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CARELESS JAMES; 
 
 OR, 
 
 THE BOX OF TOYS, 
 
 BY MISS CORNER. 
 
 IN WORDS OF ONE SYLLABLE. 
 
 EMBELLISHED WITH ENGRAVINGS 
 
 
 LONDON: 
 DEAN and SON, 11, Ludgate Hill, 
 
CARELESS JAMES, 
 
 OR, THE BOX OF TOYS. 
 
 James was one of those boys who 
 take no care of what they have. 
 His books were torn, his toys 
 lost, and none of his things in the 
 place where they ought to be. If his 
 mam-ma said, " James, where is such 
 or such a thing ?" he was sure to 
 
CARELESS JAMES. 
 
 say—" I do not know, I must look 
 for it;" and then, when he did look, 
 it was not to be found; or if he did 
 find it, ten to one that it was on the 
 floor and spoilt. 
 
 One day, he went out with his 
 mam-ma, and saw a box of toys in 
 a shop, that he thought he should 
 like to have, so he said, " Mam-ma, 
 I wish you would buy me that box 
 of toys." Ci I should like to buy it 
 for you, my dear/' said his mam-ma, 
 " if I thought you would take care 
 of it; but I fear you would soon 
 spoil it, like all the rest of your 
 things." " Oh, mam-ma, I would 
 not," said James; "do buy it for 
 me, and you shall see how well I 
 will keep it." 
 
 
OR, THE BOX OF TOYS. 
 
 His mam-ma thought for a short 
 time, and then said : " Well, James, 
 I will try you once more, and if I 
 find you do not keep your word, I 
 shall buy you no more toys at all : so 
 you know what you have to trust to, 
 for I mean what I sav ." 
 
 James said he was sure he would 
 take care of it ; so they went in the 
 shop, and the box was bought. I do 
 
CARELESS JAMESj 
 
 not know how much it cost, hut I 
 dare say it was a great deal, for it 
 was a large hox full of nice smooth 
 red bricks, to build a house with, 
 there were two doors, and slate tiles 
 
 for the roof, and all the things that 
 one wants to make a fine large house. 
 
 Well, James was quite glad he 
 had got it, — "Let us make haste 
 
OR, THE BOX OF TOYS. 
 
 home, inamma," said lie; "and I 
 will first give my rab-bits their 
 food, and then can try to build up 
 my new house." 
 
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 He then set to work, and soon 
 a grand house was built, James 
 said it was fit for a king to live 
 in; but, grand as it was, it must 
 have been but a small king that 
 
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 CARELESS JAMES 
 
 could live in such a house as that ; 
 don't you think so ? 
 
 At night, when it was time to go to 
 bed, James put all his bricks in the 
 box, and shut it up with great care ; 
 but the next night he did not count 
 his bricks, and the next time he went 
 
 
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 to build his house, there were three 
 of them lost. He went clown stairs 
 to ask the maids if they saw them 
 
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 on the floor when they swept the 
 room, but they said they did not sec 
 them, and that if thev were left on 
 the floor they might be swept out 
 
 with the dust, and thrown in the 
 dust-bin, or in the fire, they could 
 
CARELESS JAMES, 
 
 not tell : they said, he ought to take 
 more care of them. 
 
 One would have thought that this 
 loss would have made James count 
 his bricks at night when he put 
 them in the box ; but no such thing, 
 
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 he put them in eight or ten times 
 and did not count them, and each 
 time some were left on the floor, so 
 that in a few days, not more than 
 
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 half of them were left. One of the 
 doors was lost too, and all the slate- 
 tiles but two, so that he could not 
 make a roof or a house at all, and 
 as he could not build but a dove 
 cote now, for want of the bricks that 
 were lost, the toy was quite spoilt. 
 
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CARELESS JAMES, 
 
 His mam-ma did not say a word 
 to this, till one day, when a man 
 came to the door with two large fine 
 ships to sell, and she bought one of 
 them. This ship had sails, and a 
 
 mast with a red and white flag at 
 the top of it. James thought it 
 was for him, so he said : " Oh mam- 
 ma, I am so glad you have bought 
 
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 me that nice ship, how I shall like 
 to swim it in the pond at the back of 
 our house; what good fun it will 
 be !" "I dare say you would like to 
 swim it, my dear, and I have no doubt 
 it would be good fun, but I have not 
 bought it for you." 
 
 " Oh dear, why not j who is it for, 
 then ?" 
 
 " I have bought it for Fred. Lyne, 
 he takes more care of his tovs than 
 you do. The last time I was at his 
 house, I saw a map that I gave him 
 in a box last year, and it was as good 
 as new ; there was not one piece of 
 it lost, so I shall give him this ship/' 
 " If you will give it to me, mam- 
 ma, I will take great care of it/' 
 said James. 
 

 CARELESS JAMES. 
 
 " So you said of the box of bricks, 
 my dear, and you did not keep your 
 word. 1 told you then it was the 
 last time I should try you, and 
 though you break your word, I do 
 not mean to break mine. When 
 you learn to take care of things, you 
 shall have new toys, but not till 
 then/' 
 
 
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