Cousin Lucy's Conversations / By the Author of the Rollo Books

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THE LUCY BOOKS.
BY THE Author of the Rollo Books.
New York , CLARK AUSTIN & CO. 205 BROADWAY.
COUSIN LUCY’S CONVERSATIONS.
BY THE AUTHOR OF THE ROLLO BOOKS.
A NEW EDITION, REVISED BY THE AUTHOR.
NEW YORK: CLARK, AUSTIN & SMITH, 3 PARK ROW AND 3 ANN-STREET, 1854.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1841, By T. H. CARTER, In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.
The simple delineations of the ordinary incidents and feelings which characterize childhood, that are contained in the Rollo Books, having been found to interest, and, as the author hopes, in some degree to benefit the young readers for whom they were designed,—the plan is herein extended to children of the other sex. The two first volumes of the series are Lucy’s Conversations and Lucy’s Stories. Lucy was Rollo’s cousin; and the author hopes that the history of her life and adventures may be entertaining and useful to the sisters of the boys who have honored the Rollo Books with their approval.
LUCY’S CONVERSATIONS.
One day in summer, when Lucy was a very little girl, she was sitting in her rocking-chair, playing keep school. She had placed several crickets and small chairs in a row for the children’s seats, and had been talking, in dialogue, for some time, pretending to hold conversations with her pupils. She heard one read and spell, and gave another directions about her writing; and she had quite a long talk with a third about the reason why she did not come to school earlier. At last Lucy, seeing the kitten come into the room, and thinking that she should like to go and play with her, told the children that she thought it was time for school to be done.