. First century of national existence; the United States as they were and th a pane of thin translucent horn, ~ ~ A book (to please us at a tender ageTis called a book, though but a single page).Presents the prayer the Saviour deigned to teach,Which children use, and parsons—when they preach. Tirocinium, or a Review of Schools, 1784. In Specimens of West Coiuitnj Dialect, the use of the Horn-book is thus shown;— Commether Billy Chubb, an breng the liorncn boolc. Gee nia the vester in tha■nindor, yor Pal came!—What! be a sleepid—Ill wake ye. Now, Billy, theres a goodbway ! Ston still the


. First century of national existence; the United States as they were and th a pane of thin translucent horn, ~ ~ A book (to please us at a tender ageTis called a book, though but a single page).Presents the prayer the Saviour deigned to teach,Which children use, and parsons—when they preach. Tirocinium, or a Review of Schools, 1784. In Specimens of West Coiuitnj Dialect, the use of the Horn-book is thus shown;— Commether Billy Chubb, an breng the liorncn boolc. Gee nia the vester in tha■nindor, yor Pal came!—What! be a sleepid—Ill wake ye. Now, Billy, theres a goodbway ! Ston still there, and mind what I da za to ye, an whaur I da point. Now; criss-cross, girt a, little a—b—c—d. Thats right, Billy; youll zoon lorn the criss-cross-lain ; youll zoon auvergit Bobby Jiffry—youll zoon be a scholanl. As a pirty chubbybway—Lord lovn ! ^cw England Primer. Of the New England Primer we can giveno earlier specimen than the edition of \111;embellished with a portrait of John Han-cock, Esq., who was at that time Presidentof the Continental The Honorable JOHN HANCOCK, Efq;Prefident of the American Congress. We must not omit the painfully interest-ing group of John Rogers in the burningfaffffots, with his wife and nine or ten chil-dren—including the one at the breast—aproblem which has puzzled many a school-boys brain :


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