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St Nicholas [serial] . e in a very bad way. The countryis poor, there were very few books of an)- kind, id school-books were of the poorest sort. It was? this time that Noah Webster, who made the dic-inary later in his life, and was now a poor school-aster, determined to make a speller, a grammar.id a reader for schools. His grammar and readerire long since forgotten, but his speller is stilled all over our country. It is a different book, 1 Iwever, from the first speller which he made, tat, like The New England Primer of hisandfather, not only taught the alphabet andfelling, but tried to teach the little American some> ) the lessons in goodness and patriotism, whichbah Webster saw were much needed. It was the ly book that a great many children had, and itd pictures—pictures a little bigger than those the primer, but very much of the same kind. om a very early time fables have been written d told to teach simple truths, and Webster putfew fables into his book, and a picture to each. :re are some of them :. FABLE I. Of the Boy that stole Apples. &N old Man found a rude Boy upon one of hlaes stealing Apples, and desired him to come down ; but the young Sauce-box told him plainlyhe would not. Wont you? said the old Man, then I will fetch you down ; so he pulled en somatufts of Grass, and threw at him; but this onlymade the Youngster laugh, to think the old Manshould pretend to beat him down from the treewith grass only. Well, well, said the old Man, if neither -wordsnor grass -will do, I must try what virtue there isin Stones ; so the old man pelted him heartily withstones; which soon made the young Chap hastendown from the tree and beg the old Mans pardon. MORAL. If good words and gentle means will not reclaim (Tiewicked, they must be dealt with in a more severe manner SMMM^j