Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 44770-h.htm or 44770-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/44770/44770-h/44770-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/44770/44770-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/daisysworkthirdc00mathiala DAISY'S WORK. [Illustration] FLOWERETS. [Illustration] * * * * * * Flowerets. A SERIES OF STORIES ON THE COMMANDMENTS. BY JOANNA H. MATHEWS, _Author of the "Bessie Books."_ I. VIOLET'S IDOL. THE FIRST AND SECOND COMMANDMENTS $0.75 II. DAISY'S WORK. THE THIRD COMMANDMENT 0.75 III. ROSE'S TEMPTATION. THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT 0.75 IV. LILY'S LESSON. THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT 0.75 V. HYACINTHE AND HER BROTHERS. THE SIXTH COMMANDMENT 0.75 VI. PINKIE AND THE RABBITS. THE EIGHTH, NINTH, AND TENTH COMMANDMENTS 0.75 _The set in a neat box, $4.50._ ROBERT CARTER AND BROTHERS, _New York_. * * * * * * [Illustration] DAISY'S WORK. The Third Commandment. by JOANNA H. MATHEWS, Author of the "Bessie Books." "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain." "Let your communication be yea, yea, and nay, nay; for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil." [Illustration] New York: Robert Carter and Brothers, 530, Broadway. 1870. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, by Robert Carter and Brothers, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. Cambridge: Press of John Wilson and Son. [Illustration] TO _MY DEAR LITTLE COUSIN_, LULU CHAUNCEY. [Illustration] [Illustration] CONTENTS. PAGE I. THE LITTLE FLOWER-GIRL 11 II. A CLUSTER OF DAISIES 35 III. THE DAISY TRANSPLANTED 63 IV. DAISY'S SISTER FLOWERETS 85 V. DAISY AT STUDY 107 VI. DAISY A TEACHER 127 VII. THE SWEARING CLASS 151 VIII. DAISY'S NAME 181 IX. THE LOST FOUND 201 [Illustration] [Illustration] THE LITTLE FLOWER-GIRL. [Illustration] [Illustration] DAISY'S WORK. I. THE LITTLE FLOWER-GIRL. THERE stood our Daisy. What a Daisy it was too; what a fair, sweet floweret; pure and innocent-looking as the blossoms over which she bent. There she stood beside her basket of flowers, a little spot of brightness and beauty amidst all the dust and heat and turmoil of the noisy street, on that warm summer afternoon.