Mowry, William Augustus, 1829-1917, Mowry, Arthur May, 1862- joint author · New York, Boston [etc.] Silver, Burdett and company · leaf 73
beBacons Essays, or Lockeon the Understanding.The children are listeningand trying to get interestedin what is being read tothem, while occasionally one or another of them snuffsthe little candle. By and by the candle burns down tothe socket, and goes out. The mother rises and goes to thepantry to… … READING BY CANDLELIGHT LIGHT—CANDLES. 71 When the children go to bed they have no brightly burn-ing lamp to light them to their several bedrooms, but theyclimb the ladder to the open, unfinished loft with no lightexcept what comes to them from the embers upon the hearth.Then the father covers up…
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