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Title: Sixth reader for the use of schools
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Newell, McFadden Alexander
Subjects: Readers
Publisher: Kelly, Piet
Contributing Library: Towson University, Special Collections at the Albert S. Cook Library
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e sermons in theworld for teaching the virtues of patience and long-suffering. Atermagant wife may, therefore, in some respects, be considered atolerable blessing; and if so. Hip Van Winkle was thrice blessed. 5. Certain it is, that he vras a great favorite among all the goodwives of the village, who, as usual, v/ith the amiable sex, took hispr.rt in all family squabbles; and never failed, whenever they talkedthose matters over in their evening gossipings, to lay all the blameov. Dame Van Winkle. The children of the village, too, would.•hout with joy whenever he approached. He assisted at theirsports, made their playthings, taught them to fly kites and shootmarbles, and told them long stories of ghosts, witches and IndiansWhenever he went dodging about the village he was surrounded bya troop of thorn, hanging on his skirts, clambering on his back, and 184 THE SIXTH READER. plajiug a thousand tricks on liiin with impunity; and not a dogWGild bark at him throu2;hout the neio-hborhood.
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.-£5 5.-. 6. The great error in Rips composition was an insuperable aver-sion to all kinds of profitable labor. It could not be from the wantof assiduity or perseverance ; for he would sit on a wet rock, with arod as long and heavy as a Tartars lance, and fish all day without amurmur, even though he should not be encouraged by a singlenibble. He would carry a fowling-piece on his shoulder for hourstogether, trudging through woods and swamps, and up hill anddown dale, to shoot a few s()(uirrels or wild pigeons. He wouldnever refuse to assist a neighbor even in the roughest toil, and wasa foremost man at all country frolics for husking Indian corn, orbuilding stonc-fcnccs; the women of tlie village, too, used to em-ploy him to run their errands, and to do such little odd jobs as theirless obliging husbands would not do for them. In a word, Kip wasready to attend to anybodys business but his own; but as to doing EIP VAN WINKLE. 185 family duty, and keeping his farm in order, lie found i

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