Excerpt from Home and Its Pleasures: Simple Stories for Young People The little who attended Mrs. Page's school in the village had just been dismissed with the agreeable promise that, in consequence of their good behaviour and progress during the last two months, this day week should be a holiday. They dispersed in different directions home ward in high spirits at the thought, and full of plans as to the pleasantest way of spending it. There was one among them, a girl of about twelve, who, as she went on, was surrounded by a knot of the youngest children in the school; one clung to her frock, two had hold of her hands, and three or four capered round and round her, all asking questions at once. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.