10 EDITH, THE YOUNG TEACHER.

Mary shook her head. “I must be at
the school-house on the green before
the clock strikes nine,” she said, ‘‘and
I wish to know whether my little niece
would like to go with me this pleasant
morning. It seems a long time since
she was there.”

“Tt zs along time, aunt Mary,” said

 Bdith: “I have not been since the

winter, when mamma thought that I
took cold on coming out of a warm
room, and she was afraid to let me go
again. Dear mamma, can you spare
me this morning ?”

“Veg, you may go, my dear,” said
Mrs. Austen; “and be sure that you
attend closely to all that goes forward
in the class, and to the manner in
which aunt Mary instructs her scho-
lars; for I hope and pray that when
you are old enough you also may