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Of the sixty-six selections in the early edition only
forty-seven were retained, while thirty new ones
were inserted. Among the latter were "Harry and
his Dog Frisk" that brought to him, punished by be-
ing sent to bed, a Windsor pear; "Perseverance," a
tale of kite-flying followed by the poem, "Try, try
again;" the "Little Philosopher," named Peter Hur-
dle, who caught Mr. Lenox's runaway horse and
on examination seemed to lack nothing but an
Eclectic spelling book, a reader and a Testament
which were promised him; "The Colonists," in which
men of various callings offered their services, and
while even the dancing master was accepted as of
some possible use, the gentleman was scornfully
rejected; "Things by Their Right Names," in which
a battle was described as wholesale murder; "Little
Victories," in which Hugh's mother consoled him
for the loss of a leg by telling him of the lives of
men who became celebrated under even greater ad-
versities; "The Wonderful Instrument," which
turned out to be the eye; "Metaphysics," a ludicrous
description of a colonial salt-box in affected terms
of exactness designed to ridicule some forms of
reasoning. Those who used this edition of the third
reader will surely remember some of these selec-
tions.
  In the Fourth Reader printed in 1844 there were
thirty new selections-less than one-third of the
book; but some of these were such as will be re-
membered by those who read them in school. There
was "Respect for the Sabbath Rewarded," in which