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Caleb in town : a story for children

Abbott, Jacob, 1803-1879, 1839. A public-domain text about Boston, accessioned whole so the archive can quote it.

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Abbott, Jacob, 1803-1879

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Boston : Published by Crocker & Brewster, 47, Washington Street

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1839

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Digitized by tine Internet Arciiive in 2007 witii funding from IVIicrosoft Corporation littp://www.arcli ive.org/details/calebintownstoryOOabbo At-J.D N DAT IONS CALEB IN TOWN STORY FOR CHILDREN l^ AUTHOR OF THE ROLLO BOOKS. BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY CROCKER & BREWSTER, 47, Washington Street. 1839. 2iWr,^5}\ Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1839, By Crocker & Brewster, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts. STEREOTYPED AT THE BOSTON TYPE AND STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY. PREFATORY NOTICE. The object of this little work, and of others of its family, which may perhaps follow, is, like that of the " Rollo Books," to furnish useful and instructive reading to young children. The aim is not so directly to communicate knowledge, as it is to develop the moral and intellectual powers, — to cultivate habits of discrimination and correct reasoning, and to establish sound principles of moral conduct. jg The Rollo books embrace principally intellec- ^ tual and moral discipline : Caleb, and the S others of its family, will include also religious Hj training, according to the evangelical views of CO 4 PREFATORY NOTICE. Christian truth which the author has been accustomed to entertain, and which he has inculcated in his more serious writings. RoxBURY, /mwc, 1839. Cl<3i.ce4 >f^^^^ 0 A^T!-^aa CONTENTS CHAPTER 1. p^g^ The Mill-Dam 7 CHAPTER H. The Hawkies 27 CHAPTER HI. A City Walk 44 CHAPTER IV. Buying at Auction 67 CHAPTER V. Sabbath Morning 74 CHAPTER VI. Janson again 93 CHAPTER VH. Monday Morning 106 CHAPTER Vni. The End of the Hawkies 117 1* 6 CONTENTS. CHAPTER IX. Page^ Caleb's Story 12^ CHAPTER X. The Flannel Garden 139 CHAPTER XI. Shopping • • • . 153 CHAPTER XH. The Checker-Board 167 CALEB IN TOWN, CHAPTER I. THE MILL-DAM. One afternoon in October, a carryall was coming along one of the great roads leading into Boston. There was a gentleman and a lady upon the front seat of the carryall. On the back seat there was a beautiful and happy- looking girl, about seventeen years of age, at one side, and a bright-eyed boy on the other, who appeared to be about twelve. A much smaller boy, of a mild and gentle expression of countenance, sat between them. This boy in the middle was Caleb. He was coming back to Boston, after having spent the sum- mer with his grandmother, Madam Rachel, in the country. The lady and gentleman on the front seat were his father and mother. 8 CALEB IN TOWN. The curtains of the carryall were up all around. "There, Dwight," said Caleb, pointing out, " there, that is the State-House." It was a distant dome crowning the sum- mit of a hill as far as they could see before them. " It is not," said Dwight. " Yes, it ■ is," said Caleb. " Don't you suppose I know the State-House ? We live right before it." Dwight was one of those boys who often contradict what other children say, without any very good reason ; and so they get into constant disputes. He appealed to Caleb's father, who sat before him, to prove that Ca- leb was wrong. " Is that the State-House, brother George ?" said he. The gentleman looked out, and said it was. " There, I told you so," said Caleb. — Caleb ought not to have said that. It is wrong to triumph over any one, when they are proved

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