the work as she +gave it to them. They were the youngest scholars in the school, and they +were always glad when sewing afternoon came, because they could help +Mary. + +One girl had a pocket handkerchief to hem for her brother; one had some +patch-work; one was working a Bible-cover in cross-stitch; one was +learning to knit a garter; and little Lily’s work was an apron for her +doll, which Mary had fitted for her. + +While the girls were busied at their work, the boys, (except Harry +Linn,) stood up to say a geography lesson. + +Now, my little readers, whoever you may be, can you tell how many boys +were in the geography class? You will remember Mary had eight scholars. +Read over how many girls were at their sewing, then add to their number +Harry Linn, and say how many boys were in the class. + +Harry and Lily, somehow or other, always had their little heads close +together. Harry liked to help Lily, and Lily liked to help Harry. +Sometimes, like other little children, they quarrelled; but they soon +became friends again without any body’s help; and then Harry would say, +“Come, Lily, let us kiss and make up.” + +This afternoon, Harry asked leave to show Lily a picture-book which his +father had given him, and Mary told him he might sit by Lily, as soon as +she had finished a finger’s length of hemming. Harry waited till the +sewing was done, and then he sat close to Lily, and showed her his +picture-book. + +[Illustration: + + ~First Day.~ + One of Harry’s Pictures. p. 31. +] + +There was a picture of two little humming-birds and a nest; and one of a +horse, with a boy and a bag of flour on his back; and Harry told Lily, +the little boy was coming home from the mill, with a bag of flour to +make some cakes for supper; and Lily said, + +“Harry, I would like to have some of the cakes; wouldn’t you?” + +Harry’s book had more pictures than these two in it. There was one of a +little girl feeding chickens, and one of a shepherd and his sheep, and +one of a boy spinning a famous top. + +Lily liked the picture of the little girl feeding chickens best: and +Harry liked the picture of the boy and his top best. And Harry said to +Lily, + +“Lily, if you will look at my picture first, then I will look at your +picture;” but Lily was tired of looking at Harry’s picture; and she said +it was ugly; and she moved away from Harry. + +This offended Harry, and he told her he didn’t love her any more, and +she should not see his book. And he went away from Lily and took his +book with him. + +When the boys, who had been saying a geography lesson, had taken their +seats, Mary called Harry and Lily to come and repeat the multiplication +table. + +They did not come when they were called, and Mary knew from their looks +and behaviour, that they had been naughty. But she only said to them +again very mildly, + +“Come, Harry, come Lily,—it is almost recess-time, and you have not said +a lesson.” + +Harry came along very slowly, at first, and looking sidewise to see if +Lily was coming too. At length she took her place beside him, but they +missed their tables. They knew they had done wrong, and they felt very +unhappy, and they did not think enough about their tables to answer +correctly. + +When the scholars went out to play at recess-time, Harry and Lily did +not swing, and run, and play with one another. They walked about apart, +and they hardly knew what to do with themselves. + +Harry’s brother Charles went and got his fast-sailing little boat, and +ran back to the school-house to Mary, to ask her to print on it in large +letters, “The Water-witch.” + +Mary laid down her work and took a pen and did it for him immediately, +and he said, “I thank you,” and then he ran away, and all the scholars, +(boys and girls,) after him, down to the spring, to see how the boat +looked upon the water. + +She sailed beautifully, and there was quite a little fleet of boats +behind her, but the “Water-witch” went ahead of them all. + +While they were watching the boats the bell rang for school. + +Then Charles took his little boats, and all the boys and girls took +their hoops, and ropes, and all their playthings, and put them into a +little tool-house, which Charles Linn’s father allowed them to use for +that purpose; and Mary made a rule, that every thing must be put into +its proper place, so that even their playthings should not be lost. + +Then they all came back to school. Mary was there waiting for them. She +had not gone out with them this afternoon, but had stayed in school to +fit the girls’ work, and to set copies, in books, for the scholars who +used pen and ink, and on slates, for the smaller ones. + +When they returned from play, she called them up, one by one, to read, +and after each scholar had done reading, he went to his desk and wrote a +copy; and then Mary said, + +“It is now time to put up work.” The girls all rolled up their work, and +pinned their names on it, and held it in their hands till Harry and Lily +should come to get the different parcels and put them in the large +work-basket; but as Harry and Lily had been naughty, Mary did not ask +them to do it this time; so every girl put away her own work. Lily had +not learned to fold up hers, and put it away neatly, and she usually +brought it to Mary, and said, + +“Please, Mary, fold up mine?” and Mary folded it up for her, and Lily +always watched how it was done, so that she might learn. We can learn a +great deal by the right use of our eyes. + +This afternoon Lily brought her work to Mary, and turned away her head, +while Mary put it away, but she did not say “thank you,” as usual. + +Mary now went round to see if all the desks were in order. One little +girl, Carry Deacon, said her desk would not hold all her things, and she +tried her best to get them all in, but she could not; so Mary went to +her and had her to take every thing out of the desk first, and then she +showed her how to arrange her reading book and her spelling book, and +her other books, all on one side of the desk, and her slate on the other +side; and then there was plenty of room for all. + +Mary looked into every scholar’s desk, to see that it was neatly +arranged; and if she found it out of order, she would point to some +large letters that were printed over the mantel-piece. + +“Would my little readers like to know what those large letters were?” + +I will tell them. + + A PLACE FOR EVERY THING, + AND + EVERY THING IN ITS PLACE. + +If Mary’s scholars wanted her aid about any thing, she would always help +them, and they knew that she never required any thing of them, which +could not be done. + +At the close of every afternoon school, it was Mary’s practice to gather +her little flock round her, and read to them out of the Bible. +Sometimes, when the weather was very warm, she took them out into the +woods, and sat down with them on the grass under a large oak tree. They +liked to go out of doors to read; for they loved Mary, and they could +sit very close to her under the oak tree while she read to them. Eddy +Forester said he liked to read out of doors, for it seemed as if God was +listening, up in the sky. + +It was a very warm afternoon, and Mary said she would read under the oak +tree. + +Eddy Forester carried the Bible, and when they were all seated, Mary +read to them the history of little Samuel, and how his heavenly Father +called him when he lay down to sleep in the temple. + +After Mary had done reading, Eddy Forester asked, why little Samuel went +to Eli to inquire if he called him, when it was the Lord that called +him? + +Mary said, “Samuel was a very little boy, and he did not know that it +was the Lord who had spoken to him. Our heavenly Father often speaks to +little children now by his good Spirit, when they are too young to +understand who it is that speaks to them. + +“When we do right, we feel something which seems to say to us, ‘Well +done!’ and then we are happy; and when we do wrong, we feel something +which seems to say to us that it is wrong, and then we are unhappy.” + +“Is it the Lord that makes us feel so?” asked Susan Field? + +“Certainly,” said Mary, “and we should be very thankful to him that we +are not happy when we have done that which we know to be wrong; and we +should pray that God would teach us by his Holy Spirit what is right and +what is wrong, and make us understand and love what he has taught us in +the Bible.” + +“Oh, yes!” said Eddy Forester, “I know what you mean, for my mother told +me—the other day, when I snatched an apple from George because he would +not give me a bite of it—she told me that I did not enjoy eating the +apple, and it did not taste good to me, because I had been very naughty +to take it away from George, and that our heavenly Father’s good Spirit +was rebuking me and making me feel unhappy all the time I was eating +George’s apple.” + +While Eddy was talking, little Lily came and sat by Mary, and now she +was sobbing and crying out aloud. + +The scholars all wondered what was the matter with Lily, but Mary said, + +“Never mind, Lily, now;” and she only drew Lily close to her and said, +“Don’t cry, Lily dear.” + +Harry Linn crept round to Lily very quietly, and took out his little +picture-book, and whispered to her, “Here, Lily.” + +But she was too much distressed to notice Harry, though he got as near +to her as ever he could. + +Mary now asked Eddy Forester to go on with what he was saying, but Eddy +said he had done, and that he was glad the Lord spoke to little children +now, even if they did not hear any voice, as Samuel did. + +Mary wished her little scholars to understand what she read to them, and +she encouraged them to ask questions, at suitable times. + +She now told them if they had no more questions to ask, they might go +home; all but Harry and Lily. So, they came one by one, and kissed Mary +and went home. + +Eddy Forester said he would wait for Lily; but Mary told him she would +bring Lily home, and he might tell his mother that she kept Lily and +Harry Linn to talk to them. + +After Eddy was gone, Mary took Lily up in her arms, and then she called +Harry to her, and told him to wipe off Lily’s tears; and Harry took his +handkerchief out of his pocket and wiped Lily’s face, and he said, + +“Lily, will you love me again? and then I’ll love you, and you may look +at the little girl feeding her chickens as long as you like.” + +Lily said, “I do love you, Harry,” and she put her arms round Harry’s +neck and they kissed one another. + +Then Mary tied on Lily’s bonnet for her, and Harry put on his hat, and +carried the Bible back to the school-room for his teacher. + +Mary locked up the school-room door and put the key in her pocket, and +then she took a hand of each of her little scholars, and said, + +“Now, Harry, you and I will go home with Lily, shall we?” + +You will remember, my little readers, that Mary lived with Harry Linn. +As they walked along, Harry seemed to be thinking about something, and +at last he said, + +“Mary, does our heavenly Father ever speak to little children like me +and Lily?” + +Mary said, “Yes! Harry, he has been speaking to you both, since you were +naughty. You sinned against his good Spirit when you quarrelled, and he +made you feel very unhappy because you were so disobliging to one +another, and had forgotten that he had told you to love one another. But +I hope you will hereafter know and obey his voice.” + +“Oh!” said Lily, “I love to hear my heavenly Father’s voice.” + +“So do I,” said Harry, “it makes me feel so happy.” + +“You feel happy because you _obeyed_ His voice,” said Mary, “and we are +always happy when we are obedient to God. He loves us so much, and is so +kind to us, that he never tells us to do any thing that we cannot do; +and if it seems hard, and we ask him, he will help us to do it. He tells +little children to do very little things, because he loves them, and he +knows they are too little to do great things.” + +“I hope our heavenly Father will talk to me and Lily often,” said Harry, +“do you think he will, Mary?” + +“Yes, if you are good children.” + +“And will he show us how to be good?” asked Lily. + +“Oh, yes,” Mary said, “for you know he showed little Samuel what he +would have him do.” + +“Does he love Lily and me as much as he loved little Samuel, Mary,” said +Harry. + +Mary told him that God loved all little children, and he sent our +Saviour to bless them and to bring them to him. Do you remember, Harry, +what our Saviour said about little children? + +“Yes,” said Harry, “He said, ‘Suffer little children to come unto me, +and forbid them not!’” + +Now we are at Lily’s home. + +Mary took Lily in to her mother, and told her that she kept Lily to talk +to her, and Lily’s mother said, + +“I am glad to see my little daughter, for her supper of nice bread and +milk is all ready for her.” + +Lily’s mother asked Mary and Harry to stay and eat supper; but Mary said +they had not leave to stay, and Harry’s father and mother would not know +where they were, if they stayed. So she thanked Lily’s mother for her +invitation, and then she and Harry kissed Lily, and bade her good-night. +And Mary and Harry went home. + +[Illustration: THE END] + +------------------------------------------------------------------------ + + =TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE:= + + Italics, bold letters, small capitals and black letter font + have been converted to _ = ALL CAPS and ~ respectively. + + Perceived typos have been silently corrected. + + Inconsistencies in hyphenation have been standardized. + + Archaic or variant spelling has been retained. + + + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 75343 *** diff --git a/75343-h/75343-h.htm b/75343-h/75343-h.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d33ba74 --- /dev/null +++ b/75343-h/75343-h.htm @@ -0,0 +1,1113 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html> +<html lang="en"> + <head> + <meta charset="UTF-8"> + <title>A Day in Mary Carrow’s School | Project Gutenberg</title> + <link rel="icon" href="images/icover.jpg" type="image/x-cover"> + <style> + body { margin-left: 8%; 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Baptist, Methodist, Congregationalist, +Episcopal, Presbyterian and Reformed Dutch. Not more than +three of the members can be of the same denomination, and no book can be +published to which any member of the Committee shall object.</p> +<div class='pbb'> + <hr class='pb c001'> +</div> + +<div class='chapter'> + <span class='pageno' id='Page_7'>7</span> + <h2 class='c005'><span class='xlarge'>A DAY</span><br>IN<br><span class='xlarge'>MARY CARROW’S SCHOOL.</span></h2> +</div> +<hr class='c006'> + +<p class='c007'>After the roll had been called, the little +boys and girls were invited to say a lesson +first; because Mary, the teacher, thought the +bigger ones could better understand why +they were to wait.</p> + +<p class='c008'>They took their places in the class, and +she gave out words of two syllables for them +to spell; such as Cam-el, Pea-cock, Hen-coop, +Par-lor, Tea-cup.</p> + +<p class='c008'><span class='pageno' id='Page_8'>8</span>When they had done spelling, she allowed +them to ask questions.</p> + +<p class='c008'>One little boy, whose name was Harry +Linn, asked what a camel was? And Mary +took down a large book from the shelf, and +showed him a picture of a camel, and told +him that it was a native both of Arabia and +of Africa, and that it could travel eight or +nine days without water, over the sandy +deserts of those countries. It is covered with +a hairy fur, which it sheds in the spring, +and this fur is used to make coarse cloth +shawls. The camel kneels down to receive +burdens, and when it is loaded it will rise +again.</p> + +<p class='c008'>Harry was very much surprised, when +his teacher told him that the camel could +<span class='pageno' id='Page_9'>9</span>carry men and burdens like a horse or an +ass, and could travel a great distance with a +weight of eight hundred or a thousand pounds +upon its back; and that it gave milk for +drink, like a cow.</p> + +<p class='c008'>Harry asked why we had not camels in +America, instead of horses and cows?</p> + +<p class='c008'>Mary told him that God had made this +a very large world, and that it is divided +into many countries. In some countries the +weather is very hot, and in some countries +it is very cold.</p> + +<p class='c008'>The animals and people, who are born in +hot countries, such as Arabia and Africa, +could not endure the cold of America. They +are happier and more useful in the climate +where they are born.</p> + +<p class='c008'><span class='pageno' id='Page_10'>10</span>And Mary said, our heavenly Father was +so good and kind to every thing that he had +made, that he designed all animals, as well +as little boys and girls and men and women +too, to be useful and happy where he placed +them.</p> + +<p class='c008'>Harry asked if a little boy like him could +be useful and happy? for Harry was only +four years old.</p> + +<p class='c008'>Mary told him, yes; and that when she +had leisure, she would read aloud to him +and his school-mates the story of a little +girl who was only four years old, who was +happy because she was useful.</p> + +<p class='c008'>Harry loved his teacher, because she was +so kind to him, and though he wanted very +much to know how he could be useful and +<span class='pageno' id='Page_11'>11</span>happy, he knew she had not time to answer +any more questions now; and he was willing +to wait, for his teacher always did what she +said she would do, and Harry was sure she +would not forget her promise.</p> + +<p class='c008'>So he went to his seat as the other little +boys and girls did, and while Mary heard +the larger scholars say their definitions, +Harry’s class made O’s, and strokes, and pothooks +on their slates, as they are called, in +this way.</p> + +<div class='figcenter id003'> +<img src='images/i011.jpg' alt='handwriting practice' class='ig001'> +</div> + +<p class='c008'>Mary had only eight scholars, and she had +leisure to attend to each one, and make them +understand all their lessons, that they might +have something to think about when they +went home from school.</p> + +<p class='c008'><span class='pageno' id='Page_12'>12</span>On this morning the scholars were exercised +in spelling, reading and arithmetic. +The large boys and girls did sums in multiplication +and subtraction, and the smaller +ones made figures, after Mary had written +a line upon their slates for them thus:—</p> + +<div class='nf-center-c1'> + <div class='nf-center'> + <div><span class='large'>1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0.</span></div> + </div> +</div> + +<p class='c008'>After they had been two hours in school, +Mary rang a little bell. As soon as they +heard it, they knew it was recess-time, and +they all went out to play for fifteen minutes.</p> + +<p class='c008'>The school was in the country, on the +farm where Harry Linn’s father and mother +lived, and Mary lived with them.</p> + +<p class='c008'>Mary had been to the best schools to receive +her education; and she was very fond +of two things—learning and children. So, +<span class='pageno' id='Page_13'>13</span>she agreed to come and live with Harry +Linn’s father and mother, and teach school: +and she had five of the neighbouring children, +besides Harry and his brother and sister, +for scholars.</p> + +<div class='figcenter id004'> +<img src='images/i014.jpg' alt='' class='ig001'> +<div class='ic002'> +<p><b class="old-english">First Day.</b><br> The School House at the edge of the wood. p. <a href='#Page_13'>13</a>.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<p class='c008'>The school-room was built at the edge of +a piece of “woods,” not far from the house, +and it was very cool and shady round about, +all summer.</p> + +<p class='c008'>In the winter, when the leaves had fallen +off from the trees, the sun shone in at the +school-room windows, and it was so light and +cheerful that the teacher and her scholars +liked to be there better than anywhere else.</p> + +<p class='c008'>Harry Linn’s father used to say that +Mary’s face was sunshiny, because it was +so good-humoured. When her little flock +<span class='pageno' id='Page_14'>14</span>went out to play, at recess-time, she sometimes +went too, for the sake of the exercise; +and they were always glad when Mary +went with them. She would take turns +with them in jumping rope, and playing +“Let us see who can run fastest;” and she +would show the boys how to trundle their +hoops; and she knew how to fix the paper +sails to the little boats which the boys made +for themselves; and then she would take them +along by the side of the little brook of water +that was down in the woods, and find a place +for them where they could stoop down without +getting their feet wet, to sail their boats.</p> + +<p class='c008'>One of the home-made boats was such a +fast sailer that Charles Linn, who was quite +a little carpenter, asked Mary to print +<span class='pageno' id='Page_15'>15</span>a name on his boat. She asked, “What shall +its name be?” But they could not agree upon +a name, for one wanted one name, and +another wanted something different. So +Mary cut up a piece of paper which she had +in her hand into nine slips; and then she +went round to each scholar, and told every +one to whisper to her the name he or she +liked best; and she wrote down the choice +of each one on a separate slip of the paper, +and lastly, on the ninth slip, she wrote down +the name which she herself preferred.</p> + +<p class='c008'>After this was done, Mary read the names +written down, aloud.</p> + +<p class='c008'>Two of the scholars had chosen the name +of “Swan.” Three had chosen the name of +“Mary,” and four had chosen the name of +<span class='pageno' id='Page_16'>16</span>“Water-witch.” So the little fast-sailing +boat was named “Water-witch.” I suppose +they had talked about this name before.</p> + +<p class='c008'>“Now,” said Mary, “we will all go back +to school;” and her happy little scholars were +ready to do as she wished.</p> + +<p class='c008'>“All work and no play makes Jack a +dull boy.”</p> + +<p class='c008'>Mary remembered her promise to Harry +Linn, to read him a story which would teach +him how a little girl of four years old could +be useful and happy. And she said all who +wished to hear it might put by their books +and slates, while she read it to them.</p> + +<p class='c008'>They all liked to have Mary read to them, +and all the scholars put up their work to +listen to her.</p> + +<div> + <span class='pageno' id='Page_17'>17</span> + <h3 class='c009'><span class='xlarge'>Story of Anne Lyle,</span></h3> +</div> + +<div class='nf-center-c1'> +<div class='nf-center c001'> + <div>A LITTLE GIRL OF FOUR YEARS OLD.</div> + </div> +</div> + +<div class='lg-container-b'> + <div class='linegroup'> + <div class='group'> + <div class='line'>A little girl am I,</div> + <div class='line in2'>With sisters, two, three, four,</div> + <div class='line'>A father, and a mother,</div> + <div class='line in2'>One brother, and no more.</div> + </div> + <div class='group'> + <div class='line'>My name is Anne Lyle,</div> + <div class='line in2'>I hardly ever cry,</div> + <div class='line'>And in a little trundle-bed,</div> + <div class='line in2'>In mother’s room, I lie.</div> + </div> + <div class='group'> + <div class='line'>I wait on my mamma,</div> + <div class='line in2'>And tend our little Will,</div> + <div class='line'>I play with him, and sing to him,</div> + <div class='line in2'>And try to keep him still.</div> + </div> + <div class='group'> + <div class='line'>I play “Come, peaches buy”—</div> + <div class='line in2'>“Buy peaches, half a peck;”</div> + <div class='line'>Then Willy holds his arms both out,</div> + <div class='line in2'>To hug me round the neck.</div> + </div> + <div class='group'> + <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_18'>18</span>Pa rolls him all about,</div> + <div class='line in2'>And jumps him up and down;</div> + <div class='line'>He rides him on his foot, and says,</div> + <div class='line in2'>“Now here we go to town.”</div> + </div> + <div class='group'> + <div class='line'>As soon as Willy hears</div> + <div class='line in2'>The front-door dead-latch key,</div> + <div class='line'>He knows it’s papa coming home,</div> + <div class='line in2'>He knows as well as we.</div> + </div> + <div class='group'> + <div class='line'>And then we’re all so glad,</div> + <div class='line in2'>And Willy tries to say</div> + <div class='line'>After mamma—“Pa-pa come home,</div> + <div class='line in2'>With Wil-ly boy to play.”</div> + </div> + <div class='group'> + <div class='line'>He cannot stand alone—</div> + <div class='line in2'>He creeps about the floor—</div> + <div class='line'>When mamma says, “Come, precious one!”</div> + <div class='line in2'>He laughs, and creeps some more.</div> + </div> + <div class='group'> + <div class='line'>He’s little, and don’t know</div> + <div class='line in2'>He ought to mind my mother—</div> + <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_19'>19</span>Pa says he’ll be a noble man,</div> + <div class='line in2'>My little baby brother.</div> + </div> + <div class='group'> + <div class='line'>I’ve got a pretty dove,</div> + <div class='line in2'>My uncle gave to me,</div> + <div class='line'>And papa holds it on his hand</div> + <div class='line in2'>For little Will to see.</div> + </div> + <div class='group'> + <div class='line'>He strokes its feathers down,</div> + <div class='line in2'>They feel as soft as silk,</div> + <div class='line'>And then I try if it will drink</div> + <div class='line in2'>Out of my bowl of milk.</div> + </div> + <div class='group'> + <div class='line'>Trip wags his tail, and comes</div> + <div class='line in2'>To sit by papa’s feet;</div> + <div class='line'>When he is hungry, he will beg,</div> + <div class='line in2'>On his hind legs, for meat.</div> + </div> + <div class='group'> + <div class='line'>I have a grandpapa:</div> + <div class='line in2'>He’s old, and cannot see—</div> + <div class='line'>He kisses me, and strokes my hair,</div> + <div class='line in2'>And holds me on his knee.</div> + </div> + <div class='group'> + <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_20'>20</span>We have a garden green,</div> + <div class='line in2'>Where pretty flowers grow;</div> + <div class='line'>When I walk there with grandpapa,</div> + <div class='line in2'>I lead him very slow.</div> + </div> + <div class='group'> + <div class='line'>And I can bring his chair,</div> + <div class='line in2'>And a cricket for his feet,</div> + <div class='line'>And put away his hat and cane—</div> + <div class='line in2'>He calls me, “Anne, sweet!”</div> + </div> + <div class='group'> + <div class='line'>He puts his face to mine,</div> + <div class='line in2'>He has shiny, soft, white hair;</div> + <div class='line'>And then he hugs me very close,</div> + <div class='line in2'>To feel if I am there.</div> + </div> + <div class='group'> + <div class='line'>He tells me about God,</div> + <div class='line in2'>And teaches me to pray,</div> + <div class='line'>“Keep me, O heavenly Father, out</div> + <div class='line in2'>Of every naughty way.”</div> + </div> + <div class='group'> + <div class='line'>My heavenly Father’s child,</div> + <div class='line in2'>Oh, I would like to be!</div> + <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_21'>21</span>I love Him, I am very sure,</div> + <div class='line in2'>When I sit on grandpa’s knee.</div> + </div> + <div class='group'> + <div class='line'>I love my father then,</div> + <div class='line in2'>And my little brother Will,</div> + <div class='line'>And everybody, and mamma,</div> + <div class='line in2'>And my sisters, and old Phil.</div> + </div> + <div class='group'> + <div class='line'>Old Phil’s a beggar-man—</div> + <div class='line in2'>He goes from door to door</div> + <div class='line'>With a little basket on his arm,</div> + <div class='line in2'>Because he’s very poor.</div> + </div> + <div class='group'> + <div class='line'>Poor Phil! he must be cold—</div> + <div class='line in2'>His clothes are full of holes;</div> + <div class='line'>He has no stockings, and his shoes</div> + <div class='line in2'>Are ragged in the soles.</div> + </div> + <div class='group'> + <div class='line'>When I’m a bigger girl,</div> + <div class='line in2'>I’ll make old Phil some clothes,</div> + <div class='line'>And I’ll buy a pair of shoes for him</div> + <div class='line in2'>That won’t let out his toes.</div> + </div> + <div class='group'> + <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_22'>22</span>Mamma has made a place</div> + <div class='line in2'>For my pennies, in her drawer,</div> + <div class='line'>And she shows me how to put by some</div> + <div class='line in2'>For Phil, till I get more.</div> + </div> + <div class='group'> + <div class='line'>Our cook is named Cathleen;</div> + <div class='line in2'>Nice gingerbread she bakes;</div> + <div class='line'>And little pies, with our names on,</div> + <div class='line in2'>She very often makes.</div> + </div> + <div class='group'> + <div class='line'>Cathleen gets sick sometimes</div> + <div class='line in2'>In bed she has to stay;</div> + <div class='line'>And then I take to her up stairs</div> + <div class='line in2'>Some good things every day.</div> + </div> + <div class='group'> + <div class='line'>I have four sisters: Kate,</div> + <div class='line in2'>Sophy, and Jane, and Grace;</div> + <div class='line'>And when they all come home from school,</div> + <div class='line in2'>We run a merry race.</div> + </div> + <div class='group'> + <div class='line'>Mamma just looks at us,</div> + <div class='line in2'>With Willy on her lap,</div> + <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_23'>23</span>And Willy jumps, and crows, and tries</div> + <div class='line in2'>His little hands to clap.</div> + </div> + <div class='group'> + <div class='line'>Pa thinks it makes us grow,</div> + <div class='line in2'>To swing and play and run;</div> + <div class='line'>And grandpa says he likes young folks</div> + <div class='line in2'>To have a little fun.</div> + </div> + <div class='group'> + <div class='line'>My grandpa cannot read</div> + <div class='line in2'>His Bible, now he’s blind,</div> + <div class='line'>But all the pretty stories there,</div> + <div class='line in2'>He knows just where to find.</div> + </div> + <div class='group'> + <div class='line'>And when it gets quite dark,</div> + <div class='line in2'>Before I go to bed,</div> + <div class='line'>He says, “Come hither, Anne Lyle,</div> + <div class='line in2'>My little curly-head.”</div> + </div> + <div class='group'> + <div class='line'>And when he takes me up,</div> + <div class='line in2'>Right in his face I look;</div> + <div class='line'>I love to sit and hear him tell</div> + <div class='line in2'>About the Holy Book.</div> + </div> + <div class='group'> + <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_24'>24</span>The stories there are true,</div> + <div class='line in2'>And I wish, on grandpa’s knee,</div> + <div class='line'>Some other little boys and girls</div> + <div class='line in2'>Could hear as well as me.</div> + </div> + <div class='group'> + <div class='line'>When I go up to bed,</div> + <div class='line in2'>Ma stays by me awhile;</div> + <div class='line'>She says, “God keep thee safe and good,</div> + <div class='line in2'>My little Anne Lyle.”</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<p class='c008'>Mary’s scholars were all very still and attentive +while she was reading to them about +Anne Lyle, and when she had finished it, +she asked Harry if he did not think Anne +Lyle was a useful, happy, little girl? She +waited on her mother, and walked in the +garden with her blind, old grandfather, and +put away his hat and cane for him, and kept +<span class='pageno' id='Page_25'>25</span>her little brother quiet; and she was a kind +little girl too, for she took something good to +the sick cook, and saved some of her pennies +to buy shoes for a poor beggar.</p> + +<p class='c008'>Harry said, “Yes: and if I knew how, I +would like to be useful too.” Mary reminded +him that one of his school-mates had lost her +sponge, and when she wanted to rub from +her slate some crooked strokes that she had +made, she asked Harry for his sponge, and he +had refused to lend it to her, because he +wanted it himself.</p> + +<p class='c008'>“You might have been useful, then, +Harry,” said Mary, “but you did not choose +to be so.”</p> + +<p class='c008'>Harry hung his head and looked ashamed; +but presently he ran away to his desk, and +<span class='pageno' id='Page_26'>26</span>brought out his sponge, and gave it to Lily +Forester; (for that was the little girl’s name +who had asked him for it.) Lily said, “Thank +you, Harry,” and she cleaned her slate off +nicely with it, and gave it back to him.</p> + +<p class='c008'>His teacher stroked Harry’s hair with her +hand, and said,</p> + +<p class='c008'>“Now, has not my little boy of four years +old learned to be useful?”</p> + +<p class='c008'>Harry hid his curly head behind Mary’s +apron for a few moments, and then he peeped +up into her kind face, and she knew he meant +Yes, though he did not say any thing.</p> + +<p class='c008'>“Oh,” said Mary, “my little Harry has +discovered that he can be useful; and that +when he is useful, he is happy.”</p> + +<p class='c008'><span class='pageno' id='Page_27'>27</span>Harry scampered off, and sat close by Lily +Forester till school was out.</p> + +<p class='c008'>In the afternoon, Mary’s scholars were all +collected around the school-room door before +she arrived. As soon as they saw her coming, +they ran to meet her, and Susan Field +brought a bunch of beautiful flowers for her. +Mary was very fond of flowers, and she +thanked Susan, and said she would keep +them in water for her little scholar’s sake.</p> + +<p class='c008'>Then she took a china vase which she +kept for flowers, and allowed all her scholars +to go with her down to the spring for fresh +water; and she filled the vase with water +and arranged the flowers, and then she said,</p> + +<p class='c008'>“Now we will all go to school, and enjoy +them together.”</p> + +<p class='c008'><span class='pageno' id='Page_28'>28</span>Three afternoons in the week Mary taught +her scholars to sew, and knit, and work samplers +on canvas. She thought every little girl +should know how to use the needle, and cut +out garments. Then, when she grew up +to be a woman, she could keep her own +wardrobe neatly, and be <i>helpful</i> in her family +besides; and if she had leisure, after doing +her share of the family sewing, she could +teach poor little children, and make garments +for the sick and old, who were not able to +help themselves.</p> + +<p class='c008'>This was sewing afternoon. As soon as +they were all in their seats, Mary took out a +large work-basket, that was filled with little +parcels, nicely wrapped up, and the owner’s +name was written on each parcel. Lily Forester +<span class='pageno' id='Page_29'>29</span>and Harry Linn stood beside Mary to +pass along the work as she gave it to them. +They were the youngest scholars in the +school, and they were always glad when +sewing afternoon came, because they could +help Mary.</p> + +<p class='c008'>One girl had a pocket handkerchief to hem +for her brother; one had some patch-work; +one was working a Bible-cover in cross-stitch; +one was learning to knit a garter; and little +Lily’s work was an apron for her doll, which +Mary had fitted for her.</p> + +<p class='c008'>While the girls were busied at their work, +the boys, (except Harry Linn,) stood up to +say a geography lesson.</p> + +<p class='c008'>Now, my little readers, whoever you may +be, can you tell how many boys were in the +<span class='pageno' id='Page_30'>30</span>geography class? You will remember Mary +had eight scholars. Read over how many +girls were at their sewing, then add to their +number Harry Linn, and say how many boys +were in the class.</p> + +<p class='c008'>Harry and Lily, somehow or other, always +had their little heads close together. Harry +liked to help Lily, and Lily liked to help +Harry. Sometimes, like other little children, +they quarrelled; but they soon became friends +again without any body’s help; and then +Harry would say, “Come, Lily, let us kiss +and make up.”</p> + +<p class='c008'>This afternoon, Harry asked leave to show +Lily a picture-book which his father had +given him, and Mary told him he might sit +by Lily, as soon as she had finished a finger’s +<span class='pageno' id='Page_31'>31</span>length of hemming. Harry waited till +the sewing was done, and then he sat close +to Lily, and showed her his picture-book.</p> + +<div class='figcenter id004'> +<img src='images/i034.jpg' alt='' class='ig001'> +<div class='ic002'> +<p><b class="old-english">First Day.</b><br> One of Harry’s Pictures. p. <a href='#Page_31'>31</a>.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<p class='c008'>There was a picture of two little humming-birds +and a nest; and one of a horse, +with a boy and a bag of flour on his back; +and Harry told Lily, the little boy was coming +home from the mill, with a bag of flour to +make some cakes for supper; and Lily said,</p> + +<p class='c008'>“Harry, I would like to have some of the +cakes; wouldn’t you?”</p> + +<p class='c008'>Harry’s book had more pictures than these +two in it. There was one of a little girl +feeding chickens, and one of a shepherd and +his sheep, and one of a boy spinning a +famous top.</p> + +<p class='c008'>Lily liked the picture of the little girl +<span class='pageno' id='Page_32'>32</span>feeding chickens best: and Harry liked the +picture of the boy and his top best. And +Harry said to Lily,</p> + +<p class='c008'>“Lily, if you will look at my picture first, +then I will look at your picture;” but Lily +was tired of looking at Harry’s picture; and +she said it was ugly; and she moved away +from Harry.</p> + +<p class='c008'>This offended Harry, and he told her he +didn’t love her any more, and she should not +see his book. And he went away from Lily +and took his book with him.</p> + +<p class='c008'>When the boys, who had been saying a +geography lesson, had taken their seats, +Mary called Harry and Lily to come and repeat +the multiplication table.</p> + +<p class='c008'>They did not come when they were called, +<span class='pageno' id='Page_33'>33</span>and Mary knew from their looks and behaviour, +that they had been naughty. But +she only said to them again very mildly,</p> + +<p class='c008'>“Come, Harry, come Lily,—it is almost +recess-time, and you have not said a lesson.”</p> + +<p class='c008'>Harry came along very slowly, at first, and +looking sidewise to see if Lily was coming too. +At length she took her place beside him, but +they missed their tables. They knew they +had done wrong, and they felt very unhappy, +and they did not think enough about their +tables to answer correctly.</p> + +<p class='c008'>When the scholars went out to play at +recess-time, Harry and Lily did not swing, +and run, and play with one another. They +walked about apart, and they hardly knew +what to do with themselves.</p> + +<p class='c008'><span class='pageno' id='Page_34'>34</span>Harry’s brother Charles went and got his +fast-sailing little boat, and ran back to the +school-house to Mary, to ask her to print on +it in large letters, “The Water-witch.”</p> + +<p class='c008'>Mary laid down her work and took a pen +and did it for him immediately, and he said, +“I thank you,” and then he ran away, +and all the scholars, (boys and girls,) after +him, down to the spring, to see how the boat +looked upon the water.</p> + +<p class='c008'>She sailed beautifully, and there was quite +a little fleet of boats behind her, but the +“Water-witch” went ahead of them all.</p> + +<p class='c008'>While they were watching the boats the +bell rang for school.</p> + +<p class='c008'>Then Charles took his little boats, and all +the boys and girls took their hoops, and ropes, +<span class='pageno' id='Page_35'>35</span>and all their playthings, and put them into +a little tool-house, which Charles Linn’s father +allowed them to use for that purpose; and +Mary made a rule, that every thing must be +put into its proper place, so that even their +playthings should not be lost.</p> + +<p class='c008'>Then they all came back to school. Mary +was there waiting for them. She had not +gone out with them this afternoon, but had +stayed in school to fit the girls’ work, and +to set copies, in books, for the scholars who +used pen and ink, and on slates, for the +smaller ones.</p> + +<p class='c008'>When they returned from play, she called +them up, one by one, to read, and after each +scholar had done reading, he went to his +desk and wrote a copy; and then Mary said,</p> + +<p class='c008'><span class='pageno' id='Page_36'>36</span>“It is now time to put up work.” The +girls all rolled up their work, and pinned +their names on it, and held it in their hands +till Harry and Lily should come to get the +different parcels and put them in the large +work-basket; but as Harry and Lily had +been naughty, Mary did not ask them to do +it this time; so every girl put away her own +work. Lily had not learned to fold up hers, +and put it away neatly, and she usually +brought it to Mary, and said,</p> + +<p class='c008'>“Please, Mary, fold up mine?” and Mary +folded it up for her, and Lily always watched +how it was done, so that she might learn. +We can learn a great deal by the right use +of our eyes.</p> + +<p class='c008'>This afternoon Lily brought her work to +<span class='pageno' id='Page_37'>37</span>Mary, and turned away her head, while +Mary put it away, but she did not say +“thank you,” as usual.</p> + +<p class='c008'>Mary now went round to see if all the +desks were in order. One little girl, Carry +Deacon, said her desk would not hold all +her things, and she tried her best to get them +all in, but she could not; so Mary went to +her and had her to take every thing out of +the desk first, and then she showed her how +to arrange her reading book and her spelling +book, and her other books, all on one side of +the desk, and her slate on the other side; +and then there was plenty of room for all.</p> + +<p class='c008'>Mary looked into every scholar’s desk, to +see that it was neatly arranged; and if she +found it out of order, she would point to some +<span class='pageno' id='Page_38'>38</span>large letters that were printed over the mantel-piece.</p> + +<p class='c008'>“Would my little readers like to know +what those large letters were?”</p> + +<p class='c008'>I will tell them.</p> + +<div class='nf-center-c1'> + <div class='nf-center'> + <div>A PLACE FOR EVERY THING,</div> + <div>AND</div> + <div>EVERY THING IN ITS PLACE.</div> + </div> +</div> + +<p class='c008'>If Mary’s scholars wanted her aid about +any thing, she would always help them, and +they knew that she never required any thing +of them, which could not be done.</p> + +<p class='c008'>At the close of every afternoon school, it +was Mary’s practice to gather her little flock +round her, and read to them out of the Bible. +Sometimes, when the weather was very +<span class='pageno' id='Page_39'>39</span>warm, she took them out into the woods, and +sat down with them on the grass under a +large oak tree. They liked to go out of doors +to read; for they loved Mary, and they could +sit very close to her under the oak tree while +she read to them. Eddy Forester said he +liked to read out of doors, for it seemed as +if God was listening, up in the sky.</p> + +<p class='c008'>It was a very warm afternoon, and Mary +said she would read under the oak tree.</p> + +<p class='c008'>Eddy Forester carried the Bible, and when +they were all seated, Mary read to them the +history of little Samuel, and how his heavenly +Father called him when he lay down +to sleep in the temple.</p> + +<p class='c008'>After Mary had done reading, Eddy Forester +asked, why little Samuel went to Eli +<span class='pageno' id='Page_40'>40</span>to inquire if he called him, when it was +the Lord that called him?</p> + +<p class='c008'>Mary said, “Samuel was a very little boy, +and he did not know that it was the Lord +who had spoken to him. Our heavenly +Father often speaks to little children now by +his good Spirit, when they are too young to +understand who it is that speaks to them.</p> + +<p class='c008'>“When we do right, we feel something +which seems to say to us, ‘Well done!’ and +then we are happy; and when we do wrong, +we feel something which seems to say to us +that it is wrong, and then we are unhappy.”</p> + +<p class='c008'>“Is it the Lord that makes us feel so?” +asked Susan Field?</p> + +<p class='c008'>“Certainly,” said Mary, “and we should +be very thankful to him that we are not +<span class='pageno' id='Page_41'>41</span>happy when we have done that which we +know to be wrong; and we should pray that +God would teach us by his Holy Spirit what +is right and what is wrong, and make us understand +and love what he has taught us in +the Bible.”</p> + +<p class='c008'>“Oh, yes!” said Eddy Forester, “I know +what you mean, for my mother told me—the +other day, when I snatched an apple from +George because he would not give me a bite +of it—she told me that I did not enjoy eating +the apple, and it did not taste good to +me, because I had been very naughty to take +it away from George, and that our heavenly +Father’s good Spirit was rebuking me and +making me feel unhappy all the time I was +eating George’s apple.”</p> + +<p class='c008'><span class='pageno' id='Page_42'>42</span>While Eddy was talking, little Lily came +and sat by Mary, and now she was sobbing +and crying out aloud.</p> + +<p class='c008'>The scholars all wondered what was the +matter with Lily, but Mary said,</p> + +<p class='c008'>“Never mind, Lily, now;” and she only +drew Lily close to her and said, “Don’t cry, +Lily dear.”</p> + +<p class='c008'>Harry Linn crept round to Lily very +quietly, and took out his little picture-book, +and whispered to her, “Here, Lily.”</p> + +<p class='c008'>But she was too much distressed to notice +Harry, though he got as near to her as ever +he could.</p> + +<p class='c008'>Mary now asked Eddy Forester to go on +with what he was saying, but Eddy said he +had done, and that he was glad the Lord +<span class='pageno' id='Page_43'>43</span>spoke to little children now, even if they did +not hear any voice, as Samuel did.</p> + +<p class='c008'>Mary wished her little scholars to understand +what she read to them, and she encouraged +them to ask questions, at suitable +times.</p> + +<p class='c008'>She now told them if they had no more +questions to ask, they might go home; all +but Harry and Lily. So, they came one by +one, and kissed Mary and went home.</p> + +<p class='c008'>Eddy Forester said he would wait for Lily; +but Mary told him she would bring Lily +home, and he might tell his mother that she +kept Lily and Harry Linn to talk to them.</p> + +<p class='c008'>After Eddy was gone, Mary took Lily up +in her arms, and then she called Harry to +her, and told him to wipe off Lily’s tears; +<span class='pageno' id='Page_44'>44</span>and Harry took his handkerchief out of his +pocket and wiped Lily’s face, and he said,</p> + +<p class='c008'>“Lily, will you love me again? and then +I’ll love you, and you may look at the little +girl feeding her chickens as long as you +like.”</p> + +<p class='c008'>Lily said, “I do love you, Harry,” and +she put her arms round Harry’s neck and +they kissed one another.</p> + +<p class='c008'>Then Mary tied on Lily’s bonnet for her, +and Harry put on his hat, and carried the +Bible back to the school-room for his teacher.</p> + +<p class='c008'>Mary locked up the school-room door and +put the key in her pocket, and then she took +a hand of each of her little scholars, and said,</p> + +<p class='c008'>“Now, Harry, you and I will go home +with Lily, shall we?”</p> + +<p class='c008'><span class='pageno' id='Page_45'>45</span>You will remember, my little readers, that +Mary lived with Harry Linn. As they +walked along, Harry seemed to be thinking +about something, and at last he said,</p> + +<p class='c008'>“Mary, does our heavenly Father ever +speak to little children like me and +Lily?”</p> + +<p class='c008'>Mary said, “Yes! Harry, he has been +speaking to you both, since you were naughty. +You sinned against his good Spirit when you +quarrelled, and he made you feel very unhappy +because you were so disobliging to one +another, and had forgotten that he had told +you to love one another. But I hope you +will hereafter know and obey his voice.”</p> + +<p class='c008'>“Oh!” said Lily, “I love to hear my heavenly +Father’s voice.”</p> + +<p class='c008'><span class='pageno' id='Page_46'>46</span>“So do I,” said Harry, “it makes me feel +so happy.”</p> + +<p class='c008'>“You feel happy because you <i>obeyed</i> His +voice,” said Mary, “and we are always happy +when we are obedient to God. He loves us +so much, and is so kind to us, that he never +tells us to do any thing that we cannot do; +and if it seems hard, and we ask him, he +will help us to do it. He tells little children +to do very little things, because he loves +them, and he knows they are too little to do +great things.”</p> + +<p class='c008'>“I hope our heavenly Father will talk to +me and Lily often,” said Harry, “do you +think he will, Mary?”</p> + +<p class='c008'>“Yes, if you are good children.”</p> + +<p class='c008'><span class='pageno' id='Page_47'>47</span>“And will he show us how to be good?” +asked Lily.</p> + +<p class='c008'>“Oh, yes,” Mary said, “for you know +he showed little Samuel what he would have +him do.”</p> + +<p class='c008'>“Does he love Lily and me as much as +he loved little Samuel, Mary,” said Harry.</p> + +<p class='c008'>Mary told him that God loved all little +children, and he sent our Saviour to bless +them and to bring them to him. Do you remember, +Harry, what our Saviour said about +little children?</p> + +<p class='c008'>“Yes,” said Harry, “He said, ‘Suffer little +children to come unto me, and forbid them +not!’”</p> + +<p class='c008'>Now we are at Lily’s home.</p> + +<p class='c008'>Mary took Lily in to her mother, and told +<span class='pageno' id='Page_48'>48</span>her that she kept Lily to talk to her, and +Lily’s mother said,</p> + +<p class='c008'>“I am glad to see my little daughter, for +her supper of nice bread and milk is all ready +for her.”</p> + +<p class='c008'>Lily’s mother asked Mary and Harry to +stay and eat supper; but Mary said they had +not leave to stay, and Harry’s father and +mother would not know where they were, if +they stayed. So she thanked Lily’s mother +for her invitation, and then she and Harry +kissed Lily, and bade her good-night. And +Mary and Harry went home.</p> + +<div class='figcenter id005'> +<img src='images/i052.jpg' alt='THE END' class='ig001'> +</div> +<div class='pbb'> + <hr class='pb c001'> +</div> + +<div class='tnotes'> + +<p class='c008'><b>TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE:</b></p> +<div class='ttext'> + +<p class='c008'>Perceived typos have been silently corrected.</p> + +<p class='c008'>Inconsistencies in hyphenation have been standardized.</p> + +<p class='c008'>Archaic or variant spelling has been retained.</p> + +</div> + +</div> + +<div style='text-align:center'>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 75343 ***</div> + </body> + <!-- created with ppgen.py 3.57e (with regex) on 2025-02-05 19:34:13 GMT --> +</html> + diff --git a/75343-h/images/i004.jpg b/75343-h/images/i004.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..74908eb --- /dev/null +++ b/75343-h/images/i004.jpg diff --git a/75343-h/images/i011.jpg b/75343-h/images/i011.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..71fcbba --- /dev/null +++ b/75343-h/images/i011.jpg diff --git a/75343-h/images/i014.jpg b/75343-h/images/i014.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..10d2301 --- /dev/null +++ b/75343-h/images/i014.jpg diff --git a/75343-h/images/i034.jpg b/75343-h/images/i034.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..eac8b94 --- /dev/null +++ b/75343-h/images/i034.jpg diff --git a/75343-h/images/i052.jpg b/75343-h/images/i052.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..40898a7 --- /dev/null +++ b/75343-h/images/i052.jpg diff --git a/75343-h/images/icover.jpg b/75343-h/images/icover.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..74e7855 --- /dev/null +++ b/75343-h/images/icover.jpg diff --git a/75343-h/images/ititle.jpg b/75343-h/images/ititle.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..2c103bc --- /dev/null +++ b/75343-h/images/ititle.jpg diff --git a/LICENSE.txt b/LICENSE.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6312041 --- /dev/null +++ b/LICENSE.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +This eBook, including all associated images, markup, improvements, +metadata, and any other content or labor, has been confirmed to be +in the PUBLIC DOMAIN IN THE UNITED STATES. + +Procedures for determining public domain status are described in +the "Copyright How-To" at https://www.gutenberg.org. + +No investigation has been made concerning possible copyrights in +jurisdictions other than the United States. 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