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: WILD DICK AND GOOD LITTLE ROBIN, A vary few weekt only have gone by, imce I reqnested 7Ou to read Knmber One. It is pro'atls thet yiu nave comptied with my reqnest; for the pubtishers inform me they are atready t work ttlnxi .Us ninth edition, and have heen requosiad, by the Iriends of temperance, in the Siste .ii N-w York, to permit them to stnke off one hondred thonsand copies for gratuitons distribotinn. I have heen cheered by the assurance ol some highly intrliurent and henevolent indieiduals, ‘li.it Rnmher One has heen prodnctive of good. I wr.te it for thai end, and sent it fonh inlo the wend, with a prayer lo thal effect. I thank the Giver of every rood aad perfect gift, that he has von t- Mfrd his blessing upoc these homble iabors. I now respectully present Numher Two for Vout pernsat. It has heen oblectsd to Nnmher One, thai the i .., i i !’- in which it l a written is, -. the Lave! of certain capacities; and that farmer Johoson doee nut talk precisely in a farmer-tike style. The same obiectmn may, snh eqnal propriety, he made to Numher Two. Bnt it must he rememhered, that these stories are not intei.ded for littl a children alone, nor by aay means exclnsively fur nnedncated persons. Theie are maay, if -Kstire a$s, tgrrliait capacity, and highly tdicattd, whom we wonld persuade to hecome a s Itttls i ..-‘..-., . and; 'i ii by that mstructinn winch theoe talen are designed to snpply. We are apt to over gradnate the change, hetween onr present .- i -.m, and the corresponding t-ascns .f oar lnruth, forgetting iluii Thomson’s descriptinn t.f an GnlrIlah spring, by which eo maay of ns h ise heen fairly iranponed, in onr childhood, over the ten, is, after all, the gennine spring eomewhat similar maaner, in the preparatmn oi books designed fur Certain claxes of…
