. Tales from Maria Edgeworth; . with her a little boy and girl, thechildren of a beggar, who died,these orphans perishing with hunger. Theythought themselves very happy the first time the good oldwoman took them into her hut, bid them warm themselvesat her small fire, and gave them a crust of mouldy bread tocat. She had not much to give, but what she had she gavewith good-will. She was very kind to these poor children,and worked hard at her spinning-wheel and at her knitting,to support herself and them. She earned money also inanother way. She used to follow all the carriages as they 1 Their w
. Tales from Maria Edgeworth; . with her a little boy and girl, thechildren of a beggar, who died,these orphans perishing with hunger. Theythought themselves very happy the first time the good oldwoman took them into her hut, bid them warm themselvesat her small fire, and gave them a crust of mouldy bread tocat. She had not much to give, but what she had she gavewith good-will. She was very kind to these poor children,and worked hard at her spinning-wheel and at her knitting,to support herself and them. She earned money also inanother way. She used to follow all the carriages as they 1 Their whole study was how to please and to help one another. 396. and The Basket-Woman went up Chalk Hill; and when the horses stopped to takebreath or to rest themselves, she put stones behind thecarriage wheels to prevent them from rolling backwardsdown the steep, slippery hill. The little boy and girl loved to stand beside the good-natured old womans spinning-wheel when she was spinning,and to talk to her. At these times she taught them some-thing, which, she said, she hoped they would remember alltheir lives. She explained to them what is meant by tellingthe truth, and what it is to be honest; she taught them todislike idleness, and to wish that they could be useful. One evening, as they were standing beside her, the littleboy said to her, Grandmother, for that was the name bywhich she liked that these children should call her— grand-mother, how often you are forced to get up from yourspinning-wheel, and to follow the chaises and coaches upthat steep hill, to put stones under the wheels, to hinderthem from rolling back! The people who are in t
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