OLD-TIME SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL-BOOKS - online book

An Illustrated history & description Of Schools in the 18th & 19th Centurys.

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	Advanced Readers                     289 incidence of the hand and voice, will greatly enforce the pronunciation. Below is a part of one of the lighter pieces in The Common Reader, by T. Strong, A.M., Green­field, Massachusetts, 1818.
	The Flower Girl. From Strong's The Common Reader, 1818. Reduced one-third. THE FLOWER GIRL. " Pray buy a nosegay of a poor orphan ! " said a female v6ice, in a plaintive and melodious tone, as I was passing the corner of the Hay-market. I turned hastily and beheld a girl about fourteen, whose drapery, though ragged, was clean, and whose form was such as a painter might have chosen for a youthful Venus. Her neck, without colouring, was white as snow; and her features, though not regularly beautiful, were interesting,