The Mount Vernon reader Author:Jacob Abbott Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: way. When you are playing with your brothers and sisters at home, be always ready to give them more than their share of privileges. Manifest an obliging disposit... more »ion, and they cannot but regard you with affection. In all your intercourse with others, at home or abroad, let these feelings influence you. and you will receive a rich reward. LESSON V. THE AFFABLE BOY. 1. Fred. Clever, as the boys used to call him, had gone but a few steps from the house, on his way to school, when he espied a bundle, tied up in a silk handkerchief, lying just off the edge of the sidewalk. He picked it up, and found it was a bundle of clothes, neatly done up, to be carried to the washerwoman's. Looking about him to observe who might have dropped it, he saw a boy a few rods ahead with a number of bundles just like it, slung on each arm. 2. Frederick ran to overtake him; which he did without much difficulty, for the boy went shuffling along at a very moderate rate, seeming not to be thinking particularly of the errand he was upon, or of " Yankee Doodle," that he was whistling—or of the accommodation of the other passengers upon the side walk, for whom he did not trouble himself to turn out with his bundles, either to the right or the left. 3. "Here!" said Frederick, as he came up to him, " haven't you dropped a bundl; ?" " Hol—loa!" exclaimed the boy, with a broad stare, as he made arrangements for attaching the restored bundle to his other stock;—" If I had lost that!—Mr. Mickson's," he continued, as Frederick kindly helped him make it more secure,—"there would have been a fine time, if his clothes had been lost!" " Well, take good care of them in future," said Frederick, pleasantly, as he turned to go on his way again. 4. " Stop a second," said the boy, as he thrust his hand into...« less