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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 |
