Little Grandmother

h a hurry for her shoes. Mr. Piper came in the fall, after he had got his farm work done, to "shoe-make" for the Lymans, beginning with the oldest and

o Perseverance. He was very cruel, but he was cowardly too; for he punished the helpless li

on, whether it was a boy or a girl. Patty was so frightened that her milk-teeth chattered. You little folks who go to plea

f he hung anybody it would be Patty Lyman. Mr. Purple soon found she was afraid of him, and it

es, indignantly, "he's all

her pretty little ears. Not that he disliked Patty, by any means. I suppose a ca

make much complaint, for the "other fellow

me crying almost every night, and her tender mot

ou shall not g

ake Patty out of school, other parents would take their children out too; for nobody was at all satisfied

rm in the air which

ke a hail shower. It was very cold, but she didn't mind that much, for she had a yellow blanket round her head and shoulders, and over those boots of Moses's were drawn a pair of big gray stockings, which turned up and flopp

saucer pie in her hand. She knew t

otherly pity, "here's a pie for you. Don't

ort into Moses's dinner pail, along with some doughnut

g fire in the enormous fireplace; but it did Patty no good, for this was one of the master's "whipping days," and he strode

It was a little book, and the title sounds as if it was full of stories

for her age. Her letters had been boxed into her ears very young by Miss Judkins, and now she could read in Webster's Third Part as fast as a squirrel can run up a tree; but as for grammar, you could put all she knew int

ything that exists, or th

did-or her little nimble tongue,

n her too, or that I could give y

ike an old-fashioned sugar loaf, and blazes like a maple tree in the fall of the year. He stands by his desk making a quill pen, and looking about him with sharp glances,

he mischief that is going on; and what he does see he dares not

of shuffling feet and buzzing lip

with a blue woolen cape over her shoulders, called a vandyke, and her hair pulled a

s, the prettiest girl in town, with a pale, sweet fa

ross the aisle. He is fourteen years old, and you

re really making pictures of the master. George says "his forehead sneaks away from his face," and on the s

cream out 'Fire!'" whispered

ggins nod at each other wisely behind Mr. Purple's back, as much as to say, they know what the reason is they have to be punished; it is because they are only nine years old; if they were in their teens the master

" says Mr. Purple, "take yo

forth, their shoes all squeaking as if som

ser

s, "Make your manners;" and the girls obey by quick

ough duly corrected, and Charley Noonin, S

the Art of Reading.

ty steps out, almost crying with chilblains, and

ell out the story of "Thrifty and Unthrifty

t front seat, be car-ful! Come out here, Patty

e her a small whipping, for no other reason in the world than that she cannot stand still. William Parlin, who is a manly, large-he