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Title: More Seeds of Knowledge; Or, Another Peep at Charles.

Author: Julia Corner

Release Date: February 15, 2004 [eBook #11099]

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MORE SEEDS OF KNOWLEDGE;
OR, ANOTHER PEEP AT CHARLES.

BEING, AN ACCOUNT OF
CHARLES'S PROGRESS IN LEARNING.
ABOUT BLACK SLAVES;
A CONVERSATION ON HISTORY; AND
MISSIONARIES.

BY MISS JULIA CORNER.

EMBELLISHED WITH SEVEN ELEGANT COLOURED ENGRAVINGS.

LONDON:

[Illustration: THE INCA'S SURPRISE AT SEEING A WATCH.]

MORE SEEDS OF KNOWLEDGE;
OR,
ANOTHER PEEP AT CHARLES.

CHAP. I.

CHARLES'S PROGRESS IN LEARNING.

You have heard a great deal about Charles in the Seeds of Useful
Knowledge; perhaps you would like to hear a little more about him; for,
as he was never tired of learning good things, I might fill many books,
if I were to speak of every thing that his papa and mamma taught him.
But I dare say all the boys and girls who read this, have kind parents
or friends who teach them, as well as Charles's papa and mamma taught
him; so I will only mention such things as they may not perhaps yet have
heard.

But first of all, I must tell you what Charles has been doing, since you
heard of him last. He was now a year older than he was then, and he was
also wiser, for he could write pretty well, and read without spelling
the long words; he knew the multiplication table, and the pence table
too; and could do sums in multiplication without a mistake, when he took
pains; but som