CONCLUDED;

BEING

THE LAST PART OF EARLY LESSONS.

BY

MARIA EDGEWORTH.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. III.

The business of Education, in respect of knowledge, is not, as I
think, to perfect a learner in all or any of the sciences; but to
give his mind that disposition, and those habits, that may
enable him to attain any part of knowledge he shall stand in
need of in the future course of his life.

LOCKE.

BOSTON:

MUNROE & FRANCIS, 128 WASHINGTON, CORNER

OF WATER STREET.

1825.

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MAS. MARCARET HIGGINSON BARNEY

Aug. 19,1

191944

HARRY AND LUCY,

"HARRY, my dear," said Lucy, "what were you doing this morning when I passed by without your speaking, and when you were drawing something upon a slate ?"

"I was drawing," answered Harry, "the roof of a house for Dame Peyton. The other day I heard her talking to the woodman about a new roof, which she is going to have made, and I did not think the plan they proposed was a good one. Sir Rupert Digby has given me leave, indeed he has desired me to try whether I can make one that will do better, and he will be so kind as to give whatever timber is necessary; and papa will look at my plan, and hear what the woodman proposed, and determine which will do best."

Harry had long ago learned the principles of roofing, from a little model which his father had made for him. It took to pieces, and could be put together again, and the names of all the parts were written upon them, so