OLD-TIME SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL-BOOKS - online book
An Illustrated history & description Of Schools in the 18th & 19th Centurys.
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tution of Massachusetts, and Washington's Farewell Address. But preceding these profundities are a few short reading lessons of a more entertaining character including two " Moral Tales " which each have an illustration, the only pictures in the book. One of the tales was about —
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From Fiske's The New England Spelling-book- |
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CHILD, playing with a tame ferpent, faid to it, My dear little animal, doft thou imagine I would be fo familiar with thee if thy venom was not taken out; you ferpents are the moft perverfe, ungrateful creatures. I remember to have read, that a good natured countryman found |
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