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Excerpt from Selection of Reading Lessons for Common Schools: Designed to Be Used After Easy Lessons in Reading, American Popular Lessons, Boston Reading Lessons, and Other Works of a Similar Rank
Easy Lessons in Reading, ' it is called, moth er, said Harry, but they are not so very easy. Here, a boy is talking to his brother about self denial, as if it were something little children ought to know; and I am sure I don't know, what it means. It surely_ don't mean anything we must do if we can't understand it.
But it does mean a great many things that a lit tle boy ought to do, and not to do; and so I will try to explain it to you. You deserve to have it ex plained, for then I think you will have the pleasure of discovering that you are sometimes good at de nying yourself.
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