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fast, neither must we be so slow as to make others wait for

us.

We try to keep our clothes clean, and we are careful to not overturn our drink upon the table. Sometimes it is necessary to leave the table before others rise; when it is, we always ask, in a modest voice, if we may be excused. It is very rude to get up and leave the table without speaking to any one.

probably got the habit of being difficult? About what must you be careful at the table? What must you try to keep clean? If you wish to leave the table before others, what must you do? What is very rude?

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HOW TO BEHAVE AT SCHOOL.

LAST Summer Miss Cooke taught the school in the new brick school house. It is in a large and pleasant yard, and in the summer the trees make it shady and very comfortable. Our parents sent me and my brother Henry to attend

Questions. Did you attend school last summer? Do you like to go to school? Were you glad when vacation came? Are you more pleased when

her school. My sister Hannah was not quite old enough

to go.

We had never been to school before; but we liked it well. Our mother had instructed us at home, and we were able to go into one of the classes. The school continued four months, and then there was a vacation. We were glad when the vacation came, though we liked our school.

Now, there has been a long vacation, and this morning her school commences again. I think we are more glad than we were when the vacation commenced.

I like to go to school, and my father says I ought to be thankful for the privilege. He says it costs a good deal of money to build school houses, and then to pay the teachers for spending their time and labor in instructing the scholars.

Miss Cooke is very kind to us, and I am sure I love her. She is very anxious to have us get our lessons perfectly; and when it is the hour of study, she wishes us to study

school commences again? Is it a privilege to go to school? Should you be thankful? What costs a good deal of money? Should you love your teacher? About what is she anxious? How does she wish you to study in the proper time? Would it make you unhappy to have a poor lesson? Are there

hard. I intend to do so, for it would make me unhappy to be obliged to go to recite with an imperfect lesson; besides, I can see that it troubles the teacher when scholar has a poor lesson.

There are some pretty large girls in our school who do not try to learn. They seem to think that, if they can deceive the teacher, and get along without being punished, it is all they care for; but our parents always tell us that, if we learn well, it will be for our own benefit, and that, if we do not try to learn, we shall one day be sorry. I think our parents know better than we do, and we should believe them.

It is pretty hard to keep from whispering; for sometimes a thought pops into my head, and I am just ready to tell it to Lucia Fisk or Anna Wilson, who sit near me, before I think what I am about. But I have learned to be pretty careful, and I intend to get a mark for good conduct every day of the present term.

I must try to remember what our mother told us just as

any scholars who do not care to get their lessons? For what do they care the most? Whose benefit is it if you study well? If you do not, will you be sorry? Can you keep from whispering? For what will you try? Is it your

we were leaving her this morning. She said, "Now, my children, when you are at school, it is your duty to try just as hard to please your teacher as you would try at home to please your parents; and we expect you will obey and honor your teacher."

I have been taught how I should honor my parents; and our mother says we owe our teacher the same honor, so long as we are under her care. My brother Henry says he shall never love any teacher so much as he loves our father and mother; and I do not suppose mother meant that, but only that we should show the same kind of love.

There are a good many things which I am happy to do for my parents, just because I love them; there are some other things I must do because they require me to do them; and mother says, when I do these things for their sakes, I show my respect for them, and do really honor them more than when I do the things which please me while I am doing them. So I suppose it will be with regard to our teacher.

duty to try to please your teacher? Have you been taught to honor your parents? Do you owe your teacher the same honor, while at school? When you do things because your parents require them to be done, do you honor

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