Old-time schools and school-books . TfaeC«rbur tells a merry 1Udor Ibe HUf, and fcfc tbc W ^-?•=.-- :.^,.. -> The Nightingale and Cuckow. From an edition of about 1 785. Old-time Schools and School-books The THE Cock doth crow to let you know,If you be wife, what Time to is no Bird treated with fo much Cru-el-ty as the Cock ; for he, poor Thing (with-otit;the lead Of-fence) is ti-ed to a Stake, and thrownat by a fct of i-dle, wick-ed, bar-ba-rous Fel-lows, until he is beat in Pie-ces. This is a Cuf-tojn t!ie very Hea-thens would blufh at ; andthere-fore I hope you, who
Old-time schools and school-books . TfaeC«rbur tells a merry 1Udor Ibe HUf, and fcfc tbc W ^-?•=.-- :.^,.. -> The Nightingale and Cuckow. From an edition of about 1 785. Old-time Schools and School-books The THE Cock doth crow to let you know,If you be wife, what Time to is no Bird treated with fo much Cru-el-ty as the Cock ; for he, poor Thing (with-otit;the lead Of-fence) is ti-ed to a Stake, and thrownat by a fct of i-dle, wick-ed, bar-ba-rous Fel-lows, until he is beat in Pie-ces. This is a Cuf-tojn t!ie very Hea-thens would blufh at ; andthere-fore I hope you, who are a Chrift-ian, willncv-er be guitt-y of any Thing fo in-hu-man. One of Several Similar Pages of Illustrated Rhymes and Comments inThe Royal Primer, Worcester, Mass., 1787. In an edition of 1771 we find what at first sightpromises to be an entertaining story, but it provesonly a description of one of the priggish little goodboys that abound in the juvenile literature of theperiod. THE HISTORY OF MASTER TOMMYFIDO. AS Goodnefs and Learning make the Child a Man, foPiety makes him an Angel. Mafter Tommy Fidonot only loved his Book becaufe it made him wifer, but be-caufe it made him better too. He loved every Body,
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