THE
BOYS AND GIRLS
LIBRARY
BY PETER PARLEY
LONDON.
Published by H. G. Collins.
THE
BOYS’ AND GIRLS’ LIBRARY;
CONTAINING
A VARIETY OF USEFUL AND INSTRUCTIVE READING,
SELECTED FROM EMINENT
WRITERS FOR YOUTH,
BY PETER PARLEY.
LONDON:
H. G. COLLINS, PATERNOSTER ROW.
MDCCCLI.
CONTENTS.
| PAGE | |
| Childhood | 7 |
| The Old Year and the New Year | 9 |
| The Story of Edward Lyon; or, Confessing a Fault | 10 |
| To my good Angel | 16 |
| Self-Denial | 17 |
| Henry and his Sister | 24 |
| Anna and her Kitten | 26 |
| Faithfulness | 28 |
| The Great Man | 41 |
| Philosophy in Common things.—The Air Thermometer | 43 |
| The Rabbit | 52 |
| “ Sleigh Ride | 55 |