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The village lesson book for girls, by Martin Doyle
The village lesson book for girls by Martin Doyle Author:William Hickey Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 12 CHAPTER II. CONDUCT IN SCHOOL—MANNER OP ANSWERING— CONDUCT OUT OP SCHOOL AND AT HOME. Though you may be, on many occasions, as playful as crickets sp... more »orting on a warm hearth, you ought to be orderly in school, and silent, unless while repeating lessons. While you are learning your tasks, your thoughts should be fixed on them, else you will be disgraced by answering badly, and being sent down to a lower place in your class. If attentive and well-tempered, you will be liked and rewarded, and your school hours will be passed with real benefit to yourselves. A good temper is greatly to be prized; without it you will neither be happy yourselves, nor capable of making others so. No person likes a sulky girl. If any one of you should allow a disagreeable temper to rule over you, to render you snappish or sulky if questioned, or desired to do what you would rather not do, you must expect to be disliked both by your school-mistress and school-fellows. Some girls are too ready to tell tales of each other, and to go to their mistress with trifling complaints, such as these—" Please ma'am, Jane Carter gave me a pinch," or, " Catherine Chatterbox called me names." Now the mistress ought not to be teazed with foolish matters among yourselves, which a little patience and good humour on your parts would soon set right. If you shew a desire to be courteous and pleasing to others, they will be kind and friendly to you; but, if you are selfish, and careless of obliging, you will be thought, and very justly so, to be wanting in good nature. The pleased and cheerful look of a girl at her tasks, shews that she is contented with her occupation; and when she reads aloud, spells, or answers questions, her manner of doing these things will probably be agreeable. And though a girl be slow a...« less