The Magic Spectacles And Other Tales

Author : Chauncey Giles
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781230077802
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (778 download)

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Download or read book The Magic Spectacles written by Chauncey Giles and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 edition. Excerpt: ...come, that she might call upon her friends, the notes, who lived in the various lines and spaces, and give her new method of learning another trial. She found she could remember her lesson much better than ever before. Her careful attention to the lines and spaces, and the names of the notes on them; the comparison of one with another, and the living interest excited by making them talk to her, had so fixed them in her memory that she found no difficulty in recalling them. The hour passed pleasantly away, and she was surprised, when her mother called her, to find the time had been so short. Now she was to put the reality of her possession of a magical power to another and severer test. Clara was a quick, nervous, and restless girl, and all kinds of confinement and patient attention to little things were very irksome to her. Sewing was her especial dislike. She had not the patience to take stitch after stitch, to make them even, and keep her work straight. Her mother, however, thought it necessary for her to learn to sew, and a part of two days in the week was spent in doing it. "Now," she thought, "if I can see how to do my sewing well, and can learn to like it, I shall know for certain that I have some new and magical power." She took up her work with more interest than usual, though it was more difficult and trying than she had ever attempted before. Her mother prepared her work for her; told her how to do it, and cautioned her to be patient and do it as nicely as she could. "Now I shall need my spectacles," she said to herself, "and I must remember how to use them. 'One thing at a time.' That is certainly good advice in sewing. 'Look sharp.' That I must do or I shall get the stitches long and short, ...