PICTURE-BOOK.

BY SABINA CECIL.

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It is evening; the sun is setting, and the shepherd, who tends the flocks of little Mary's Papa, is, with his good little dog, driving the[3] sheep to the fold, where they will rest in safety. That is his cottage which stands on the other side of the road.[4]

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If you look on the other side of the leaf, you will see the picture of[6] the park that little Mary one day passed through, where she first saw the deer.

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Should you not have liked to have been with her, and jumped and played on the lawn, and in the shrubberies.[8]

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Little Mary was eating her breakfast when she saw a Robin red-breast standing on a rail, at a little distance; she gathered up the crumbs as fast[11] as she could, and threw them out of the window upon the gravel walk. As soon as the bird observed the bread, he jumped down off the rail, and began[12] picking up the crumbs: but Mary, eager to shew her love to her little visitor, threw out more crumbs, which frightened it away.

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A traveller and his little dog, one day, wanted to get to the other side of a river; but the man was so very poor he could not find money enough[15] to pay the boatman for taking him over. Little Mary, who was always very good, seeing his distress, gave him all the money she had in her[16] pocket, wished him a safe journey, and went home with a light heart, having done a good action.

Transcriber's Notes:

Obvious punctuation errors repaired.

Varied hyphenation of Church-Yard was retained.

The remaining corrections made are indicated by dotted lines under the corrections. Scroll the mouse over the word and the original text will appear.