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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Little Frankie at School + +Author: Madeline Leslie + +Release Date: August 24, 2010 [EBook #33523] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LITTLE FRANKIE AT SCHOOL *** + + + + +Produced by Emmy and the Online Distributed Proofreading +Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from +images generously made available by The Internet +Archive/American Libraries.) + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<h1>LITTLE FRANKIE AT SCHOOL.</h1> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 378px;"> +<img src="images/coverpage.jpg" width="378" height="500" alt="coverpage" title="" /> +</div> + + + +<h2>MRS. LESLIE'S BOOKS</h2> +<h4>FOR</h4> +<h2>LITTLE CHILDREN.</h2> +<hr style="width: 40%;" /> +<h2>THE LITTLE FRANKIE SERIES.</h2> + + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1">[1]</a></span></p> +<h2>BOOKS WRITTEN OR EDITED</h2> + +<div class='center'><b>By A. R. BAKER,</b><br /> + +AND SOLD BY ALL BOOKSELLERS.</div> + +<hr style="width: 40%;" /> + +<div class='center'><b>QUESTION BOOKS on the Topics of Christ's Sermon on the Mount.</b><br /> + + +<span class="smcap">Vol. I. For Children.</span> <span class="smcap">Vol. II. For Youth.</span><br /> +<span class="smcap">Vol. III. For Adults.</span><br /> +<span class="smcap">Lectures on These Topics</span>, <i>in press</i>.<br /></div> + + + +<div class='center'><br /><b>MRS. LESLIE'S SABBATH SCHOOL BOOKS.</b></div> + + + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="Mrs. Leslie's Sabbath School Books"> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Tim, the Scissors Grinder.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Sequel to "Tim, the Scissors Grinder."</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Prairie Flower.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">The Bound Boy.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">The Bound Girl.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Virginia.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">The Two Homes; or, Earning and Spending.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">The Organ-Grinder</span>, <i>in press</i>.</td></tr> +</table></div> + + +<div class='center'><br /><b>QUESTION BOOKS. The Catechism tested by the Bible.</b><br /> + + +<span class="smcap">Vol. I. For Children. Vol. II. For Adults.</span><br /> +</div> + + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2">[2]</a></span></p> + + +<div class='center'><br /><b>THE DERMOTT FAMILY; or, Stories Illustrating the Catechism.</b></div> + + + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="THE DERMOTT FAMILY"> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Vol.</span></td><td align='right'>I.</td><td align='left'> <span class="smcap">Doctrines respecting God and Mankind.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='center'>"</td><td align='right'> II.</td><td align='left'> <span class="smcap">Doctrines of Grace.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='center'>"</td><td align='right'>III.</td><td align='left'> <span class="smcap">Commandments of the First Table.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='center'>"</td><td align='right'>IV.</td><td align='left'> <span class="smcap">Commandments of the Second Table.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='center'>"</td><td align='right'>V.</td><td align='left'> <span class="smcap">Conditions of Eternal Life.</span></td></tr> +</table></div> + + +<div class='center'><br /><b>MRS. LESLIE'S HOME LIFE.</b></div> + + + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="MRS. LESLIE'S HOME LIFE."> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Vol.</span></td><td align='right'>I.</td><td align='left'> <span class="smcap">Cora and the Doctor.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='center'>"</td><td align='right'>II.</td><td align='left'> <span class="smcap">Courtesies of Wedded Life.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='center'>"</td><td align='right'>III.</td><td align='left'> <span class="smcap">The Household Angel.</span></td></tr> +</table></div> + + + +<div class='center'><br /><b>MRS. LESLIE'S JUVENILE SERIES.</b></div> + + + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="MRS. LESLIE'S JUVENILE SERIES"> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Vol.</span></td><td align='right'>I.</td><td align='left'> <span class="smcap">The Motherless Children.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='center'>"</td><td align='right'>II.</td><td align='left'> <span class="smcap">Play and Study.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='center'>"</td><td align='right'>III.</td><td align='left'> <span class="smcap">Howard and his Teacher.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='center'>"</td><td align='right'>IV.</td><td align='left'> <span class="smcap">Trying to be Useful.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='center'>"</td><td align='right'>V.</td><td align='left'> <span class="smcap">Jack, the Chimney Sweeper.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='center'>"</td><td align='right'>VI.</td><td align='left'> <span class="smcap">The Young Housekeeper.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='center'>"</td><td align='right'>VII.</td><td align='left'> <span class="smcap">Little Agnes.</span></td></tr> +</table></div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[3]</a></span></p> + + +<div class='center'><br /><b>THE ROBIN REDBREAST SERIES.</b></div> + + + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="THE ROBIN REDBREAST SERIES"> +<tr><td align='left'>THE ROBINS' NEST.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>LITTLE ROBINS IN THE NEST.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>LITTLE ROBINS LEARNING TO FLY.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>LITTLE ROBINS IN TROUBLE.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>LITTLE ROBINS' FRIENDS.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>LITTLE ROBINS' LOVE ONE TO ANOTHER.</td></tr> +</table></div> + + +<hr style="width: 40%;"/> + + +<div class='center'><br /><b>THE LITTLE FRANKIE SERIES.</b></div> + + + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="THE LITTLE FRANKIE SERIES"> +<tr><td align='left'>LITTLE FRANKIE AND HIS MOTHER.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>LITTLE FRANKIE AT HIS PLAYS.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>LITTLE FRANKIE AND HIS COUSIN.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>LITTLE FRANKIE AND HIS FATHER.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>LITTLE FRANKIE ON A JOURNEY.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>LITTLE FRANKIE AT SCHOOL.</td></tr> +</table></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[4]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 388px;"> +<img src="images/i006.png" width="388" height="500" alt="FRANKIE WHEELING THE CRIPPLE." title="" /> +<span class="caption">FRANKIE WHEELING THE CRIPPLE.</span> +</div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[5]</a></span></p> + +<h1>LITTLE<br /> + +FRANKIE AT SCHOOL.</h1> + +<div class='center'>BY</div> + +<h2>MRS. MADELINE LESLIE,</h2> + +<div class='center'> +AUTHOR OF "THE HOME LIFE SERIES;" "MRS. LESLIE'S<br /> +JUVENILE SERIES," ETC.<br /><br /><br /> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 150px;"> +<img src="images/divider.png" width="150" height="15" alt="divider" title="" /> +</div> + +<div class='center'><br /><br /><br /> +BOSTON:<br /> +CROSBY AND AINSWORTH,<br /> +<span class="smcap">117 Washington Street.</span><br /> +</div> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[6]</a></span></p> + + + + +<div class='copyright'> +Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, by<br /> +A. R. BAKER,<br /> +In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +ELECTROTYPED AT THE<br /> +BOSTON STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY.<br /> +</div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[7]</a></span></p> +<h2>LITTLE<br /> + +FRANKIE AT SCHOOL.</h2> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>CHAPTER I.</h2> + +<div class='chaptertitle'>FRANKIE'S NEW TEACHER.</div> + + +<p><span class="smcap">When</span> little Frankie Gray was +nearly seven years old, a lady +came to reside in the town where +he lived, hoping to collect a +small school.</p> + +<p>Frankie's mother called upon +her, and was so much pleased<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[8]</a></span> +with her frank, cheerful manners, +her sunny smile, and her Christian +conversation, that she promised, +with her husband's consent, +to send Frankie and Nelly to be +her pupils.</p> + +<p>The young teacher's name was +Fanny Grant. Nelly laughed +merrily when she heard it, and +said she should always think of +her great doll, Fanny, when she +saw her.</p> + +<p>Papa had for a long time<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[9]</a></span> +feared it was an injury to his +wife to be confined so many +hours as she thought it necessary +to be in order to attend to +the children's studies, and he was +very glad to find a good teacher +for them.</p> + +<p>Miss Grant hired a pleasant +room in a house only a short +distance from Mr. Gray's. Then +she commenced furnishing it to +suit her own fancy. First she +fastened white shades to the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[10]</a></span> +windows, and then hung the +walls with bright colored maps, +and large pictures of animals and +birds. On one side there was +a nice blackboard, and next it +a card containing the alphabet +in large letters.</p> + +<p>When all this was arranged, +Miss Grant engaged a carpenter +to work for her a day in +making a gallery of four steps, +and in drawing a large circle +on the floor, which he marked<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[11]</a></span> +by driving in large brass headed +nails.</p> + +<p>Nelly and her cousin, who had +watched these arrangements with +great interest, were very curious +to know their use. The teacher, +smiling, bade them wait and see.</p> + +<p>"Is all ready now?" asked +Frankie.</p> + +<p>"Not quite," said the teacher. +"I must have some small chairs +for my little scholars; also some +more apparatus."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[12]</a></span></p> + +<p>"What is apparatus?" inquired +Nelly.</p> + +<p>"It is any thing by which we +can illustrate or explain our +ideas. This blackboard, and +these cards, are apparatus. You +will see, when school begins, how +I shall explain to you many +things by their help. Then I +have a large globe, a numeral +frame, and an orrery."</p> + +<p>"I had an orrery once," shouted +Frankie. "It was made of wire,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[13]</a></span> +with potatoes and turnips. Is +yours like that?"</p> + +<p>"O, no," said the teacher, with +a hearty laugh. "The planets +are made of wood, or plaster, +and painted very prettily."</p> + +<p>"I shall like to see it," said +Frankie.</p> + +<p>"So shall I," said Nelly.</p> + +<p>The children then took their +leave, after bidding the lady good +by; but presently Frankie returned, +all out of breath, to say,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[14]</a></span> +"Miss Grant, I have a whole box +of beautiful great cards. They +were my birthday present from +papa and mamma. You may +take them, if you want to, and +hang them around the room."</p> + +<p>"Thank you, my little friend," +said the teacher, giving him a +kiss. "I am going now to my +boarding place, and you may +walk with me, if you can stop +until I put on my bonnet."</p> + +<p>"I should like that," said<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[15]</a></span> +Frankie. "I'll run out and tell +Nelly to wait."</p> + +<p>Miss Grant locked the door, +and taking a small vase in her +hand, joined the children who +were waiting near the gate.</p> + +<p>"What is that flower pot for?" +asked Nelly.</p> + +<p>"When school begins, I shall +beg some flowers from the lady +where I live," answered the +teacher. "I like to have the +room look cheerful and bright,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[16]</a></span> +so that the little scholars will +like to be there."</p> + +<p>"I wish Monday would come +quick," exclaimed the boy. "I +want to begin to go to school. +I mean to carry a great big bouquet, +out of my own garden. +Did you know I had a garden, +Miss Grant?"</p> + +<p>"No, I did not; but I am very +glad to hear it. I love flowers +almost as well as I do good little +boys and girls."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[17]</a></span></p> + +<p>"I should think you would +love your mother better than +either. I do."</p> + +<p>Miss Grant's lip quivered, and +tears gushed to her eyes. "I do +love my mother," she said, softly, +"but she is in heaven."</p> + +<p>"I'm real sorry," said the +sympathizing child, affectionately +kissing the hand he held. "If +you were little, like Nelly and +me, mother would let you be +her daughter, I guess."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[18]</a></span></p> + +<p>When the children reached +home, Mrs. Gray was most happy +to see what an influence the +young teacher had already established +over them. She encouraged +their love for her, and +appealed to their sympathies by +saying, "She is an orphan, without +father or mother; we must +all try to make her forget her +sorrows by showing her that she +has still many warm friends."</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[19]</a></span></p> +<h2>CHAPTER II.</h2> + +<div class='chaptertitle'>ONE DAY AT SCHOOL.</div> + + +<p><span class="smcap">I suppose</span> you will wish to +know how Frankie and Nelly +liked their new school, and +whether they continued to love +their teacher.</p> + +<p>In answer to these questions, +I shall give you an account of a +day they passed about a week +after the school commenced.</p> + +<p>It was a lovely morning in<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[20]</a></span> +June. After breakfast and prayers +in the family of Mr. Gray, +Frankie ran out into the garden +to gather a bouquet for his +teacher. He and Nelly kept +her vase well filled with flowers. +He put the bouquet into a pitcher +of water to keep it fresh, and +then ran to the sink to wash his +face and hands very clean; after +which he went into the nursery +for Sally to pin on a clean collar, +and to brush his hair.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[21]</a></span></p> + +<p>While she was doing this, he +called out to his mother, who +was in the next room, "Mamma, +mayn't I learn to part my +hair myself? I'm almost seven, +you know."</p> + +<p>"Yes, indeed," she answered. +"You may learn as soon as you +please. Sally will show you how +to hold the comb to make the +parting straight."</p> + +<p>"I wish my hair would lie +down," exclaimed the boy, giving<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[22]</a></span> +the brush a quick, impatient +jerk. It curls up so close, I +can't make it look smooth. And +he brushed the front lock with +all his strength.</p> + +<p>"There, now, that looks well +enough," said nurse in a comforting +tone. "You might as +well try to keep the wind from +blowing as to try to keep your +hair from curling. It will form +little rings, do all you can."</p> + +<p>"Now I'm ready!" shouted<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[23]</a></span> +Frankie, taking his bouquet in +his hand.</p> + +<p>In the mean time, Nelly had +been to her aunt's room, and +had her long hair combed out +smoothly, and then brushed over +the curling stick. It was quite +a tedious operation, and required +to be very wet before the comb +could be passed through it; but +Nelly bore it patiently, as her +aunt always tried to pass the +time away agreeably, by giving<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[24]</a></span> +her some easy example in arithmetic, +or hearing a line of the +multiplication table, or telling +her a short story. By the time +this was done, Sally had turned +the mattress; and the little girl +made up her bed, laying on the +sheets and counterpane very +smoothly, so that not a rumple +could be seen. Then she hung +up such of her clothes as were +lying about the room, put her +shoes into the bag on the inside<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[25]</a></span> +of the closet door, then dressed +herself in a clean apron, and was +ready, by the time Frankie called, +to take the flowers Willie had +gathered for her, and walk out +with him to meet their dear +teacher.</p> + +<p>Sometimes, when they were +early, they went as far as the +house where she boarded, and +stood at the gate until she appeared; +but generally they sat +down on the stone wall under<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[26]</a></span> +the shade of the large maple +tree at the entrance to their avenue, +and watched until she came +in sight. Then they ran eagerly +to give her their morning kiss, +and present their little offering +of flowers.</p> + +<p>On this pleasant June morning, +they each took a hand as +usual, and walked on rapidly toward +the school, talking merrily +as they went.</p> + +<p>When they reached the building,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[27]</a></span> +they found nearly all the +other scholars, eighteen in number, +waiting the arrival of Miss +Grant. They went into the +school room, took off their hats +and bonnets, hung them up in +the closet, and then went quietly +to their seats on the steps, the +little ones on the lower steps, +and the others above them on +the higher.</p> + +<p>When the church clock struck +nine, the teacher rang the small<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[28]</a></span> +bell, when every eye was closed, +and every head was bowed for +prayer. The little voices all +joined in repeating the Lord's +Prayer, after which they sung +a verse of the hymn,—</p> + +<div class='poem'> +"There is a happy land,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2.5em;">Far, far away,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">Where saints in glory stand,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2.5em;">Bright, bright as day."</span><br /> +</div> + +<p>After this, they pass down +from the gallery, and march +along to their seats. For the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[29]</a></span> +next half hour the school is quite +still, while the pupils are studying +the reading and spelling lessons: +when the bell strikes again, +they march out in order to the +front of the chair where their +teacher sits.</p> + +<p>As soon as one class has recited, +another is called, until every little +pupil has read and spelled.</p> + +<p>When this has been done, +every face begins to brighten, +for they know what the next<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[30]</a></span> +exercise is; and they like it +very much. The largest girl +takes her place on the circle, +and the others follow her according +to their size, until they +come down to the smallest one, +who is a pretty blue-eyed little +urchin of four summers.</p> + +<p>Miss Grant then strikes up a +lively tune to the words,—</p> + +<div class='poem'> +"This is the way we wash our face,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">This is the way we wash our face,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">This is the way we wash our face,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 5.5em;">So early in the morning,"—</span><br /> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[31]</a></span></p> + +<div class='unindent'>each little hand is vigorously +employed in rubbing the face, as +they merrily follow each other +around the circle. As soon as +they finish one verse, they stop +a moment, to avoid being made +dizzy, and then begin again:—</div> + +<div class='poem'> +"This is the way we comb our hair,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">This is the way we comb our hair,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">This is the way we comb our hair,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 6em;">So early in the morning.</span><br /> +<br /> +"This is the way we brush our teeth,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">This is the way we brush our teeth,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">This is the way we brush our teeth,</span><br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[32]</a></span><span style="margin-left: 6em;">So early in the morning.</span><br /> +<br /> +"This is the way we clean our nails,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">This is the way we clean our nails,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">This is the way we clean our nails,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 6em;">So early in the morning."</span><br /> +</div> + +<p>After this marching and singing, +the children return to their +seats to prepare a lesson in geography, +which they recite standing +near the globe, the teacher +pointing out the places upon it.</p> + +<p>Recess and the various sports +recommended by the teacher +follow, and then come arithmetic +and the numeral frame. This<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[33]</a></span> +is a wooden frame about a foot +square, with twelve stout wires +passing from one side to the +other. Strung on each of these +wires are twelve round stones, +about the size of marbles. With +this frame Miss Grant taught her +little scholars to add, subtract, +and multiply numbers, in the +same manner that Mrs. Gray +had taught her little pupils with +marbles.</p> + +<p>At the close of the morning<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[34]</a></span> +session, the children marched in +the circle again, singing five +times five are twenty-five, and +five times six are thirty, to the +tune of Yankee Doodle.</p> + +<p>In the afternoon, the exercises +were quite as varied. The lessons +mostly being committed in +the morning, the children were +allowed to tell stories, which the +teacher wrote for them on the +blackboard,—or they recited +hymns and verses they had<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[35]</a></span> +learned; sung, marched, and listened +to the instructions of their +teacher.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 394px;"> +<img src="images/i037.png" width="394" height="360" alt="Chatting" title="" /> +</div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[36]</a></span></p> +<h2>CHAPTER III.</h2> + +<div class='chaptertitle'>THE NEW SCHOLAR.</div> + + +<p><span class="smcap">In</span> a house near the one where +Miss Grant boarded was a little +girl whose name was Hitty Moran. +Her real name was Mehitable, +but her mother and all her +companions called her Hitty. +She belonged to a very poor +family, and as she was the +eldest of a number of children, +her mother thought she<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[37]</a></span> +could not spare her to attend +school.</p> + +<p>From the windows of her +chamber, Miss Grant often saw +Hitty sitting on the doorstep, +holding a large baby in her +arms. She noticed that Hitty +was always kind to her baby +brother; that she sung to him, +let him pull her long hair, and +never became impatient or fretful +with him. All this interested +the kind teacher in the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[38]</a></span> +child, and she longed to be of +some use to her.</p> + +<p>One day, when she was returning +from her school, she +overtook Hitty, who was carrying +a heavy basket of potatoes. +"Let me help you," said the +teacher, taking hold of the +handle.</p> + +<p>As they walked along, Miss +Grant asked, "Did you ever go +to school?"</p> + +<p>"No, ma'am," said Hitty;<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[39]</a></span> +"though I staid in a house once +where the lady's son taught me +my letters."</p> + +<p>"Should you like to learn?" +asked the teacher.</p> + +<p>"O, yes, ma'am; sure I should +be proud if I could read; but +mother has so much work, and +Bobby takes kindly to me, so +that she can't spare me to go +to school."</p> + +<p>"I should think it could be +planned somehow for you to<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[40]</a></span> +learn," said Miss Grant, kindly. +"I will go in and see your mother +this evening."</p> + +<p>She did so, and talked with +Mrs. Moran of the advantage it +would be to Hitty, if she could +learn to read and write.</p> + +<p>"Only think," said the lady, +"she could teach her brothers +their letters, and read them pretty +stories to keep them quiet +while you are busy at work."</p> + +<p>"Feth, ma'am, sure, and I've<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[41]</a></span> +sinse enough to see the truth of +what you're saying," said the poor +mother. "Her father often gets +a paper from the ould country; +but it's little use to us, you see, +because the spelling and the +pronouncing are quite beyont +him. I've often enough wished +we could have the luck to give +one of the childer an education."</p> + +<p>"Can't you spare her to go to +school a part of the time?"<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[42]</a></span></p> + +<p>"Sure, ma'am, and that's the +trouble intirely. The teachers +complain when the childer don't +be regular."</p> + +<p>Just at this moment one of +the children fell down, and began +to cry so loud, that Miss +Grant took her leave. She was +in earnest about doing something +for Hitty; and she walked as +far as Mrs. Gray's, to ask her +advice about it.</p> + +<p>"Why don't you allow her to<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[43]</a></span> +attend your school?" inquired +the lady. "One hour in the day +would be better than nothing."</p> + +<p>"I should be glad to do so, if +I thought the parents would not +object," answered the teacher. +"I think with a little trouble she +could be made to look tidy."</p> + +<p>Miss Grant was not at all +rich, but when a lady is resolved +to do a kindness, she +always finds out a way. She +knew that Hitty had no dress<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[44]</a></span> +suitable to wear to school. She +opened her purse after she +had reached home, and taking +out some money she had laid +by to purchase a new book, she +walked to the store, and bought +some calico to make a child's +dress.</p> + +<p>On her way back she called +at Mrs. Moran's, and told her +Hitty might come to her school +every afternoon if her mother +could not spare her in the morning,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[45]</a></span> +and that if her mother +would try to send her, she would +provide a new gown.</p> + +<p>Mrs. Moran was very grateful +for this kindness, and promised +to get along without Hitty +whenever she could. In three +days, the little girl called for her +teacher, her face and hands so +bright, and clean, and rosy, that +you would scarcely know her. +The dress fitted charmingly, and +the grateful smile and look of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[46]</a></span> +delight with which, she regarded +herself when Miss Grant tied on +a neat apron with pockets in it, +quite repaid the lady for all her +expense and trouble.</p> + +<p>Most of the scholars were kind +to Hitty, and willingly lent her +a slate, pencil, or book, when +their teacher requested it. But +one little girl, whose name I am +sorry to say was Nelly, did not +like to play with Hitty, because +she lived in such a poor house.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[47]</a></span></p> + +<p>She was ashamed to refuse +when her teacher asked her to +show the new scholar how to +make the figures on her slate; +but she had a pout on her lips, +which Miss Grant had never seen +there before, and her voice did +not sound sweet and kind.</p> + +<p>When the lady saw these +marks of pride in her beloved +pupil, it made her heart ache. +She had been so full of love to +the poor, ignorant child, and so<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[48]</a></span> +anxious to do her good, that she +could not bear the thought of +any one in her school treating +Hitty unkindly. For a moment +she gazed sorrowfully in Nelly's +flushed face, saw her move away +from her new schoolmate as far +on the seat as she could, and +then she called, "Hitty, come +and sit by me."</p> + +<p>Presently Frankie raised his +little fat hand, and when she +nodded to him that he had<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[49]</a></span> +permission to speak, he asked, +"May the new girl see me make +pictures on the blackboard?"</p> + +<p>"Yes, darling," answered the +lady, rising and patting him on +his curly head. "Perhaps you +can teach her to make a picture +too."</p> + +<p>"See, Hitty," said Frankie; +"this is the way to do it;" and +the dear boy stood very erect +and proud of the confidence of +his teacher.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[50]</a></span></p> + +<p>When Miss Grant glanced toward +Nelly, she was sorry to see +that the little girl looked angry, +that her cousin was taking so +much pains with the new girl, +and that he seemed so happy in +doing it.</p> + +<p>Shall I tell you what I think +the bad spirit was whispering in +her ear? It was this: "Nelly, +your father is rich; you live in a +fine house and wear nice clothes; +you are right not to like to sit<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[51]</a></span> +by Hitty, who is very poor and +ignorant."</p> + +<p>Ah, my little girl, do you +remember who has given you +so many blessings? It is God; +but if you are not grateful to +him, and kind to those who are +less favored, he may take away +your father and mother, and +leave you without home or +friends.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[52]</a></span></p> +<h2>CHAPTER IV.</h2> + +<div class='chaptertitle'>THE INJURED GIRL.</div> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Miss Grant</span> was very much +pleased with Frankie's kindness +to Hitty; and she hoped Nelly +would see how lovely it made +him appear, and try to imitate +him.</p> + +<p>When the school closed, Hitty +felt so grateful to Frankie for +showing her the figures, that she +stood by him in the closet, to<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[53]</a></span> +see whether she could not do +something for him. His cap was +on a low hook, where he could +reach it; but the scarf he wore +with it, was hung up higher. +Hitty saw him trying to jump +and catch the end to pull it +down, and she said quickly, "I +can reach it. I will get it for +you;" and she gave it to him +with a bright smile.</p> + +<p>"Thank you," said Frankie, +pleasantly.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[54]</a></span></p> + +<p>When they were out by the +gate the scarf blew off, and Hitty +ran to pick it up, when Nelly +snatched it from her, and said, +"Let alone my cousin's things, +you ugly girl;" at the same +time she gave Hitty a rough +push to get her out of the way.</p> + +<p>I do not think Nelly was so +very wicked as to wish really to +hurt the little girl, but she was +angry, because her conscience was +telling her she had done wrong.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[55]</a></span></p> + +<p>She heard Hitty scream, but +she ran on, pulling Frankie along, +though he urged her to go back, +and see what was the matter +with the poor girl.</p> + +<p>"No, no!" she cried; "I don't +like Hitty, and I don't want to +walk with her." Then she began +to talk about Ponto, and +said she wished he would come +and carry her basket for her.</p> + +<p>Almost always, when Nelly +went home from school, she and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[56]</a></span> +Frankie ran up stairs to the +chamber where Mrs. Gray sat +at work; but now she proposed +that they should play in the +garden with the dog.</p> + +<p>The lady heard their voices, +and wondered they did not come +in to see her before they began +to play. In about fifteen minutes +she heard some one ring the bell +at the back door, and presently +Sally came up stairs into her room, +leading a little girl by the hand.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[57]</a></span></p> + +<p>It was Hitty, but with such a +great swelling on her forehead +that Mrs. Gray did not at first +recognize her. Her eyes were +red and swollen with crying, and +even now she could scarcely keep +back her sobs.</p> + +<p>As she came in, she walked +straight across the room to the +lady, and put a note into her +hand.</p> + +<p>Mrs. Gray opened it, and read +with great sorrow the following<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[58]</a></span> +words: "Nelly pushed this little +girl against the stone post, at +the school house gate. I am +exceedingly grieved, and as I +cannot see Nelly to-night, I +have sent Hitty to you. Please +do what you think best in the +case."</p> + +<p>"Come here, poor child," said +the lady, tenderly; "that is a +dreadful bunch on your forehead. +How did it happen?"</p> + +<p>"I was picking up your little<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[59]</a></span> +boy's scarf when it fell off his +neck, and Nelly snatched it away, +and pushed me so hard that I +fell against the post. She called +me names, too;" and Hitty began +to sob again.</p> + +<p>"What did Frankie do?" asked +his mamma.</p> + +<p>"Nothing at all, ma'am. It's +very kind to me, he was."</p> + +<p>The lady bade the child sit +down. She then went to the +closet and poured some arnica<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[60]</a></span> +from a bottle into a bowl of +water, and after wetting a cloth +in it, bound it upon the forehead +of the child. Then she rang the +bell, and sent Margie to find +Nelly and bring her into the +house.</p> + +<p>While she was waiting, she +talked with Hitty, and soon became +as much interested in her +as the teacher had been.</p> + +<p>Presently Nelly came in, followed +by her cousin. She started<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[61]</a></span> +and blushed when she saw Hitty; +but Frankie ran to the little +girl, asking, "What is the matter +with your head? Have you hurt +yourself?"</p> + +<p>"No," replied Hitty; "she did +it," pointing to Nelly.</p> + +<p>"Look here," said her aunt, +raising the cloth and pointing +to the swelling, which was half +as large as an egg.</p> + +<p>Frankie exclaimed, "O, dear! +I'm sorry. Does it ache bad?"<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[62]</a></span></p> + +<p>Nelly held down her head and +began to cry. She was very +much frightened at what she +had done.</p> + +<p>"Frankie," said his mother, +"you may go down with Hitty +to the cook, and ask her for a +piece of cake for the little girl. +Then you may walk with her as +far as your teacher's, and wait +till I come. Hitty, you may go +home and tell your mother I +shall bring Nelly there soon, to<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">[63]</a></span> +have her say what punishment +so naughty a girl deserves."</p> + +<p>"O, don't, aunty! don't take +me there! I'm afraid to go!" +sobbed Nelly, catching hold of +her aunt.</p> + +<p>"Sit down," said Mrs. Gray, +gravely.</p> + +<p>"What are you going to do +with me?" asked the child, in +an agony of fear.</p> + +<p>"I am going to talk with you, +and I wish you to tell me how<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64">[64]</a></span> +this dreadful thing occurred. O +Nelly, I can't tell you how very +grieved I am, that you should +do so! I thought you had conquered +your bad temper, and +had become a lovely, amiable +child."</p> + +<p>The tears stood in Mrs. Gray's +eyes, and her voice trembled as +she spoke. Nelly sobbed as if +her heart would break; but as +her aunt waited for her to reply, +she said, "I am sorry, aunty. I<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65">[65]</a></span> +didn't mean to hurt her so; +but I didn't want her to touch +Frankie's things."</p> + +<p>"Why not? I am sure it was +kind of her to pick up his scarf."</p> + +<p>Nelly covered her burning face +with her hands.</p> + +<p>"Tell me the truth, my child," +said her aunt, firmly.</p> + +<p>"She is so poor," whispered +Nelly. "I don't like poor girls; +and then she lives in such an +old house."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66">[66]</a></span></p> + +<p>"Why, Nelly!" exclaimed the +lady, "I can hardly believe you +have so proud and wicked a +heart. Suppose your father +should lose all his property, and +you should be obliged to go to +the poorhouse, and wear an old, +shabby dress; should you think +that was a good reason why +another little girl, whom God +had blessed with a good home +and kind friends, delighting to +supply her with the comforts<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_67" id="Page_67">[67]</a></span> +of life, should treat you unkindly?"</p> + +<p>"No, indeed, aunty! I did +not think how very wicked I +was." Then Nelly confessed +truthfully all the naughty feelings +which had made her so unkind +to the new scholar, though +she sobbed so much that she +could hardly speak.</p> + +<p>Mrs. Gray talked a long time +with her, explaining where her +sin lay; first, in cherishing<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_68" id="Page_68">[68]</a></span> +pride, and then in giving way +to anger, which was the very +spirit of Cain when he killed his +brother. After this they knelt +down together; and Nelly, in a +voice broken with weeping, asked +God to forgive her great sin, +and help her to be a good +child.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_69" id="Page_69">[69]</a></span></p> +<h2>CHAPTER V.</h2> + +<div class='chaptertitle'>NELLY AT MRS. MORAN'S.</div> + + +<p>"<span class="smcap">Come</span>, now, my dear," said +the lady, putting on her bonnet; +"we must go to Mrs. Moran's +and inquire about Hitty."</p> + +<p>"I am afraid to," screamed +Nelly, clinging to her aunt. "O, +I am sure I shall never do so +again! I don't dare to go there."</p> + +<p>"Why, Nelly?" asked her +aunt, pitying her distress. "If<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_70" id="Page_70">[70]</a></span> +any little girl had injured you +so, I should think it was a very +small thing for her to do, to +come and say she was sorry, and +ask your forgiveness. You are +really sorry, I think. It is but +right you should tell her so."</p> + +<p>As they approached the house +the poor child seemed in such an +agony of fear, that her aunt was +obliged to soothe her to lead her +on. Her conscience told her she +had been unkind, even cruel, to<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_71" id="Page_71">[71]</a></span> +her companion, who had in no +way injured her, and she feared +Hitty's father and mother would +be very angry.</p> + +<p>Mr. Moran lived in the upper +part of a building which had +once been used as a shop. A +pair of wide stairs went up outside +the house to the door, which +opened into their room. A man +was at work chopping wood at +the foot of the stairs, and as +soon as Nelly saw him she ran<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_72" id="Page_72">[72]</a></span> +behind her aunt, whispering, +"O, I dare not go! that's Hitty's +father."</p> + +<p>"I will take care of you," answered +the lady, knocking at the +door.</p> + +<p>Mrs. Moran presently opened +it, and they saw Hitty sitting on +a low stool, playing with the +baby, who was cooing and crowing +with delight at having her +back again.</p> + +<p>"I have come," said Mrs.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_73" id="Page_73">[73]</a></span> +Gray, "with my little niece, who +injured your daughter at school. +She wishes to ask you to forgive +her."</p> + +<p>Nelly was crying bitterly, so +that she could scarcely speak; +but at last she sobbed out, "I +didn't mean to hurt her so. I'm +very sorry."</p> + +<p>"Don't cry, pet!" said Mrs. +Moran, kindly. "I dare say you +meant her no harm; and if you +did, sure and we all are in the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74">[74]</a></span> +wrong sometimes. Hitty lays +up nothing against you. There, +honey, stop a bit, and she'll tell +you the same. Come, Hitty, tell +the little girl you forgive her, +since the lady is so kind as +to ask it."</p> + +<p>Hitty came forward with Bobby +still in her arms, and when +Nelly held out her hand, shook +it cordially, saying, "My head is +almost well now, and by to-morrow +I'll never think of the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">[75]</a></span> +blow again. I'm sorry for you, +Nelly, to see you crying so."</p> + +<p>Mrs. Gray sat for a time talking +with Mrs. Moran, and encouraging +her to allow Hitty to learn +to read. There was one little +boy just Frankie's age, whom the +lady advised her to send to the +public school.</p> + +<p>This, the poor woman said, +she should be glad to do, if the +lad had clothes.</p> + +<p>The next day, when Hitty<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_76" id="Page_76">[76]</a></span> +returned from school, Nelly, +Frankie, and Ponto accompanied +her, each of them carrying a +bundle as large as they could +lift, with dresses, jackets, and +sacks, the children had outgrown.</p> + +<p>Mrs. Moran hardly knew how +to express her gratitude, as she +held up one article after another, +and saw how nicely they would +fit Ned or others among her children.</p> + +<p>This lesson, though severe at<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_77" id="Page_77">[77]</a></span> +the time, was never forgotten by +Nelly. After this no one was +more eager than she to show +kindness to Hitty, or more +pleased when the poor girl succeeded +in learning to read.</p> + +<p>In the afternoon most of the +scholars repeated a hymn which +they had learned at home, or a +few verses from the Bible. Nelly +noticed that Hitty never repeated +any, and one day asked +her the reason.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_78" id="Page_78">[78]</a></span></p> + +<p>"I haven't any books," answered +the child, "and then I +couldn't make out the hard +words, you know."</p> + +<p>Nelly looked thoughtful for a +minute, and then jumped up and +down in her glee. "Ask your +mother to let you come to +aunty's to-night, or else come +early to school and stop there +to-morrow," she cried, "and I +will teach you one of my pretty +songs."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_79" id="Page_79">[79]</a></span></p> + +<p>Two days later, when Miss +Grant said, "Now we will hear +the hymns or verses," Hitty, with +a timid air and a blushing face, +took her stand on the floor. +She cast a glance at Nelly, +whose whole countenance was +glowing with pleasure, and then +repeated the following pretty +hymn:—</p> + +<div class='poem'> +"'Who was that, dear mamma, who ate<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">Her breakfast here this morn?</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">With tangled hair and ragged shoes,</span><br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_80" id="Page_80">[80]</a></span><span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">And gown and apron torn?'</span><br /> +<br /> +'They call her lazy Jane, my dear;<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">She begs her bread all day,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">And gets a lodging in the barn,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">At night, among the hay.</span><br /> +<br /> +'For when she was a little girl,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">She loved her play too well;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">At school she would not mind her book,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">Nor learn to read and spell.</span><br /> +<br /> +'"Dear Jane," her mother oft would say,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">"Pray learn to work and read;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">Then you'll be able, when you're grown,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">To earn your clothes and bread."'</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">But lazy Jenny did not care;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">She'd neither knit nor sew;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">To romp with naughty girls and boys</span><br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_81" id="Page_81">[81]</a></span><span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">Was all that she would do.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">So she grew up a very dunce;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">And when her parents died,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">She knew not how to teach a school,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">Nor work, if she had tried.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">And now, an idle vagabond,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">She strolls about the streets;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">And not a friend can Jenny find</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">In any one she meets.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">And now, dear child, should you neglect</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">Your book or work again,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">Or play, when you should be at school,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">Remember Lazy Jane."</span><br /> +</div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_82" id="Page_82">[82]</a></span></p> +<h2>CHAPTER VI.</h2> + +<div class='chaptertitle'>FRANKIE AND THE CRIPPLE.</div> + + +<p><span class="smcap">One</span> evening, near the close of +the term, Nelly walked home in +company with one of her schoolmates, +and did not notice that her +cousin went another way. One, +two hours passed by, and Frankie +did not make his appearance; +and at last his mother became +so anxious, that she sent his +brother out to search for him.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_83" id="Page_83">[83]</a></span></p> + +<p>Willie went to the square to +see whether he had stopped at +any of the stores, then, as he +did not find him, to the houses +of some of his schoolmates, but +none of them had seen him since +school.</p> + +<p>"Where can he have gone?" +said Willie to himself. "Perhaps +he was at his teacher's, and +has returned before this time."</p> + +<p>He walked back toward home, +looking around on every side.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_84" id="Page_84">[84]</a></span></p> + +<p>He was passing a house, when +he heard a noise in the yard, and +looking through the trees, saw a +company of boys standing round +a curious little carriage, in which +sat a boy who was talking to +them. He ran eagerly into the +yard, for he thought Frankie was +among them.</p> + +<p>As he drew nearer, he found +it was not a boy in the carriage, +but a man without legs. He had +met with a dreadful accident, and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_85" id="Page_85">[85]</a></span> +been obliged to have both his +legs cut off; and now he was +trying to support himself by selling +pictures, rolling himself in +his carriage from house to house +by means of a crank wheel. This +was very hard work for him, especially +when he was going uphill; +sometimes he was obliged +to get boys to push behind.</p> + +<p>Willie saw his brother Frankie +standing by the man, helping him +hold his pictures, which he was<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_86" id="Page_86">[86]</a></span> +exhibiting to the lady at the window. +Frankie's face was very +red, and great drops of perspiration +stood on his forehead and +nose.</p> + +<p>"Why haven't you been +home?" asked Willie. "Mother +is very anxious about you."</p> + +<p>"O, Willie, see this poor man!" +exclaimed Frankie. "I have been +pushing his wagon for him ever +since school. He says he is a +cripple, and can't walk at all.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_87" id="Page_87">[87]</a></span> +I'm going to push his carriage +home now, as soon as he has sold +pictures here, and then ask mamma +to give him some supper."</p> + +<p>"Why, Frankie Gray," called +out the lady at the window, "is +that you? Well, come and take +this money, dear, to pay for three +pictures."</p> + +<p>When the carriage started, the +boys all ran along; but none of +them offered to assist in rolling +it, except Willie and Frankie.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_88" id="Page_88">[88]</a></span></p> + +<p>"You are tired," said Willie; +"I'll push now." So Frankie +took off his straw hat, and wiped +the perspiration from his forehead. +His hair was wet through, +and curled in small rings all over +his head.</p> + +<p>Mrs. Gray was looking anxiously +from the window when +they entered the avenue, and +ran eagerly down to meet them.</p> + +<p>"O, mamma!" cried Frankie; +"I met a poor man. He has no<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_89" id="Page_89">[89]</a></span> +legs, and can't walk at all. He +has to wheel himself about in a +little carriage, to get enough +money to buy his food. It's +very hard work, and so I waited +to push it for him a little while. +Was it naughty, mamma? Will +you please to give him some +supper?"</p> + +<p>Mrs. Gray looked in her son's +earnest, loving eyes, and all her +displeasure against him vanished. +She caught him to her heart, and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_90" id="Page_90">[90]</a></span> +kissed his cheek and lips. "Yes, +my dear," she said, "you shall +have the pleasure of giving him +a good supper. But are you not +hungry yourself? It is long past +tea time."</p> + +<p>"I did not think any thing +about it, mamma," said Frankie, +"I was so sorry for the poor +man. There, Willie has pushed +his carriage up to the back door. +I wonder how he can get out."</p> + +<p>In a few minutes the poor<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_91" id="Page_91">[91]</a></span> +cripple had walked on his knees +to the table, where Jane had set +him a bountiful meal. Frankie +seemed to consider the man his +especial charge, and Mrs. Gray +drew Willie into the entry, +where, through the door, they +could see what passed.</p> + +<p>As soon as the food was before +him, the cripple began to +eat; and Frankie, who was +seated opposite, so as to be +ready to attend to his wants,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_92" id="Page_92">[92]</a></span> +gazed at him in great surprise. +"Why!" said he, "you didn't +pray to God."</p> + +<p>I suppose the dear child had +never before seen any one begin +to eat without first asking a blessing. +Even when he and Nelly +were playing tea, one of them +always shut their eyes, and solemnly +asked God to bless the +food.</p> + +<p>The man stared at him and +went on eating, while Mrs. Gray<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_93" id="Page_93">[93]</a></span> +smiled as she peeped through the +door, to see how serious the boy +looked.</p> + +<p>"Don't you love God?" asked +Frankie.</p> + +<p>"I dun know," said the man.</p> + +<p>"I love him," continued the +child, "and I should think you +would;" then, after waiting a +moment, he asked, "Did he cut +your legs off?"</p> + +<p>"No," said the man, laughing; +"the doctor did it."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_94" id="Page_94">[94]</a></span></p> + +<p>"I'm glad of that," said Frankie. +"You ought to love God, and pray +to him every day. Perhaps, if you +did, he would let your legs grow +again."</p> + +<p>Willie almost laughed aloud; +but Frankie was so eager to do +the man good, that he did not +hear him.</p> + +<p>"I am afraid you are a wicked +man," he said, "if you don't pray +any."</p> + +<p>Mrs. Gray saw the cripple lay<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_95" id="Page_95">[95]</a></span> +down his knife and fork, and +gaze at the child; presently he +spoke, but his voice trembled as +he said, "I used to pray when I +was a little shaver like you. My +mother taught me."</p> + +<p>"Where is she now?" asked +the boy.</p> + +<p>"She has gone up there, long +ago," said the man, softly pointing +his finger upward.</p> + +<p>"Well," said Frankie, earnestly, +"you can't go to heaven and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_96" id="Page_96">[96]</a></span> +live with her there, unless you +are a good man and love God. +I used to be naughty once, but +my mother whipped me to make +me good."</p> + +<p>"That's too bad," said the +cripple.</p> + +<p>"No; it's just right. The +Bible says she must. I'm trying +now to be a good boy; and +I wish you would try too."</p> + +<p>"I guess there isn't much danger +of you," said the man.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_97" id="Page_97">[97]</a></span> +"You're the most wonderful +chap I ever saw."</p> + +<p>"I don't know what <i>chap</i> is," +replied Frankie. "When I say +my prayers to-night, I am going +to ask God to give you a new +heart; and then you can't help +being good."</p> + +<p>"I wish you would," whispered +the man, drawing his shirt +sleeve across his eyes.</p> + +<p>He pushed his chair back from +the table, saying, "I've had a<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_98" id="Page_98">[98]</a></span> +first-rate supper; and I thank +you and your mother a thousand +times for all your kindness."</p> + +<p>Willie then stepped into the +kitchen, and helped him from +his chair into his carriage, at +the back door. The man gave +Frankie two of his handsomest +pictures, saying, "Don't forget +what you promised to do for me +to-night. I have nobody else to +pray for me now."</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_99" id="Page_99">[99]</a></span></p> +<h2>CHAPTER VII.</h2> + +<div class='chaptertitle'>THE RAINY DAY.</div> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Miss Grant</span> gave her scholars +Wednesday and Saturday afternoons +for play.</p> + +<p>One Wednesday morning it +rained very hard; and as Nelly +was not quite well, her aunt +thought it not best for her to +go to school. Margie too had +been unwell for a few days; +so Mrs. Gray sent for her to<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_100" id="Page_100">[100]</a></span> +come up to the nursery, that +they might amuse themselves +with their dolls.</p> + +<p>Margie was eleven years of age; +but she liked to play as well as +ever. She had Frankie's black +Dinah for her child; and then +she had a large rag baby of her +own, while Nelly had great Fanny +and two smaller dolls.</p> + +<p>These they set up in a row, +and played school; but just as +they were ready to begin, Ponto<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_101" id="Page_101">[101]</a></span> +walked into the room, and tipped +the scholars over.</p> + +<p>"O Ponto, how naughty!" +exclaimed Nelly, laughing aloud, +as he carefully stepped over the +pupils, who were lying on their +faces. "Now let us begin +again."</p> + +<p>So Dinah, and Fanny, and Lily +Gray, and Jenny, Margie's doll, +were all placed in nice order +again, their backs up against the +wall; and after a few words,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_102" id="Page_102">[102]</a></span> +charging the scholars to be very +good and say their lessons well, +Nelly rang her aunt's small table +bell, for them to take their places +in the class.</p> + +<p>But not one of the dollies +stirred; and so Nelly took Dinah's +hand, and led her out to +the floor.</p> + +<p>They played in this way for +more than an hour, and then +Nelly complained of the headache; +and so her aunt sent<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_103" id="Page_103">[103]</a></span> +her to lie down and rest till +dinner.</p> + +<p>In the mean time, Frankie had +put on his India rubber boots, +and holding a large umbrella, +started off for school, as happy +as possible. He had never been +absent or tardy a single day; +and his teacher had promised +to paint him a beautiful card, +if he continued his good conduct +to the end of the term.</p> + +<p>The dear boy was very much<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_104" id="Page_104">[104]</a></span> +pleased at this, and was trying +in every way to be good. He +trudged gayly on right through +the puddles of water, the rain +pattering upon his umbrella, and +dripping off upon the ground.</p> + +<p>"I don't care," said Frankie +to himself. "It's hard walking, +I know; but I shall have a good +time when I get there. My +teacher will say, 'I knew you +would be here, Frankie, because +you belong to the Try Company.'"<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_105" id="Page_105">[105]</a></span></p> + +<p>When he reached the schoolroom, +he found no one there but +his teacher and Hitty; and how +do you think they came so safely +in all the rain? Frankie laughed +most heartily when they told him. +They rode with the butcher in +his covered cart.</p> + +<p>They had kindled a nice fire +in the open grate, and after the +little fellow had stamped off the +mud in the porch, he came in +and stood by it to dry himself.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_106" id="Page_106">[106]</a></span></p> + +<p>The clock struck nine; but +not one more of the scholars +came, because it was only a half +day, the teacher said; and so +Frankie and Hitty stood before +her, instead of going on the gallery, +and repeated the Lord's +Prayer.</p> + +<p>Then she told them to bring +their chairs close to the fire.</p> + +<p>"What a funny little school!" +said Frankie, laughing.</p> + +<p>The teacher laughed too, and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_107" id="Page_107">[107]</a></span> +said, "I think we shall have a +very pleasant time." She rang +the bell, and Frankie marched +out alone to his class. Then she +rung it again, and Hitty read +and spelt. She could read quite +well now, and was getting to be +a very good scholar.</p> + +<p>After this, Miss Grant said, "I +must march with you, I suppose;" +and so she stepped upon +the circle; and they marched +around and around, singing,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_108" id="Page_108">[108]</a></span>—</p> + +<div class='center'> +"This is the way we wash our face,"<br /> +</div> + +<div class='unindent'>the teacher washing hers as hard +as any of them.</div> + +<p>At recess she took a piece of +paper from her desk, and drew +a pretty picture of a dog carrying +a basket in his mouth, and +told Frankie to draw one like it.</p> + +<p>Frankie was delighted, and +said, "This dog is like Ponto, +only that it has a short tail instead +of a long one."</p> + +<p>Miss Grant then cut a paper<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_109" id="Page_109">[109]</a></span> +doll for Hitty, and afterward +one for Nelly. She made paper +dresses, and aprons, and capes, +and paper hats for their heads; +and was so much engaged when +she saw how delighted the children +were, that she forgot she +was teaching school, and never +rang the bell for the close of +recess for more than an hour.</p> + +<p>They all laughed merrily, and +Frankie, clapping his hands, said, +"I like rainy days best of all!"<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_110" id="Page_110">[110]</a></span></p> + +<p>After recess, Miss Grant gave +the children a lesson in geography, +and then related a story of +a boy, named Charles Huntington, +who, by his honesty, uprightness, +and faithfulness to his employer, +became a great and good +man. Having gained wealth, he +gave freely of it to the poor and +needy, and, after a long life of +happiness and usefulness, died +lamented by all who knew him.</p> + +<p>Frankie listened attentively to<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_111" id="Page_111">[111]</a></span> +the story, and then said, "I'm +going to ask God to help me be +like Mr. Charles Huntington."</p> + +<p>And here we must leave our +young friend, with the hope that +the promise of early youth was +verified in his manhood; that the +seed sown in his young and tender +heart, and watered by his +mother's tearful prayers, sprang +up and bore abundant fruit.</p> + +<p>As for his cousin Nelly, she +continued with her aunt for many<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_112" id="Page_112">[112]</a></span> +years, until her mother died, when +she returned home to comfort +and bless her father, and help +train her little brother as she +had herself been taught by her +kind friends. She always entertained +for Frankie the deep affection +of a sister; and when he +graduated from college with the +first honors of his class, no one +rejoiced or felt more proud of +his success than his cousin Nelly.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 389px;"> +<img src="images/irearcover.jpg" width="389" height="500" alt="Back Cover" title="" /> +</div> +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><div class='tnote'><b>Transcriber's Notes:</b> + +<p>Obvious punctuation errors repaired. The quotation marks around the poem on <a href="#Page_78">pages +79-81</a> was not repaired as the author's intent could not be ascertained. 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LESLIE'S SABBATH SCHOOL BOOKS. + + TIM, THE SCISSORS GRINDER. + SEQUEL TO "TIM, THE SCISSORS GRINDER." + PRAIRIE FLOWER. + THE BOUND BOY. + THE BOUND GIRL. + VIRGINIA. + THE TWO HOMES; OR, EARNING AND SPENDING. + THE ORGAN-GRINDER, _in press_. + + +QUESTION BOOKS. The Catechism tested by the Bible. + + VOL. I. FOR CHILDREN. VOL. II. FOR ADULTS. + + +THE DERMOTT FAMILY; or, Stories Illustrating the Catechism. + + VOL. I. DOCTRINES RESPECTING GOD AND MANKIND. + " II. DOCTRINES OF GRACE. + " III. COMMANDMENTS OF THE FIRST TABLE. + " IV. COMMANDMENTS OF THE SECOND TABLE. + " V. CONDITIONS OF ETERNAL LIFE. + + +MRS. LESLIE'S HOME LIFE. + + VOL. I. CORA AND THE DOCTOR. + " II. COURTESIES OF WEDDED LIFE. + " III. THE HOUSEHOLD ANGEL. + + +MRS. LESLIE'S JUVENILE SERIES. + + VOL. I. THE MOTHERLESS CHILDREN. + " II. PLAY AND STUDY. + " III. HOWARD AND HIS TEACHER. + " IV. TRYING TO BE USEFUL. + " V. JACK, THE CHIMNEY SWEEPER. + " VI. THE YOUNG HOUSEKEEPER. + " VII. LITTLE AGNES. + + +THE ROBIN REDBREAST SERIES. + + THE ROBINS' NEST. + LITTLE ROBINS IN THE NEST. + LITTLE ROBINS LEARNING TO FLY. + LITTLE ROBINS IN TROUBLE. + LITTLE ROBINS' FRIENDS. + LITTLE ROBINS' LOVE ONE TO ANOTHER. + + * * * * * + +THE LITTLE FRANKIE SERIES. + + LITTLE FRANKIE AND HIS MOTHER. + LITTLE FRANKIE AT HIS PLAYS. + LITTLE FRANKIE AND HIS COUSIN. + LITTLE FRANKIE AND HIS FATHER. + LITTLE FRANKIE ON A JOURNEY. + LITTLE FRANKIE AT SCHOOL. + +[Illustration: FRANKIE WHEELING THE CRIPPLE.] + + + + + +LITTLE + +FRANKIE AT SCHOOL. + +BY + +MRS. MADELINE LESLIE, + + AUTHOR OF "THE HOME LIFE SERIES;" "MRS. LESLIE'S + JUVENILE SERIES," ETC. + +[Illustration: divider] + + BOSTON: + CROSBY AND AINSWORTH, + 117 WASHINGTON STREET. + + + + + Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, by + A. R. BAKER, + In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of + Massachusetts. + + + ELECTROTYPED AT THE + BOSTON STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY. + + + + +LITTLE + +FRANKIE AT SCHOOL. + + + + +CHAPTER I. + +FRANKIE'S NEW TEACHER. + + +WHEN little Frankie Gray was nearly seven years old, a lady came to +reside in the town where he lived, hoping to collect a small school. + +Frankie's mother called upon her, and was so much pleased with her +frank, cheerful manners, her sunny smile, and her Christian +conversation, that she promised, with her husband's consent, to send +Frankie and Nelly to be her pupils. + +The young teacher's name was Fanny Grant. Nelly laughed merrily when she +heard it, and said she should always think of her great doll, Fanny, +when she saw her. + +Papa had for a long time feared it was an injury to his wife to be +confined so many hours as she thought it necessary to be in order to +attend to the children's studies, and he was very glad to find a good +teacher for them. + +Miss Grant hired a pleasant room in a house only a short distance from +Mr. Gray's. Then she commenced furnishing it to suit her own fancy. +First she fastened white shades to the windows, and then hung the walls +with bright colored maps, and large pictures of animals and birds. On +one side there was a nice blackboard, and next it a card containing the +alphabet in large letters. + +When all this was arranged, Miss Grant engaged a carpenter to work for +her a day in making a gallery of four steps, and in drawing a large +circle on the floor, which he marked by driving in large brass headed +nails. + +Nelly and her cousin, who had watched these arrangements with great +interest, were very curious to know their use. The teacher, smiling, +bade them wait and see. + +"Is all ready now?" asked Frankie. + +"Not quite," said the teacher. "I must have some small chairs for my +little scholars; also some more apparatus." + +"What is apparatus?" inquired Nelly. + +"It is any thing by which we can illustrate or explain our ideas. This +blackboard, and these cards, are apparatus. You will see, when school +begins, how I shall explain to you many things by their help. Then I +have a large globe, a numeral frame, and an orrery." + +"I had an orrery once," shouted Frankie. "It was made of wire, with +potatoes and turnips. Is yours like that?" + +"O, no," said the teacher, with a hearty laugh. "The planets are made of +wood, or plaster, and painted very prettily." + +"I shall like to see it," said Frankie. + +"So shall I," said Nelly. + +The children then took their leave, after bidding the lady good by; but +presently Frankie returned, all out of breath, to say, "Miss Grant, I +have a whole box of beautiful great cards. They were my birthday present +from papa and mamma. You may take them, if you want to, and hang them +around the room." + +"Thank you, my little friend," said the teacher, giving him a kiss. "I +am going now to my boarding place, and you may walk with me, if you can +stop until I put on my bonnet." + +"I should like that," said Frankie. "I'll run out and tell Nelly to +wait." + +Miss Grant locked the door, and taking a small vase in her hand, joined +the children who were waiting near the gate. + +"What is that flower pot for?" asked Nelly. + +"When school begins, I shall beg some flowers from the lady where I +live," answered the teacher. "I like to have the room look cheerful and +bright, so that the little scholars will like to be there." + +"I wish Monday would come quick," exclaimed the boy. "I want to begin to +go to school. I mean to carry a great big bouquet, out of my own garden. +Did you know I had a garden, Miss Grant?" + +"No, I did not; but I am very glad to hear it. I love flowers almost as +well as I do good little boys and girls." + +"I should think you would love your mother better than either. I do." + +Miss Grant's lip quivered, and tears gushed to her eyes. "I do love my +mother," she said, softly, "but she is in heaven." + +"I'm real sorry," said the sympathizing child, affectionately kissing +the hand he held. "If you were little, like Nelly and me, mother would +let you be her daughter, I guess." + +When the children reached home, Mrs. Gray was most happy to see what an +influence the young teacher had already established over them. She +encouraged their love for her, and appealed to their sympathies by +saying, "She is an orphan, without father or mother; we must all try to +make her forget her sorrows by showing her that she has still many warm +friends." + + + + +CHAPTER II. + +ONE DAY AT SCHOOL. + + +I SUPPOSE you will wish to know how Frankie and Nelly liked their new +school, and whether they continued to love their teacher. + +In answer to these questions, I shall give you an account of a day they +passed about a week after the school commenced. + +It was a lovely morning in June. After breakfast and prayers in the +family of Mr. Gray, Frankie ran out into the garden to gather a bouquet +for his teacher. He and Nelly kept her vase well filled with flowers. He +put the bouquet into a pitcher of water to keep it fresh, and then ran +to the sink to wash his face and hands very clean; after which he went +into the nursery for Sally to pin on a clean collar, and to brush his +hair. + +While she was doing this, he called out to his mother, who was in the +next room, "Mamma, mayn't I learn to part my hair myself? I'm almost +seven, you know." + +"Yes, indeed," she answered. "You may learn as soon as you please. Sally +will show you how to hold the comb to make the parting straight." + +"I wish my hair would lie down," exclaimed the boy, giving the brush a +quick, impatient jerk. It curls up so close, I can't make it look +smooth. And he brushed the front lock with all his strength. + +"There, now, that looks well enough," said nurse in a comforting tone. +"You might as well try to keep the wind from blowing as to try to keep +your hair from curling. It will form little rings, do all you can." + +"Now I'm ready!" shouted Frankie, taking his bouquet in his hand. + +In the mean time, Nelly had been to her aunt's room, and had her long +hair combed out smoothly, and then brushed over the curling stick. It +was quite a tedious operation, and required to be very wet before the +comb could be passed through it; but Nelly bore it patiently, as her +aunt always tried to pass the time away agreeably, by giving her some +easy example in arithmetic, or hearing a line of the multiplication +table, or telling her a short story. By the time this was done, Sally +had turned the mattress; and the little girl made up her bed, laying on +the sheets and counterpane very smoothly, so that not a rumple could be +seen. Then she hung up such of her clothes as were lying about the room, +put her shoes into the bag on the inside of the closet door, then +dressed herself in a clean apron, and was ready, by the time Frankie +called, to take the flowers Willie had gathered for her, and walk out +with him to meet their dear teacher. + +Sometimes, when they were early, they went as far as the house where she +boarded, and stood at the gate until she appeared; but generally they +sat down on the stone wall under the shade of the large maple tree at +the entrance to their avenue, and watched until she came in sight. Then +they ran eagerly to give her their morning kiss, and present their +little offering of flowers. + +On this pleasant June morning, they each took a hand as usual, and +walked on rapidly toward the school, talking merrily as they went. + +When they reached the building, they found nearly all the other +scholars, eighteen in number, waiting the arrival of Miss Grant. They +went into the school room, took off their hats and bonnets, hung them up +in the closet, and then went quietly to their seats on the steps, the +little ones on the lower steps, and the others above them on the higher. + +When the church clock struck nine, the teacher rang the small bell, +when every eye was closed, and every head was bowed for prayer. The +little voices all joined in repeating the Lord's Prayer, after which +they sung a verse of the hymn,-- + + "There is a happy land, + Far, far away, + Where saints in glory stand, + Bright, bright as day." + +After this, they pass down from the gallery, and march along to their +seats. For the next half hour the school is quite still, while the +pupils are studying the reading and spelling lessons: when the bell +strikes again, they march out in order to the front of the chair where +their teacher sits. + +As soon as one class has recited, another is called, until every little +pupil has read and spelled. + +When this has been done, every face begins to brighten, for they know +what the next exercise is; and they like it very much. The largest girl +takes her place on the circle, and the others follow her according to +their size, until they come down to the smallest one, who is a pretty +blue-eyed little urchin of four summers. + +Miss Grant then strikes up a lively tune to the words,-- + + "This is the way we wash our face, + This is the way we wash our face, + This is the way we wash our face, + So early in the morning,"-- + +each little hand is vigorously employed in rubbing the face, as they +merrily follow each other around the circle. As soon as they finish one +verse, they stop a moment, to avoid being made dizzy, and then begin +again:-- + + "This is the way we comb our hair, + This is the way we comb our hair, + This is the way we comb our hair, + So early in the morning. + + "This is the way we brush our teeth, + This is the way we brush our teeth, + This is the way we brush our teeth, + So early in the morning. + + "This is the way we clean our nails, + This is the way we clean our nails, + This is the way we clean our nails, + So early in the morning." + +After this marching and singing, the children return to their seats to +prepare a lesson in geography, which they recite standing near the +globe, the teacher pointing out the places upon it. + +Recess and the various sports recommended by the teacher follow, and +then come arithmetic and the numeral frame. This is a wooden frame +about a foot square, with twelve stout wires passing from one side to +the other. Strung on each of these wires are twelve round stones, about +the size of marbles. With this frame Miss Grant taught her little +scholars to add, subtract, and multiply numbers, in the same manner that +Mrs. Gray had taught her little pupils with marbles. + +At the close of the morning session, the children marched in the circle +again, singing five times five are twenty-five, and five times six are +thirty, to the tune of Yankee Doodle. + +In the afternoon, the exercises were quite as varied. The lessons mostly +being committed in the morning, the children were allowed to tell +stories, which the teacher wrote for them on the blackboard,--or they +recited hymns and verses they had learned; sung, marched, and listened +to the instructions of their teacher. + +[Illustration] + + + + +CHAPTER III. + +THE NEW SCHOLAR. + + +IN a house near the one where Miss Grant boarded was a little girl whose +name was Hitty Moran. Her real name was Mehitable, but her mother and +all her companions called her Hitty. She belonged to a very poor family, +and as she was the eldest of a number of children, her mother thought +she could not spare her to attend school. + +From the windows of her chamber, Miss Grant often saw Hitty sitting on +the doorstep, holding a large baby in her arms. She noticed that Hitty +was always kind to her baby brother; that she sung to him, let him pull +her long hair, and never became impatient or fretful with him. All this +interested the kind teacher in the child, and she longed to be of some +use to her. + +One day, when she was returning from her school, she overtook Hitty, who +was carrying a heavy basket of potatoes. "Let me help you," said the +teacher, taking hold of the handle. + +As they walked along, Miss Grant asked, "Did you ever go to school?" + +"No, ma'am," said Hitty; "though I staid in a house once where the +lady's son taught me my letters." + +"Should you like to learn?" asked the teacher. + +"O, yes, ma'am; sure I should be proud if I could read; but mother has +so much work, and Bobby takes kindly to me, so that she can't spare me +to go to school." + +"I should think it could be planned somehow for you to learn," said +Miss Grant, kindly. "I will go in and see your mother this evening." + +She did so, and talked with Mrs. Moran of the advantage it would be to +Hitty, if she could learn to read and write. + +"Only think," said the lady, "she could teach her brothers their +letters, and read them pretty stories to keep them quiet while you are +busy at work." + +"Feth, ma'am, sure, and I've sinse enough to see the truth of what +you're saying," said the poor mother. "Her father often gets a paper +from the ould country; but it's little use to us, you see, because the +spelling and the pronouncing are quite beyont him. I've often enough +wished we could have the luck to give one of the childer an education." + +"Can't you spare her to go to school a part of the time?" + +"Sure, ma'am, and that's the trouble intirely. The teachers complain +when the childer don't be regular." + +Just at this moment one of the children fell down, and began to cry so +loud, that Miss Grant took her leave. She was in earnest about doing +something for Hitty; and she walked as far as Mrs. Gray's, to ask her +advice about it. + +"Why don't you allow her to attend your school?" inquired the lady. +"One hour in the day would be better than nothing." + +"I should be glad to do so, if I thought the parents would not object," +answered the teacher. "I think with a little trouble she could be made +to look tidy." + +Miss Grant was not at all rich, but when a lady is resolved to do a +kindness, she always finds out a way. She knew that Hitty had no dress +suitable to wear to school. She opened her purse after she had reached +home, and taking out some money she had laid by to purchase a new book, +she walked to the store, and bought some calico to make a child's dress. + +On her way back she called at Mrs. Moran's, and told her Hitty might +come to her school every afternoon if her mother could not spare her in +the morning, and that if her mother would try to send her, she would +provide a new gown. + +Mrs. Moran was very grateful for this kindness, and promised to get +along without Hitty whenever she could. In three days, the little girl +called for her teacher, her face and hands so bright, and clean, and +rosy, that you would scarcely know her. The dress fitted charmingly, and +the grateful smile and look of delight with which, she regarded herself +when Miss Grant tied on a neat apron with pockets in it, quite repaid +the lady for all her expense and trouble. + +Most of the scholars were kind to Hitty, and willingly lent her a slate, +pencil, or book, when their teacher requested it. But one little girl, +whose name I am sorry to say was Nelly, did not like to play with Hitty, +because she lived in such a poor house. + +She was ashamed to refuse when her teacher asked her to show the new +scholar how to make the figures on her slate; but she had a pout on her +lips, which Miss Grant had never seen there before, and her voice did +not sound sweet and kind. + +When the lady saw these marks of pride in her beloved pupil, it made her +heart ache. She had been so full of love to the poor, ignorant child, +and so anxious to do her good, that she could not bear the thought of +any one in her school treating Hitty unkindly. For a moment she gazed +sorrowfully in Nelly's flushed face, saw her move away from her new +schoolmate as far on the seat as she could, and then she called, "Hitty, +come and sit by me." + +Presently Frankie raised his little fat hand, and when she nodded to him +that he had permission to speak, he asked, "May the new girl see me +make pictures on the blackboard?" + +"Yes, darling," answered the lady, rising and patting him on his curly +head. "Perhaps you can teach her to make a picture too." + +"See, Hitty," said Frankie; "this is the way to do it;" and the dear boy +stood very erect and proud of the confidence of his teacher. + +When Miss Grant glanced toward Nelly, she was sorry to see that the +little girl looked angry, that her cousin was taking so much pains with +the new girl, and that he seemed so happy in doing it. + +Shall I tell you what I think the bad spirit was whispering in her ear? +It was this: "Nelly, your father is rich; you live in a fine house and +wear nice clothes; you are right not to like to sit by Hitty, who is +very poor and ignorant." + +Ah, my little girl, do you remember who has given you so many blessings? +It is God; but if you are not grateful to him, and kind to those who are +less favored, he may take away your father and mother, and leave you +without home or friends. + + + + +CHAPTER IV. + +THE INJURED GIRL. + + +MISS GRANT was very much pleased with Frankie's kindness to Hitty; and +she hoped Nelly would see how lovely it made him appear, and try to +imitate him. + +When the school closed, Hitty felt so grateful to Frankie for showing +her the figures, that she stood by him in the closet, to see whether +she could not do something for him. His cap was on a low hook, where he +could reach it; but the scarf he wore with it, was hung up higher. Hitty +saw him trying to jump and catch the end to pull it down, and she said +quickly, "I can reach it. I will get it for you;" and she gave it to him +with a bright smile. + +"Thank you," said Frankie, pleasantly. + +When they were out by the gate the scarf blew off, and Hitty ran to pick +it up, when Nelly snatched it from her, and said, "Let alone my cousin's +things, you ugly girl;" at the same time she gave Hitty a rough push to +get her out of the way. + +I do not think Nelly was so very wicked as to wish really to hurt the +little girl, but she was angry, because her conscience was telling her +she had done wrong. + +She heard Hitty scream, but she ran on, pulling Frankie along, though he +urged her to go back, and see what was the matter with the poor girl. + +"No, no!" she cried; "I don't like Hitty, and I don't want to walk with +her." Then she began to talk about Ponto, and said she wished he would +come and carry her basket for her. + +Almost always, when Nelly went home from school, she and Frankie ran up +stairs to the chamber where Mrs. Gray sat at work; but now she proposed +that they should play in the garden with the dog. + +The lady heard their voices, and wondered they did not come in to see +her before they began to play. In about fifteen minutes she heard some +one ring the bell at the back door, and presently Sally came up stairs +into her room, leading a little girl by the hand. + +It was Hitty, but with such a great swelling on her forehead that Mrs. +Gray did not at first recognize her. Her eyes were red and swollen with +crying, and even now she could scarcely keep back her sobs. + +As she came in, she walked straight across the room to the lady, and put +a note into her hand. + +Mrs. Gray opened it, and read with great sorrow the following words: +"Nelly pushed this little girl against the stone post, at the school +house gate. I am exceedingly grieved, and as I cannot see Nelly +to-night, I have sent Hitty to you. Please do what you think best in the +case." + +"Come here, poor child," said the lady, tenderly; "that is a dreadful +bunch on your forehead. How did it happen?" + +"I was picking up your little boy's scarf when it fell off his neck, +and Nelly snatched it away, and pushed me so hard that I fell against +the post. She called me names, too;" and Hitty began to sob again. + +"What did Frankie do?" asked his mamma. + +"Nothing at all, ma'am. It's very kind to me, he was." + +The lady bade the child sit down. She then went to the closet and poured +some arnica from a bottle into a bowl of water, and after wetting a +cloth in it, bound it upon the forehead of the child. Then she rang the +bell, and sent Margie to find Nelly and bring her into the house. + +While she was waiting, she talked with Hitty, and soon became as much +interested in her as the teacher had been. + +Presently Nelly came in, followed by her cousin. She started and +blushed when she saw Hitty; but Frankie ran to the little girl, asking, +"What is the matter with your head? Have you hurt yourself?" + +"No," replied Hitty; "she did it," pointing to Nelly. + +"Look here," said her aunt, raising the cloth and pointing to the +swelling, which was half as large as an egg. + +Frankie exclaimed, "O, dear! I'm sorry. Does it ache bad?" + +Nelly held down her head and began to cry. She was very much frightened +at what she had done. + +"Frankie," said his mother, "you may go down with Hitty to the cook, and +ask her for a piece of cake for the little girl. Then you may walk with +her as far as your teacher's, and wait till I come. Hitty, you may go +home and tell your mother I shall bring Nelly there soon, to have her +say what punishment so naughty a girl deserves." + +"O, don't, aunty! don't take me there! I'm afraid to go!" sobbed Nelly, +catching hold of her aunt. + +"Sit down," said Mrs. Gray, gravely. + +"What are you going to do with me?" asked the child, in an agony of +fear. + +"I am going to talk with you, and I wish you to tell me how this +dreadful thing occurred. O Nelly, I can't tell you how very grieved I +am, that you should do so! I thought you had conquered your bad temper, +and had become a lovely, amiable child." + +The tears stood in Mrs. Gray's eyes, and her voice trembled as she +spoke. Nelly sobbed as if her heart would break; but as her aunt waited +for her to reply, she said, "I am sorry, aunty. I didn't mean to hurt +her so; but I didn't want her to touch Frankie's things." + +"Why not? I am sure it was kind of her to pick up his scarf." + +Nelly covered her burning face with her hands. + +"Tell me the truth, my child," said her aunt, firmly. + +"She is so poor," whispered Nelly. "I don't like poor girls; and then +she lives in such an old house." + +"Why, Nelly!" exclaimed the lady, "I can hardly believe you have so +proud and wicked a heart. Suppose your father should lose all his +property, and you should be obliged to go to the poorhouse, and wear an +old, shabby dress; should you think that was a good reason why another +little girl, whom God had blessed with a good home and kind friends, +delighting to supply her with the comforts of life, should treat you +unkindly?" + +"No, indeed, aunty! I did not think how very wicked I was." Then Nelly +confessed truthfully all the naughty feelings which had made her so +unkind to the new scholar, though she sobbed so much that she could +hardly speak. + +Mrs. Gray talked a long time with her, explaining where her sin lay; +first, in cherishing pride, and then in giving way to anger, which was +the very spirit of Cain when he killed his brother. After this they +knelt down together; and Nelly, in a voice broken with weeping, asked +God to forgive her great sin, and help her to be a good child. + + + + +CHAPTER V. + +NELLY AT MRS. MORAN'S. + + +"COME, now, my dear," said the lady, putting on her bonnet; "we must go +to Mrs. Moran's and inquire about Hitty." + +"I am afraid to," screamed Nelly, clinging to her aunt. "O, I am sure I +shall never do so again! I don't dare to go there." + +"Why, Nelly?" asked her aunt, pitying her distress. "If any little girl +had injured you so, I should think it was a very small thing for her to +do, to come and say she was sorry, and ask your forgiveness. You are +really sorry, I think. It is but right you should tell her so." + +As they approached the house the poor child seemed in such an agony of +fear, that her aunt was obliged to soothe her to lead her on. Her +conscience told her she had been unkind, even cruel, to her companion, +who had in no way injured her, and she feared Hitty's father and mother +would be very angry. + +Mr. Moran lived in the upper part of a building which had once been used +as a shop. A pair of wide stairs went up outside the house to the door, +which opened into their room. A man was at work chopping wood at the +foot of the stairs, and as soon as Nelly saw him she ran behind her +aunt, whispering, "O, I dare not go! that's Hitty's father." + +"I will take care of you," answered the lady, knocking at the door. + +Mrs. Moran presently opened it, and they saw Hitty sitting on a low +stool, playing with the baby, who was cooing and crowing with delight at +having her back again. + +"I have come," said Mrs. Gray, "with my little niece, who injured your +daughter at school. She wishes to ask you to forgive her." + +Nelly was crying bitterly, so that she could scarcely speak; but at last +she sobbed out, "I didn't mean to hurt her so. I'm very sorry." + +"Don't cry, pet!" said Mrs. Moran, kindly. "I dare say you meant her no +harm; and if you did, sure and we all are in the wrong sometimes. Hitty +lays up nothing against you. There, honey, stop a bit, and she'll tell +you the same. Come, Hitty, tell the little girl you forgive her, since +the lady is so kind as to ask it." + +Hitty came forward with Bobby still in her arms, and when Nelly held out +her hand, shook it cordially, saying, "My head is almost well now, and +by to-morrow I'll never think of the blow again. I'm sorry for you, +Nelly, to see you crying so." + +Mrs. Gray sat for a time talking with Mrs. Moran, and encouraging her to +allow Hitty to learn to read. There was one little boy just Frankie's +age, whom the lady advised her to send to the public school. + +This, the poor woman said, she should be glad to do, if the lad had +clothes. + +The next day, when Hitty returned from school, Nelly, Frankie, and +Ponto accompanied her, each of them carrying a bundle as large as they +could lift, with dresses, jackets, and sacks, the children had outgrown. + +Mrs. Moran hardly knew how to express her gratitude, as she held up one +article after another, and saw how nicely they would fit Ned or others +among her children. + +This lesson, though severe at the time, was never forgotten by Nelly. +After this no one was more eager than she to show kindness to Hitty, or +more pleased when the poor girl succeeded in learning to read. + +In the afternoon most of the scholars repeated a hymn which they had +learned at home, or a few verses from the Bible. Nelly noticed that +Hitty never repeated any, and one day asked her the reason. + +"I haven't any books," answered the child, "and then I couldn't make out +the hard words, you know." + +Nelly looked thoughtful for a minute, and then jumped up and down in her +glee. "Ask your mother to let you come to aunty's to-night, or else come +early to school and stop there to-morrow," she cried, "and I will teach +you one of my pretty songs." + +Two days later, when Miss Grant said, "Now we will hear the hymns or +verses," Hitty, with a timid air and a blushing face, took her stand on +the floor. She cast a glance at Nelly, whose whole countenance was +glowing with pleasure, and then repeated the following pretty hymn:-- + + "'Who was that, dear mamma, who ate + Her breakfast here this morn? + With tangled hair and ragged shoes, + And gown and apron torn?' + + 'They call her lazy Jane, my dear; + She begs her bread all day, + And gets a lodging in the barn, + At night, among the hay. + + 'For when she was a little girl, + She loved her play too well; + At school she would not mind her book, + Nor learn to read and spell. + + '"Dear Jane," her mother oft would say, + "Pray learn to work and read; + Then you'll be able, when you're grown, + To earn your clothes and bread."' + + But lazy Jenny did not care; + She'd neither knit nor sew; + To romp with naughty girls and boys + Was all that she would do. + + So she grew up a very dunce; + And when her parents died, + She knew not how to teach a school, + Nor work, if she had tried. + + And now, an idle vagabond, + She strolls about the streets; + And not a friend can Jenny find + In any one she meets. + + And now, dear child, should you neglect + Your book or work again, + Or play, when you should be at school, + Remember Lazy Jane." + + + + +CHAPTER VI. + +FRANKIE AND THE CRIPPLE. + + +ONE evening, near the close of the term, Nelly walked home in company +with one of her schoolmates, and did not notice that her cousin went +another way. One, two hours passed by, and Frankie did not make his +appearance; and at last his mother became so anxious, that she sent his +brother out to search for him. + +Willie went to the square to see whether he had stopped at any of the +stores, then, as he did not find him, to the houses of some of his +schoolmates, but none of them had seen him since school. + +"Where can he have gone?" said Willie to himself. "Perhaps he was at his +teacher's, and has returned before this time." + +He walked back toward home, looking around on every side. + +He was passing a house, when he heard a noise in the yard, and looking +through the trees, saw a company of boys standing round a curious little +carriage, in which sat a boy who was talking to them. He ran eagerly +into the yard, for he thought Frankie was among them. + +As he drew nearer, he found it was not a boy in the carriage, but a man +without legs. He had met with a dreadful accident, and been obliged to +have both his legs cut off; and now he was trying to support himself by +selling pictures, rolling himself in his carriage from house to house by +means of a crank wheel. This was very hard work for him, especially when +he was going uphill; sometimes he was obliged to get boys to push +behind. + +Willie saw his brother Frankie standing by the man, helping him hold his +pictures, which he was exhibiting to the lady at the window. Frankie's +face was very red, and great drops of perspiration stood on his forehead +and nose. + +"Why haven't you been home?" asked Willie. "Mother is very anxious about +you." + +"O, Willie, see this poor man!" exclaimed Frankie. "I have been pushing +his wagon for him ever since school. He says he is a cripple, and can't +walk at all. I'm going to push his carriage home now, as soon as he has +sold pictures here, and then ask mamma to give him some supper." + +"Why, Frankie Gray," called out the lady at the window, "is that you? +Well, come and take this money, dear, to pay for three pictures." + +When the carriage started, the boys all ran along; but none of them +offered to assist in rolling it, except Willie and Frankie. + +"You are tired," said Willie; "I'll push now." So Frankie took off his +straw hat, and wiped the perspiration from his forehead. His hair was +wet through, and curled in small rings all over his head. + +Mrs. Gray was looking anxiously from the window when they entered the +avenue, and ran eagerly down to meet them. + +"O, mamma!" cried Frankie; "I met a poor man. He has no legs, and can't +walk at all. He has to wheel himself about in a little carriage, to get +enough money to buy his food. It's very hard work, and so I waited to +push it for him a little while. Was it naughty, mamma? Will you please +to give him some supper?" + +Mrs. Gray looked in her son's earnest, loving eyes, and all her +displeasure against him vanished. She caught him to her heart, and +kissed his cheek and lips. "Yes, my dear," she said, "you shall have the +pleasure of giving him a good supper. But are you not hungry yourself? +It is long past tea time." + +"I did not think any thing about it, mamma," said Frankie, "I was so +sorry for the poor man. There, Willie has pushed his carriage up to the +back door. I wonder how he can get out." + +In a few minutes the poor cripple had walked on his knees to the table, +where Jane had set him a bountiful meal. Frankie seemed to consider the +man his especial charge, and Mrs. Gray drew Willie into the entry, +where, through the door, they could see what passed. + +As soon as the food was before him, the cripple began to eat; and +Frankie, who was seated opposite, so as to be ready to attend to his +wants, gazed at him in great surprise. "Why!" said he, "you didn't pray +to God." + +I suppose the dear child had never before seen any one begin to eat +without first asking a blessing. Even when he and Nelly were playing +tea, one of them always shut their eyes, and solemnly asked God to bless +the food. + +The man stared at him and went on eating, while Mrs. Gray smiled as she +peeped through the door, to see how serious the boy looked. + +"Don't you love God?" asked Frankie. + +"I dun know," said the man. + +"I love him," continued the child, "and I should think you would;" then, +after waiting a moment, he asked, "Did he cut your legs off?" + +"No," said the man, laughing; "the doctor did it." + +"I'm glad of that," said Frankie. "You ought to love God, and pray to +him every day. Perhaps, if you did, he would let your legs grow again." + +Willie almost laughed aloud; but Frankie was so eager to do the man +good, that he did not hear him. + +"I am afraid you are a wicked man," he said, "if you don't pray any." + +Mrs. Gray saw the cripple lay down his knife and fork, and gaze at the +child; presently he spoke, but his voice trembled as he said, "I used to +pray when I was a little shaver like you. My mother taught me." + +"Where is she now?" asked the boy. + +"She has gone up there, long ago," said the man, softly pointing his +finger upward. + +"Well," said Frankie, earnestly, "you can't go to heaven and live with +her there, unless you are a good man and love God. I used to be naughty +once, but my mother whipped me to make me good." + +"That's too bad," said the cripple. + +"No; it's just right. The Bible says she must. I'm trying now to be a +good boy; and I wish you would try too." + +"I guess there isn't much danger of you," said the man. "You're the +most wonderful chap I ever saw." + +"I don't know what _chap_ is," replied Frankie. "When I say my prayers +to-night, I am going to ask God to give you a new heart; and then you +can't help being good." + +"I wish you would," whispered the man, drawing his shirt sleeve across +his eyes. + +He pushed his chair back from the table, saying, "I've had a first-rate +supper; and I thank you and your mother a thousand times for all your +kindness." + +Willie then stepped into the kitchen, and helped him from his chair into +his carriage, at the back door. The man gave Frankie two of his +handsomest pictures, saying, "Don't forget what you promised to do for +me to-night. I have nobody else to pray for me now." + + + + +CHAPTER VII. + +THE RAINY DAY. + + +MISS GRANT gave her scholars Wednesday and Saturday afternoons for play. + +One Wednesday morning it rained very hard; and as Nelly was not quite +well, her aunt thought it not best for her to go to school. Margie too +had been unwell for a few days; so Mrs. Gray sent for her to come up to +the nursery, that they might amuse themselves with their dolls. + +Margie was eleven years of age; but she liked to play as well as ever. +She had Frankie's black Dinah for her child; and then she had a large +rag baby of her own, while Nelly had great Fanny and two smaller dolls. + +These they set up in a row, and played school; but just as they were +ready to begin, Ponto walked into the room, and tipped the scholars +over. + +"O Ponto, how naughty!" exclaimed Nelly, laughing aloud, as he carefully +stepped over the pupils, who were lying on their faces. "Now let us +begin again." + +So Dinah, and Fanny, and Lily Gray, and Jenny, Margie's doll, were all +placed in nice order again, their backs up against the wall; and after a +few words, charging the scholars to be very good and say their lessons +well, Nelly rang her aunt's small table bell, for them to take their +places in the class. + +But not one of the dollies stirred; and so Nelly took Dinah's hand, and +led her out to the floor. + +They played in this way for more than an hour, and then Nelly complained +of the headache; and so her aunt sent her to lie down and rest till +dinner. + +In the mean time, Frankie had put on his India rubber boots, and holding +a large umbrella, started off for school, as happy as possible. He had +never been absent or tardy a single day; and his teacher had promised to +paint him a beautiful card, if he continued his good conduct to the end +of the term. + +The dear boy was very much pleased at this, and was trying in every way +to be good. He trudged gayly on right through the puddles of water, the +rain pattering upon his umbrella, and dripping off upon the ground. + +"I don't care," said Frankie to himself. "It's hard walking, I know; but +I shall have a good time when I get there. My teacher will say, 'I knew +you would be here, Frankie, because you belong to the Try Company.'" + +When he reached the schoolroom, he found no one there but his teacher +and Hitty; and how do you think they came so safely in all the rain? +Frankie laughed most heartily when they told him. They rode with the +butcher in his covered cart. + +They had kindled a nice fire in the open grate, and after the little +fellow had stamped off the mud in the porch, he came in and stood by it +to dry himself. + +The clock struck nine; but not one more of the scholars came, because it +was only a half day, the teacher said; and so Frankie and Hitty stood +before her, instead of going on the gallery, and repeated the Lord's +Prayer. + +Then she told them to bring their chairs close to the fire. + +"What a funny little school!" said Frankie, laughing. + +The teacher laughed too, and said, "I think we shall have a very +pleasant time." She rang the bell, and Frankie marched out alone to his +class. Then she rung it again, and Hitty read and spelt. She could read +quite well now, and was getting to be a very good scholar. + +After this, Miss Grant said, "I must march with you, I suppose;" and so +she stepped upon the circle; and they marched around and around, +singing,-- + + "This is the way we wash our face," + +the teacher washing hers as hard as any of them. + +At recess she took a piece of paper from her desk, and drew a pretty +picture of a dog carrying a basket in his mouth, and told Frankie to +draw one like it. + +Frankie was delighted, and said, "This dog is like Ponto, only that it +has a short tail instead of a long one." + +Miss Grant then cut a paper doll for Hitty, and afterward one for +Nelly. She made paper dresses, and aprons, and capes, and paper hats for +their heads; and was so much engaged when she saw how delighted the +children were, that she forgot she was teaching school, and never rang +the bell for the close of recess for more than an hour. + +They all laughed merrily, and Frankie, clapping his hands, said, "I like +rainy days best of all!" + +After recess, Miss Grant gave the children a lesson in geography, and +then related a story of a boy, named Charles Huntington, who, by his +honesty, uprightness, and faithfulness to his employer, became a great +and good man. Having gained wealth, he gave freely of it to the poor and +needy, and, after a long life of happiness and usefulness, died lamented +by all who knew him. + +Frankie listened attentively to the story, and then said, "I'm going to +ask God to help me be like Mr. Charles Huntington." + +And here we must leave our young friend, with the hope that the promise +of early youth was verified in his manhood; that the seed sown in his +young and tender heart, and watered by his mother's tearful prayers, +sprang up and bore abundant fruit. + +As for his cousin Nelly, she continued with her aunt for many years, +until her mother died, when she returned home to comfort and bless her +father, and help train her little brother as she had herself been taught +by her kind friends. She always entertained for Frankie the deep +affection of a sister; and when he graduated from college with the first +honors of his class, no one rejoiced or felt more proud of his success +than his cousin Nelly. + + * * * * * + + +Transcriber's Note: + +Obvious punctuation errors repaired. The quotation marks around the poem +on pages 79-81 was not repaired as the author's intent could not be +ascertained. 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