{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_77010/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_77010","id":"gutenberg_77010","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77010","summary":null,"tags":["Category: Children & Young Adult Reading","Category: Religion/Spirituality","Category: Short Stories","Elementary schools -- Juvenile fiction","Sunday school literature"],"text":"A SECOND DAY\n\n                                   IN\n\n                         MARY CARROW\u2019S SCHOOL.\n\n------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n[Illustration:\n\n  ~Second Day.~\n  Carry Deacon and her little Sister, looking at the ducks.\n]\n\n------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\n\n\n                              A SECOND DAY\n\n                                   IN\n\n                         MARY CARROW\u2019S SCHOOL.\n\n\n                     American Sunday-School Union:\n\n                    _PHILADELPHIA_: 316 CHESTNUT ST.\n                       _NEW YORK_: 147 NASSAU ST.\n                         _BOSTON_: 9 CORNHILL.\n                      _LOUISVILLE_: 103 FOURTH ST.\n\n                    --------------------------------\n\n      Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1849, by the\n                      AMERICAN SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION,\n in the Clerk\u2019s Office of the District Court for the Eastern District of\n                              Pennsylvania.\n\n                    --------------------------------\n\n\u261e No books are published by the AMERICAN SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION without the\nsanction of the Committee of Publication, consisting of fourteen\nmembers, from the following denominations of Christians, viz. Baptist,\nMethodist, Congregationalist, Episcopal, Presbyterian and Reformed\nDutch. Not more than three of the members can be of the same\ndenomination, and no book can be published to which any member of the\nCommittee shall object.\n\n------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\n\n\n                                   A\n                               SECOND DAY\n                                   IN\n                         MARY CARROW\u2019S SCHOOL.\n\n                    --------------------------------\n\n\nA cool, rainy morning. The boys and girls all came to school with thick\nshoes on, and coats and shawls to protect them from the wet. When Mary\ncame, she told her scholars she was glad to find the rain had not kept\nthem at home. Mary smiled, and looked around to see if they had all\ncome, and she counted. Charles Linn and Harry Linn, and their sister\nLucy. Lily Forester, and her brother Eddy. Susan Field, and Ellen Raby.\n\nAll here, but Carry Deacon. Mary said, \u201cWho can tell why Carry has not\ncome to school? I do not like to miss one of my little scholars. I like\nto have them all with me.\u201d\n\nNo one could tell why Carry had not come. Mary then helped the smaller\nscholars to take off their coats and shawls; and she showed them how to\nhang up their wet things to dry on the pegs in the entry; and she bade\nthem put their umbrellas into a pail, which stood by the door on purpose\nto receive them. Mary asked if they had all brought their dinners? And\none said, \u201cI have brought mine.\u201d And another said, \u201cWe have brought\nours.\u201d And Mary said, \u201cWe have brought ours.\u201d It was not far for Mary\nand the Linns to go home to dinner; but she liked to indulge her\nscholars when she could, and she knew she could not please them better\nthan to stay and dine with them on rainy days.\n\nThe boys and girls put their dinner-baskets into a little closet outside\nthe school-room door; and then Mary rang her bell\u2014the signal that it was\ntime to collect. While they were putting their dinner-baskets away,\nHarry Linn said to Lily Forester,\n\n\u201cLily, are you glad it\u2019s a rainy day? I am.\u201d\n\nLily said, \u201cI am glad, too.\u201d\n\n\u201cHarry, what have you got for dinner?\u201d\n\n\u201cI don\u2019t know,\u201d Harry said. \u201cMary put up our dinner while I was looking\nat father when he was getting into the wagon.\u201d\n\n\u201cI\u2019ll tell you what I\u2019ve got, Harry,\u201d said Lily; \u201ca little pie with my\nname on it! Do you remember about Anne Lyle, and the little pie with her\nname on it? I told mother about it, when I went home, and she said if I\nwas a good girl, she would make me a little pie, and put my name on it.\nLook here, Harry. I will show you.\u201d And Lily lifted up the cloth that\nwas over their dinner, and there was a little patty-pan pie, with L. F.\nplainly stamped on it.\n\nHarry said, \u201cHow nice that is! Will you give me some of it, Lily?\u201d\n\nAnd Lily told Harry she would cut it in halves at dinner-time, and give\nhim the largest half.\n\nMary rang her little bell again, and Harry and Lily went into school.\n\nWhile the scholars were taking their seats, Carry Deacon arrived. She\nwas very wet, and her face was red; and she looked fretted and tired.\nMary said,\n\n\u201cI am glad to see you, Carry; but what is the matter? How did you get so\nwet?\u201d\n\nCarry told Mary her umbrella was broken, and it did not keep the rain\noff.\n\n\u201cYou are so wet, Carry,\u201d said Mary, \u201cthat I fear you will be sick; and\nyou are too far off from home to be sent back in the rain.\u201d\n\nMary thought a minute what she should do, and then she told Charles\nLinn, (who was the largest boy in the school,) to run home to his\nmother, and ask her to please to lend a pair of Lucy\u2019s shoes and\nstockings, for a little girl to wear, who had come to school very wet.\nCharles Linn was an obliging, lively boy, and he ran off at once. While\nhe was gone, Mary took off Carry\u2019s wet shawl, and sent her into the\nlittle room adjoining the school-room, to wash her face and her feet.\nThere was a pitcher of water out in the little room, and soap, and a\nbasin, and a cup, and a towel. Before Carry had done washing her feet,\nCharles Linn came back with the dry shoes and stockings. Then Mary went\nout to Carry, and she helped her to put them on. And she took a little\npocket comb out of her pocket, and combed Carry\u2019s hair smoothly, and\nthen brought her into school. Mary was sure Carry had done something\nwrong, but she did not ask her about it, because Carry always told the\ntruth. Mary thought she would be very kind to Carry, and then Carry\nwould perhaps come and tell her about the mishaps of her walk to school,\nwithout being asked. Carry was a very giddy, careless little girl, and\nshe sometimes forgot to do as she was told, when she did not really mean\nto be naughty.\n\nThis was Grammar morning; and while Mary attended to the grammar-class,\nHarry, and Lily, and Ellen Raby, looked over their spelling-lesson.\n\nCharles Linn was at the head of the grammar-class. Mary asked Charles if\nhe could tell her what a NOUN was? Charles said, a noun was the\ngrammatical name of any thing that we could see, or feel, or taste, or\nsmell. Mary asked the scholar who stood next in the class, to point to\nsomething in the room which was a noun. She pointed to a book, and Mary\nsaid, \u201cThat is right.\u201d Then Mary asked the next one, why book was a\nnoun, and her little scholar could not tell. The one who stood below her\nanswered. She said, book was a noun because we could see it; and she\nwent above the girl who had missed. Mary said to one, \u201cThink of a noun\nwhich you can taste, and tell me what it is.\u201d And he answered, \u201cApple.\u201d\n\nCarry Deacon was the one who had missed, and Mary asked Carry to think\nof something which she liked to look at and play with. Carry said,\n\u201cKittens.\u201d\n\n\u201cNow tell me, Carry, what a noun is?\u201d\n\nCarry answered, \u201cA noun is the name of any thing that we can see.\u201d\n\n\u201cThen what is a kitten?\u201d\n\n\u201cO, now I know,\u201d Carry said. \u201cKitten is a noun, because I can see it.\u201d\n\nMary questioned her scholars until she thought they understood all about\na noun; and then she told them, the next grammar-lesson would be the\nAdjective.\n\n\u201cNow you may take your seats,\u201d Mary said, \u201cand look over your\nreading-lesson, while I hear the little ones spell.\u201d\n\nHarry Linn, and Lily Forester, and Ellen Raby, said a spelling-lesson;\nand there were some words in their lesson which Mary explained to them,\nbecause they did not understand what these words meant. Ellen Raby\nspelled Wild Deer, and she asked Harry Linn if he knew what a wild deer\nwas? Harry said, \u201cI guess it is a goat. Let us ask Mary.\u201d\n\nMary told them it was not a goat, and she would see if she could find a\npicture of a wild deer to show them. She had a large book, full of\npictures; and there were horses, and cows and goats, and many different\nkinds of animals in it.\n\nMary soon found a picture of a wild deer, and all the scholars wished to\ncome and look at it. She told them they might come. And they asked her\nto please to tell them something about a wild deer. Mary told them, that\nthe part of America where they lived, and where the school-house stood,\nwas once a great forest of trees, where only Indians lived, and wild\ndeers and other animals. She told them that the Indians used to hunt the\nwild deer, and shoot them, that they might have them to eat. Their flesh\nwas very tender and good, and was called venison.\n\n[Illustration: a wild deer]\n\n\u201cWhy are there not any wild deer here now, Mary?\u201d asked Ellen.\n\n\u201cBecause there is no place for them to live in. The forests, where they\nlike to live, are all cut down; and now, instead of forests, we have\nfine farms, and houses on them to live in.\u201d\n\n\u201cWho cut down the forests, Mary?\u201d said Ellen.\n\n\u201cOur forefathers, who came here a great while ago.\u201d\n\n\u201cBut why did not our forefathers let the pretty little wild deers stay\nhere, Mary?\u201d\n\n\u201cThey would not stay,\u201d Mary said. \u201cThey are afraid of people, of men and\nwomen, and of little boys and girls, and they ran away from them.\u201d\n\n\u201cWhere did they go, Mary?\u201d\n\n\u201cAway into the forests, which are many hundreds of miles from here. When\nour forefathers came here, they wanted houses to live in, and something\nto eat; and they built themselves houses, and cut down the trees before\nthey could plant corn, and wheat, and rye, and potatoes. They had to cut\ndown the trees before they could make farms.\u201d\n\nCarry looked as if she did not quite understand Mary, and Mary said,\n\u201cYou know, Carry, your mother told you, you might have a little garden\nof your own, and she gave you a little piece of ground to make your\ngarden of, which was full of cedar bushes; and do you not remember, you\nasked your father if he would cut down the cedar bushes, so that you\ncould have a nice smooth place for your flower seeds?\u201d\n\nCarry said, \u201cYes, I remember it, and father cut down all the cedar\nbushes for me, and then he dug up the ugly roots, and he took out a\nspade one morning and dug up the ground and made it soft. And then\nmother gave me some flowers out of her garden, and she showed me how to\nplant them in my garden; and she gave me some seeds, and she showed me\nhow to make little holes in the ground to hold the seeds. I put the\nseeds in the little holes and covered them up with the soft earth, and\nmother says they will grow into beautiful flowers by and by.\u201d\n\n\u201cDo you understand now, Carry,\u201d said Mary, \u201cwhy our forefathers cut down\nthe forest trees?\n\n\u201cThe land was covered all over with trees, just as your little garden\nwas covered over with cedar bushes; and you know you could not have a\ngarden of flowers, until the cedar bushes were cut away.\u201d\n\nCarry said, \u201cYes, I understand now. The people who came here wanted to\nplant wheat, and rye, and corn, and they could not plant seeds till the\ngreat trees were cut down.\u201d\n\nCharles Linn said he would like to have another look at the wild deer\npicture; and Mary allowed him and all the scholars to examine it.\n\nEddy Forester said, \u201cThe deer\u2019s horns were like some his father had at\nhome, to hang up his Sunday hat on; and his father called them antlers.\u201d\n\n\u201cDid your father ever tell you where they came from, Eddy?\u201d asked Mary.\n\n\u201cYes,\u201d said Eddy. \u201cHe told us one night\u2014Lily and me\u2014that they were the\nhorns of a deer, which our great-grandfather shot a long time ago, on\nthe spot where our house now stands.\u201d\n\n\u201cOh, yes,\u201d Lily said, \u201cI remember, it was before we went to bed. I was\nsitting on father\u2019s lap, and Eddy was sitting on my little stool, and\nmother was making me a new frock, when father told us about the\nIndians.\u201d\n\n\u201cYes,\u201d Eddy said, \u201che told us that when our great-grandfather came to\nthis country from England, there was only a great forest of trees here,\nand no houses to be seen. He lived in a log-hut, which he, and the men\nwho came with him, built for themselves: and they had not any thing to\neat but the deer and wild turkeys which they shot. Father told us all\nthat, and he said the antlers had been kept ever since our\ngreat-grandfather shot the wild deer in the forest.\u201d\n\n                  *       *       *       *       *\n\nMary said, \u201cNow I will put away the large picture book, and you may all\ntake your seats, while I prepare the black board.\u201d Mary told all her\nscholars to stand up, and they answered in concert the questions she\nasked.\n\nShe drew a mark on the black board thus, \u2014\u2014 and told them to say what\nshe had drawn; and they answered in concert, \u201ca straight line.\u201d Then she\ndrew other figures, thus:\n\n[Illustration: Parallel lines. An angle. A triangle. A quadrangle. A\ncircle. A semicircle. A hemisphere. An inclined plane.]\n\nAfter Mary had exercised her boys and girls in this way, until she\nthought they knew all the figures she had drawn, she told them to say\nthe multiplication table in concert. Ellen Raby called this class the\nconcert class, and they liked to be in a class altogether.\n\nLily said she would like black board exercises every day; but Mary was\nwiser than her little scholar, and she knew that Lily would get very\ntired of doing the same thing every day. Mary liked her scholars to be\n\u201calways busy, never weary,\u201d and she gave them different lessons for each\nday.\n\nNow it was recess time. And what do my little readers think Mary\u2019s\nscholars did during recess time, when it rained so fast that they could\nnot go out of doors to play? They played in the school-room. They played\nBlindman Buff and \u201cPoor Pussey wants a corner,\u201d and \u201cHunt the Slipper.\u201d\nMary lent them her shoe to play with, and when they were tired of\nplaying Hunt the Slipper, and Puss in the Corner, they gave Mary her\nshoe again, and asked her if they might play Blindman Buff. She said\nthey might, but not in the school-room. She told them to go into the\nlittle room adjoining the school-room, where Blindman Buff, whoever he\nmight happen to be, could not do any mischief. There was no ink nor\ndesks in the little room, and he could walk or run about there without\ndanger of hurting himself. They begged Mary to go with them, and she\nsaid she would. They all ran off, singing,\n\n                          Here we go\n                            All together,\n                          We have fun\n                            In rainy weather.\n\n                          One, two, three,\n                            Four, and away,\n                          We are glad\n                            Of a rainy day!\n\nMary took her handkerchief and asked, who would be Blindman Buff first.\nThey all wanted to be blindfolded first; and Mary said, \u201cWhat shall I do\nto please all my little scholars? You cannot all be Blindman Buff at\nonce; so I will take the oldest first.\u201d Charles Linn was the oldest\nscholar; and after Mary had bound her handkerchief over his eyes, he\ncould not see any thing at all. He put out his hands, and felt about the\nroom, and at last he caught little Ellen Raby. Ellen was so much\ndelighted, and laughed so merrily to see how queer Charles looked, that\nhe knew by the sound of her voice where to find her. Carry Deacon came\nup to Mary and looked as if she wanted to say something to her, and as\nif she did not like to say it. Then Mary took Carry by the hand, and she\nsaid,\n\n\u201cDo you want to talk to me, Carry?\u201d\n\nCarry said, \u201cYes, but not before anybody. Let us go back into the\nschool-room.\u201d Mary went with Carry into the school-room while the\nscholars were at play, and she said, \u201cNow, Carry dear, come and tell me\nall about your getting to school so late this morning.\u201d\n\n    _Carry._  \u201cI stopped to see Mike Terry\u2019s kittens.\u201d\n\n    _Mary._   \u201cHow did you know about the kittens?\u201d\n\n[Illustration:\n\n  ~Second Day.~\n  \u201cI stopped to see Mike Terry\u2019s Kittens.\u201d p. 28.\n]\n\n    _Carry._  \u201cWhen I was going past neighbour Terry\u2019s, Mike came out,\n  and he had a porringer of milk, and he was carrying it with both his\n  hands for fear it would spill.\u201d\n\n    _Mary._   \u201cWell, Carry, did you stop and ask Mike what he had in\n  the porringer?\u201d\n\n    _Carry._  \u201cYes! Mike said it was milk for the cat. He said, the\n  old cat had some kittens in the night, and he was going to feed\n  her.\u201d\n\n    _Mary._   \u201cWhat else did Mike say?\u201d\n\n    _Carry._  \u201cHe said the kittens were down in the barn, and the old\n  cat took hold of the kittens by their necks, with her mouth. Mike\n  asked me to come and see them.\u201d\n\n    _Mary._   \u201cDid you tell Mike you were on your way to school, and\n  had not leave to stop?\u201d\n\n    _Carry._  \u201cI only told him I was going to school, I did not tell\n  him about leave to stop.\u201d\n\n    _Mary._   \u201cWhat did Mike say to that?\u201d\n\n    _Carry._  \u201cHe said he did not like to go to school. The master was\n  cross. He would rather stay at home and play; and then I went with\n  him to see the kittens. One was black, and one had white spots on\n  its tail, and one was yellow, just like the old cat, only it was a\n  kitten. The kittens were little bits of things. They stayed close\n  together. They climbed over one another\u2019s backs and heads. Mike said\n  that did not hurt them at all. It was the way they kept one another\n  warm.\u201d\n\n    _Mary._   \u201cHow long did you stay, Carry?\u201d\n\n    _Carry._  \u201cI don\u2019t know, but not a great while. The kittens were\n  so pretty, I liked to look at them. I and Mike waited to see if the\n  big cat would take them up by the neck, with her mouth. Mike said it\n  looked as if she would eat them up.\u201d\n\n    _Mary._   \u201cHow did you feel, while you were there?\u201d\n\n    _Carry._  \u201cI felt most about the kittens, they were such little\n  dear tiny things. I wanted to take them up, and kiss them, but Mike\n  said if I did, the old cat would scratch me.\u201d\n\n    _Mary._   \u201cDid you think about school?\u201d\n\n    _Carry._  \u201cYes. When I had done looking at the kittens, I did. I\n  told Mike, now, I must go, I am afraid it is late. Mike said, if he\n  was me, he would not go to school at all. It was pleasant to stay at\n  home and play. I told Mike we had a pleasant time at our school,\n  rainy days as well as sunny days, and I liked to go all days. Then\n  Mike showed me a new way to school. He said it was nearer than to go\n  by the road. I got lost, and did not know where I was. I cried, and\n  wished I had not gone with Mike.\u201d\n\n    _Mary._   \u201cI thought you told me your umbrella was broken: how was\n  it done, Carry?\u201d\n\n    _Carry._  \u201cI forgot to put it away the last time it rained, and it\n  was in the kitchen, and somebody broke it.\u201d\n\n    _Mary._   \u201cHow did you get to school at last?\u201d\n\n    _Carry._  \u201cI walked and walked, and I ran some of the way, and I\n  called \u2018Mother,\u2019 and \u2018Mary.\u2019 I was afraid. When I walked a little\n  farther, I got to the play-woods, and then I saw the tool-house\n  where we keep our playthings. And then I was glad, and I knew I was\n  almost here.\u201d\n\n    _Mary._   \u201cDoes my little Carry think she has suffered enough to\n  make her remember that she should not stop by the way coming to\n  school? You know, Carry, the rule is, that the scholars must not\n  stop on their way to school, nor when they are returning, without\n  leave from their parents, or from me.\u201d\n\n    _Carry._  \u201cI forgot that.\u201d\n\nCarry was a very affectionate little girl, and she put her arms round\nMary\u2019s neck, and said, \u201cWill you kiss me now, Mary, and forgive me?\u201d\n\nMary kissed Carry, and said, \u201cI will forgive you, dear, but do you not\nknow that when we do wrong, even in a very little thing, we must ask our\nHeavenly Father to forgive us? Whenever you do wrong, a stain is left\nupon your soul\u2014upon that part of you which lives for ever and ever.\nGod\u2019s good spirit within you makes you sensible of this stain; makes you\nfeel that all is not right with you; and then you are unhappy,\nuncomfortable; and you cannot feel happy again until the stain is taken\naway. I do not see it. I cannot take it away: but God sees it, and can\ntake it away. And if you are really sorry and ask Him, He will take it\naway, and make you happy again. I will give you a little prayer to\nlearn; and before you lie down in your bed to-night, think over what you\nhave been doing to-day. You must try to ask your Heavenly Father\u2019s\nforgiveness before you go to sleep, and then you can repeat these\nverses.\u201d\n\n\u201cWill you say the little prayer to me, Mary?\u201d\n\n\u201cYes.\u201d\n\n                   Heavenly Father! I am little,\n                     And I often go astray;\n                   Wilt Thou love me, and forgive me,\n                     When I do not keep thy way?\n\n                   I have read about Thy mercy,\n                     In the Holy Bible shown;\n                   Wilt Thou bring me to my Saviour,\n                     For I cannot come alone?\n\n                   He once took up little children,\n                     And they leaned upon His arm,\n                   And I want Him to take me up,\n                     So that I\u2019ll be safe from harm.\n\nThen Mary lent Carry the little book which had the prayer in it, and she\ntold her she might take it home with her.\n\n\u201cThere is one thing more, I wish to say to you, Carry. I wish you to try\nto think about what you are told to do. What shall I do to make my\nlittle Carry remember?\u201d\n\n    _Carry._  \u201cDon\u2019t call me careless Carry, will you?\u201d\n\n    _Mary._   \u201cDoes any one call you so?\u201d\n\n    _Carry._  \u201cYes! And I do not like to be called careless Carry.\u201d\n\n    _Mary._   \u201cSuppose you try not to deserve the name.\u201d\n\n    _Carry._  \u201cHow shall I try, Mary?\u201d\n\n    _Mary._   \u201cI will help you.\u201d\n\n    _Carry._  \u201cShall we begin now?\u201d\n\n    _Mary._   \u201cYes. All the scholars, except you, put away their books\n  and slates, before they went out to play, and yours are all out of\n  place. Go, now, and put them neatly into your desk.\u201d\n\nCarry ran away to do as Mary told her. And then Mary rang the bell for\nschool.\n\nNow it was reading time. Harry Linn, and Lily Forester, and Ellen Raby,\nwere in a class by themselves. They were just learning to read. Ellen\nRaby was older than Harry and Lily, but she did not know enough to be in\nthe first class.\n\nAfter all the scholars had done reading, they took their slates to do\nsums, and make figures. Mary showed those who could cipher, how to do\ntheir sums, and she set lines of figures for the little ones. Mary made\npens, and set copies in the copy books for afternoon.\n\nOne of the copies was,\n\n[Illustration: Handwritten: Mary loves her scholars.]\n\nAnother copy was,\n\n[Illustration: Handwritten: They are good children.]\n\nAnother copy was,\n\n[Illustration: Handwritten: They are sorry when they do wrong.]\n\nWhen morning school was done, Mary had all the books and the slates\nneatly put into their places. Carry Deacon came running up to Mary to\ntell her that she had put every thing into her desk that belonged there,\nand that the lid would shut down closely. Mary went to Carry\u2019s desk to\nlook into it, and she found that the things were not all tumbled in,\nhelter-skelter, but that each book was in its right place; and she said\nCarry was a good little girl, because she was trying to improve.\n\nCarry looked very much pleased, when Mary praised her. And she said, \u201cI\ndo love you, Mary, you are so kind to me. You never call me careless\nCarry.\u201d\n\nThe boys and girls amused themselves as they liked until dinner-time.\n\nMy little readers will remember, that they had all brought their dinner\nto school, because it was a rainy day. They will remember too, that Mary\nlived with Harry Linn\u2019s father and mother. Her basket was quite a large\none, with dinner enough in it for four: Charles and Lucy and Harry Linn\nand Mary.\n\nWhen it was dinner-time, Mary had the napkins taken out of each basket,\nand she spread them all upon a little table which stood in the corner of\nthe school-room, and these served for a table-cloth. Then she took out\nof every basket all that was in it. There was bread and butter and cold\nmeat and biscuit and apple pies. Mary had brought a large pie, and some\nof the scholars had brought small pies. Mary placed the large pie in the\ncentre of the table, and the little pies around it. Lily Forester\u2019s\npatty-pan pie, with her name on it, was the least of all. Lily capered\naround the table, and was wild with delight. Ellen Raby said the large\npie was the mother-pie and the little pies were the children.\n\nCharles Linn took the pitcher and brought some fresh water from the\nspring, and Mary put the little mug which was in the wash-room, on the\ntable, for a drinking cup. When the table was arranged, Mary allowed\nEllen Raby to ring the bell. She rang the bell very loud, and she ran\nabout, saying to every one, \u201cPlease to come to dinner.\u201d\n\nBefore they began to eat, they sat in silence[A] for a little while; and\nthen Mary asked her scholars, if they knew why we sit in silence before\nwe partake of our meals? Charles Linn said, \u201cWe do it that we may think\nof our Heavenly Father, before we eat our food, because He gives it to\nus.\u201d \u201cYes,\u201d said Mary, \u201cHe gives us every good thing that we have, and\nwe should try, when we receive his gifts, to ask Him to give us grateful\nhearts for them. We cannot give ourselves kind parents and pleasant\nhomes and health, nor abilities to provide food and raiment. God must\ngive them to us or we must go without them.\n\n\u201cShall I repeat to my little scholars some verses which my mother taught\nme to say when I was about as old as Lily Forester?\u201d\n\nThey all said, \u201cYes, oh do, before we eat our dinner.\u201d And Mary\nrepeated:\n\n                 When my little daughter comes\n                   To the board with plenty spread,\n                 She should try to think of Him,\n                   By whose bounty she is fed.\n\n                 From our Heavenly Father\u2019s hand\n                   Come our blessings, health and food,\n                 Parents, homes, and all we have,\n                   All we know and think of good.\n\n                 Then, my darling, try to say\n                   To thyself a little prayer;\n                 Ask God for a grateful heart\n                   At thy meals, and everywhere.\n\nMary talked with her scholars while they ate their dinner; and after\ndinner was over, each scholar put the plates and other things that\nbelonged to her into her own basket. There was not much left, for they\nwere all very hungry. Then they went into the wash-room, one at a time,\nand washed their hands and faces. Mary required her scholars to eat\nslowly and chew their food well; and eating their dinner and washing and\nputting their baskets away, had occupied so much time, that now it was\nalmost two o\u2019clock, and school in the afternoon commenced at two\no\u2019clock. Mary had no recess during the afternoon on rainy days, and she\nclosed her school at four o\u2019clock. She said it was not healthful to\nremain longer than that time in a close room. It had rained so fast all\nday that the scholars could not go out to take the air.\n\n                  *       *       *       *       *\n\nWhen Mary said it was school-time, Charles Linn called out, \u201cNow for\nschool.\u201d \u201cNow for school.\u201d \u201cMay I ring the bell?\u201d Mary told him he\nmight. And he rang the bell.\n\nCarry Deacon did not come when the bell was rung, nor Ellen Raby, nor\nHarry Linn, nor Lily Forester. Mary asked Charles to go and look for\nthem, and he found them in the wash-room. They had taken all the\ndinner-baskets out of the closet, and they were playing \u201cGo to market\nand sell apples.\u201d Carry Deacon had a basket on her head, and Ellen Raby\nhad one on her arm, and Harry Linn had tied a string to their large\nbasket, and he and Lily Forester were pulling it along. They pretended\nthe basket was a cart, and that it had apples in it, and that Harry was\nSam the driver, and Lily was Sam\u2019s wife, and she was going to market\nwith him to measure out the apples in a half-peck measure.\n\nThey were all in high glee, and Carry Deacon said, \u201cIsn\u2019t it nice on\nrainy days?\u201d\n\nCharles Linn told them it was school-time. They asked Charles to help\nthem put the baskets away. Charles was a kind little boy, and he helped\nthem, and he untied the string which Harry had put to the large basket,\nand then they all came into school.\n\nWhen the scholars were in their seats, Mary said, \u201cWhich of my little\nboys and girls have their Definitions ready?\u201d\n\nThe little ones did not learn definitions, but the larger ones did, and\nthey had been studying their lessons between schools. After Mary had\nheard the definition-class, she called the little ones, and asked them\nif they remembered what lesson they said on the second day of the week.\nCarry Deacon said, \u201cOh, yes, this is question-afternoon.\u201d Mary said,\n\u201cThat is true, Carry, and I am glad to find you remember it.\u201d\n\nThese are some of the questions which Mary asked her little scholars.\n\n                      How many hands have you?\n                      How many feet have you?\n                      How many fingers?\n                      How many thumbs?\n                      How many toes on each foot?\n                      How many on both feet?\n                      Which is your right hand?\n                      Which is your left hand?\n                      How many senses have you?\n                      What are your senses called?\n                      What do you taste with?\n                      What do you smell with?\n                      What do you hear with?\n                      What do you handle with?\n                      What do you see with?\n\nNow, my little readers, suppose you try to answer these questions. Your\nkind mothers, or your older brother or sister, will tell you if you\nanswer them correctly. Mary\u2019s little scholars missed some, but they\nanswered most of them correctly.\n\nWhen they had done answering questions, Mary told them they might go to\ntheir seats and write on their slates. Their copies were already set.\n\nInstead of having a recess, Mary read to her scholars a pretty story. It\nwas a true story about a good muffin-man.\n\n[Illustration:\n\n  ~Second Day.~\n  The good muffin-man. p. 49.\n]\n\n\n                     STORY OF THE GOOD MUFFIN-MAN.\n\nThere was once a muffin-man who carried muffins about the streets of a\nlarge city to sell. He carried them in two square baskets, on his\nshoulders. In the street where he served the people with muffins, a poor\nsailor\u2019s wife lived. She was sick, and she could not work, and she had\nnot any body to give her money, for her husband was a sailor, and he was\nout at sea in a great ship. She had a young child, and she was so poor\nthat she had not even enough money to buy bread. The good muffin-man\nstopped every day and gave her some muffins out of one of his baskets to\neat. Whenever the muffin-man stopped, the little child would run away\nfrom her mother to come to him, because she was so glad to see him.\n\nMary\u2019s scholars thought the muffin-man was very good and kind. There was\na picture over the story, and Mary showed them the picture. After they\nhad talked about the poor sailor\u2019s wife, and the little child, and the\nmuffin-man, Carry Deacon asked, \u201cWhy the people did not make muffins at\nhome?\u201d Mary told her, \u201cThat in large cities, such as Boston, New York\nand Philadelphia, the people who lived there bought many things, which\nthe country people made at home. They bought their milk and their butter\nand their meat and their eggs, because the houses were built up closely\ntogether, and there was not room enough, in towns, to keep cows and pigs\nand chickens. Mary asked Carry if she had never seen people carrying\nmilk and bread and fruit about, when she was in Philadelphia.\u201d Carry\nsaid, \u201cYes, she had seen a man carrying a bucket with bright hoops\naround it; and her aunt, at whose house she stayed, told her the bucket\nhad milk in it.\u201d And Carry said, \u201cShe saw a woman carrying oranges in a\nbasket, and the woman knocked at people\u2019s doors, and asked them to buy\nher oranges.\u201d\n\n[Illustration:\n\n  ~Second Day.~\n  The fruit woman on her way to town p. 51.\n]\n\nMary went around among her scholars, while they were writing, to see\nthat they held their pens and pencils properly. She rubbed out some of\nLily Forester\u2019s straight marks and round o\u2019s, because her strokes were\ncrooked and her o\u2019s were not well formed, and Lily said she would try\nagain.\n\nWhile the scholars were writing, Mary looked over the Bible to select a\nchapter to read at the close of the school.\n\nCarry Deacon came up to Mary and whispered to her, to please to read\nabout the beautiful garden where Adam and Eve lived a great while ago\nand talked with our Heavenly Father.\n\nWhen school was done, Mary called her little boys and girls to come and\nsit around her while she read to them the Bible. She read to them about\nGod creating the world; and how he made the heavens, and the bright\nstars, and the earth and all the people that live on it, and the\nflowers, and the birds and beasts, and every thing that has life. And\nthen she read to them about Adam, the first man, and Eve, the first\nwoman, and about the beautiful garden, called the garden of Eden, where\nthey lived, and where they were very happy, until they were disobedient;\nand because they were disobedient they had to go out of the beautiful\ngarden of Eden.\n\n\u201cIs God, who made every thing, our Heavenly Father, Mary?\u201d said Harry\nLinn.\n\n\u201cYes, Harry.\u201d\n\n\u201cDid God send Adam and Eve out of the beautiful garden because they were\ndisobedient?\u201d asked Carry Deacon.\n\n\u201cYes,\u201d said Mary.\n\n\u201cBut, Mary, I thought you said our Heavenly Father loved us, and was\nkind to us. I do not think it was kind to send poor Adam and Eve away.\nWhy did not God forgive them for being disobedient, as you did me this\nmorning?\u201d\n\n\u201cThey did not ask God to forgive them,\u201d Mary said; \u201cAnd you know, Carry,\nthat when we have done wrong, we cannot be forgiven, until we are sorry\nthat we have done wrong, and sincerely ask our Heavenly Father to\nforgive us.\u201d\n\n\u201cDid Adam and Eve _know_ they were to be sent away, if they were\nnaughty?\u201d asked Carry.\n\nEddy Forester said, \u201cDo you not remember, Carry, Mary read to us, that\nGod showed Adam and Eve one tree in the garden, and told them not to\ntouch it? and he told them if they ate the fruit on that tree, they\nshould surely die.\u201d\n\n\u201cOh, yes,\u201d Carry said, \u201cI remember now,\u201d and the scholars all said they\nremembered that.\n\n\u201cWell,\u201d Mary said, \u201cyou know GOD IS TRUE. He always keeps his word. We\nmust believe every word of God; but if God should not do what he said He\nwould do, we could not believe Him. He said he would punish Adam and\nEve, if they ate the fruit which he told them not to touch, and if he\nhad not punished them, how could we believe every word God had spoken?\u201d\n\nCarry said, \u201cDoes God love us any more, when He punishes us, Mary?\u201d\n\n\u201cYes,\u201d Mary said, \u201cHe punishes us sometimes when we do wrong, because He\nloves us and wants to make us love and obey Him. You know, Carry, your\nmother sends you away from her, when you are naughty, to punish you; and\nshe does it because she wants to make you a good, obedient little girl;\nand do you not think your mother loves you?\u201d\n\n\u201cOh, yes,\u201d Carry said; \u201cmy mother says she loves me, and I know she\ndoes.\u201d\n\nLittle Ellen Raby was leaning against Mary; she was very tired. Harry\nand Lily had slipped off from the bench where they were sitting, and\nthey were lying on the floor, looking up into Mary\u2019s face while she was\ntalking.\n\nThen Mary said, \u201cMy little scholars are weary, they have been at school\nlong enough.\u201d\n\nThe bigger boys and girls begged Mary to talk to them some more about\nAdam and Eve. They said they were not weary. Charles Linn said he would\nhold Ellen Raby on his lap, while Harry and Lily rested on the floor.\nBut Mary looked at her watch, and she said, \u201cWe will not talk any more\nnow. It is after four o\u2019clock. It is time for us all to go home. It does\nnot rain much now, and we can go home without getting very wet.\u201d\n\nThen Mary put away the Bible, and she went and brought Carry Deacon\u2019s\nshoes and stockings to her.\n\n\u201cNow Carry, dear,\u201d Mary said, \u201cgo and take off the borrowed shoes and\nstockings, and put on your own. Yours are quite dry.\u201d\n\nCarry did as she was bidden, and then Mary took the shoes and stockings\nwhich Carry left off, and put them into her basket; for my little\nreaders will remember they belonged to Lucy Linn, and we must never\nforget to return carefully and in good season any thing that we borrow.\nMary took care that each scholar had the right umbrella and the right\ndinner-basket, and then she kissed them all, and they went home.\n\nCharles Linn said he did not care for a little rain, and he took the\nlarge basket and ran home. He left the umbrella for Mary and his little\nbrother Harry, and his sister Lucy, and Mary and Lucy and Harry walked\nhome together.\n\n[Illustration: THE END]\n\n------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nFootnote A:\n\n  This incident contains a historical fact. In many parts of\n  Pennsylvania, which were originally settled by members of the Society\n  of Friends, some of their social customs are still adhered to, even by\n  families not of their sect, and one of these customs is to observe a\n  short season of silent supplication before meals.\n\n------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n        =TRANSCRIBER\u2019S NOTE:=\n\n          Italics, bold letters, blackletter font and small\n            capitals have been converted to _ = ~ and\n            ALL CAPS respectively.\n\n          Perceived typos have been silently corrected.\n\n          Inconsistencies in hyphenation have been standardized.\n\n          Archaic or variant spelling has been retained.","title":"A second day in Mary Carrow's school","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":6613}