A fifth day in Mary Carrow's school by Anonymous
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A fifth day in Mary Carrow's school by Anonymous is a didactic children’s story, likely intended for Sunday-school readers, written in the mid-19th century. It portrays a single school day shaped by nature study, simple science, and Scripture, using everyday scenes to teach diligence, kindness, and faith. The book opens with siblings Eddy and Lily Forester helping their mother at their cottage, admiring a new beehive, and walking to school while observing
ants, rescuing a caterpillar, and politely asking their pastor for flowers. In class, Mary leads a lively “philosophy” lesson on air—colour and weight—demonstrated by a leather “sucker” and a teapot lid pierced to let liquid pour freely; the children then crown Susan for her quick insight. After a rest at a spring, Mary explains bees—the queen, drones, workers, wax-making, comb-building, and swarming. During sewing time she reads a true tale of blind widow Amy Duncan and her faithful son Jamie, whose simple trust in God sustains them. Under the oak, Mary answers Eddy’s question about wealth and poverty with Bible readings that affirm work as God’s good law for all, illustrating how the wealthy Thompsons labor to reform and uplift their factory community. The day closes with the scholars neatly prepared for an afternoon of cheerful hay-making at the Linns’, their play and industry harmonizing with the book’s gentle moral lessons. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Anonymous |
|---|---|
| Title | A fifth day in Mary Carrow's school |
| Alternate Title | 5th day in Mary Carrow's school |
| Original Publication | Philadelphia, PA: American Sunday-School Union, 1852. |
| Credits | Eloise Tara Unerman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres |
| Subject | Sunday school literature |
| Subject | Elementary schools -- Juvenile fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 78896 |
| Release Date | Jun 19, 2026 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 2243 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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