Always have a book within your reach, which you may catch up at your odd minutes. Revolve in your mind what you have last been reading.
LITTLE LEAVES FOR LITTLE READERS.
Mamma’s Lessons.
I once knew two little children, who had a great deal of knowledge, for their age, and yet they were not taught altogether by books. They had a good mother, who took great pains with their education, and she managed in such a way as to make her lessons very pleasing.
I will tell you one method of teaching which she adopted—and it was this. She would get her two children around her, and then would ask them what creatures lived in the air? what lived in the water? what lived on the earth, &c. The children would give such answers as they pleased; if they were right, they were told so; if wrong, they were corrected.
That you may understand how this affair went on, I will give you a dialogue, which will set the matter clearly before you. You will remember that the children were named Dick and Lydia.
Mother. Now tell me, my children, what animals live in the air?