A 
 
 LITTLE BOOK 
 
 ABOUT 
 
 HORSE, &c. 
 
 LONDON: 
 
 PRINTED AND SOLD BY J. AND C. EVANS, 
 LONG' LANE, WEST SMITHFIEXD. SOLD 
 ALSO BY fi. FRY, 73, HOUNDSDrrCTH. 
 
 Price One Halfpenny. 
 
 1826. 
 
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 THE HORSE, 
 
 There is a poor horse that 
 feeds on the green. 
 
 His legs are tied together 
 to keep him from running 
 away. 
 
 One day I saw some boys 
 throw stones at him, and the 
 poor horse conld not get out 
 of their way. 
 
 Now what do you think of 
 these boys ? 
 
 I think they were naughty 
 and cruel; if their own leg 
 had been tied and any body 
 had beat them, they would 
 not have liked it. 
 
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 We ought to try to do to 
 all, as we would like them to 
 do to us. 
 
 Am] I tliink when these 
 boys come to lie down at 
 ui^ht,aud think of what they 
 had done in the day, they 
 would not feel happy. 
 
 I wish they nmay learn to 
 be kind to the horse another 
 time. 
 
A PLEASANT WALK. 
 
 Shall we take a walk ? 
 
 It is a very fine evening. 
 
 Look at the pretty flowers, 
 some of theai are folded up 
 for the night. 
 
 In the morning they will 
 open again. 
 
 The little chickens are 
 gone to sleep under their 
 mother's wiags. In the 
 morning they will run about 
 again. 
 
 The cows and the sheep 
 are laid down on the grass to 
 rest. 
 
 In the morning they wi 
 get up and feed again. 
 
When we get home we 
 must go to bed. 
 
 God will take care of us 
 while we sleep. 
 
 He watches over us by 
 night as well as by day. 
 
 He sees what we do, He 
 hears what he say. He knows 
 what we think. 
 
 We can hide nothing from 
 
 Him. 
 
 Let us try to love and fear 
 
 Him. 
 
 Let us pray to Him to help 
 us to become better and 
 better. 
 
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 THE HEN & CHICKENS. 
 
 I like to see the little 
 chickeus run after the hen. 
 
 See how they run about ; 
 pretty things. They are but 
 lately come out of the egg. 
 
 How strange it is that birds 
 should come out of eggs ! 
 
The hen lays the eggs in 
 her liest. She sits upon them 
 and keeps them quite warm 
 for about three weeks. Then 
 the chickens peck holes in the 
 shell, and break it, and come 
 out, and run about after the 
 hen. 
 
 The hen scratches for them 
 among the straw and dirt, to 
 find grains of corn,aud crumbs 
 and insects. She shows them 
 to the chickens, and they 
 pick them up. 
 
 When she calls them they 
 run to her, and sometimes she 
 takes them under her winer-' 
 and takes care of them. 
 
 
8 
 
 A good mother loves her 
 ehildren, and takes care of 
 them. She feeds them too, 
 and tells them what to do. 
 
 If little chickens come to 
 their mother when she call 
 them, surely little children 
 ought to do so to. 
 
 Little children should do 
 as their mothers bid them. 
 
 When they are good, they 
 feel happy ; when they are 
 naughty and stubborn, they 
 feel very uneasy. 
 
 Do as you are bid, try to 
 be good, that you may be 
 happy. 
 
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 COWS. 
 
 Look at the cows, there 
 they are in that green field. 
 
 Yes ; I think they look very 
 pretty. 
 
 They are very useful as 
 well as pretty. 
 
 They give tis nice milk, 
 cheese and butter are made 
 
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 from milk ; and the butter- 
 milk that^is left after the 
 butter is made, is good to 
 drink. 
 
 When cows are g-rown fat, 
 the butcher kiils them ; the 
 flesh is beef. 
 
 The flesh of sheep is mut- 
 ton. 
 
 The flash of pigs is pork 
 and bacon. 
 
 The flesh of calves is veal. 
 
 The skins of sheep and 
 beasts is made into leather. 
 
 Shoes and many other 
 things are made of leather. 
 
 So you see that cows and 
 sheep are very useful to us. 
 
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 God Almiglity made cows 
 and sheep in the beginning. 
 
 He also made tlie grass to 
 grow for them to eat. 
 
 So He feeds them and He 
 feeds OS. 
 
 For He made all things, 
 and He takes care of all. 
 
12 
 
 He is very great and very 
 good. 
 
 How shall we thank Him 
 for all Bis goodness ? 
 
 We must try to be good, 
 that He may love us. 
 
 We ought to love God, and 
 be kind to all, even to the 
 dumb creatures. 
 
 We should take care of 
 them, and never starve them, 
 or beat them cruelly, or tease 
 them. 
 
 THE OAK-TREE. 
 
 Do you not like to go under 
 a large oak tree ? 
 
13 
 
 In some places oak-tree^ 
 are very common, and grow 
 very large, and full of leaves. 
 Oak-trees bear acorns which 
 drop off when they are ripe, 
 and the pigs like to eat them. 
 
 Would you believe that 
 such a large tree as an oak 
 could grow up from a little 
 acorn ? But so it does. 
 
 The acorn is put into the 
 ground, and the leaves sprout 
 up, and a little root grows 
 downwards 
 
 At first the little tree has 
 only three or four leaves, and 
 you could pull it up with 
 your thumb and finger. 
 
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 Bat when it has grown a 
 number of years it is as high 
 as a house, and so thick at 
 the bottom, that it would take 
 men a long time to cut it 
 down with their axes. 
 
 Trees are very useful to us. 
 1 do not know what we 
 should do without them; so 
 many things are made of 
 wood. 
 
 When we want wood, we 
 cut down the trees, in the 
 wn'nter, when the leaves are 
 otF. 
 
 And when the wood is 
 quite dry, the men saw it 
 into posts and boards 
 
15 
 
 The branches and the small 
 twigs serve to make fire to 
 boil the niilk for little chil- 
 dren's broftkfosts, and to heat 
 the oven to bake bread and 
 puddings, aud to cook many 
 otherthuigs. 
 
 Try to find out how many 
 things are mad^of j^)od 
 
 Oh, sliips are made of 
 wood. 
 
 And t^bte^ are made of 
 wood, and stools and chairs 
 are made of wood, and a great 
 many things. 
 
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