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diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6833f05 --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +* text=auto +*.txt text +*.md text diff --git a/78324-0.txt b/78324-0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d3b6803 --- /dev/null +++ b/78324-0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,934 @@ +*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 78324 *** + + + + + A THIRD DAY + + IN + + MARY CARROW’S SCHOOL. + +------------------------------------------------------------------------ + +[Illustration: + + ~Third Day.~ + A group of happy little boys and girls, were Mary’s scholars. p. 15. +] + +------------------------------------------------------------------------ + + + + + A THIRD DAY + + IN + + MARY CARROW’S SCHOOL + + + American Sunday-School Union: + + _PHILADELPHIA_: 316 CHESTNUT ST. + _NEW YORK_: 147 NASSAU ST. + _BOSTON_: 9 CORNHILL. + _LOUISVILLE_: 103 FOURTH ST. + + -------------------------------- + + Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1849, by the + AMERICAN SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION, + in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court for the Eastern District of + Pennsylvania. + + -------------------------------- + +☞ No books are published by the AMERICAN SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION without the +sanction of the Committee of Publication, consisting of fourteen +members, from the following denominations of Christians, viz. 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 + THIRD DAY + IN + MARY CARROW’S SCHOOL. + + -------------------------------- + + HISTORY OF MARY, THE TEACHER. + + +Mary rose very early in the morning, before five o’clock. She opened her +chamber window to let in the fresh air, and she said aloud, “Oh! how +beautiful is morning!” + +The rain had ceased; but there were little shining drops all over the +grass and on the leaves and flowers; the birds were up, singing their +morning songs, and the air was full of sweet-smelling odours. There was +a grapevine, in blossom, just under Mary’s window; and a honeysuckle, +which was trained up the wall on one side of it, and a sweet brier on +the other side, both in full flower, sent out such a delicious fragrance +that she stood there a long time to enjoy it. + +Mary thought of her mother, who had died when she was a very little +girl, and she remembered that her mother had taught her to get up early, +and see the sun rise, and hear the birds sing, and snuff the fresh +morning air. Her mother had told her that our heavenly Father intended +we should enjoy the beautiful world which he had made. For this end he +gave us all the flowers and the green fields, and the springs of water, +and the blue sky, and the clouds, and the high hills, and the music +which the little birds made. + +Then Mary repeated some verses from the Bible, which her mother had +taught her to say, as they walked out together before she was old enough +to read. + + O Lord, how manifold are thy works! + In wisdom hast thou made them all: + The earth is full of thy riches.[A] + + Thou makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice. + Thou visitest the earth and waterest it; + Thou makest it soft with showers; + Thou blessest the springing thereof. + Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; + And thy paths drop fatness. + The little hills rejoice on every side. + The pastures are clothed with flocks; + The valleys also are covered over with corn; + They shout for joy, they also sing.[B] + +Footnote A: + + Psalm civ. 24. + +Footnote B: + + Psalm lxv. + +Mary remembered that her good mother had taught her to try to think of +her heavenly Father as soon as she awoke in the morning. She had told +her that He watched over her while she slept, and that before she left +her chamber, she should ask him to watch over her in the day as well as +in the night, and help her to love him, that she might be a good and a +happy little girl. + +Mary thought of all these things as she stood by the window, and her +heart was touched and warmed with love and gratitude to her heavenly +Father, who had blessed her, and watched over her all her life long. He +had given her a good mother; and after He had taken her mother away to +live in heaven with Christ Jesus our blessed Saviour, and all the holy +angels and happy saints for ever and ever, He had still cared for her, +and provided her with kind friends. Her father died when she was a baby, +and her mother died when she was only nine years old; and now Mary had +no parents; but she remembered that it is written in the Bible, God is a +father of the fatherless. + +Mary felt very happy. Her heart was full of love to God, her Saviour, +and of thankfulness for his protecting care; and she sang the following +little hymn, because it expressed her thoughts and desires on this +beautiful summer morning. She was quite alone in her chamber, where no +one could hear her, but she knew that God could hear her. + + + THE TEACHER’S MORNING HYMN. + + Father! on this lovely morning, + Up to Thee my thoughts take wing: + With the little hills rejoicing, + With the birds I sing. + + All the air is filled with praises— + All thy wondrous works proclaim, + In one sweet harmonious chorus, + “Hallowed be thy name!” + + Father! wilt thou warm and water + _My heart_ with Thy sun and showers, + Even as Thy hand sustaineth, + Birds, fruits and flowers. + + While in love toward Thee it turneth, + Thy rich blessing, oh renew! + As the lily’s cup thou fillest + With the grateful dew. + + Up to me, sweet childhood looketh, + Heart, and mind, and soul, awake, + Teach me of Thy ways, O Father! + For sweet childhood’s sake. + + In their young hearts, soft and tender, + Guide my hand good seed to sow, + That its blossoming may praise Thee + Wheresoe’er they go. + + Give to me a cheerful spirit, + That my little flock may see + It is good and pleasant service, + To be taught of Thee. + + Father, order all my footsteps; + So direct my daily way, + That in following me, the children + May not go astray. + + Let thy holy counsel lead me— + Let thy light before me shine— + That they may not stumble over + Word, or deed of mine. + + Draw us, hand in hand, to Jesus, + For his word’s sake, unforgot, + Let “the little ones come to me, + And forbid them not.” + +Mary had been taught neat habits when she was a child, and she still +observed them. She never left her chamber in the morning, until her bed +was made, and every thing was put into its place. When she rose, she +took off her night-dress, and put on a dressing gown which hung in the +wardrobe or clothes-press; then she took the bed-clothes from the bed, +and turned them, with her night-dress, to the window, to air; then she +shook up the bolster and pillows, and placed them on the window-sill; +and after she had combed her hair, and washed her person, and had +thoroughly cleaned her teeth and nails, which occupied some time, she +made her bed, and dusted the furniture before she finished dressing. + +Such was the beginning of Mary’s day. She always looked fresh and pure, +and came down stairs in the morning with a pleasant face. + +[Illustration: Mary’s mother reading with her] + + * * * * * + +After breakfast, Mary set out for school early, and alone; and she told +Charles and Harry Linn and their sister Lucy, to come at school-time. + +Mary walked slowly along, stopping by the way to gather a nosegay of +wild flowers. She found violets and the delicate white anemone, and +buttercups and daisies. + +The grass was quite wet, but Mary did not mind that, for she had thick +shoes on, and she made a beautiful bright nosegay for the school-room. +She liked to make it look pleasant to her scholars, and she opened all +the windows to let in the pure morning air, and placed her flower-pot +where they could all see it. After she had arranged the room to her +liking, she sat down in the doorway to select a portion of Scripture for +the evening reading; and then she read a chapter to herself, which was +her daily practice. Mary was still sitting in the doorway thinking about +what she had been reading, when her scholars began to arrive. + +[Illustration: + + ~Third Day.~ + Mary waiting for her scholars to come. p. 15. +] + +Carry Deacon was the first to come, and she ran up to Mary to kiss her, +and tell her that she had not stopped on her way to school to see Mike +Terry’s kittens; she had only just peeped through the garden-railing as +she passed by, to look at his rabbits—little white rabbits with pink +eyes. + +A group of very happy little boys and girls were Mary’s scholars. They +had now all collected for school on the green before the door, and they +were pressing round Charles Linn to see a new kite, which he had made at +home, all himself. Mary had told Charles he might bring it to school +with him if he would put it out of sight until recess-time. Charles said +to his little schoolmates: + + We must put it away, + Till we go out to play; + And then we can try, + How high it will fly. + +Mary gave leave for all of them to go with Charles, down to the +tool-house, in the wood, where they kept their playthings, to help him +put it away. Some of them took hold of the kite, and one carried the +little piece of wood on which the string was wound: and the little ones +carried the tail of the kite. After it was put away they all returned to +school, in love and good humour one with another. + +This was Geography morning. The lessons were first said, and afterwards +Mary had those who studied the map, to find upon it all the places which +they had described in their lesson. Then she took a long stick, or rod, +for a pointer, and told them to stand off at a little distance from the +map, so that they could not read the names of the places, and as she +pointed out the rivers and towns, and bays and creeks upon the map, they +could tell her what each one was named. + +The geography lesson of the little ones, was a set of questions which +Mary had prepared; and my little readers who live in the country may +perhaps like to try to answer them. + + In what country do you live? + + In what State? + + In what county? + + Near what large town? + + What do the farmers cultivate in the part + of the country where you live? + + In what month do they plant corn? + + When do they plant potatoes? + + When do they sow wheat? + + When do they sow rye? + + What kinds of fruit are produced in the + orchards and gardens? + + How is the market of the large town near + which you live supplied with provisions for + the people to eat? + +When this class had taken their seats, Charles Linn came up to Mary, and +whispered to her that he would like to ask a question. Mary gave him +leave, and he asked if those who lived in towns would not starve, if the +country people did not bring food to market for them to eat? “Mary,” +said Charles, very earnestly, “the people in the city could not do +without country people, could they?” + +Mary told him that people in the city could not get along very well +without country people, and country people could not get along very well +without them. The farmers take meat and vegetables, and grain and fruit, +and butter and milk, to market, to sell to the citizens. They get money +for all these things, and with the money which they get, they buy from +the shops and stores what they cannot buy at home. They buy books to +read, and hats and shoes and other clothing, and sugar and molasses, and +tea and coffee, and many other things which do not grow on farms in the +country. We get all the books from which you learn your lessons, and the +maps and slates and pictures and our Bibles too, from the book-stores in +towns. And you would not like to do without any of these things, would +you? + +Charles said, “No, indeed I should not.” + +Charles looked very thoughtful, and Mary asked him if there was any +thing else he would like to know. + +“I was thinking about something my father said at the breakfast table +this morning. I do not quite remember it, but I think he meant what you +have been explaining to me. Will you please to make me understand, +Mary?” + +“I will try, Charles. Your father remarked that our all-wise and +merciful Creator has so ordered our wants and needs, that all classes of +men are dependent upon one another for support. He meant by this, that +farmers and merchants, and mechanics and authors, and men of almost +every honest occupation, and poor people and rich people are necessary +one to another. + +“In saying this, your father told us one of the most important truths of +this kind which we can learn; but, you know, he was conversing with +Doctor May, and he did not speak so that a little boy like you could +fully understand him. + +“I will try to explain to you so much of what he said as you are capable +of comprehending.” Charles looked very much pleased, and Mary said, “You +know, your father took you to the city last week to see a ship. That +ship belonged to a merchant, and how do you suppose he got it?” + +Charles said he did not know. + +“I will tell you,” said Mary. “A mechanic called a ship-carpenter built +it for him. The merchant could not have built it for himself. He had to +call a ship-builder, and tell him what he wanted, and then the +ship-carpenter, with his men, built it, and the merchant paid him with +his money. Do you see now how merchants and mechanics are dependent upon +one another?” + +“Yes,” Charles said. + +“I will tell you more about a ship,” said Mary. “You know, that when you +came home, you told us about all that you saw in the ship. You said the +ship had masts and sails, and ladders made of rope, on which the sailors +went up to spread out the sails, or to take them in; and you saw the +little house on the deck where the steersman stood to guide the ship +over the ocean; and the cabin, furnished just like a parlour, and the +berths for sleeping rooms. + +“Before he could have all these necessary things in his ship, somebody +must go into the woods and cut down the trees, out of which all the +timber was got, and then it must be sawed into large and small sticks +and into boards and planks. Then, too, the merchant had to employ a +sail-maker to make the sails, and a rope-maker to make the ropes, and a +cabinet-maker to make sofas and tables. So you see that the merchant +cannot carry on his business without the help of all these different +workmen and tradesmen, and they could not get money unless they earned +it by working at their trades. Then there must be a captain and mates, +and sailors, to take the ship on her voyage, for she could not sail +without them. The merchant pays them for taking care of his ship, and +with the money they receive from him they support their wives and +children who stay at home while they are away at sea.” + +“I understand now, how merchants and mechanics are dependent upon one +another,” said Charles. “But, Mary, are all sorts of people dependent +upon one another in the same way? Are we dependent upon merchants?” + +“Yes,” said Mary. + +“The merchant’s ship goes away across the ocean to foreign countries, +and brings back sugar and salt, and tea and coffee, and cloth and silks, +and many other things which we use in our houses. Do you see now, how we +are dependent upon the merchants?” + +“Yes,” said Charles, “for we could not get these things unless the +merchant brought them in his ship.” + +“Now, Mary, will you tell us, how we are dependent upon authors and +doctors and mechanics?” + + _Mary._ “Do you not know that printers and shoemakers and + carpenters are mechanics?” + +Charles said, “He never knew exactly what a mechanic was until Mary told +him.” + + _Mary._ “We could not get our books printed, you know, without + the printers. We could not get our shoes made, without the + shoemakers, and we should have no comfortable convenient houses to + live in, if the carpenters did not build them for us. + +“Authors are persons who write books, and if authors did not write +books, printers could not print them; and you see that an author must +write, and a printer must print what he writes, before we can have our +books to learn from. + +“If we are sick, we send for a doctor, because he can tell what ails us. +The doctor’s business is to learn a great deal about the human body, +which we have no opportunity to learn. He knows where our brains lie; +and where our heart is; and where the lungs are placed through which we +breathe; and he can tell how our bones are knit together, and what is +the office of every nerve and fibre and muscle in our bodies. His +knowledge teaches him the laws by which we move our tongues and our +heads and our limbs; and if we are sick, he knows that something within +us is out of order, and that disease is the consequence, and he can +often tell what the disease is. Thus you see we are dependent upon the +doctor, when we most need help, that is, when we are sick and cannot +help ourselves. And if it pleases our heavenly Father that we should be +restored to health, the doctor’s knowledge of our bodies enables him to +cure us.” + + _Charles._ “I know now, what my mother meant, when she said a + little verse about God, after brother Harry got well of the + measles.” + + _Mary._ “Will you repeat it Charles?” + + “God blessed the doctor’s skill; + My heart is full of joy, + That it has been Our Father’s will + To give me back my boy.” + +Mary’s scholars were all listening to her talk with Charles Linn: and +she told them that our heavenly Father designed all classes of men to +help one another, and he requires them to love one another too. + +“Are we to love everybody, Mary?” asked Susan Field. + +“Yes,” said Mary. “If we love God, we cannot help loving every one whom +he has made: and if we do not love God, we cannot love our fellow beings +as we ought to love them.” + +“But we are not to love little dirty ragged boys and girls; are we, +Mary?” said Susan. + + _Mary._ “Yes! and we are to try to do them good: but we cannot + love them and do them good unless we love our heavenly Father. If we + ask our heavenly Father for his help, he will teach us by his good + Spirit in our hearts how we may show our love to him. And if we love + him, we shall feel as if we wanted to do something even for poor + little ragged boys and girls; and when we help them, or instruct + them, we shall find out in what ways the rich and the poor are + dependent upon one another. + +“And now, we must not talk any more at present: I intend to give you a +long recess this morning. I promised you, you know, to go out with you +to gather flowers and plants for our botanical exercise.” + +Mary’s little boys and girls went cheerfully to their seats to look over +their reading lesson. Soon she heard them read aloud, one by one, first +the large scholars, and afterwards the smaller ones, who were just +learning to read, and she made them spell every word as they went along. +When the reading was over, they each repeated a Bible verse, which Mary +required them to learn at home; and then Mary rang the little bell for a +recess. + +There was great alacrity in putting up books and slates, and soon every +boy and girl was ready for a long walk with Mary. + +Charles Linn ran off to the tool-house, and all the boys and girls after +him, calling out:— + +“Now for my kite! Now for my kite!” + +When he attempted to take it out, he found that the bobs of paper, of +which the tail was made, had been so twisted about and entangled in the +string that he could not disengage them. The more he tried, the more +entangled they became. The scholars were all round the kite, waiting to +see how high it would fly; for Charles had told them it would fly away +almost up to the clouds, until it looked no bigger than one of their +balls. + +Mary had stopped to gather a bunch of dogwood blossoms, and now they all +ran in search of her. They knew she could help Charles out of his +trouble about the kite. They found her coming towards them; and she laid +down her flowers and took the kite out of Charles’ hand, and showed him +how to disengage the papers from the string; and then she showed him how +to prevent such a mishap in future, by putting it away more carefully. + +Mary told Charles he must not attempt to fly his kite in the woods, for +it would be caught in the tops of the trees. She led the way across a +little stream of water, which Mary first, and her scholars after her, +had to jump over, into a fine open meadow. Soon up went the kite, and +the boys cried out, + +“Hurrah for the kite! Hurrah for Charles Linn’s wonderful kite!” + +It rose higher and higher; and Charles was so proud of having them to +praise his kite, that when he had unwound the string to the very end, he +thought he would like to have it rise higher still, and very foolishly +let go the end of the string. + +Poor Charles! He had scarcely let it go when the kite began to come +down, and presently it plumped into the water, near where they were +standing. Charles looked as if he would cry—but Mary laughed and said— + + “My kite, my kite! I’ve lost my kite! + Oh when I saw the steady flight + With which it gained its lofty height, + How could I know that letting go + That paltry string would bring so low + My pretty, buoyant, darling kite! + My kite! My kite! how sad to think, + It flew so high, so low to sink!” + +“Never mind, Charles. Pick up your kite, and leave it here to dry, while +we take our walk. We will not suffer the loss of a kite to spoil all our +pleasure. Another time you must hold the string fast.” Charles looked +very sorrowful; but Mary helped him to get his kite out of the water, +and then she took his hand, and said, “Come now, let us have a race.” + +Mary took her scholars over the meadow, and they scampered about in high +spirits; sometimes stooping to gather buttercups and violets; and then +they would hold the buttercups under one another’s chins, to see who +loved butter best. Then they would play tag, and when they were tired of +play they all sat down around Mary, on the grass, and she talked to +them. + +She showed them how perfectly the little flowers were formed, and how +beautifully the leaves were coloured and shaded; and she told them that +our heavenly Father made these to grow, for the delight of our eyes and +to give us pure tastes. Then she pointed out to them the great variety +of trees, and their blossoms, and their different odours. Mary wished +her scholars to have as many enjoyments as their situation in life +admitted of; and she knew that little children who lived in the country, +would enjoy life more if they were taught to observe what was wonderful +and beautiful around them; and she thought they would love God more, if +she taught them that He made every thing that was beautiful and +wonderful in the whole world. Eddy Forester was lying on his back upon +the grass, and he said, + +“Mary, I like to look at the sky and the clouds; and I like to see the +sky when the sun sets; for then God paints the clouds with gold and red +and all the beautiful colours; and I like to look at the sky in the +evening, when the stars come out. When it is dark and I go to bed, I can +see the sky through the window, and it makes me think of God; and the +stars seem like eyes looking down upon me—like the angels’ eyes—the +angels that live with God in heaven.” + +Charles Linn said he did not care about looking at the clouds and the +sky. He would rather look at the cows eating grass. + +“Look, Mary,” said Charles. “There, over in the other meadow, are the +red cow and her calf. The calf is only four days old, and you know she +is to be mine. And there is Brindle, chewing her cud under the great +chestnut tree.” + +Harry Linn said he liked horses better than cows, and his father allowed +him to have a ride on the gray horse every morning before school. + +Lily Forester was sitting on Mary’s lap, and Mary said, “And what does +little Lily like best?” Lily said, she liked to play with Harry Linn +better than any thing. + +Then Carry Deacon came and put her arms round Mary’s neck, and whispered +to her that she loved her better than playing. Mary kissed Carry and +patted her dimpled cheeks, and said to her: + +“You are a dear, affectionate little girl, Carry, and I believe you +think you love me better than play; but I do not mean to put your +constancy to the trial. I hope we all love one another.” + +“Yes, that we do,” said Charles Linn. “But hurrah for doing something! I +am tired of doing nothing.” + +It was so pleasant out of doors to-day, that Mary asked her scholars if +they would like to have their botanical lesson in some shady place in +the wood instead of the school-room. They all exclaimed “Yes!” and the +little ones jumped about and clapped their hands for joy that they could +stay out of doors a little longer. + +After they had selected a shaded place, Mary sat down on the stump of a +tree, and they gathered round her. Mary looked over the leaves and +flowers which they had collected during their walk, and chose from them +a plant which Carry Deacon had pulled up out of the earth. Mary selected +this for the first lesson in botany, because it was a perfect plant, +having a root, stem, branches and leaves. Mary had a way of her own of +teaching her scholars, and when she presented a new subject before them, +her first object was to awaken their interest in it, so that they would +desire to know more about it. She held up the plant before them, and +asked who could tell her what it was? + +The scholars all looked and seemed puzzled. Charles Linn said it was a +flower; Eddy Forester said it was a flower and something more than a +flower; for it had green leaves; another said, “Yes, and it has a root +and stems.” + +Mary told them it was a plant; that a flower with root, stem, leaves and +branches, was called a plant. “And now,” said she, “I will explain to +you the uses of these parts of a flower. + +“The root holds it fast in the earth; and the root sucks drink from the +earth, which keeps the plant alive, very much as the calf sucks milk +from the cow to sustain it.” + +Eddy Forester looked attentively at Mary while she was speaking, and she +asked him if he understood her. “Yes,” said Eddy, “and I was thinking +about the verse you say sometimes, which has ‘Mother Earth’ in it. Is +the earth the mother of all plants?” + +“Yes,” said Mary, “because they get their drink from her bosom, as very +little children get their food from the bosom of their mother. + +“Now,” said Mary, “I wish you to remember that the root of a plant is +called an _organ_. The plant has other organs besides the root, and can +you tell me what they are?” No one answered, and Mary said, “The stem is +an organ, and the branches and leaves are organs. I will tell you what +the stem is for. The stem is a pipe, which conveys the nourishing drink +that the root sucks in from the earth, up into the leaves and branches.” + +Mary’s scholars came closer to her, for they liked to hear what she told +them, because they could understand it all. Then Mary said, “I will tell +you what the leaves and branches are for. The branches are between the +stem and the leaves to carry the moisture from the stem into the leaves. +The leaves of a plant have a number of small veins, which you can see if +you examine them; and these veins have little mouths at their ends, wide +open; and though they are so small you cannot see them without a +microscope, yet the air passes into the plant through the mouths of +these little veins. The plant could not live without air and water, any +more than one of us could live without air and water; and our heavenly +Father, who is as wise as He is kind and good, has furnished plants with +these organs, through which they receive the sustenance which is +necessary to preserve their life and health and beauty.” + +Mary questioned her scholars until she perceived by their answers that +they thoroughly understood what she had taught them: and then she +dismissed them for the morning. + +[Illustration: + + ~Third Day.~ + Happy children! Away they skipped p. 43. +] + +Happy little children! Away they skipped through the woods to their +respective homes, and Mary followed them with her eyes till they were +quite out of sight. + + * * * * * + +In the afternoon, Harry Linn came running to school out of breath, to +remind Mary of a promise she had made him at home, that if he was a good +boy, on the next sewing afternoon she would read aloud some stories +about the sagacity and faithfulness of dogs. She told him she had not +forgotten it, but the lessons must be said first. The larger scholars +had definitions to say, and Harry’s class had a spelling and reading +lesson. + +When the work-basket was brought out, Harry and Lily came up to Mary +with pleasant smiling faces, to know if they might pass the work round +to-day. Mary told them they might, as they had been good little +children. + +Mary was very busy this afternoon. She had work to oversee, and crewels +to sort out, and copies to set for the boys, who did not sew, and +figures to make on Harry Linn’s slate. He was the only little boy in +school who did not cipher. After all this was done, Mary read to them. +When the large boys had finished their copies, they took their slates to +do sums, and Mary instructed them and assisted them when they needed +help. Mary never wearied the little ones with any one study or +occupation; and when she observed that Harry Linn had made three rows of +figures on his slate, and that Ellen Raby and Lily Forester had finished +their little tasks of sewing, she called them to her to say the +Multiplication Table in concert. Then she asked them some questions. +Thus— + +“Harry, if you had an orange, and Lily had two, and Ellen had three, and +Lily and Ellen gave you their oranges, how many would you have?” Harry +answered, “Six.” Mary asked them a number of such questions, for she +wished to make them understand what arithmetic was for, before she +taught them to do sums on their slates. + +Harry’s father had shown him the picture of a blind beggar and his dog, +at home, and there was a story about it, which Mary had promised to read +aloud this afternoon. + + + THE BLIND BEGGAR AND HIS DOG. + +A blind beggar used to be led about the streets of Rome by a dog of +middle size. This dog led his master so as to protect him from all +danger, and he learned to distinguish, not only the streets, but the +houses where his master was accustomed to receive alms twice or thrice a +week. Whenever the animal came to any of these streets, with which he +was well acquainted, he would not leave it till a call had been made at +every house where his master was usually successful in his petitions. +When the beggar began to ask alms, the dog, being wearied, lay down to +rest; but the master was no sooner served, or refused, than the dog +rose, and without either order or sign, proceeded to the other houses, +where the beggar generally received some gratuity. If a halfpenny was +thrown from a window, such were the sagacity and attention of this dog, +that he went about in quest of it, lifted it from the ground with his +mouth, and put it into his master’s hat. Even when bread was thrown +down, the animal would not taste it, unless he received a portion of it +from the hand of his master. When the beggar was very weary, he would +sometimes lean his head on the top of his staff and doze for a moment or +two. Then the dog would sit down and watch him, and as soon as his +master started, the faithful creature was up in an instant, ready for +another march. + +[Illustration: + + ~Third Day.~ + The Blind Beggar and his dog. p. 46. +] + + * * * * * + +Mary’s scholars thought that was a beautiful story, and they were eager +to hear something more about dogs. + +Mary told them, that if they chose to remain in school, instead of going +out to play at recess-time, she would read to them another story. So +they all agreed to give up the recess-play, for the sake of another +story. + + + KITTY GREEN AND THE DOG CAIRO. + +Kitty Green was a little girl who lived with her uncle and aunt, in the +country. Her uncle worked in the fields at harvest time; and Kitty liked +to go out into the fields where he was making hay and tumble about in +it. Sometimes her uncle would toss her up on the top of the wagon, when +it was loaded with the sweet, fresh hay, and allow her to have a ride; +and he called her his little harvester. + +One afternoon, during the time of wheat harvest, her aunt was very busy, +and she asked Kitty, if she could carry out to her uncle, in the field, +some biscuits and homemade beer. Kitty said she would like to go; and +her aunt put the biscuits and beer into a little basket, and covered +them over with a napkin, and gave the basket to Kitty to carry out to +her uncle. Then she called the dog Cairo to go with Kitty, and she said +to him, + +“Now, Cairo, take right good care of your little mistress.” + +Cairo came, and wagged his tail, and looked up at Kitty, as much as to +say, Yes, I will take good care of her. + +Cairo was very fond of Kitty, and he followed her all about, and when +she went to school, he would often carry her dinner basket all the way +to school. They set off together, Kitty with the basket on her arm, and +Cairo by her side. + +Kitty was a great talker, and she chatted to Cairo all the way as they +went. “Cairo,” said Kitty, “you must be a very good dog, and help me to +carry the basket, for I can tell you it is pretty heavy; and you need +not put your nose into it either, and you must not wipe your mouth on +the napkin, for my uncle will not thank you for that.” + +Cairo seemed delighted to have his little mistress talk to him, and he +looked up at her, just as if he knew what she was saying. Before Kitty +and Cairo got to the harvest-field, she was very tired; and she put the +basket on the ground while she rested, and then she took a romp with +Cairo. Then she put one side of the handle into Cairo’s mouth, and took +hold of the other side herself, and she said, “Now, Cairo, do help me, +and I will give you a part of my supper to-night. Do, that is a good, +dear Cairo.” + +Cairo helped Kitty to carry the basket, and they brought it safely along +to her uncle, who was very glad of the biscuits and beer. Kitty’s uncle +kissed her, and he stroked Cairo, and he said, + +“Kind little Kitty, and kind little Cairo, to think of uncle when he was +tired and hungry.” + +When he had done eating, he put the empty bottle and the napkin into the +basket, and gave it to Kitty, and told her to walk home as fast as she +could, for a shower was coming up. + +Off went Kitty and Cairo, and they trotted along together with the +basket, which was quite light now. Kitty was a heedless little girl, and +she soon forgot what her uncle had told her about the rain coming, and +she loitered along, and stopped to play with Cairo. Presently Kitty was +startled by a loud clap of thunder. Then she saw the bright lightning, +and that was followed by a clap of thunder louder than the first. Kitty +was very much afraid, and she trembled all over. No one had ever told +her that her heavenly Father caused the lightning to cut through the +clouds, and that the thunder was made by the clouds rushing together +again after the lightning had passed through them. Then she felt the +large drops of rain on her neck, and she began to cry; for she did not +think about God sending the rain, to make the grass grow and to give +drink to the thirsty flowers. The rain fell very fast, and Kitty cried +out, “Oh, Cairo, what shall we do?” + +Cairo seemed to know that Kitty was in distress, and he took hold of her +dress with his mouth, as if he would pull her along to a pile of +wheat-sheaves, which were bound up in bundles. Kitty crept under them +and sat down. + +The faithful dog stayed close by her and tried to comfort her. He put +his paws upon her shoulder and his head close up to her face, as if he +would wipe off her tears. Cairo looked as if he would like to say, My +dear little mistress, how I do pity you, what can I do for you? + +[Illustration: + + ~Third Day.~ + Little Kitty Green and her dog Cairo. p. 54. +] + +Kitty sat there under the wheat-sheaves a long time, crying, and Cairo +never left her for a moment. He looked up into her face, and rubbed his +nose over her hands and arms, and there he stayed and guarded her as +faithfully as any little sentinel could, until the rain was over. + +When the rain was over, he took the basket in his mouth, and trotted +home close by the side of Kitty. + + * * * * * + +The children were all so much delighted with the story of Kitty’s +affectionate little dog, that they begged Mary to read it twice. Mary +gratified them whenever she could, and she read it again to please them. + +When the occupations of the afternoon were finished, Mary said, “It is +time to put up the things:” but no one seemed ready for school to close. +Mary liked to have her scholars think school was a pleasant place, but +she did not allow them to overstay the usual time. + +“You know,” said she, “we are to have the Bible-reading yet.” + +The work was all gathered together by Harry Linn and Lily Forester; the +books and slates were put into their places, the desks were neatly +arranged, and then, teacher and scholars repaired to the oak tree in the +wood, to have the Bible-reading. + +Mary asked them if they remembered what she had read to them yesterday? + +Carry Deacon said, “Yes, I remember. You read about Adam and Eve, and +about our heavenly Father sending them away out of the beautiful garden +of Eden where they lived, and that he sent them away because they were +disobedient.” + +“And, Mary,” said Eddy Forester, “you told us you would read to us next +time about the way to get back again to God, and the beautiful garden +which you called Paradise.” + +Mary read to her little scholars, the first, second and twelfth verses, +in the second chapter in the first epistle of John; the eighth and +twenty-third verses in the third chapter; and the seventh, eighth, +ninth, tenth and eleventh verses in the fourth chapter. + +She then told them, that Jesus Christ our Saviour, was sent into the +world, not only to show us the way to God and Paradise, (which is +heaven,) but to fit us to go to that holy and happy place. + +She explained to them, that when Adam and Eve had sinned, and our +heavenly Father sent them out of the beautiful garden of Eden, he knew +they could not be happy without him; and he pitied them, and loved them +so much, that he sent his only Son, Jesus Christ, from heaven down to +earth, to be their Saviour, and our Saviour, and the Saviour of the +whole world. + +Our heavenly Father knows all things, and he knows how wicked the heart +is, and that the wicked one who had tempted Adam and Eve to sin, would +follow the sons and daughters of Adam and Eve wherever they went, and +that he would tempt them to sin too, and to forget Him. And because he +loved them, and us, and everybody, He sent his only begotten and dearly +beloved son to be our Saviour, to die for us and to teach us how to +avoid sin, and how to come to him and love him, and to love one another. + +Eddy Forester said, “Mary, does the wicked tempter follow you and me and +everybody?” + +“Yes,” said Mary, “and he is always trying to make us sin. He knows, +that if he can prevail upon us to commit sin, we shall be separated from +God. He hates God, and every thing that is good, because, where God is, +he cannot come. The greatest evil that can happen to any of us, is to be +separated from God, by sin.” + +“If we stay close to God, the wicked one cannot hurt us, can he, Mary?” +said Eddy. + +“No! and if we ask Him, he will put his good Spirit in our hearts, and +then there will be no room for the wicked one. This good Spirit of God, +will guide us to the knowledge of our Saviour, and then we shall like to +read about him in the Bible. You are too young to understand all that +the dear Saviour has done, and suffered for us, to take away our sin and +to make us the children of God; but I want you to think about Him very +often; and by and by, I hope you will know more than you do now.” + +“Then will we be our Saviour’s little lambs, Mary,” said Eddy, “the +little lambs that you once read to us about, that he carried in his +arms?” + +“Yes,” said Mary; “it is a long journey back to God and to Paradise, and +sometimes there are very rough places to get over; and our Saviour loves +his little lambs so dearly, that he carries them in his arms over all +the rough places, and if we keep close to him, he can bring us safely +into the Paradise of God.” + +Mary’s little scholars seemed full of love, and they did not want to go +home, they felt so safe and happy at school; but Mary told them their +fathers and mothers would be waiting for them, and now they must bid one +another good-bye. Carry Deacon said they must have two kisses apiece +from Mary; so she kissed them all twice, and then they went home. + +It is good to begin the day with thoughts of God, if we would have his +blessing upon its close. + +[Illustration: THE END.] + +------------------------------------------------------------------------ + + =TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE:= + + Italics, bold letters, blackletter font and small + capitals are represented by _ = ~ and ALL CAPS + 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 78324 *** diff --git a/78324-h/78324-h.htm b/78324-h/78324-h.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e0024c3 --- /dev/null +++ b/78324-h/78324-h.htm @@ -0,0 +1,1406 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html> +<html lang="en"> + <head> + <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> + <meta charset="UTF-8"> + <title>A Third 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> +<hr class='pb c001'> + +<div class='nf-center-c1'> +<div class='nf-center c005'> + <div>A</div> + <div><span class='xlarge'>THIRD DAY</span></div> + <div>IN</div> + <div><span class='xlarge'>MARY CARROW’S SCHOOL.</span></div> + </div> +</div> + +<hr class='c003'> + +<div> + <span class='pageno' id='Page_5'>5</span> + <h2 class='c006'>HISTORY OF MARY, THE TEACHER.</h2> +</div> + +<p class='c007'>Mary rose very early in the morning, before +five o’clock. She opened her chamber +window to let in the fresh air, and she said +aloud, “Oh! how beautiful is morning!”</p> + +<p class='c008'>The rain had ceased; but there were little +shining drops all over the grass and on the +leaves and flowers; the birds were up, singing +<span class='pageno' id='Page_6'>6</span>their morning songs, and the air was full +of sweet-smelling odours. There was a grapevine, +in blossom, just under Mary’s window; +and a honeysuckle, which was trained up the +wall on one side of it, and a sweet brier on +the other side, both in full flower, sent out +such a delicious fragrance that she stood there +a long time to enjoy it.</p> + +<p class='c008'>Mary thought of her mother, who had +died when she was a very little girl, and she +remembered that her mother had taught her +to get up early, and see the sun rise, and hear +the birds sing, and snuff the fresh morning +air. Her mother had told her that our heavenly +Father intended we should enjoy the +beautiful world which he had made. For +this end he gave us all the flowers and +<span class='pageno' id='Page_7'>7</span>the green fields, and the springs of water, +and the blue sky, and the clouds, and the +high hills, and the music which the little +birds made.</p> + +<p class='c008'>Then Mary repeated some verses from the +Bible, which her mother had taught her to +say, as they walked out together before she +was old enough to read.</p> + +<div class='lg-container-b'> + <div class='linegroup'> + <div class='group'> + <div class='line in2'>O Lord, how manifold are thy works!</div> + <div class='line in2'>In wisdom hast thou made them all:</div> + <div class='line in2'>The earth is full of thy riches.<a id='rA'></a><a href='#fA' class='c009'><sup>[A]</sup></a></div> + </div> + <div class='group'> + <div class='line'>Thou makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice.</div> + <div class='line'>Thou visitest the earth and waterest it;</div> + <div class='line'>Thou makest it soft with showers;</div> + <div class='line'>Thou blessest the springing thereof.</div> + <div class='line'>Thou crownest the year with thy goodness;</div> + <div class='line'>And thy paths drop fatness.</div> + <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_8'>8</span>The little hills rejoice on every side.</div> + <div class='line'>The pastures are clothed with flocks;</div> + <div class='line'>The valleys also are covered over with corn;</div> + <div class='line'>They shout for joy, they also sing.<a id='rB'></a><a href='#fB' class='c009'><sup>[B]</sup></a></div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<p class='c008'>Mary remembered that her good mother +had taught her to try to think of her heavenly +Father as soon as she awoke in the +morning. She had told her that He watched +over her while she slept, and that before +she left her chamber, she should ask him to +watch over her in the day as well as in +the night, and help her to love him, that she +might be a good and a happy little girl.</p> + +<p class='c008'>Mary thought of all these things as she +stood by the window, and her heart was +touched and warmed with love and gratitude +to her heavenly Father, who had blessed +<span class='pageno' id='Page_9'>9</span>her, and watched over her all her life long. +He had given her a good mother; and after He +had taken her mother away to live in heaven +with Christ Jesus our blessed Saviour, +and all the holy angels and happy saints for +ever and ever, He had still cared for her, and +provided her with kind friends. Her father +died when she was a baby, and her mother +died when she was only nine years old; and +now Mary had no parents; but she remembered +that it is written in the Bible, God is +a father of the fatherless.</p> + +<p class='c008'>Mary felt very happy. Her heart was full +of love to God, her Saviour, and of thankfulness +for his protecting care; and she sang the +following little hymn, because it expressed +her thoughts and desires on this beautiful +<span class='pageno' id='Page_10'>10</span>summer morning. She was quite alone in +her chamber, where no one could hear her, +but she knew that God could hear her.</p> + +<h3 class='c010'>THE TEACHER’S MORNING HYMN.</h3> + +<div class='lg-container-b c001'> + <div class='linegroup'> + <div class='group'> + <div class='line'>Father! on this lovely morning,</div> + <div class='line in2'>Up to Thee my thoughts take wing:</div> + <div class='line'>With the little hills rejoicing,</div> + <div class='line in2'>With the birds I sing.</div> + </div> + <div class='group'> + <div class='line'>All the air is filled with praises—</div> + <div class='line in2'>All thy wondrous works proclaim,</div> + <div class='line'>In one sweet harmonious chorus,</div> + <div class='line in2'>“Hallowed be thy name!”</div> + </div> + <div class='group'> + <div class='line'>Father! wilt thou warm and water</div> + <div class='line in2'><i>My heart</i> with Thy sun and showers,</div> + <div class='line'>Even as Thy hand sustaineth,</div> + <div class='line in2'>Birds, fruits and flowers.</div> + </div> + <div class='group'> + <div class='line'>While in love toward Thee it turneth,</div> + <div class='line in2'>Thy rich blessing, oh renew!</div> + <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_11'>11</span>As the lily’s cup thou fillest</div> + <div class='line in2'>With the grateful dew.</div> + </div> + <div class='group'> + <div class='line'>Up to me, sweet childhood looketh,</div> + <div class='line in2'>Heart, and mind, and soul, awake,</div> + <div class='line'>Teach me of Thy ways, O Father!</div> + <div class='line in2'>For sweet childhood’s sake.</div> + </div> + <div class='group'> + <div class='line'>In their young hearts, soft and tender,</div> + <div class='line in2'>Guide my hand good seed to sow,</div> + <div class='line'>That its blossoming may praise Thee</div> + <div class='line in2'>Wheresoe’er they go.</div> + </div> + <div class='group'> + <div class='line'>Give to me a cheerful spirit,</div> + <div class='line in2'>That my little flock may see</div> + <div class='line'>It is good and pleasant service,</div> + <div class='line in2'>To be taught of Thee.</div> + </div> + <div class='group'> + <div class='line'>Father, order all my footsteps;</div> + <div class='line in2'>So direct my daily way,</div> + <div class='line'>That in following me, the children</div> + <div class='line in2'>May not go astray.</div> + </div> + <div class='group'> + <div class='line'>Let thy holy counsel lead me—</div> + <div class='line in2'>Let thy light before me shine—</div> + <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_12'>12</span>That they may not stumble over</div> + <div class='line in2'>Word, or deed of mine.</div> + </div> + <div class='group'> + <div class='line'>Draw us, hand in hand, to Jesus,</div> + <div class='line in2'>For his word’s sake, unforgot,</div> + <div class='line'>Let “the little ones come to me,</div> + <div class='line in2'>And forbid them not.”</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<p class='c008'>Mary had been taught neat habits when +she was a child, and she still observed them. +She never left her chamber in the morning, +until her bed was made, and every thing was +put into its place. When she rose, she took +off her night-dress, and put on a dressing +gown which hung in the wardrobe or clothes-press; +then she took the bed-clothes from the +bed, and turned them, with her night-dress, +to the window, to air; then she shook up the +bolster and pillows, and placed them on the +<span class='pageno' id='Page_13'>13</span>window-sill; and after she had combed her +hair, and washed her person, and had thoroughly +cleaned her teeth and nails, which +occupied some time, she made her bed, and +dusted the furniture before she finished +dressing.</p> + +<p class='c008'>Such was the beginning of Mary’s day. +She always looked fresh and pure, and came +down stairs in the morning with a pleasant +face.</p> + +<div class='figcenter id004'> +<img src='images/i015.png' alt='Mary’s mother reading with her' class='ig001'> +</div> + +<hr class='c011'> + +<p class='c008'><span class='pageno' id='Page_14'>14</span>After breakfast, Mary set out for school +early, and alone; and she told Charles and +Harry Linn and their sister Lucy, to come +at school-time.</p> + +<p class='c008'>Mary walked slowly along, stopping by the +way to gather a nosegay of wild flowers. She +found violets and the delicate white anemone, +and buttercups and daisies.</p> + +<p class='c008'>The grass was quite wet, but Mary did not +mind that, for she had thick shoes on, and +she made a beautiful bright nosegay for the +school-room. She liked to make it look pleasant +to her scholars, and she opened all the +windows to let in the pure morning air, and +placed her flower-pot where they could all +see it. After she had arranged the room to +<span class='pageno' id='Page_15'>15</span>her liking, she sat down in the doorway to +select a portion of Scripture for the evening +reading; and then she read a chapter to herself, +which was her daily practice. Mary +was still sitting in the doorway thinking about +what she had been reading, when her scholars +began to arrive.</p> + +<div class='figcenter id002'> +<img src='images/i018.png' alt='' class='ig001'> +<div class='ic002'> +<p><b>Third Day.</b><br> Mary waiting for her scholars to come. p. <a href='#Page_15'>15</a>.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<p class='c008'>Carry Deacon was the first to come, and she +ran up to Mary to kiss her, and tell her that +she had not stopped on her way to school to +see Mike Terry’s kittens; she had only just +peeped through the garden-railing as she +passed by, to look at his rabbits—little white +rabbits with pink eyes.</p> + +<p class='c008'>A group of very happy little boys and girls +were Mary’s scholars. They had now all +collected for school on the green before the +<span class='pageno' id='Page_16'>16</span>door, and they were pressing round Charles +Linn to see a new kite, which he had made +at home, all himself. Mary had told Charles +he might bring it to school with him if he +would put it out of sight until recess-time. +Charles said to his little schoolmates:</p> + +<div class='lg-container-b'> + <div class='linegroup'> + <div class='group'> + <div class='line'>We must put it away,</div> + <div class='line'>Till we go out to play;</div> + <div class='line'>And then we can try,</div> + <div class='line'>How high it will fly.</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<p class='c008'>Mary gave leave for all of them to go with +Charles, down to the tool-house, in the wood, +where they kept their playthings, to help +him put it away. Some of them took hold +of the kite, and one carried the little piece +of wood on which the string was wound: and +the little ones carried the tail of the kite. +<span class='pageno' id='Page_17'>17</span>After it was put away they all returned to +school, in love and good humour one with +another.</p> + +<p class='c008'>This was Geography morning. The lessons +were first said, and afterwards Mary had those +who studied the map, to find upon it all the +places which they had described in their lesson. +Then she took a long stick, or rod, for +a pointer, and told them to stand off at a little +distance from the map, so that they could not +read the names of the places, and as she +pointed out the rivers and towns, and bays +and creeks upon the map, they could tell her +what each one was named.</p> + +<p class='c008'>The geography lesson of the little ones, +was a set of questions which Mary had prepared; +and my little readers who live in the +<span class='pageno' id='Page_18'>18</span>country may perhaps like to try to answer +them.</p> + +<div class='lg-container-b'> + <div class='linegroup'> + <div class='group'> + <div class='line'>In what country do you live?</div> + </div> + <div class='group'> + <div class='line'>In what State?</div> + </div> + <div class='group'> + <div class='line'>In what county?</div> + </div> + <div class='group'> + <div class='line'>Near what large town?</div> + </div> + <div class='group'> + <div class='line'>What do the farmers cultivate in the part</div> + <div class='line'>of the country where you live?</div> + </div> + <div class='group'> + <div class='line'>In what month do they plant corn?</div> + </div> + <div class='group'> + <div class='line'>When do they plant potatoes?</div> + </div> + <div class='group'> + <div class='line'>When do they sow wheat?</div> + </div> + <div class='group'> + <div class='line'>When do they sow rye?</div> + </div> + <div class='group'> + <div class='line'>What kinds of fruit are produced in the</div> + <div class='line'>orchards and gardens?</div> + </div> + <div class='group'> + <div class='line'>How is the market of the large town near</div> + <div class='line'>which you live supplied with provisions for</div> + <div class='line'>the people to eat?</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<p class='c008'><span class='pageno' id='Page_19'>19</span>When this class had taken their seats, +Charles Linn came up to Mary, and whispered +to her that he would like to ask a question. +Mary gave him leave, and he asked if those +who lived in towns would not starve, if the +country people did not bring food to market +for them to eat? “Mary,” said Charles, very +earnestly, “the people in the city could not +do without country people, could they?”</p> + +<p class='c008'>Mary told him that people in the city could +not get along very well without country people, +and country people could not get along +very well without them. The farmers take +meat and vegetables, and grain and fruit, +and butter and milk, to market, to sell to +the citizens. They get money for all these +things, and with the money which they get, +<span class='pageno' id='Page_20'>20</span>they buy from the shops and stores what +they cannot buy at home. They buy books +to read, and hats and shoes and other clothing, +and sugar and molasses, and tea and +coffee, and many other things which do not +grow on farms in the country. We get all +the books from which you learn your lessons, +and the maps and slates and pictures and +our Bibles too, from the book-stores in towns. +And you would not like to do without any +of these things, would you?</p> + +<p class='c008'>Charles said, “No, indeed I should not.”</p> + +<p class='c008'>Charles looked very thoughtful, and Mary +asked him if there was any thing else he +would like to know.</p> + +<p class='c008'>“I was thinking about something my father +said at the breakfast table this morning. +<span class='pageno' id='Page_21'>21</span>I do not quite remember it, but I think he +meant what you have been explaining to me. +Will you please to make me understand, +Mary?”</p> + +<p class='c008'>“I will try, Charles. Your father remarked +that our all-wise and merciful Creator has so +ordered our wants and needs, that all classes +of men are dependent upon one another for +support. He meant by this, that farmers +and merchants, and mechanics and authors, +and men of almost every honest occupation, +and poor people and rich people are necessary +one to another.</p> + +<p class='c008'>“In saying this, your father told us one of +the most important truths of this kind which +we can learn; but, you know, he was conversing +with Doctor May, and he did not +<span class='pageno' id='Page_22'>22</span>speak so that a little boy like you could fully +understand him.</p> + +<p class='c008'>“I will try to explain to you so much of +what he said as you are capable of comprehending.” +Charles looked very much pleased, +and Mary said, “You know, your father took +you to the city last week to see a ship. That +ship belonged to a merchant, and how do you +suppose he got it?”</p> + +<p class='c008'>Charles said he did not know.</p> + +<p class='c008'>“I will tell you,” said Mary. “A mechanic +called a ship-carpenter built it for him. The +merchant could not have built it for himself. +He had to call a ship-builder, and tell him +what he wanted, and then the ship-carpenter, +with his men, built it, and the merchant paid +him with his money. Do you see now how +<span class='pageno' id='Page_23'>23</span>merchants and mechanics are dependent upon +one another?”</p> + +<p class='c008'>“Yes,” Charles said.</p> + +<p class='c008'>“I will tell you more about a ship,” said +Mary. “You know, that when you came +home, you told us about all that you saw in +the ship. You said the ship had masts and +sails, and ladders made of rope, on which the +sailors went up to spread out the sails, or to +take them in; and you saw the little house +on the deck where the steersman stood to +guide the ship over the ocean; and the cabin, +furnished just like a parlour, and the berths +for sleeping rooms.</p> + +<p class='c008'>“Before he could have all these necessary +things in his ship, somebody must go into the +woods and cut down the trees, out of which +<span class='pageno' id='Page_24'>24</span>all the timber was got, and then it must be +sawed into large and small sticks and into +boards and planks. Then, too, the merchant +had to employ a sail-maker to make the sails, +and a rope-maker to make the ropes, and a +cabinet-maker to make sofas and tables. So +you see that the merchant cannot carry on +his business without the help of all these +different workmen and tradesmen, and they +could not get money unless they earned it +by working at their trades. Then there must +be a captain and mates, and sailors, to take +the ship on her voyage, for she could not sail +without them. The merchant pays them for +taking care of his ship, and with the money +they receive from him they support their +<span class='pageno' id='Page_25'>25</span>wives and children who stay at home while +they are away at sea.”</p> + +<p class='c008'>“I understand now, how merchants and +mechanics are dependent upon one another,” +said Charles. “But, Mary, are all sorts of people +dependent upon one another in the same +way? Are we dependent upon merchants?”</p> + +<p class='c008'>“Yes,” said Mary.</p> + +<p class='c008'>“The merchant’s ship goes away across the +ocean to foreign countries, and brings back +sugar and salt, and tea and coffee, and cloth +and silks, and many other things which we +use in our houses. Do you see now, how we +are dependent upon the merchants?”</p> + +<p class='c008'>“Yes,” said Charles, “for we could not +get these things unless the merchant brought +them in his ship.”</p> + +<p class='c008'><span class='pageno' id='Page_26'>26</span>“Now, Mary, will you tell us, how we are +dependent upon authors and doctors and +mechanics?”</p> + + <div class='dl_1'> + <p><span class='dl_1'><i>Mary.</i></span> + “Do you not know that printers and shoemakers and carpenters are mechanics?”</p> + </div> + +<p class='c008'>Charles said, “He never knew exactly what +a mechanic was until Mary told him.”</p> + + <div class='dl_1'> + <p><span class='dl_1'><i>Mary.</i></span> + “We could not get our books printed, you know, without the printers. We could not get our + shoes made, without the shoemakers, and we should have no comfortable convenient houses + to live in, if the carpenters did not build them for us.</p> + </div> + +<p class='c008'>“Authors are persons who write books, and +if authors did not write books, printers could +not print them; and you see that an author +must write, and a printer must print what +<span class='pageno' id='Page_27'>27</span>he writes, before we can have our books to +learn from.</p> + +<p class='c008'>“If we are sick, we send for a doctor, because +he can tell what ails us. The doctor’s +business is to learn a great deal about the +human body, which we have no opportunity +to learn. He knows where our brains lie; +and where our heart is; and where the lungs +are placed through which we breathe; and +he can tell how our bones are knit together, +and what is the office of every nerve and +fibre and muscle in our bodies. His knowledge +teaches him the laws by which we move +our tongues and our heads and our limbs; +and if we are sick, he knows that something +within us is out of order, and that disease is +the consequence, and he can often tell what +<span class='pageno' id='Page_28'>28</span>the disease is. Thus you see we are dependent +upon the doctor, when we most need help, +that is, when we are sick and cannot help +ourselves. And if it pleases our heavenly +Father that we should be restored to health, +the doctor’s knowledge of our bodies enables +him to cure us.”</p> + + <div class='dl_1'> + <p><span class='dl_1'><i>Charles.</i></span> + “I know now, what my mother meant, when she said a little verse about God, after brother + Harry got well of the measles.”</p> + <p><span class='dl_1'><i>Mary.</i></span> + “Will you repeat it Charles?”</p> + </div> + +<div class='lg-container-b'> + <div class='linegroup'> + <div class='group'> + <div class='line'>“God blessed the doctor’s skill;</div> + <div class='line in2'>My heart is full of joy,</div> + <div class='line'>That it has been Our Father’s will</div> + <div class='line in2'>To give me back my boy.”</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<p class='c008'>Mary’s scholars were all listening to her +talk with Charles Linn: and she told them +that our heavenly Father designed all classes +<span class='pageno' id='Page_29'>29</span>of men to help one another, and he requires +them to love one another too.</p> + +<p class='c008'>“Are we to love everybody, Mary?” asked +Susan Field.</p> + +<p class='c008'>“Yes,” said Mary. “If we love God, we cannot +help loving every one whom he has made: +and if we do not love God, we cannot love our +fellow beings as we ought to love them.”</p> + +<p class='c008'>“But we are not to love little dirty ragged +boys and girls; are we, Mary?” said Susan.</p> + + <div class='dl_1'> + <p><span class='dl_1'><i>Mary.</i></span> + “Yes! and we are to try to do them good: but we cannot love them and do them good unless + we love our heavenly Father. If we ask our heavenly Father for his help, he will teach us + by his good Spirit in our hearts how we may show our love to him. And if we love him, we + shall feel as if we <span class='pageno' id='Page_30'>30</span>wanted to do something even for poor little ragged boys and + girls; and when we help them, or instruct them, we shall find out in what ways the rich + and the poor are dependent upon one another.</p> + </div> + +<p class='c008'>“And now, we must not talk any more at +present: I intend to give you a long recess +this morning. I promised you, you know, to +go out with you to gather flowers and plants +for our botanical exercise.”</p> + +<p class='c008'>Mary’s little boys and girls went cheerfully +to their seats to look over their reading lesson. +Soon she heard them read aloud, one by one, +first the large scholars, and afterwards the +smaller ones, who were just learning to read, +and she made them spell every word as they +went along. When the reading was over, +<span class='pageno' id='Page_31'>31</span>they each repeated a Bible verse, which Mary +required them to learn at home; and then +Mary rang the little bell for a recess.</p> + +<p class='c008'>There was great alacrity in putting up +books and slates, and soon every boy and girl +was ready for a long walk with Mary.</p> + +<p class='c008'>Charles Linn ran off to the tool-house, and +all the boys and girls after him, calling out:—</p> + +<p class='c008'>“Now for my kite! Now for my kite!”</p> + +<p class='c008'>When he attempted to take it out, he found +that the bobs of paper, of which the tail was +made, had been so twisted about and entangled +in the string that he could not disengage +them. The more he tried, the more +entangled they became. The scholars were +all round the kite, waiting to see how high +it would fly; for Charles had told them it +<span class='pageno' id='Page_32'>32</span>would fly away almost up to the clouds, until +it looked no bigger than one of their balls.</p> + +<p class='c008'>Mary had stopped to gather a bunch of +dogwood blossoms, and now they all ran in +search of her. They knew she could help +Charles out of his trouble about the kite. +They found her coming towards them; and +she laid down her flowers and took the kite +out of Charles’ hand, and showed him how to +disengage the papers from the string; and then +she showed him how to prevent such a mishap +in future, by putting it away more carefully.</p> + +<p class='c008'>Mary told Charles he must not attempt to +fly his kite in the woods, for it would be +caught in the tops of the trees. She led the +way across a little stream of water, which +<span class='pageno' id='Page_33'>33</span>Mary first, and her scholars after her, had to +jump over, into a fine open meadow. Soon +up went the kite, and the boys cried out,</p> + +<p class='c008'>“Hurrah for the kite! Hurrah for Charles +Linn’s wonderful kite!”</p> + +<p class='c008'>It rose higher and higher; and Charles was +so proud of having them to praise his kite, +that when he had unwound the string to the +very end, he thought he would like to have +it rise higher still, and very foolishly let go +the end of the string.</p> + +<p class='c008'>Poor Charles! He had scarcely let it go +when the kite began to come down, and presently +it plumped into the water, near where +they were standing. Charles looked as if he +would cry—but Mary laughed and said—</p> + +<div class='lg-container-b'> + <div class='linegroup'> + <div class='group'> + <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_34'>34</span>“My kite, my kite! I’ve lost my kite!</div> + <div class='line'>Oh when I saw the steady flight</div> + <div class='line'>With which it gained its lofty height,</div> + <div class='line'>How could I know that letting go</div> + <div class='line'>That paltry string would bring so low</div> + <div class='line'>My pretty, buoyant, darling kite!</div> + <div class='line'>My kite! My kite! how sad to think,</div> + <div class='line'>It flew so high, so low to sink!”</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<p class='c008'>“Never mind, Charles. Pick up your kite, +and leave it here to dry, while we take our +walk. We will not suffer the loss of a kite to +spoil all our pleasure. Another time you +must hold the string fast.” Charles looked +very sorrowful; but Mary helped him to get +his kite out of the water, and then she took +his hand, and said, “Come now, let us have +a race.”</p> + +<p class='c008'>Mary took her scholars over the meadow, +and they scampered about in high spirits; +<span class='pageno' id='Page_35'>35</span>sometimes stooping to gather buttercups and +violets; and then they would hold the buttercups +under one another’s chins, to see who +loved butter best. Then they would play +tag, and when they were tired of play they +all sat down around Mary, on the grass, +and she talked to them.</p> + +<p class='c008'>She showed them how perfectly the little +flowers were formed, and how beautifully the +leaves were coloured and shaded; and she +told them that our heavenly Father made +these to grow, for the delight of our eyes and +to give us pure tastes. Then she pointed out +to them the great variety of trees, and their +blossoms, and their different odours. Mary +wished her scholars to have as many enjoyments +as their situation in life admitted of; +<span class='pageno' id='Page_36'>36</span>and she knew that little children who lived +in the country, would enjoy life more if they +were taught to observe what was wonderful +and beautiful around them; and she thought +they would love God more, if she taught them +that He made every thing that was beautiful +and wonderful in the whole world. Eddy +Forester was lying on his back upon the grass, +and he said,</p> + +<p class='c008'>“Mary, I like to look at the sky and the +clouds; and I like to see the sky when +the sun sets; for then God paints the clouds +with gold and red and all the beautiful colours; +and I like to look at the sky in the +evening, when the stars come out. When it +is dark and I go to bed, I can see the sky +through the window, and it makes me think +<span class='pageno' id='Page_37'>37</span>of God; and the stars seem like eyes looking +down upon me—like the angels’ eyes—the +angels that live with God in heaven.”</p> + +<p class='c008'>Charles Linn said he did not care about +looking at the clouds and the sky. He would +rather look at the cows eating grass.</p> + +<p class='c008'>“Look, Mary,” said Charles. “There, over +in the other meadow, are the red cow and her +calf. The calf is only four days old, and you +know she is to be mine. And there is Brindle, +chewing her cud under the great chestnut +tree.”</p> + +<p class='c008'>Harry Linn said he liked horses better than +cows, and his father allowed him to have a +ride on the gray horse every morning before +school.</p> + +<p class='c008'>Lily Forester was sitting on Mary’s lap, +<span class='pageno' id='Page_38'>38</span>and Mary said, “And what does little Lily +like best?” Lily said, she liked to play with +Harry Linn better than any thing.</p> + +<p class='c008'>Then Carry Deacon came and put her arms +round Mary’s neck, and whispered to her that +she loved her better than playing. Mary +kissed Carry and patted her dimpled cheeks, +and said to her:</p> + +<p class='c008'>“You are a dear, affectionate little girl, +Carry, and I believe you think you love me +better than play; but I do not mean to put +your constancy to the trial. I hope we all +love one another.”</p> + +<p class='c008'>“Yes, that we do,” said Charles Linn. “But +hurrah for doing something! I am tired +of doing nothing.”</p> + +<p class='c008'>It was so pleasant out of doors to-day, that +<span class='pageno' id='Page_39'>39</span>Mary asked her scholars if they would like +to have their botanical lesson in some shady +place in the wood instead of the school-room. +They all exclaimed “Yes!” and the little ones +jumped about and clapped their hands for joy +that they could stay out of doors a little +longer.</p> + +<p class='c008'>After they had selected a shaded place, +Mary sat down on the stump of a tree, and +they gathered round her. Mary looked over +the leaves and flowers which they had collected +during their walk, and chose from them +a plant which Carry Deacon had pulled up +out of the earth. Mary selected this for the +first lesson in botany, because it was a perfect +plant, having a root, stem, branches and +leaves. Mary had a way of her own of teaching +<span class='pageno' id='Page_40'>40</span>her scholars, and when she presented a new +subject before them, her first object was to +awaken their interest in it, so that they would +desire to know more about it. She held up +the plant before them, and asked who could +tell her what it was?</p> + +<p class='c008'>The scholars all looked and seemed puzzled. +Charles Linn said it was a flower; Eddy Forester +said it was a flower and something +more than a flower; for it had green leaves; +another said, “Yes, and it has a root and +stems.”</p> + +<p class='c008'>Mary told them it was a plant; that a +flower with root, stem, leaves and branches, +was called a plant. “And now,” said she, “I +will explain to you the uses of these parts +of a flower.</p> + +<p class='c008'><span class='pageno' id='Page_41'>41</span>“The root holds it fast in the earth; and +the root sucks drink from the earth, which +keeps the plant alive, very much as the calf +sucks milk from the cow to sustain it.”</p> + +<p class='c008'>Eddy Forester looked attentively at Mary +while she was speaking, and she asked him +if he understood her. “Yes,” said Eddy, +“and I was thinking about the verse you say +sometimes, which has ‘Mother Earth’ in it. +Is the earth the mother of all plants?”</p> + +<p class='c008'>“Yes,” said Mary, “because they get their +drink from her bosom, as very little children +get their food from the bosom of their mother.</p> + +<p class='c008'>“Now,” said Mary, “I wish you to remember +that the root of a plant is called an <i>organ</i>. +The plant has other organs besides the root, +and can you tell me what they are?” No +<span class='pageno' id='Page_42'>42</span>one answered, and Mary said, “The stem is +an organ, and the branches and leaves are +organs. I will tell you what the stem is for. +The stem is a pipe, which conveys the +nourishing drink that the root sucks in from +the earth, up into the leaves and branches.”</p> + +<p class='c008'>Mary’s scholars came closer to her, for they +liked to hear what she told them, because +they could understand it all. Then Mary said, +“I will tell you what the leaves and branches +are for. The branches are between the stem +and the leaves to carry the moisture from the +stem into the leaves. The leaves of a plant +have a number of small veins, which you can +see if you examine them; and these veins +have little mouths at their ends, wide open; +and though they are so small you cannot see +<span class='pageno' id='Page_43'>43</span>them without a microscope, yet the air passes +into the plant through the mouths of these +little veins. The plant could not live without +air and water, any more than one of us +could live without air and water; and our +heavenly Father, who is as wise as He is kind +and good, has furnished plants with these +organs, through which they receive the sustenance +which is necessary to preserve their +life and health and beauty.”</p> + +<p class='c008'>Mary questioned her scholars until she perceived +by their answers that they thoroughly +understood what she had taught them: and +then she dismissed them for the morning.</p> + +<div class='figcenter id002'> +<img src='images/i048.png' alt='' class='ig001'> +<div class='ic002'> +<p><b>Third Day.</b><br> Happy children! Away they skipped p. <a href='#Page_43'>43</a>.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<p class='c008'>Happy little children! Away they skipped +through the woods to their respective homes, +and Mary followed them with her eyes till +they were quite out of sight.</p> + +<hr class='c011'> + +<p class='c008'><span class='pageno' id='Page_44'>44</span>In the afternoon, Harry Linn came running +to school out of breath, to remind Mary of a +promise she had made him at home, that if +he was a good boy, on the next sewing afternoon +she would read aloud some stories about +the sagacity and faithfulness of dogs. She +told him she had not forgotten it, but the +lessons must be said first. The larger scholars +had definitions to say, and Harry’s class had +a spelling and reading lesson.</p> + +<p class='c008'>When the work-basket was brought out, +Harry and Lily came up to Mary with pleasant +smiling faces, to know if they might pass +the work round to-day. Mary told them they +might, as they had been good little children.</p> + +<p class='c008'>Mary was very busy this afternoon. She +<span class='pageno' id='Page_45'>45</span>had work to oversee, and crewels to sort out, +and copies to set for the boys, who did not +sew, and figures to make on Harry Linn’s +slate. He was the only little boy in school +who did not cipher. After all this was done, +Mary read to them. When the large boys +had finished their copies, they took their slates +to do sums, and Mary instructed them and +assisted them when they needed help. Mary +never wearied the little ones with any one +study or occupation; and when she observed +that Harry Linn had made three rows of +figures on his slate, and that Ellen Raby and +Lily Forester had finished their little tasks +of sewing, she called them to her to say the +Multiplication Table in concert. Then she +asked them some questions. Thus—</p> + +<p class='c008'><span class='pageno' id='Page_46'>46</span>“Harry, if you had an orange, and Lily +had two, and Ellen had three, and Lily and +Ellen gave you their oranges, how many +would you have?” Harry answered, “Six.” +Mary asked them a number of such questions, +for she wished to make them understand what +arithmetic was for, before she taught them +to do sums on their slates.</p> + +<p class='c008'>Harry’s father had shown him the picture +of a blind beggar and his dog, at home, and +there was a story about it, which Mary had +promised to read aloud this afternoon.</p> + +<h3 class='c010'>THE BLIND BEGGAR AND HIS DOG.</h3> + +<p class='c012'>A blind beggar used to be led about the +streets of Rome by a dog of middle size. +This dog led his master so as to protect him +<span class='pageno' id='Page_47'>47</span>from all danger, and he learned to distinguish, +not only the streets, but the houses where his +master was accustomed to receive alms twice +or thrice a week. Whenever the animal came +to any of these streets, with which he was +well acquainted, he would not leave it till a +call had been made at every house where his +master was usually successful in his petitions. +When the beggar began to ask alms, the dog, +being wearied, lay down to rest; but the +master was no sooner served, or refused, than +the dog rose, and without either order or sign, +proceeded to the other houses, where the beggar +generally received some gratuity. If a +halfpenny was thrown from a window, such +were the sagacity and attention of this dog, +that he went about in quest of it, lifted it +<span class='pageno' id='Page_48'>48</span>from the ground with his mouth, and put it +into his master’s hat. Even when bread was +thrown down, the animal would not taste it, +unless he received a portion of it from the +hand of his master. When the beggar was +very weary, he would sometimes lean his head +on the top of his staff and doze for a moment +or two. Then the dog would sit down and +watch him, and as soon as his master started, +the faithful creature was up in an instant, +ready for another march.</p> + +<div class='figcenter id002'> +<img src='images/i054.png' alt='' class='ig001'> +<div class='ic002'> +<p><b>Third Day.</b><br> The Blind Beggar and his dog. p. <a href='#Page_46'>46</a>.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class='c011'> + +<p class='c008'>Mary’s scholars thought that was a beautiful +story, and they were eager to hear something +more about dogs.</p> + +<p class='c008'>Mary told them, that if they chose to remain +in school, instead of going out to play +<span class='pageno' id='Page_49'>49</span>at recess-time, she would read to them another +story. So they all agreed to give up +the recess-play, for the sake of another +story.</p> + +<h3 class='c010'>KITTY GREEN AND THE DOG CAIRO.</h3> + +<p class='c012'>Kitty Green was a little girl who lived +with her uncle and aunt, in the country. +Her uncle worked in the fields at harvest +time; and Kitty liked to go out into the fields +where he was making hay and tumble about +in it. Sometimes her uncle would toss her +up on the top of the wagon, when it was +loaded with the sweet, fresh hay, and allow +her to have a ride; and he called her his +little harvester.</p> + +<p class='c008'>One afternoon, during the time of wheat +<span class='pageno' id='Page_50'>50</span>harvest, her aunt was very busy, and she +asked Kitty, if she could carry out to her +uncle, in the field, some biscuits and homemade +beer. Kitty said she would like to go; +and her aunt put the biscuits and beer into a +little basket, and covered them over with a +napkin, and gave the basket to Kitty to carry +out to her uncle. Then she called the dog +Cairo to go with Kitty, and she said to him,</p> + +<p class='c008'>“Now, Cairo, take right good care of your +little mistress.”</p> + +<p class='c008'>Cairo came, and wagged his tail, and looked +up at Kitty, as much as to say, Yes, I will +take good care of her.</p> + +<p class='c008'>Cairo was very fond of Kitty, and he followed +her all about, and when she went to +school, he would often carry her dinner basket +<span class='pageno' id='Page_51'>51</span>all the way to school. They set off together, +Kitty with the basket on her arm, and +Cairo by her side.</p> + +<p class='c008'>Kitty was a great talker, and she chatted +to Cairo all the way as they went. “Cairo,” +said Kitty, “you must be a very good dog, +and help me to carry the basket, for I can +tell you it is pretty heavy; and you need +not put your nose into it either, and you must +not wipe your mouth on the napkin, for my +uncle will not thank you for that.”</p> + +<p class='c008'>Cairo seemed delighted to have his little +mistress talk to him, and he looked up at +her, just as if he knew what she was saying. +Before Kitty and Cairo got to the harvest-field, +she was very tired; and she put the +basket on the ground while she rested, and +<span class='pageno' id='Page_52'>52</span>then she took a romp with Cairo. Then she +put one side of the handle into Cairo’s mouth, +and took hold of the other side herself, and +she said, “Now, Cairo, do help me, and I will +give you a part of my supper to-night. Do, +that is a good, dear Cairo.”</p> + +<p class='c008'>Cairo helped Kitty to carry the basket, and +they brought it safely along to her uncle, +who was very glad of the biscuits and beer. +Kitty’s uncle kissed her, and he stroked Cairo, +and he said,</p> + +<p class='c008'>“Kind little Kitty, and kind little Cairo, +to think of uncle when he was tired and +hungry.”</p> + +<p class='c008'>When he had done eating, he put the +empty bottle and the napkin into the basket, +and gave it to Kitty, and told her to walk +<span class='pageno' id='Page_53'>53</span>home as fast as she could, for a shower was +coming up.</p> + +<p class='c008'>Off went Kitty and Cairo, and they trotted +along together with the basket, which was +quite light now. Kitty was a heedless little +girl, and she soon forgot what her uncle had +told her about the rain coming, and she loitered +along, and stopped to play with Cairo. +Presently Kitty was startled by a loud clap +of thunder. Then she saw the bright lightning, +and that was followed by a clap of +thunder louder than the first. Kitty was +very much afraid, and she trembled all over. +No one had ever told her that her heavenly +Father caused the lightning to cut through +the clouds, and that the thunder was made +by the clouds rushing together again after +<span class='pageno' id='Page_54'>54</span>the lightning had passed through them. +Then she felt the large drops of rain on her +neck, and she began to cry; for she did not +think about God sending the rain, to make the +grass grow and to give drink to the thirsty +flowers. The rain fell very fast, and Kitty +cried out, “Oh, Cairo, what shall we do?”</p> + +<p class='c008'>Cairo seemed to know that Kitty was in +distress, and he took hold of her dress with +his mouth, as if he would pull her along to +a pile of wheat-sheaves, which were bound +up in bundles. Kitty crept under them and +sat down.</p> + +<p class='c008'>The faithful dog stayed close by her and +tried to comfort her. He put his paws upon +her shoulder and his head close up to her +face, as if he would wipe off her tears. Cairo +<span class='pageno' id='Page_55'>55</span>looked as if he would like to say, My dear +little mistress, how I do pity you, what can +I do for you?</p> + +<div class='figcenter id002'> +<img src='images/i064.png' alt='' class='ig001'> +<div class='ic002'> +<p><b>Third Day.</b><br> Little Kitty Green and her dog Cairo. p. <a href='#Page_54'>54</a>.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<p class='c008'>Kitty sat there under the wheat-sheaves a +long time, crying, and Cairo never left her for +a moment. He looked up into her face, and +rubbed his nose over her hands and arms, and +there he stayed and guarded her as faithfully +as any little sentinel could, until the rain was +over.</p> + +<p class='c008'>When the rain was over, he took the +basket in his mouth, and trotted home close +by the side of Kitty.</p> + +<hr class='c011'> + +<p class='c008'>The children were all so much delighted +with the story of Kitty’s affectionate little +dog, that they begged Mary to read it twice. +<span class='pageno' id='Page_56'>56</span>Mary gratified them whenever she could, and +she read it again to please them.</p> + +<p class='c008'>When the occupations of the afternoon +were finished, Mary said, “It is time to put +up the things:” but no one seemed ready for +school to close. Mary liked to have her +scholars think school was a pleasant place, +but she did not allow them to overstay the +usual time.</p> + +<p class='c008'>“You know,” said she, “we are to have +the Bible-reading yet.”</p> + +<p class='c008'>The work was all gathered together by +Harry Linn and Lily Forester; the books and +slates were put into their places, the desks +were neatly arranged, and then, teacher and +scholars repaired to the oak tree in the +wood, to have the Bible-reading.</p> + +<p class='c008'><span class='pageno' id='Page_57'>57</span>Mary asked them if they remembered what +she had read to them yesterday?</p> + +<p class='c008'>Carry Deacon said, “Yes, I remember. +You read about Adam and Eve, and about +our heavenly Father sending them away out +of the beautiful garden of Eden where they +lived, and that he sent them away because +they were disobedient.”</p> + +<p class='c008'>“And, Mary,” said Eddy Forester, “you +told us you would read to us next time about +the way to get back again to God, and the +beautiful garden which you called Paradise.”</p> + +<p class='c008'>Mary read to her little scholars, the first, +second and twelfth verses, in the second +chapter in the first epistle of John; the +eighth and twenty-third verses in the third +chapter; and the seventh, eighth, ninth, +<span class='pageno' id='Page_58'>58</span>tenth and eleventh verses in the fourth +chapter.</p> + +<p class='c008'>She then told them, that Jesus Christ our +Saviour, was sent into the world, not only to +show us the way to God and Paradise, (which +is heaven,) but to fit us to go to that holy +and happy place.</p> + +<p class='c008'>She explained to them, that when Adam +and Eve had sinned, and our heavenly Father +sent them out of the beautiful garden of Eden, +he knew they could not be happy without +him; and he pitied them, and loved them +so much, that he sent his only Son, Jesus +Christ, from heaven down to earth, to be +their Saviour, and our Saviour, and the Saviour +of the whole world.</p> + +<p class='c008'>Our heavenly Father knows all things, and +<span class='pageno' id='Page_59'>59</span>he knows how wicked the heart is, and that +the wicked one who had tempted Adam and +Eve to sin, would follow the sons and daughters +of Adam and Eve wherever they went, +and that he would tempt them to sin too, +and to forget Him. And because he loved +them, and us, and everybody, He sent his +only begotten and dearly beloved son to be +our Saviour, to die for us and to teach us +how to avoid sin, and how to come to him +and love him, and to love one another.</p> + +<p class='c008'>Eddy Forester said, “Mary, does the wicked +tempter follow you and me and everybody?”</p> + +<p class='c008'>“Yes,” said Mary, “and he is always trying +to make us sin. He knows, that if he +can prevail upon us to commit sin, we shall +<span class='pageno' id='Page_60'>60</span>be separated from God. He hates God, and +every thing that is good, because, where God +is, he cannot come. The greatest evil that +can happen to any of us, is to be separated +from God, by sin.”</p> + +<p class='c008'>“If we stay close to God, the wicked one +cannot hurt us, can he, Mary?” said Eddy.</p> + +<p class='c008'>“No! and if we ask Him, he will put his +good Spirit in our hearts, and then there will +be no room for the wicked one. This good +Spirit of God, will guide us to the knowledge +of our Saviour, and then we shall like to +read about him in the Bible. You are too +young to understand all that the dear Saviour +has done, and suffered for us, to take +away our sin and to make us the children +of God; but I want you to think about Him +<span class='pageno' id='Page_61'>61</span>very often; and by and by, I hope you will +know more than you do now.”</p> + +<p class='c008'>“Then will we be our Saviour’s little +lambs, Mary,” said Eddy, “the little lambs +that you once read to us about, that he carried +in his arms?”</p> + +<p class='c008'>“Yes,” said Mary; “it is a long journey +back to God and to Paradise, and sometimes +there are very rough places to get over; and +our Saviour loves his little lambs so dearly, +that he carries them in his arms over all the +rough places, and if we keep close to him, +he can bring us safely into the Paradise of +God.”</p> + +<p class='c008'>Mary’s little scholars seemed full of love, +and they did not want to go home, they felt +so safe and happy at school; but Mary told +<span class='pageno' id='Page_62'>62</span>them their fathers and mothers would be +waiting for them, and now they must bid one +another good-bye. Carry Deacon said they +must have two kisses apiece from Mary; so +she kissed them all twice, and then they went +home.</p> + +<p class='c008'>It is good to begin the day with thoughts +of God, if we would have his blessing upon +its close.</p> + +<div class='figcenter id005'> +<img src='images/i072.png' alt='THE END.' class='ig001'> +</div> + +<div class='pbb'> + <hr class='pb c001'> +</div> +<div class='footnote' id='fA'> +<p class='c008'><span class='label'><a href='#rA'>A</a>.  </span>Psalm <abbr title='104'>civ</abbr>. 24.</p> +</div> +<div class='footnote' id='fB'> +<p class='c008'><span class='label'><a href='#rB'>B</a>.  </span>Psalm <abbr title='65'>lxv</abbr>.</p> +</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 78324 ***</div> + </body> + <!-- created with ppgen.py 3.57i (with regex) on 2026-03-26 22:01:21 GMT --> +</html> diff --git a/78324-h/images/i004.png b/78324-h/images/i004.png Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..4b6ee08 --- /dev/null +++ b/78324-h/images/i004.png diff --git a/78324-h/images/i015.png b/78324-h/images/i015.png Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..a77ecee --- /dev/null +++ b/78324-h/images/i015.png diff --git a/78324-h/images/i018.png b/78324-h/images/i018.png Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..8bf24e1 --- /dev/null +++ b/78324-h/images/i018.png diff --git a/78324-h/images/i048.png b/78324-h/images/i048.png Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..36a5f1c --- /dev/null +++ b/78324-h/images/i048.png diff --git a/78324-h/images/i054.png b/78324-h/images/i054.png Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..7a89f7a --- /dev/null +++ b/78324-h/images/i054.png diff --git a/78324-h/images/i064.png b/78324-h/images/i064.png Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..610eb4a --- /dev/null +++ b/78324-h/images/i064.png diff --git a/78324-h/images/i072.png b/78324-h/images/i072.png Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..aa433e2 --- /dev/null +++ b/78324-h/images/i072.png diff --git a/78324-h/images/icover.jpg b/78324-h/images/icover.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..557b159 --- /dev/null +++ b/78324-h/images/icover.jpg diff --git a/78324-h/images/ititle.png b/78324-h/images/ititle.png Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..89ce180 --- /dev/null +++ b/78324-h/images/ititle.png diff --git a/LICENSE.txt b/LICENSE.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6c72794 --- /dev/null +++ b/LICENSE.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +This book, 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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