Harper's story booksA series of narratives, dialogues, biographies, and tales, for the instruction and entertainment of the youngEmbellished with numerous and beautiful engravings . re thepoor fisherman made, he laughed aloud. If you wish to know yourselves exactly how he looked, turnover the leaf and see. 46 SYMPATHY. Prank and his sister Mary. The fisherman asleep. Mary, Pranks sister,was sitting at this timeat the other side of thefire, reading a very sor-rowful narrative of achild that was lost inthe woods; yet, whenshe heard Prank laugh-ing, though she had notseen the picture herself,and
Harper's story booksA series of narratives, dialogues, biographies, and tales, for the instruction and entertainment of the youngEmbellished with numerous and beautiful engravings . re thepoor fisherman made, he laughed aloud. If you wish to know yourselves exactly how he looked, turnover the leaf and see. 46 SYMPATHY. Prank and his sister Mary. The fisherman asleep. Mary, Pranks sister,was sitting at this timeat the other side of thefire, reading a very sor-rowful narrative of achild that was lost inthe woods; yet, whenshe heard Prank laugh-ing, though she had notseen the picture herself,and did not know whathe was laughing at, shesmiled a little too. Eyes shut, mouthopen, said Prank tohimself, still looking atthe picture — hat allstove in. Prank laughed again,louder than Mary looked up from her book with quite a smile upon herface, and said, What are you laughing at, Prank? Prank did not answer, but went on reading what was said inhis book about the picture. It said, among other things, that agreat fish had pulled off* the hook from the mans line—sinker andall—and had run away with it. Yes, said Prank ; I see the end of the line, with the cork. THE TIDE RISING. SYMPATHY. 47 The next story. The boys who caught a stick. dangling in the air. Here Prank laughed again, louder than be-fore. Prank,1 said Mary, looking up from her book again, whatare you laughing at V Prank, however, did not reply to this question, but soon sober-ing himself, he proceeded to read the next story in his book. The next story gave an account of two boys who wTent a fishingtogether. One of them had a fishing-line, and the other a net onthe end of a long pole. They expected to catch a fish so largeand heavy that it would not be safe to pull him out by the line,and their plan was for the boy who had the line to pull the fishup to the surface of the water, and then the other was to dip himout with the net. Such a net as this, which is called a landingnet, is often used by fisher
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