Old-time schools and school-books . The Dove and the The Columbian Spelling Book, 1799. For now, thought fhe bee is my time, and I will favemy friend, if I die for it. As foon as the man felt thefting, he made a ftart, and the good dove flew off, and gotfafe to her neft. MORAL. Learn from hence to help thofe who are in need asmuch as you can. The Old Knight and his Wig. A CERTAIN Knight growing old, his hair fell off fofaft, that he foon became bald ; and fo he was forcedto buy a wig. But one day, as he was riding out a hunting Other Spellers 97 with fome of his mates, they met with a


Old-time schools and school-books . The Dove and the The Columbian Spelling Book, 1799. For now, thought fhe bee is my time, and I will favemy friend, if I die for it. As foon as the man felt thefting, he made a ftart, and the good dove flew off, and gotfafe to her neft. MORAL. Learn from hence to help thofe who are in need asmuch as you can. The Old Knight and his Wig. A CERTAIN Knight growing old, his hair fell off fofaft, that he foon became bald ; and fo he was forcedto buy a wig. But one day, as he was riding out a hunting Other Spellers 97 with fome of his mates, they met with a fudden blaft ofwind; and fo off fell his hat and wig. Thofe who werewith him could not help laughing at the odd figure he made ;and for his part, being a cheerful old blade, he laughed asloud as the beft of them. How could I expect faid he tokeep the hair of other people on my head, when my ownwould not ftay on ? 38t The Old Knight and his The Columbian Spelling Book. MORAL. The beft way to turn off the edge of a joke is to joinin the laugh yourself. A spelling-book with a title suggesting relationshipto the one of which I have just been speaking wasThe Columbian Primer by H. Mann, Dedham, was a small book of eighty-four pages, quite 198 Old-time Schools and School-books


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