Parables for school and home .. . BY WENDELL P. GARRISON WITH TWENTY-ONE WOODCUTSBY GUSTAV KRUELL NEW YORKLONGMANS, GREEN, & CO. MDCCCXCVII —S4^ Copyright, 1897, byLongmans, Green, & Co. AII rights reserved. The DeVinne Press. TO WENDELKIN AND HIS GENERATIONTHEIR HEIRS AND ASSIGNS THE APOLOGY My proposal was, wrote Cotton Mather ofhis Good Lessons for Children in Verse pub-lished in I 706— my proposal was, to have thechild improve in goodness at the same time thathe improvd in Reading^ A similar motive hasinspired the present work. Some one will surely arise to carry out myidea better than I h


Parables for school and home .. . BY WENDELL P. GARRISON WITH TWENTY-ONE WOODCUTSBY GUSTAV KRUELL NEW YORKLONGMANS, GREEN, & CO. MDCCCXCVII —S4^ Copyright, 1897, byLongmans, Green, & Co. AII rights reserved. The DeVinne Press. TO WENDELKIN AND HIS GENERATIONTHEIR HEIRS AND ASSIGNS THE APOLOGY My proposal was, wrote Cotton Mather ofhis Good Lessons for Children in Verse pub-lished in I 706— my proposal was, to have thechild improve in goodness at the same time thathe improvd in Reading^ A similar motive hasinspired the present work. Some one will surely arise to carry out myidea better than I have done; with greater intel-lectual sympathy with the young, in apter lan-guage, perhaps with less effort and so with alighter touch. There seemed to me a need ofthese lessons in applied morals ; I had or madethe leisure for the task, and the experiment inter-ested me. I soon found that, let the result formy hearers be adequate or not, for myself thediscipline in writing was its own ample reward. Isay Jiearers becaus


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