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    Pretty Tales for the Nursery
    Pretty Tales for the Nursery
    Pretty Tales for the Nursery
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    Pretty Tales for the Nursery

    By Isabel Thompson and John Gilbert

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Pretty Tales for the Nursery - Isabel Thompson

      Project Gutenberg's Pretty Tales for the Nursery, by Isabel Thompson

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      Title: Pretty Tales for the Nursery

      Author: Isabel Thompson

      Illustrator: Sir John Gilbert

      Release Date: May 14, 2008 [EBook #25469]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PRETTY TALES FOR THE NURSERY ***

      Produced by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This

      file was made using scans of public domain works in the

      International Children's Digital Library.)

      FANNY'S BIRTHDAY

      PRETTY TALES

      FOR THE

      NURSERY.

      LONDON:

      THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY:

      Depositories:

      56, PATERNOSTER ROW; 65, ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD; AND 164, PICCADILLY:

      AND SOLD BY THE BOOKSELLERS.

      CONTENTS

      FANNY'S BIRTHDAY.

      Here is a nice new book! It is mine. Papa has just given it to me, for this is my birth-day, and I am five years old. Oh, how pretty it is! Here are boys and girls at play, like Willie and me; and here is nurse, with baby on her knee.

      They will call me a dunce if I do not learn to read well, so I will try my very best; for what is the use of a nice book like this, if I cannot read it? It is not of a bit more use than my wax doll would be to puss.

      What, Miss Puss, you hear your own name, do you? and think we are going to have a game of play. On no, puss, no such thing. It will not do for me to mind only play, for mamma says that, if I live, I shall be a woman in time, and there are many things that I must learn before then.

      Look, puss, here is my new book. Ah, I see you do not care for books. You like to lie on the warm rug before the fire, and there you sleep away half your time. That may do very well for a puss, but it will not do for me. If I am as idle as you, I shall grow up a dunce, and what would papa say then? No, no, pussy, you may do as you like, but for my part I am not going to be a dunce.

      Sometimes I sit upon mamma's knee, and she tells me the story about a young king, who lived many years ago, and who loved the Bible better than any other book in the world, and how God took him to wear a crown of gold in heaven. Or else she talks to me about Jesus, who came down from his glory above to die for us upon the cross. I love to hear about him when he was a baby, and his mother laid him in a manger, for there was no room for him in the inn. Oh! how glad I shall be when I can read these things in books.

      Mamma says that when I can read, I shall have books that will teach

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