: Cobwebs to catch flies by Lovechild Mrs - Natural history Juvenile literature; Readers (Primary); Dialogues; Children Conduct of life Juvenile literature

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Release date: October 3, 2023

Original publication: New York: C. S. Francis & Co, 1851

COBWEBS TO CATCH FLIES.

NEW YORK: C. S. FRANCIS & CO., 252 BROADWAY.

BOSTON: J. H. FRANCIS, 128 WASHINGTON STREET.

ADVERTISEMENT.

The writer of these volumes was advised by a friend to prefix an Advertisement to them, explaining their design. Her answer to that friend was to this effect:

"Those for whom they are designed will not need an explanation; and others will not regard it. The mother, who is surrounded by smiling prattlers, will enter with spirit into my first Dialogues: will declare that they are such as she has wished for a thousand times; and that she esteems herself obliged to me, for having condescended to march in shackles, for the sake of keeping pace with her infant; she will be aware of some difficulty in the task; she will allow that it is not easy to move gracefully, when we shorten our steps to those of a child. She will, therefore, pardon such inaccuracies as arise from the necessity of confining the language to short words.

"For the rest, I am persuaded that a book of this kind will be acceptable.

"The mother who herself watches the dawn of reason in her babe; who teaches him the first rudiments of knowledge; who infuses the first ideas in his mind; will approve my COBWEBS. She will, if she be desirous of bringing her little darling forward; she will be aware of the consequence of the first lessons, where nothing meets the eye of the learner but objects with which he is already familiar; nothing arises to his mind, but subjects with which he begins to be acquainted; sentiments level to his capacity, explained in words which are suited to his progress.

TO MY LITTLE READERS.

MY DEARS:

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