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Identifier: studyofchild00hoga (find matches)
Title: A study of a child
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Hogan, Louise Eleanor (Shimer), Mrs., 1855-1929. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Child study. (from old catalog)
Publisher: New York and London, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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was five. At thirty he said firstzehn und zwanzig then corrected himself, and said, dreizig. When singing to himself to-day, in spite of a cold, andkeeping time and showing expression, he sang first thesong, Good - morning, Merry Sunshine, which is afavorite; then he began : Good-morning, good-morning, kind teacher so dear,How gladly we greet you, till all doth appear ;Our playmates we welcome, each one with delight— (Here I asked him what delight meant. He said, Withhappiness—very glad.) Then he went on— Our hearts are so happy, because we do right. (Here he turned to me and said, It isnt write, but be-cause we do right—do the right thing.) Then he com-pleted the song— Good-morning, good-morning, our dear little school,How happy we are in obeying each rule ;For love is our motto in work and in play,So let us be thankful for each happy day. We followed nature - work and science stories withfairy stories at six, instead of giving fairy stories first. 196 B ItflO i t fj # ; H
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1896 DRAWINGS—SIX TEARS OLD A, harp ; B, stationary, drilling, and stone-cracking engines, and a horse with a steam engineinside with a handle, a, to make his legs work ; C, birds on a telegraph wire ; D, side andtopof a war boat; E, Mrs. Fan crying; F, heater; G, This is the way a flying ship looks,mamma; H, a little boy on his sled — he is lost and so far away from his house that you canhardly see it; I, shell - thrower — a, heres the explosion — b, heres the end of the shell;J, electric fire-engine — the wheels are turning so fast that you cant see them; K, cable caron bridge. SEVENTH YEAR I find be lias therefore no fear of goblins, because heknows they are myths; yet he loves the make-believepart, and, for so young a child, he has developed greatpower in creating fairy stories. November 6th.—He said to-day, Mamma, what doesatmosphere mean ? She said, The air around us.Then he said, Does the air mean atmosphere, or doesatmosphere mean air ? I thought atmosphere meant a

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