The book of fables, chiefly from Aesop . BOSTONHOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY New York : 11 East Seventeenth Street 1890 Copyright, 1882,By HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN « All rights reserved. PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTCR LENOX AttBTILDEM F3UNOATIOM8 O 1 The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. and Printed by H. 0. Houghton & Company. PEEFACE. Those who have to do with the early educa-tion of children are often hard put to find a lit-erature for them which shall seem worth theirwhile when reading has become a comparatively-easy task. The first books put into a childshands are necessarily si
The book of fables, chiefly from Aesop . BOSTONHOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY New York : 11 East Seventeenth Street 1890 Copyright, 1882,By HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN « All rights reserved. PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTCR LENOX AttBTILDEM F3UNOATIOM8 O 1 The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. and Printed by H. 0. Houghton & Company. PEEFACE. Those who have to do with the early educa-tion of children are often hard put to find a lit-erature for them which shall seem worth theirwhile when reading has become a comparatively-easy task. The first books put into a childshands are necessarily simple ; but the simplicityis below the childs intelligence. During the pe-riod when he is mastering the several combina-tions in which a boy, a rat, and a cat can beplaced, and is acquiring the power of reading atsight, he is listening to books which are by nomeans so barren in their simplicity, and as soonas he is able to read the little stories which hefinds in the early readers he leaves them behind ;they have served their purposbookoffableschie00aeso
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