Harper's story booksA series of narratives, dialogues, biographies, and tales, for the instruction and entertainment of the youngEmbellished with numerous and beautiful engravings . her precisely, and always belooking at the words which Josephine was reading to Elfred atthe time she was reading them. If they came to any word whichJosephine thought it probable that Park did not understand, shewould stop and point at the word, and look inquiringly at Park toknow whether he understood it or not. If he did not understandit, then Josephine or Elfred would explain it to him by Joseph
Harper's story booksA series of narratives, dialogues, biographies, and tales, for the instruction and entertainment of the youngEmbellished with numerous and beautiful engravings . her precisely, and always belooking at the words which Josephine was reading to Elfred atthe time she was reading them. If they came to any word whichJosephine thought it probable that Park did not understand, shewould stop and point at the word, and look inquiringly at Park toknow whether he understood it or not. If he did not understandit, then Josephine or Elfred would explain it to him by Josephine would explain it, and sometimes Elfred. For example, at one time they were reading a story about agentleman and his boy taking a walk, and coming to a yard wherethere was a very fierce dog chained up near the door of his was said in the story that the dog was very fierce, and that,when he saw the gentleman and his son coming, he sprang out toseize them, barking furiously, and he would have actually seizedthem if he had not been prevented by his chain, which was drawnvery tense by his exertions. 92 AN INTERPRETER. A picture. Description of it. Manner of Here you see the picture ofthis dog. His chain is drawnvery tense. The dog is at theuttermost limit of it. He isbarking furiously. The gentle-man and the boy are in thebackground, to the right. Theykeep at a good distance fromthe dog. The gentleman hasa cane in his hand, but still hethinks it is not prudent for himto go near the the man and boy is a barn, with the great doors partlyopen. To the left of it is a house, but the lower part of the houseis concealed by a fence which intervenes.* There is a latticewindow above. The kennel is behind the dog. We can see the door where thedog goes in and out. There is a round dish on the ground beforehim. The people feed him out of this dish. When Josephine was reading this story, Elfred was sitting onone side of her, and Park on the other ; for, whenever
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