puss; but their mam-ma said, "No, you
must not beat puss, for you left your dolls a-bout, and the cat did not
know that they were not for her to play with. Next time you must be more
care-ful of your toys."

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ANN SHARP.

Was a kind girl. One day she was out, and a poor girl came to her and
said, "Give me some bread, I have had none to eat all day." So Ann said,
"I have no bread, but here is six-pence that my mam-ma gave me, take it,
and buy some bread."

The poor girl took it and said, "Oh! thank you, miss, I can now get
some-thing to eat, and will take some to my poor dad-dy who is sick."

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THE COAT.

"Do not go out with-out your warm coat, Tom; it is a hard frost, and the
snow lies thick on the ground, and you will catch cold, if you do, and
then poor Tom will be ill."

"But I feel quite warm."

"Yes, you do now; but see what a large fire there is here, out of doors
there is no fire, and the cold wind blows; and if you have no warm coat
on, you will feel cold."

But Tom thought he knew best, so he went out with no coat on, and he
caught a bad cold and cough, and he was put to bed quite ill. Now Jack
and Will and Tom were to have had some fine sport on the fro-zen pond in
the farm, but Tom was too ill to go. When he was in bed he thought how
sil-ly he had been, to think he knew bet-ter than his kind friends; and
then he said to him-self, he would try and do all that he was bid when
he got well.

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THE BURNT CHILD.

One day a child want-ed to reach some-thing off the man-tel shelf, and
not be-ing tall e-nough, she stood on the fen-der, and her mo-ther said,
"Fan-ny, you must not get on the fen-der, it will turn o-ver, and then
you will fall in the fire and be sad-ly burnt."

But Fan-ny was not a good child, and did not al-ways do as she was bid:
so when her mo-ther went out of the room, she want-ed to get her
fa-ther's watch that lay on the man-tel shelf, and she stood on the
fen-der to reach it, but the fen-der turn-ed o-ver, and Fan-ny fell in
the hearth and her clothes took fire. She scream-ed loud-ly, but she was
not heard for a lit-tle time, and when her mo-ther ran to her, all her
clothes were in a blaze; she roll-ed the rug over to put out the flame
and then car-ried her to bed.

Poor Fan-ny was sad-ly burnt, and it was a long time be-fore she was
well, and she had a great many scars on her face and neck which ne-ver
wore o