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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: 37 CHAPTER III. THE MAGAZINE. Neither Royal nor Lucy thought any thing more of their arithmetic for several days. Lucy's slate got put up upon a shelf in the closet, and was entirely forgotten. One day. however, when Hollo and Lucy were walking in a little lane by the side of the garden, they found a beautiful flower, growing near a large, flat stone. O, what a beautiful blue flower 'said Lucy. Yes, said Royal; give it to me. No, said Lucy, I want to carry it home to my mother. O, mother won't care about it, said Royal; give it to me, and I will press it in a book. No, said Lucy. And then, continued Royal, we can draw a copy of it, and paint it. We haven't got our paint-box yet, said Lucy. JVo, we haven't, said Royal. And that's because I haven't finished teaching you arithmetic. Come, let us go and take a lesson now. Lucy, however, was not much inclined to take her lesson. After some conversation, however, Royal, finding that Lucy had no inclination to study arithmetic at all, and reflecting that this aversion was his own fault, concluded that he must win her back again to the work by dexterous management. So he said, ? Well, Lucy, I'll tell you what we will do. We'll carry this blue flower to the house, and I'll make a drawing of it upon your slate. So we will, said Lucy. In fact, she was very much pleased with this plan; and the two children set off accordingly for the house, to make the drawing. After some search, they found the slate, but the pencil was gone. Royal, however, had a pencil of his own, in a little box, which he kept under a sky-light in the garret, and he and Lucy went up into the garret in pursuit of it. This box, or chest, ? for it was properly a small chest, ? was the...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217926195 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217926193 |
| Weight | 0.28 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.18 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 76 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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