Dear Friends:
This little book was written especially for the dear boys and girls of the moonlight schools, not the youngest perhaps, but the finest school children on earth.
You have set a fine example for both young and old, and one which many will surely follow.
You have been faithful and have finished the first of the series of the Country Life Readers. The second is now ready for you, and the author hopes that you will read it with profit and pleasure.
The world has great need of men and women who read well and write well. These are two of the greatest arts, and remember that they can be acquired only by constant practice.
The preparation of this book has been truly a labor of love. If you have received any benefit from it, the author is fully repaid.
Yours sincerely,
Cora Wilson Stewart.
This reader, known as the Country Life Reader, First Book, was followed by others in the series, but none could do for the illiterates what this first book did for them, and none to them would ever be so precious.
The reader ended, as did the later ones, with appropriate Bible selections. The climax of each book was a Thanksgiving hymn.