. A second day in Mary Carrow's school. arried them in two square baskets,on his shoulders. In the street where heserved the people with muffins, a poor sailorswife lived. She was sick, and she could notwork, and she had not any body to give hermoney, for her husband was a sailor, and hewas out at sea in a great ship. She had a 50 A SECOND DAY IN -young child, and she was so poor that she hadnot even enough money to buy bread. Thegood muffin-man stopped every day and gaveher some muffins out of one of his baskets toeat. Whenever the muffin-man stopped, thelittle child would run away from her m
. A second day in Mary Carrow's school. arried them in two square baskets,on his shoulders. In the street where heserved the people with muffins, a poor sailorswife lived. She was sick, and she could notwork, and she had not any body to give hermoney, for her husband was a sailor, and hewas out at sea in a great ship. She had a 50 A SECOND DAY IN -young child, and she was so poor that she hadnot even enough money to buy bread. Thegood muffin-man stopped every day and gaveher some muffins out of one of his baskets toeat. Whenever the muffin-man stopped, thelittle child would run away from her mo-ther to come to him, because she was soglad to see him. Marys scholars thought the muffin-manwas very good and kind. There was a pic-ture over the story, and Mary showed themthe picture. After they had talked aboutthe poor sailors wife, and the little child, andthe muffin-man, Carry Deacon asked, Whythe people did not make muffins at home ?Mary told her, That in large cities, such asBoston, New York and Philadelphia, the Second The fruit woman on her -xaj to town p. 51 MARY CARROWs SCHOOL. 51 people who lived there bought many things,which the country people made at bought their milk and their butter andtheir meat and their eggs, because the houseswere built up closely together, and there wasnot room enough, in towns, to keep cows andpigs and chickens. Mary asked Carry if shehad never seen people carrying milk andbread and fruit about, when she was inPhiladelphia. Carry said, Yes, she hadseen a man carrying a bucket with brighthoops around it; and her aunt, at whosehouse she stayed, told her the bucket had milkin it. And Carry said, She saw a womancarrying oranges in a basket, and the womanknocked at peoples doors, and asked them tobuy her rrangt-^ * 52 A SECOND DAY IN Mary went around among her scholars,while they were writing, to see that theyheld their pens and pencils properly. Sherubbed out some of Lily Foresters straightmarks and round os, because her s
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