From Mrs. Barbauld’s “Lessons for Children.”
SIMPLE STORIES.
Good morning, little boy; how do you do? Bring your little stool and sit down by me, for I have a great deal to tell you.
I hope you have been a good boy, and read all the pretty words I wrote for you before. You have, you say; you have read them till you are tired, and you want some more new lessons. Come, then, sit down. Now you and I will tell stories.
JANUARY.
It is very cold. It snows. It freezes. There are no leaves upon the trees. The oil is frozen, and the milk is frozen, and the river is frozen, and everything in the fields is frozen.