Ethel's story: illustrating the advantages of patience (1856)
Philadelphia: Perkinpine & Higgins · leaf 46
th has been very delicate—nor woiild I find her alone, but surrounded bythe various members of her family; a cow, inthe adjoining field, anxiously looking for a cabbage-leaf to be thrown over the paling; rabbits,robbing the chickens and guinea-fowls of theirlong-expected evenings meal; and a… … ■W here I otien saw hiia. ECNEITAP AND ECNEITAPMI. Ilium, next a rose, a carnation, and I know nothow many more, that Mary might form a bouquetfor their mother, on their return to the house.Papa, who draws Marys chair?A youth of about fourteen, Walter?Is he not young, papa, to be trusted with…
Children's stories, English
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