LITTLE ROBINS IN THE NEST.
LITTLE ROBINS LEARNING TO FLY.
LITTLE ROBINS IN TROUBLE.
LITTLE ROBINS' FRIENDS.
LITTLE ROBINS' LOVE ONE TO ANOTHER.

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THE LITTLE FRANKIE SERIES.

LITTLE FRANKIE AND HIS MOTHER.
LITTLE FRANKIE AT HIS PLAYS.
LITTLE FRANKIE AND HIS COUSIN.
LITTLE FRANKIE AND HIS FATHER.
LITTLE FRANKIE ON A JOURNEY.
LITTLE FRANKIE AT SCHOOL.

[Illustration: FRANKIE WHEELING THE CRIPPLE.]

LITTLE

FRANKIE AT SCHOOL.

BY

MRS. MADELINE LESLIE,

AUTHOR OF "THE HOME LIFE SERIES;" "MRS. LESLIE'S
JUVENILE SERIES," ETC.

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BOSTON:
CROSBY AND AINSWORTH,
117 WASHINGTON STREET.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, by
A. R. BAKER,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of
Massachusetts.

ELECTROTYPED AT THE
BOSTON STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY.

LITTLE

FRANKIE AT SCHOOL.

CHAPTER I.

FRANKIE'S NEW TEACHER.

WHEN little Frankie Gray was nearly seven years old, a lady came to
reside in the town where he lived, hoping to collect a small school.

Frankie's mother called upon her, and was so much pleased with her
frank, cheerful manners, her sunny smile, and her Christian
conversation, that she promised, with her husband's consent, to send
Frankie and Nelly to be her pupils.

The young teacher's name was Fanny Grant. Nelly laughed merrily when she
heard it, and said she should always think of her great doll, Fanny,
when she saw her.

Papa had for a long time feared it was an injury to his wife to be
confined so many hours as she thought it necessary to be in order to
attend to the children's studies, and he was very glad to find a good
teacher for them.

Miss Grant hired a pleasant room in a house only a short distance from
Mr. Gray's. Then she commenced furnishing it to suit her own fancy.
First she fastened white shades to the windows, and then hung the walls
with bright colored maps, and large pictures of animals and birds. On
one side there was a nice blackboard, and next it a card containing the
alphabet in large letters.

When all this was arranged, Miss Grant engaged a carpenter to work for
her a day in making a gallery of four steps, and in drawing a large
circle on the floor, whic