A DAY IN MARY CARROW’S SCHOOL. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Illustration: ~First Day.~ Anne Lyle standing by her Papa. p. 17. ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A DAY IN MARY CARROW’S SCHOOL American Sunday-School Union. _PHILADELPHIA_: 146 CHESTNUT ST. _NEW YORK_: 147 NASSAU ST. _BOSTON_: 9 CORNHILL. _LOUISVILLE_: 103 FOURTH ST. -------------------------------- Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1848, by the AMERICAN SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. -------------------------------- → No books are published by the AMERICAN SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION without the sanction of the Committee of Publication, consisting of fourteen members, from the following denominations of Christians, viz. Baptist, Methodist, Congregationalist, Episcopal, Presbyterian and Reformed Dutch. Not more than three of the members can be of the same denomination, and no book can be published to which any member of the Committee shall object. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A DAY IN MARY CARROW’S SCHOOL. -------------------------------- After the roll had been called, the little boys and girls were invited to say a lesson first; because Mary, the teacher, thought the bigger ones could better understand why they were to wait. They took their places in the class, and she gave out words of two syllables for them to spell; such as Cam-el, Pea-cock, Hen-coop, Par-lor, Tea-cup. When they had done spelling, she allowed them to ask questions. One little boy, whose name was Harry Linn, asked what a camel was? And Mary took down a large book from the shelf, and showed him a picture of a camel, and told him that it was a native both of Arabia and of Africa, and that it could travel eight or nine days without water, over the sandy deserts of those countries. It is covered with a hairy fur, which it sheds in the spring, and this fur is used to make coarse cloth shawls. The camel kneels down to receive burdens, and when it is loaded it will rise again. Harry was very much surprised, when his teacher told him that the camel could carry men and burdens like a horse or an ass, and could travel a great distance with a weight of eight hundred or a thousand pounds upon its back; and that it gave milk for drink, like a cow.