THE
LITTLE GIRL
WHO WAS
TAUGHT BY EXPERIENCE.
BOSTON.
BOWLES AND DEARBORN, 72 WASHINGTON STREET.
Isaac. R. Butts and Co. Printers.
1827.
district of massachusetts, to wit:
| District Clerk's Office. |
Be it remembered, that on the nineteenth day ofJune, A. D. 1827, in the fifty-first year of the Independenceof the United States of America, Bowles andDearborn of the said district, have deposited in this officethe title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors,in the words following, to wit: "The Little Girl,who was Taught by Experience."
In conformity to the act of the Congress of the UnitedStates, entitled, "An act for the encouragement of learning,by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to theauthors and proprietors of such copies, during the timestherein mentioned," and also to an act entitled "An actsupplementary to an act, entitled, an act for the encouragementof learning, by securing the copies of maps, chartsand books to the authors and proprietors of such copies,during the times therein mentioned; and extending thebenefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving andetching historical and other prints."
| JNO. W. DAVIS, | { | Clerk of the District of | |
| Massachusetts. |
THE
LITTLE GIRL
WHO WAS
TAUGHT BY EXPERIENCE.
Little Lucy's mother had died whenshe was a very small child;—this was agreat misfortune to Lucy, for her motherloved her very tenderly, and shewould have taken the trouble to tellher what she did wrong, and when shefelt wrong, and would have taught herto correct all her faults; she wouldhave taught her that happiness couldnot dwell in her heart, while she permittedwicked passions to rise up andgrow strong there, any more than thebeautiful flowers which she planted in[Pg 4]her little garden-bed, could thrive andbloom when she allowed all the rankweeds which sprang up with them, tobecome strong and remain there tochoke them: wicked passions liketroublesome weeds, grow very fast,and they soon root out all the mild,gentle virtues which are just buddinginto beauty, if we do not take greatpains to check them, and pluck themout of our hearts.
Lucy's mother would have taughther all this, for she saw these evilswere already springing up to destroythe lovely blossom of virtue in heryoung bosom; but she died, and Lucywas left to the care of a most indulgentfather; he did not like to correcthis little girl, for he only saw her whenhis busy day was over,