the Prussian manuals, - if any such are used in the exercises referred to, the compiler of the "Child's First Book of Thought" has designed to do something to aid in calling out the powers of observation, comparison and reflection in the pupils of our Primary and other Schools, and among those children generally who shall make use of the work.

Its purpose is, to furnish the young mind with some of the necessary materials of thought; and in the hands of a teacher, or an elder brother or sister, to afford the means by question and answer in a variety of forms, to bring into exercise, the thinking and reflecting faculties of the young.

To some of the chapters are appended passages of Scripture, and reference to others, suitable to be read by the pupil or teacher at the close of the exercise to which they are attached.

When used by teachers it will be expected that they will enlarge upon the several topics, and multiply indefinitely the number of questions, as the work is designed to aid, but not by any means to supersede, their own labors. BOSTON, AUGUST, 1839.

THE

CHILD'S FIRST BOOK OF THOUGHT.

CHAPTER I.

PARTS OF THE BODY AND THEIR USES.

Q. What must we have to see with?
Q. What to hear with?

Q. To smell with?

Q. To run with?

Q. To touch with?
Q. To taste with?
Q. To talk with?

Q. To eat with?

Q. What must we do to find a thing?

Q. To see any thing?

Q. To learn any thing?

Q. To hear any thing?

Q. What must we do when we have fallen down?

Q. What must we do that we may avoid doing wrong?

A. Watch and pray.

Q. To whom should we pray?

Q. For what should we pray?

A. That we may not be led into temptation; but delivered from evil, or from doing wrong.

CHAPTER II.

THINGS FOR THE BODY.

Q. What do we want to clothe ourselves with?

Q. To cover the head with?

Q. For a girl to cover her head with?

Q. To cover the feet with?

Q. To tie the shoes with?

Q. To clean them with?

Q. What do we want to comb the head

with?

Q. To clean the teeth with?

Q. To make the clothes clean with? Q. What do we want when we are hungry?

Q. What do we want to cut our bread with?

Q. What do we want when we are thirsty?
Q. What when we are tired at night?
Q. What to make a fire with?
Q. What to cut it with?

Q. To saw it with?

Q. To buy it with?

Q. How can we get money honestly? Q. What do we mean by industry? Q. Who gives us the power to labor? Q. Does he require us to labor that we may be happy?

Q. Are the idle, or the industrious, the most happy?

CHAPTER III.

OF FOOD.

We obtain our food from animals and plants.

Q. From whence do we obtain our food?

[The design of the work is to have the pupil, in cases like these, answer the questions in the language of the previous statement which is supposed to be made by the parent or teacher.]

Q. Name some of the kinds of food that we get from animals?

A. Milk, Butter, Cheese, and Meat of all kinds.

Q. What animal gives us Milk?

Q. What is Butter made of? How is it made?

Q. What is Cheese made of?

Q. From what animals do we get our meat?

Q. The flesh of what animal is Beef?
Q. Of what animal is mutton?

Q. Of what is Lamb? Pork? Bacon? Venison ?

Q. Name some kinds of food that we get from plants?

A. Bread, vegetables and fruits.

Q. Who causes the plants to grow? Who made the animals? Is he good, or not? Should we love him, or not? Why?