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Updated: May 4, 2025
One brought a story of an unjust divorce, another was sick; one brought a primer for a reading-lesson, another was accused of debt and wished 'Ma' to vouch for his innocence; another had, he declared, been cheated in a land case.
They could almost say the lessons by heart, they knew them so well. After the reading-lesson they went back to their benches, and studied in loud whispers, but Larry was thinking of something else. He drew a pig with a curly tail on his slate like this He held it up for Dennis to see. He wanted to tell him about Diddy and the Fair, but the Master saw what he had done.
"I should be glad to do anything I could," said Lucy; "but what would be best to try?" "Well, poor Nelly can't read a word, you know, and I am afraid her stepmother would not spare her to go to school. But suppose you were to get her to come to you for half an hour a day. I think her mother might be induced to let her do that. And a short reading-lesson every day would soon bring her on."
Though I did not think that the fault was altogether mine, I quite acquiesced in the wisdom of this decree; for during Rose's last reading-lesson she had stopped so often to ask me which I liked best, Lycurgus or Solon, Pericles or Alcibiades, &c., that Margaret was almost out of patience.
"Nellie" it was the first time he had called her so since his return "I must give you a reading-lesson: come, sit here." Mechanically she obeyed him, all the rebel fading away: she looked like the Nellie of other days. She felt she had laid bare her soul, but in proportion as her confusion overcame her did he become decided. It is the slaves that make tyrants, it is said.
'Oh, I am so glad! I exclaimed. 'I was hoping she would; and is she going to give Jim a reading-lesson in the week, do you know? 'That I can't tell you. After luncheon, Miss Rayner went down to the village on some errand, and then Kenneth inquired, 'Is she treating you well? 'Of course, I replied; 'she is most kind, and I am enjoying myself very much.
Here, though receiving good wages, he found he could not be happy, could not 'abide with God; so he gave it up, and now he is earning barely tenpence a day; but hard as his lot is, he is happy in the consciousness of doing right, and still manages to spare a little time to take his reading-lesson from the Bible, and to tend a flowering-plant, his only companion, which representative of the vegetable world seems to have nearly as hard a struggle to live as its master.
Her mother wanted her to go over her last reading-lesson with her, and the child would not do so, pleading a desire to call on Beckie "Stay where you are and open your reader," Dora commanded Lucy obeyed, whimperingly. "Read!" "I want to go to Beckie." "Read, I say." And she slapped her hand "Don't," I remonstrated. "Let the poor child go enjoy herself." But it only spoiled matters
In one of her letters she describes what was the daily scene: "Four at my feet listening; five boys outside getting a reading-lesson from Janie; a man lying on the ground who has run away from his master and is taking refuge until I get him forgiven; an old chief with a girl who has a bad ulcer; a woman begging for my intervention with her husband; a nice girl with heavy leglets from her knee to the ankles, with pieces of cloth wrapped round to prevent the skin being cut, whom I am teaching; and three for vaccination."
Before they go to the reading lessons, they have the sounds of all the words in spelling: thus the sound of a ball, call, fall, wall; then the reading-lesson is full of words of the same sound.
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