The Parent's Assistant; Or, Stories for Children
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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1848 Original Publisher: Longman Subjects: Fiction / Classics Juvenile Fiction / General Juvenile Fiction / Family / Parents Juvenile Fiction / Short Stories Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / Children's Literature Self-Help / General Notes: This is a black and wh...
MoreGeneral Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1848 Original Publisher: Longman Subjects: Fiction / Classics Juvenile Fiction / General Juvenile Fiction / Family / Parents Juvenile Fiction / Short Stories Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / Children's Literature Self-Help / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THE BASKET-WOMAN. " Toute lour elude 5toit de se complaire et de s'entr'aider." Paul Kt Virginia. Their whole study was how to please and tohelp one another. At the foot of a steep, slippery, white hill, near Dunstable in Bedfordshire, called Chalk Hill, there is a hut, or rather a hovel, which travellers could scarcely suppose could be inhabited, if they did not see the smoke rising from its peaked roof. An old woman lives in this hovel, and with her a little boy and girl, the children of a beggar, who died and left these orphans perishing with hunger; they thought themselves very happy thefirsttime the good old woman took them into her hut, bid them warm themselves at her small fire, and gave them a crust of mouldy bread to eat; she had not much to give; but what she had she gave with good-will. She was very kind to these poor children, and worked hard at her spinning-wheel, and at her knitting, to support herself and them. She earned money also in another way: she used to follow all the carriages as they went up Chalk Hill; and when the horses stopped to take breath, VOL. III. B or to rest themselves, she put stones behind the carriage-wheels, to prevent them from rolling backwards down the steep slippery hiH. The little boy and girl loved to stand beside the good-natured old woman's spinning-wheel, when she wa...
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