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A. I don't know, but I should like to instruct her myself so much.

M. But why should you want another pupil? To my certain knowledge there is one little girl whom you might have had the management of, for several years past.

A. Indeed! who is she?

M. Before I answer that question, I must tell you how you have treated her. You have been so indulgent to her, that had I not taken some authority upon myself, you would have quite ruined her. You denied her

nothing you could procure for her; so that, if I refused her any thing, she was angry, and more than once expressed a wish, that I would let you manage her entirely. Indeed, I often wish you were not so partial to her.

A. Do you mean the little girl that comes here sometimes for my old clothes? I have heard you say that you did not object to my doing her all the good I could.

M. I am not speaking of that little girl, Anna. Your companion is receiving an education like to your own; and, did you strive to improve her manners, she would, no doubt, become a pleasing and useful girl. At present her temper is not the best, and though she is too fond of you, ever to desire to injure you, she does not scruple to show her ill-will toward others that displease her

A. Perhaps you mean cousin Jemima; she never struck me yet, though she often does

her little brother, George. But I have no influence over her, mother.

M. You have not, or at most, but very little; therefore I do not mean her.

A. I wish I knew who it was then. I would soon teach her better manners, for she must be a very disagreeable girl.

M. It is not so easy a task to teach her better manners, as you may think. All your life time, you will have enough to do to keep her in subjection.

A. If I thought you were in earnest, mother, I should be quite frightened.

M. I do not wish to alarm you, my child, but I certainly am in earnest. I have not yet fully described her. She is the most powerful enemy you have.

A. How can she be my enemy, and yet partial to me, and I to her?

M. Though we ought to love our enemies, yet here is an exception. You, indeed, do love her too well, and it is in this, that the mischief lies. You ought to try to reform her; and this you can not do, till you know who she is, and therefore, I will now tell you; I mean your-SELF.

QUESTIONS.-1. What did Anna wish she had under her care? 2. Who was the girl that her mother said she might have had the charge of, a number of years? 3. Whom did her mother tell Anna she loved too well? 4. Are we prepared to govern others, before we learn to govern ourselves? 5. Do you always govern yourself? 6. By whom are we commanded to love our neighbor as curselves?

EXERCISE.-Repeatedly pronounce the words "let you" p. 19, with rapidity and distinctness. Do not say, let chou.

LESSON V.

Spell and Define-1. IM MOR' TAL, (IM, not.), undying. 2. BE' INGS, persons existing.

What are we taught to observe in Rule XI?

EARLY RISING.

1. THE lark is up to meet the sun,
The bee is on the wing;

The ant his labor has begun,
The groves with music ring.

2. And shall I sleep when beams of morn
Their light and glory shed?
Immortal beings were not born
To waste their time in bed.

3. Shall birds and bees and ants be wise, While I my moments waste?

O let me with the morning rise,
And to my duty haste!

QUESTIONS.-1. Is it not wrong to waste your time in bed? 2. Do you rise late? 3. Is not the morning the best time for study or work? 4. Are not scholars that rise late, apt to be late at school?

EXERCISE.-Will you read repeatedly the 1st line of the 3d verse until you can do it distinctly?

LESSON VI.

Spell and Define-1. CULL' ING, selecting; choosing from 2. EN GAGE', to attract and fix. 3. RI' PER, more

many.

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ADVICE FROM A BEE.

1. Busy bee, pray tell me why,
Thus from flower to flower you fly;
Culling sweets the live long day,
Never leaving off to play?

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Little friend, I'll tell thee why,
Thus from flower to flower I fly;
Let the cause thy thoughts engage,
From thy youth to riper age.

3. "Summer flowers will soon be o'er,-
Winter comes, they bloom no more;
Finest days will soon be past,
Brightest suns will set at last.

4. "Little friend, now learn of me;
Let thy youth the seed time be;
And when winter age shall come,
Richly bear thy harvest home!"

QUESTIONS.-1. What reason is given why the busy bee flies from flower to flower? 2. What lesson are you here taught by the bee? 3. Why is youth called the seed time?

LESSON VII.

Spell and Define-1. HIS' TO RY, relation of facts or events; story. 2. GRAT' I FI ED, pleased; indulged according to desire. 3. REC OL LEC' TION, the act of recall. ing to memory. 4. UN EA' SI NESS, (UN, not.), restlessness; want of ease; disquiet. 5. Dis o BEY', to neglect or refuse to obey. 6. DIS TRESS' ED, suffering great pain; severely afflicted. 7. DIS TURB' ED, disquieted; agitated. 8. CON CEAL' ED, kept close or secret.

STORY OF A ROBIN, RELATED BY HERSELF, TO THE KIND LITTLE GIRL.-A FABLE.

1. You have wished for my history, sweet little Miss, and you deserve to be gratified. So I will tell it to you. Though it is a sad tale, it will give me pleasure to relate it, if it will please you. My mother early taught me to repay all the kindness I received, and she set me an example of doing so.

2. Besides her music, she gave her labor for the use of a snug little spot in the branches of an apple tree. I overheard the gardener, saying that my mother was the best tenant his master had; for she gave him a song every morning, and helped him very much in clearing his garden of insects.

3. In the dear little nest I have mentioned, I was born. You may wonder at the strength of my memory, but I have a distinct recollection of the uneasiness I felt, when I was in total darkness, surrounded on all sides by a smooth hard shell. In my impatience, I kept pecking harder and harder, till at length it gave way.

4. My mother soon helped me into liberty, by applying her great beak to the prison walls which confined me. I was a little cold at first, but she covered me carefully with her wings and warm body. My feathers grew very fast, and I was soon warm enough, even when she was away.

5. I did not often know what it was to be

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