The Parent's Assistant or Stories for Children
Book Description
Once when the present writer was a very little girl she suffered for a short time from some inflammation of the eyes, which prevented her from reading, or amusing herself in any way. Her father, who had just then returned from the East, in order to help her to pass the weary hours began telling her the story of the Forty Thieves, and when he had finished, and had boiled down the wicked thieves in ...
MoreOnce when the present writer was a very little girl she suffered for a short time from some inflammation of the eyes, which prevented her from reading, or amusing herself in any way. Her father, who had just then returned from the East, in order to help her to pass the weary hours began telling her the story of the Forty Thieves, and when he had finished, and had boiled down the wicked thieves in oil, and when she asked him to tell it all over again, he said that he would try and find something else to amuse her, and looking about the room he took up a volume of the Parents Assistant which was lying on the table, and began to read aloud the story of the Little Merchants. The story lasted two mornings, and an odd, confused impression still remains in the listeners mind to this day of Naples, Vesuvius, pink and white sugar plums of a darkened room, of a lonely country house in Belgium, of a sloping garden full of flowers outside the shutters, of the back of a big sofa covered with yellow velvet, and of her fathers voice reading on and on. When she visited Naples in after days she found herself looking about unconsciously for her early playfellows.
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)
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