SOPHIA was a little child, Obliging, good, and very mild, Yet lest of dress she should be va… Mamma still dress’d her well, but… Her parents, sensible and kind,

IN an elegant frock, trimm’d with… And hair nicely curl’d, hanging ov… Young Fanny went out to the house… With a large little party the even… ‘Ah! how they will all be delighte…

THE wind blows down the largest t… And yet the wind I cannot see! Playmates far off, who have been k… My thought can bring before my min… The past by it is present brought,

AND has my darling told a lie? Did she forget that GOD was by? That GOD, who saw the things she… From whom no action can be hid; Did she forget that GOD could se…

‘AGAIN, Matilda, is your work u… Your scissors, where are they? you… Your needles, pins, and thread and… Your housewife here, and there you… ‘Fie, fie, my child! indeed this w…

From morning till night it was Lu… To chatter and talk without stoppi… There was not a day but she rattle… Like water for ever a-dropping. No matter at all if the subjects w…

‘I DO not like to go to bed,’ Sleepy little Harry said; ‘Go, naughty Betty, go away, I will not come at all, I say! ’ Oh, silly child! what is he saying…

YOUNG Jem at noon return’d from… As hungry as could be, He cried to Sue, the servant-maid… ‘My dinner give to me. ’ Said Sue, ‘It is not yet come hom…

THE Butterfly, an idle thing, Nor honey makes, nor yet can sing, As do the bee and bird; Nor does it, like the prudent ant, Lay up the grain for times of want…

One ugly trick has often spoil’d The sweetest and the best; Matilda, though a pleasant child, One ugly trick possess’d, Which, like a cloud before the ski…

My sweet little girl should be che… She must not be fretful and cry! Oh! why is this passion? remember,… GOD sees you, who lives in the sk… That dear little face, that I lik…

TWO good little children, named… Both happily live, as good girls a… And though they are not either sul… They seldom or never are heard to… If one wants a thing that the othe…

LITTLE sister, come away, And let us in the garden play, For it is a pleasant day. On the grass-plat let us sit, Or, if you please, we’ll play a bi…

Dance little baby, dance up high, Never mind baby, mother is by; Crow and caper, caper and crow, There little baby, there you go; Up to the ceiling, down to the gro…

WHAT is it that makes little Emi… Come then, let mamma wipe the tear… There’€“lay down your head on my b… And now tell mamma what’s the matt… What! Emmy is sleepy, and tired w…