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A DAY 
 
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A DAY 
 
 IN 
 
 MARY CARROW'S SCHOOL. 
 
 After the roll had been called, the little 
 boys and girls were invited to say a lesson 
 first ; because Mary, the teacher, thought the 
 bigger ones could better understand why 
 they were to wait. 
 
 They took their places in the class, and 
 she gave out words of two syllables for them 
 /n to spell ; such as Cam-el, Pea-cock, Hen-coop, 
 £, Par-lor, Tea-cup. 
 
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8 A DAY IN 
 
 When they had done spelling, she allowed 
 them to ask questions. 
 
 One little boy, whose name was Harry 
 Linn, asked what a camel was ? And Mary 
 took down a large book from the shelf, and 
 showed him a picture of a camel, and told 
 him that it was a native both of Arabia and 
 of Africa, and that it could travel eight or 
 nine days without water, over the sandy 
 deserts of those countries. It is covered with 
 a hairy fur, which it sheds in the spring, 
 and this fur is used to make coarse cloth 
 shawls. The camel kneels down to receive 
 burdens, and when it is loaded it will rise 
 again. 
 
 Harry was very much surprised, when 
 his teacher told him that the camel could 
 
MARY CARROW'S SCHOOL. 9 
 
 carry men and burdens like a horse or an 
 ass, and could travel a great distance with a 
 weight of eight hundred or a thousand pounds 
 upon its back; and that it gave milk for 
 drink, like a cow. 
 
 Harry asked why we had not camels in 
 America, instead of horses and cows ? 
 
 Mary told him that God had made this 
 a very large world, and that it is divided 
 into many countries. In some countries the 
 weather is very hot, and in some countries 
 it is very cold. 
 
 The animals and people, who are born in 
 hot countries, such as Arabia and Africa, 
 could not endure the cold of America. They 
 are happier and more useful in the climate 
 where they are born. 
 
10 A DAY IN 
 
 And Mary said, our heavenly Father was 
 so good and kind to every thing that he had 
 made, that he designed all animals, as well 
 as little boys and girls and men and women 
 too, to be useful and happy where he placed 
 them. 
 
 Harry asked if a little boy like him could 
 be useful and happy? for Harry was only 
 four years old. 
 
 Mary told him, yes ; and that when she 
 had leisure, she would read aloud to him 
 and his school-mates the story of a little 
 girl who was only four years old, who was 
 happy because she was useful. 
 
 Harry loved his teacher, because she was 
 so kind to him, and though he wanted very 
 much to know how he could be useful and 
 
MARY CARROW's SCHOOL. 11 
 
 happy, he knew she had not time to answer 
 any more questions now ; and he was willing 
 to wait, for his teacher always did what she 
 said she would do, and Harry was sure she 
 would not forget her promise. 
 
 So he went to his seat as the other little 
 boys and girls did, and while Mary heard 
 the larger scholars say their definitions, 
 Harry's class made O's, and strokes, and pot- 
 hooks on their slates, as they are called, in 
 this way. 
 
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 Mary had only eight scholars, and she had 
 leisure to attend to each one, and make them 
 understand all their lessons, that they might 
 have something to think about when they 
 went home from school. 
 
12 4 DAY IN 
 
 On this morning the scholars were exer- 
 cised in spelling, reading and arithmetic. 
 The large boys and girls did sums in multi- 
 plication and subtraction, and the smaller 
 ones made figures, after Mary had written 
 a line upon their slates for them thus : — 
 
 123456789 0. 
 
 After they had been two hours in school, 
 Mary rang a little bell. As soon as they 
 heard it, they knew it was recess-time, and 
 they all went out to play for fifteen minutes. 
 
 The school was in the country, on the 
 farm where Harry Linn's father and mother 
 lived, and Mary lived with them. 
 
 Mary had been to the best schools to re- 
 ceive her education ; and she was very fond 
 of two things — learning and children. So, 
 
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MARY CARROW's SCHOOL. 13 
 
 she agreed to come and live with Harry 
 Linn's father and mother, and teach school : 
 and she had five of the neighbouring chil- 
 dren, besides Harry and his brother and sis- 
 ter, for scholars. 
 
 The school-room was built at the edge of 
 a piece of "woods," not far from the house, 
 and it was very cool and shady round about, 
 all summer. 
 
 In the winter, when the leaves had fallen 
 off from the trees, the sun shone in at the 
 school-room windows, and it was so light and 
 cheerful that the teacher and her scholars 
 liked to be there better than anywhere else. 
 
 Harry Linn's father used to say that 
 Mary's face was sunshiny, because it was 
 so good-humoured. When her little flock 
 
14 A DAY IN 
 
 went out to play, at recess-time, she some- 
 times went too, for the sake of the exercise ; 
 and they were always glad when Mary 
 went with them. She would take turns 
 with them in jumping rope, and playing 
 " Let us see who can run fastest ;" and she 
 would show the boys how to trundle their 
 hoops ; and she knew how to fix the paper 
 sails to the little boats which the boys made 
 for themselves ; and then she would take them 
 along by the side of the little brook of water 
 that was down in the woods, and find a place 
 for them where they could stoop down without 
 getting their feet wet, to sail their boats. 
 
 One of the home-made boats was such a 
 fast sailer that Charles Linn, who was quite 
 a little carpenter, asked Mary to . print 
 
MARY CARROW's SCHOOL. 15 
 
 a name on his boat. She asked, u What shall 
 its name be ?" But they could not agree upon 
 a name, for one wanted one name, and 
 another wanted something different. So 
 Mary cut up a piece of paper which she had 
 in her hand into nine slips ; and then she 
 went round to each scholar, and told every 
 one to whisper to her the name he or she 
 liked best; and she wrote down the choice 
 of each one on a separate slip of the paper, 
 and lastly, on the ninth slip, she wrote down 
 the name which she herself preferred. 
 
 After this was done, Mary read the names 
 written down, aloud. 
 
 Two of the scholars had chosen the name 
 of " Swan." Three had chosen the name of 
 "Mary," and four had chosen the name of 
 
16 A DAY IN 
 
 "Water-witch." So the little fast-sailing 
 boat was named " Water-witch." I suppose 
 they had talked about this name before. 
 
 " Now/' said Mary, " we will all go back 
 to school y and her happy little scholars were 
 ready to do as she wished. 
 
 "All work and no play makes Jack a 
 dull boy." 
 
 Mary remembered her promise to Harry 
 Linn, to read him a story which would teach 
 him how a little girl of four years old could 
 be useful and happy. And she said all who 
 wished to hear it might put by their books , 
 and slates, while she read it to them. 
 
 They all liked to have Mary read to them, 
 and all the scholars put up their work to 
 listen to her. 
 
M 
 
 MARY CARROW's SCHOOL. 17 
 
 A LITTLE GIRL OF FOUR YEARS OLD. 
 
 A little girl am T, 
 
 With sisters, two, three, four, 
 A father, and a mother, 
 
 One brother, and no more. 
 
 My name is Anne Lyle, 
 
 I hardly ever cry, 
 And in a little trundle-bed, 
 
 In mother's room, I lie. 
 
 I wait on my mamma, 
 
 And tend our little Will, 
 I play with him, and sing to him, 
 
 And try to keep him still. 
 
 I play " Come, peaches buy" — 
 " Buy peaches, half a peck ;" 
 
 Then Willy holds his arms both out, 
 To hog me round the neck. 
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18 A DAY IN 
 
 Pa rolls him all about, 
 
 And jumps him up and down ; 
 He rides him on his foot, and says, 
 
 " Now here we go to town." 
 
 As soon as Willy hears 
 
 The front-door dead-latch key, 
 He knows it's papa coming home, 
 
 He knows as well as we. 
 
 And then we're all so glad, 
 
 And Willy tries to say 
 After mamma — " Pa-pa come home, 
 
 With Wil-ly boy to play." 
 
 He cannot stand alone — 
 
 He creeps about the floor — 
 When mamma says, " Come, precious one!" 
 
 He laughs, and creeps some more. 
 
 He's little, and don't know 
 
 He ou^ht to mind mv mother— 
 
MARY CARROW's SCHOOL. 19 
 
 Pa says he'll be a noble man, 
 My little baby brother. 
 
 I've got a pretty dove, 
 
 My uncle gave to me, 
 And papa holds it on his hand 
 
 For little Will to see. 
 
 He strokes its feathers down, 
 
 They feel as soft as silk, 
 And then I try if it will drink 
 
 Out of my bowl of milk. 
 
 Trip wags his tail, and comes 
 
 To sit by papa's feet ; 
 When he is hungry, he will beg, 
 
 On his hind legs, for meat. 
 
 I have a grandpapa : 
 
 He's old, and cannot see — 
 He kisses me, and strokes my hair, 
 
 And holds me on his knee. 
 
20 A DAY IN 
 
 We have a garden green, 
 Where pretty flowers grow ; 
 
 When I walk there with grandpapa, 
 I lead him very slow 
 
 And I can bring his chair, 
 And a cricket for his feet, 
 
 And put away his hat and cane — 
 He calls me, "Anne, sweet!" 
 
 He puts his face to mine, 
 
 He has shiny, soft, white hair ; 
 
 And then he hugs me very close, 
 To feel if I am there. 
 
 He tells me about God, 
 
 And teaches me to pray, 
 " Keep me, O heavenly Father, out 
 
 Of every naughty way." 
 
 My heavenly Father's child, 
 Oh, I would like to be ! 
 
MARY CARROW'S SCHOOL. 21 
 
 I love Him, I am very sure, 
 When I sit on grandpa's knee. 
 
 I love my father then, 
 
 And my little brother Will, 
 And everybody, and mamma, 
 
 And my sisters, and old Phil. 
 
 Old Phil's a beggar-man — 
 
 He goes from door to door 
 With a little basket on his arm, 
 
 Because he's very poor. 
 
 Poor Phil ! he must be cold — 
 
 His clothes are full of holes ; 
 He has no stockings, and his shoes 
 
 Are ragged in the soles. 
 
 When I'm a bigger girl, 
 
 I'll make old Phil some clothes, 
 And I'll buy a pair of shoes for him 
 
 That won't let out his toes. 
 
22 A DAY IN 
 
 Mamma has made a place 
 For my pennies, in her drawer, 
 
 And she shows me how to put by some 
 For Phil, till I get more. 
 
 Our cook is named Cathleen ; 
 
 Nice gingerbread she bakes; 
 And little pies, with our names on, 
 
 She very often makes. 
 
 Cathleen gets sick sometimes 
 
 In bed she has to stay ; 
 And then I take to her up stairs 
 
 Some good things every day. 
 
 I have four sisters : Kate, 
 
 Sophy, and Jane, and Grace ; 
 And when they all come home from school, 
 
 We run a merry race. 
 
 Mamma just looks at us, 
 With Willy on her lap, 
 
MARY CARROW's SCHOOL. 23 
 
 And Willy jumps, and crows, and tries 
 His little hands to clap. 
 
 Pa thinks it makes us grow, 
 
 To swing and play and mn; 
 And grandpa says he likes young folks 
 
 To have a little fun. 
 
 My grandpa cannot read 
 
 His Bible, now he's blind, 
 But all the pretty stories there, 
 
 He knows just where to find. 
 
 And when it gets quite dark, 
 
 Before I go to bed, 
 He says, " Come hither, Anne Lyle, 
 
 My little cu Jy-head." 
 
 And when he takes me up, 
 
 Right in his face I look ; 
 I love to sit and hear him tell 
 
 About the Holy Book. 
 
24 A DAY IN 
 
 The stories there are true, 
 
 And I wish, on grandpa's knee, 
 
 Some other little boys and girls 
 Could hear as well as me. 
 
 When I go up to bed, 
 
 Ma stays by me awhile ; 
 She says, " God keep thee safe and good, 
 
 My little Anne Lyle." 
 
 Mary's scholars were all very still and at- 
 tentive while she was reading to them about 
 Anne Lyle, and when she had finished it, 
 she asked Harry if he did not think Anne 
 Lyle was a useful, happy, little girl ? She 
 waited on her mother, and walked in the 
 garden with her blind, old grandfather, and 
 put away his hat and cane for him, and kept 
 
MARY CARROW's SCHOOL. 25 
 
 her little brother quiet ; and she was a kind 
 little girl too, for she took something good to 
 the sick cook, and saved some of her pennies 
 to buy shoes for a poor beggar. 
 
 Harry said, " Yes : and if I knew how, I 
 would like to be useful too." Mary reminded 
 him that one of his schoolmates had lost her 
 sponge, and when she wanted to rub from 
 her slate some crooked strokes that she had 
 made, she asked Harry for his sponge, and he 
 had refused to lend it to her, because he 
 wanted it himself. 
 
 " You might have been useful, then, 
 Harry," said Mary, " but you did not choose 
 to be so." 
 
 Harry hung his head and. looked ashamed; 
 but presently he ran away to his desk, and 
 
26 A DAY IN 
 
 brought out his sponge, and gave it to Lily 
 Forester ; (for that was the little girl's name 
 who had asked him for it.) Lily said, " Thank 
 you, Harry," and she cleaned her slate off 
 nicely with it, and gave it back to him. 
 
 His teacher stroked Harry's hair with her 
 hand, and said, 
 
 " Now, has not my little boy of four years 
 old learned to be useful ?" 
 
 Harry hid his curly head behind Mary's 
 apron for a few moments, and then he peeped 
 up into her kind face, and she knew he meant 
 Yes, though he did not say any thing. 
 
 "Oh," said Mary, "my little Harry has 
 discovered that he can be useful; and that 
 when he is useful, he is happy." 
 
MARY CARROW'S SCHOOL. 27 
 
 Harry scampered off, and sat close by Lily 
 Forester till school was out. 
 
 In the afternoon, Mary's scholars were all 
 collected around the school-room door before 
 she arrived. As soon as they saw her coming, 
 they ran to meet her, and Susan Field 
 brought a bunch of beautiful flowers for her. 
 Mary was very fond of flowers, and she 
 thanked Susan, and said she would keep 
 them in water for her little scholar's sake. 
 
 Then she took a china vase which she 
 kept for flowers, and allowed all her scholars 
 to go with her down to the spring for fresh 
 water; and she filled the vase with water 
 and arranged the flowers, and then she said, 
 
 " Now we will all go to school, and enjoy 
 them together." 
 
28 A DAY IN 
 
 Three afternoons in the week Mary taught 
 her scholars to sew, and knit, and work sam- 
 plers on canvas. She thought every little girl 
 should know how to use the needle, and cut 
 out garments. Then, when she grew up 
 to be a woman, she could keep her own 
 wardrobe neatly, and be helpful in her family 
 besides; and if she had leisure, after doing 
 her share of the family sewing, she could 
 teach poor little children, and make garments 
 for the sick and old, who were not able to 
 help themselves. 
 
 This was sewing afternoon. As soon as 
 they were all in their seats, Mary took out a 
 large work-basket, that was filled with little 
 parcels, nicely wrapped up, and the owner's 
 name was written on each parcel. Lily For- 
 
MARY CARROW's SCHOOL. 29 
 
 ester and Harry Linn stood beside Mary to 
 pass along the work as she gave it to them. 
 They were the youngest scholars in the 
 school, and they were always glad when 
 sewing afternoon came, because they could 
 help Mary. 
 
 One girl had a pocket handkerchief to hem 
 for her brother ; one had some patch-work ; 
 one was working a Bible-cover in cross-stitch ; 
 one was learning to knit a garter ; and little 
 Lily's work was an apron for her doll, which 
 Mary had fitted for her. 
 
 While the girls were busied at their work, 
 the boys, (except Harry Linn,) stood up to 
 say a geography lesson. 
 
 Now, my little readers, whoever you may 
 be, can you tell how many boys were in the 
 
30 A DAY IN 
 
 geography class ? You will remember Mary 
 had eight scholars. Read over how many 
 girls were at their sewing, then add to their 
 number Harry Linn, and say how many boys 
 were in the class. 
 
 Harry and Lily, somehow or other, always 
 had their little heads close together. Harry 
 liked to help Lily, and Lily liked to help 
 Harry. Sometimes, like other little children, 
 they quarrelled ; but they soon became friends 
 again without any body's help ; and then 
 Harry would say, " Come, Lily, let us kiss 
 and make up." 
 
 This afternoon, Harry asked leave to show 
 Lily a picture-book which his father had 
 given him, and Mary told him he might sit 
 by Lily, as soon as she had finished a fin- 
 
MARY CARROW'S SCHOOL. / 31 
 
 ger's length of hemming. Harry waited till 
 the sewing was done, and then he sat close 
 to Lily, and showed her his picture-book. 
 
 There was a picture of two little hum- 
 ming-birds and a nest ; and one of a horse, 
 with a boy and a bag of flour on his back ; 
 and Harry told Lily, the little boy was com- 
 ing home from the mill, with a bag of flour to 
 make some cakes for supper ; and Lily said, 
 
 " Harry, I would like to have some of the 
 cakes ; wouldn't you ?" 
 
 Harry's book had more pictures than these 
 two in it. There was one of a little girl 
 feeding chickens, and one of a shepherd and 
 his sheep, and one of a boy spinning a 
 famous top. 
 
 Lily liked the picture of the little girl 
 
32 A DAY IN 
 
 feeding chickens best : and Harry liked the 
 picture of the boy and his top best. And 
 Harry said to Lily, 
 
 " Lily, if you will look at my picture first, 
 then I will look at your picture ;" but Lily 
 was tired of looking at Harry's picture ; and 
 she said it was ugly ; and she moved away 
 from Harry. 
 
 This offended Harry, and he told her he 
 didn't love her any more, and she should not 
 see his book. And he went away from Lily 
 and took his book with him. 
 
 When the boys, who had been saying a 
 geography lesson, had taken their seats, 
 Mary called Harry and Lily to come and re- 
 peat the multiplication table. 
 
 They did not come when they were called, 
 
MARY CARROW'S SCHOOL. 33 
 
 and Mary knew from their looks and beha- 
 viour, that they had been naughty. But 
 she only said to them again very mildly, 
 
 " Come, Harry, come Lily, — it is almost 
 recess time, and you have not said a lesson." 
 
 Harry came along very slowly, at first, and 
 looking sidewise to see if Lily was coming too. 
 At length she took her place beside him, but 
 they missed their tables. They knew they 
 had done wrong, and they felt very unhappy, 
 and they did not think enough about their 
 tables to answer correctly. 
 
 When the scholars went out to play at 
 recess time, Harry and Lily did not swing, 
 and run, and play with one another. They 
 walked about apart, and they hardly knew 
 what to do with themselves. 
 
34 A DAY IN 
 
 Harry's brother Charles went and got his 
 fast-sailing little boat, and ran back to the 
 school-house to Mary, to ask her to print on 
 it in large letters, " The Water-witch." 
 
 Mary laid down her work and took a pen 
 and did it for him immediately, and he said, 
 " I thank you," and then he ran away, 
 and all the scholars, (boys and girls,) after 
 him, down to the spring, to see how the boat 
 looked upon the water. 
 
 She sailed beautifully, and there was quite 
 a little fleet of boats behind her, but the 
 " Water- witch" went ahead of them all. 
 
 While they were watching the boats the 
 bell rang for school. 
 
 Then Charles took his little boats, and all 
 the boys and girls took their hoops, and ropes, 
 
MARY CARROW S SCHOOL. OU 
 
 and all their playthings, and put them into 
 a little tool-house, which Charles Linn's father 
 allowed thern to use for that purpose ; and 
 Mary made a rule, that every thing must be 
 put into its proper place, so that even their 
 playthings should not be lost. 
 
 Then they all came back to school. Mary 
 was there waiting* for them. She had not 
 gone out with them this afternoon, but had 
 stayed in school to fit the girls' work, and 
 to set copies, in books, for the scholars who 
 used pen and ink, and on slates, for the 
 smaller ones.. 
 
 When they returned from play, she called 
 them up, one by one, to read, and after each 
 scholar had done reading, he went to his 
 desk and wrote a copy ; and then Mary said, 
 
36 A. DAY IN 
 
 "It is now time to put up work." The 
 girls all rolled up their work, and pinned 
 their names on it, and held it in their hands 
 till Harry and Lily should come to get the 
 different parcels and put them in the large 
 work-basket; but as Harry and Lily had 
 been naughty, Mary did not ask them to do 
 it this time ; so every girl put away her own 
 work. Lily had not learned to fold up hers, 
 and put it away neatly, and she usually 
 brought it to Mary, and said, 
 
 " Please, Mary, fold up mine ?" and Mary- 
 folded it up for her, and Lily always watched 
 how it was done, so that she might learn. 
 We can learn a great deal by the right use 
 of our eyes. 
 
 This afternoon Lily brought her work to 
 
MARY CARROW's SCHOOL. 37 
 
 Mary, and turned away her head, while 
 Mary put it away, but she did not say 
 " thank you," as usual. 
 
 Mary now went round to see if all the 
 desks were in order. One little girl, Carry 
 Deacon, said her desk would not hold all 
 her things, and she tried her best to get them 
 all in, but she could not ; so Mary went to 
 her and had her to take every thing out of 
 the desk first, and then she showed her how 
 to arrange her reading book and her spelling 
 book, and her other books, all on one side of 
 the desk, and her slate on the other side ; 
 and then there was plenty of room for all. 
 
 Mary looked into every scholar's desk, to 
 see that it was neatly arranged ; and if she 
 found it out of order, she would point to some 
 
38 A day m 
 
 large letters that were printed over the man- 
 tel-piece. 
 
 " Would my little readers like to know 
 what those large letters were ?" 
 
 I will tell them. 
 
 A PLACE FOR EVERY THING, 
 
 ASH 
 
 EVERY THING IN ITS PLACE. 
 
 If Mary's scholars wanted her aid about 
 any thing, she would always help them, and 
 they knew that she never required any thing 
 of them, which could not be done. 
 
 At the close of every afternoon school, it 
 was Mary's practice to gather her little flock 
 round her, and read to them out of the Bible. 
 Sometimes, when the weather was very 
 
MARY CARROW'S SCHOOL. 39 
 
 warm, she took them out into the woods, and 
 sat down with them on the grass under a 
 large oak tree. They liked to go out of doors 
 to read ; for they loved Mary, and they could 
 sit very close to her under the oak tree while 
 she read to them. Eddy Forester said he 
 liked to read out of doors, for it seemed as 
 if God was listening, up in the sky. 
 
 It was a very warm afternoon, and Mary 
 said she would read under the oak tree. 
 
 Eddy Forester carried the Bible, and when 
 they were all seated, Mary read to them the 
 history of little Samuel, and how his hea- 
 venly Father called him when he lay down 
 to sleep in the temple. 
 
 After Mary had done reading, Eddy For- 
 ester asked, why little Samuel went to Eli 
 
40 A DAY IN 
 
 to inquire if he called him, when it was 
 the Lord that called him ? 
 
 Mary said, " Samuel was a very little boy, 
 and he did not know that it was the Lord 
 who had spoken to him. Our heavenly 
 Father often speaks to little children now by 
 his good Spirit, when they are too young to 
 understand who it is that speaks to them. 
 
 " When we do right, we feel something 
 which seems to say to us, 6 Well done!' and 
 then we are happy ; and when we do wrong, 
 we feel something which seems to say to us 
 that it is wrong, and then we are unhappy. 
 
 " Is it the Lord that makes us feel so ?" 
 asked Susan Field? 
 
 " Certainly," said Mary, " and we should 
 be very thankful to him that we are not 
 
MARY CARROW'S SCHOOL. 41 
 
 happy when we have done that which we 
 know to be wrong ; and we should pray that 
 God would teach us by his Holy Spirit what 
 is right and what is wrong, and make us un- 
 derstand and love what he has taught us in 
 the Bible." 
 
 " Oh, yes !" said Eddy Forester, " I know 
 what you mean, for my mother told me — the 
 other day, when I snatched an apple from 
 George because he would not give me a bite 
 of it — she told me that I did not enjoy eat- 
 ing the apple, and it did not taste good to 
 me, because I had been very naughty to take 
 it away from George, and that our heavenly 
 Father's good Spirit was rebuking me and 
 making me feel unhappy all the time I was 
 eating George's apple. 
 
42 A DAY IN 
 
 While Eddy was talking, little Lily came 
 and sat by Mary, and now she was sobbing 
 and crying out aloud. 
 
 The scholars all wondered what was the 
 matter with Lily, but Mary said, 
 
 "Never mind, Lily, now;" and she only 
 drew Lily close to her and said, " Don't cry, 
 Lily dear." 
 
 Harry Linn crept round to Lily very 
 quietly, and took out his little picture book, 
 and whispered to her, " Here, Lily." 
 
 But she was too much distressed to notice 
 Harry, though he got as near to her as ever 
 he could. 
 
 Mary now asked Eddy Forester to go on 
 with what he was saying, but Eddy said he 
 had done, and that he was glad the Lord 
 
MARY CARROW's SCHOOL. 43 
 
 spoke to little children now, even if they did 
 not hear any voice, as Samuel did. 
 
 Mary wished her little scholars to under- 
 stand what she read to them, and she encou- 
 raged them to ask questions, at suitable 
 times. 
 
 She now told them if they had no more 
 questions to ask, they might go home ; all 
 but Harry and Lily. So, they came one by 
 one, and kissed Mary and went home. 
 
 Eddy Forester said he would wait for Lily ; 
 but Mary told him she would bring Lily 
 home, and he might tell his mother that she 
 kept Lily and Harry Linn to talk to them. 
 
 After Eddy was gone, Mary took Lily up 
 in her arms, and then she called Harry to 
 her, and told him to wipe off Lily's tears ; 
 
44 A DAY IN 
 
 and Harry took his handkerchief out of his 
 pocket and wiped Lily's face, and he said, 
 
 " Lily, will you love me again ? and then 
 I'll love you, and you may look at the little 
 girl feeding her chickens as long as you 
 like." 
 
 Lily said, "I do love you, Harry," and 
 she put her arms round Harry's neck and 
 they kissed one another. 
 
 Then Mary tied on Lily's bonnet for her, 
 and Harry put on his hat, and carried the 
 Bible back to the school-room for his teacher. 
 
 Mary locked up the school-room door and 
 put the key in her pocket, and then she took 
 a hand of each of her little scholars, and said, 
 
 "Now, Harry, you and I will go home 
 with Lily, shall we ?" 
 

 MARY CARROW'S SCHOOL. 45 
 
 You will remember, my little readers, that 
 Mary lived with Harry Linn. As they 
 walked along, Harry seemed to be thinking 
 about something, and at last he said, 
 
 " Mary, does our heavenly Father ever 
 speak to little children like me and 
 Lily?" 
 
 Mary said, "Yes! Harry, he has been 
 speaking to you both, since you were naughty. 
 You sinned against his good Spirit when you 
 quarrelled, and he made you feel very un- 
 happy because you were so disobliging to one 
 another, and had forgotten that he had told 
 you to love one another. But I hope you 
 will hereafter know and obey his voice." 
 
 " Oh !" said Lily, " I love to hear my hea- 
 venly Father's voice." 
 
46 A DAY IN 
 
 u So do I," said Harry, " it makes me feel 
 so happy." 
 
 " You feel happy because you obeyed His 
 voice/' said Mary, " and we are always happy 
 when we are obedient to God. He loves us 
 so much, and is so kind to us, that he never 
 tells us to do any thing that we cannot do ; 
 and if it seems hard, and we ask him, he 
 will help us to do it. He tells little children 
 to do very little things, because he loves 
 them, and he knows they are too little to do 
 great things." 
 
 " I hope our heavenly Father will talk to 
 me and Lily often," said Harry, "do you 
 think he will, Mary?" 
 
 " Yes, if you are good children " 
 
 
MARY CARROW'S SCHOOL. 47 
 
 " And will he show us how to be good ?" 
 asked Lily. 
 
 "Oh, yes," Harry said, "for you know 
 he showed little Samuel what he would have 
 him do." 
 
 " Does he love Lily and me as much as 
 he loved little Samuel, Mary," said Harry. 
 
 Mary told him that God loved all little 
 children, and he sent our Saviour to bless 
 them and to bring them to him. Do you re- 
 member, Harry, what our Saviour said about 
 little children ? 
 
 " Yes," said Harry, " He said, < Suffer little 
 children to come unto me, and forbid them 
 not!'" 
 
 Now we are at Lily's home. 
 
 Mary took Lily in to her mother, and told 
 
48 A DAY IN MARY CARROW's SCHOOL. 
 
 her that she kept Lily to talk to her, and 
 Lily's mother said, 
 
 " I am glad to see my little daughter, for 
 her supper of nice bread and milk is all ready 
 for her." 
 
 Lily's mother asked Mary and Harry to 
 stay and eat supper; but Mary said they had 
 not leave to stay, and Harry's father and 
 mother would not know where they were, if 
 they stayed. So she thanked Lily's mother 
 for her invitation, and then she and Harry 
 kissed Lily, and bade her good-night. And 
 Mary and Harry went home. 
 
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