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Historical Clippings Book (HC-11) (314 pages)

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@ The 5th reader, and we believe also the Yourth, helpod considerably to teach us lessons in Botany and Zoolory (now called Biology). In the third reader wo read this for a lesson: "Phou shalt have no other gods but me, Before no idol bend tho lnoes Take not the namo of God.in vain, Dare not the Sabbath Day profane. Give to thy parents honor due. Take heed that thou no murder do, Abstain frai words and deeds unclean, ste®t not thouch thou art poor and mean fell not a wilful lie, nor love it, . What igs thy neichbors do not covet." When we read the papers these days, we wonder if sone of the parents of today would not be glad if their children could have had pveaders like these in their early childhood, It certinly must haye had an influence for rood on childish minds to hear somo little youngster o: Friday afternoon recite the following lines: "Tt11 never smoke tobacco; No, it is a filthy weed TT1l never put it in my mouth, gaid little Rober Reed,” © a Or hear sane of the more daring little urchins recite: "fobacco is a filthy weed, Prom the devil sprang the seed; Smoke tobacco birna your clothos, liake a chimney of your nose," At% a later date, we think about 1870, our Readers were chanced for a series of gix beginning with the lst and ending with the 6th, ‘hey, too, were wonderful Readers, MeGuffeys. Wo still see them advertised and spoken of as very fine, but for molding the minds and shaping the lives of the very young we think the Wilson's were better, Tho. ileGuffey's were food, The spolling books used. Tiret Townsend's Speller later Wilson's. Geography, Cornell's iater Monterthi rae Wigtorvy Quackenbos iator Swinton's Gondensed History Gromar Groenes " Browns Physiolory nave forgotten the author ‘Mental Arithmetic ' vit wv w i) 2 ven.