If you ever wish to be of any real use in the world, do something for children. If you ever yearn to be truly wise, study children. If the great army of philanthropists ever exterminate sin and pestilence, ever work out our race's salvation, it will be because a little child has led them.

Sprague Classic Readers

BOOK TWO

BY

SARAH E. SPRAGUE, Ph. D.

Children are God's apostles, day by day sent
forth to preach of love and hope and peace.

DEC 5 1940

COPYRIGHTED

By EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHING COMPANY

1902

FOREWORD.

"O'er wayward childhood wouldst thou hold firm rule, And sun thee in the light of happy faces,

Love, Hope, and Patience-these must be thy graces,

And in thine own heart let them first keep school."