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THE
PARENT’S ASSISTANT
OR
STORIES FOR CHILDREN

BY
MARIA EDGEWORTH

“’Tis Education forms the common mind,—
Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.”

Pope.

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY F. A. FRASER

LONDON
GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS, Limited
Broadway, Ludgate Hill
MANCHESTER, GLASGOW, AND NEW YORK
1891

PREFACE,
ADDRESSED TO PARENTS.

Our great lexicographer, in his celebrated eulogium on Dr. Watts, thus speaks in commendation of those productions which he so successfully penned for the pleasure and instruction of the juvenile portion of the community.