"
Mrs. Manvers took the trouble to walk around to the school and compare
her watch with the clock; they agreed exactly, and thus she found her
daughter had wasted half an hour that morning.
"Do you know your lessons, Emily?" she asked, after her return, as the
little girl had been sitting for more than an hour with her books upon
her lap.
"Not quite, mother."
"Have you been studying all the time, my dear?"
"Pretty near; there was a man beating his horse dreadfully, and I just
looked out of the window a minute."
Mrs. Manvers smiled, and yet sighed, for she knew that Emily had spent
half an hour humming a tune and gazing idly from the window upon the
passers by.
TO BE CONTINUED.
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A CHILD'S READING.
In this day of books, when so many pens are at work writing for
children, and when so many combine instruction with entertainment, every
family should be, to some extent, a reading family. Books have become
indispensable; they are a kind of daily food; and we take for granted
that no parent who reads this Magazine neglects to provide aliment of
this nature for his family. How many leisure hours may thus be turned to
profitable account! How many useful ideas and salutary impressions may
thus be gained which will never be lost! If any family does not know the
pleasure and the benefit of such employment of a leisure hour, we advise
them to make the experiment forthwith.
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