ADDRESS TO TEACHERS. TEACHERS of Youth,-don't cut this book I'm sure 'tis not from ostentation, All grammar books are difficult, I learned myself from "Lennie's Book," To make me comprehend! Since then I've searched, but ne'er could find A simple grammar to my mind, And therefore this I've penned. I've written parts of it in rhyme, It makes quite smooth an up-hill way, That calms down what needs rest. No spark have I of poet's fire; I hope the sense is plain and sound, Poets, we hope, will pardon us, According to their laws. For if we'd tried to make it fine "I love these little children much; 66 Ye kindly teachers! all who love Study their gentle nature. O! don't despise this simple book, But let it blossom by your look, Though humble is its stature. Uproot it not 'twill please a child, Even by a simple flower. Though not so lovely as the rose, It has no thorn—perhaps it shows 'Simplicity's sweet power." * Charles Dickens says:-"I love these little people, and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us." TO MY PUPILS. “OF all that I have learned to-day," My geography's not hard at all, I wonder, sometimes, what it means- 'Tis past my understanding quite; T. Now read this little book my dear, Some dark parts may be made quite clear, And much it will you teach. Then read it o'er and o'er again, I'm sure you will not read in vain 'Tis all within your reach. And while you read it through and through, I'll tell you what you ought to do Learn parts off-as before. Then, if you do not understand, Come here to me, I'm quite at hand, And I will teach you more. Now, should you say you love "Heart's-Ease," I'll give another that will please— And I've a "None so Pretty," too, |