FRONTISPIECE

You have done well my children-you make me more and more happy every day. CHAP. 26.

SECONDARY LESSONS,

OR THE

IMPROVED READER:

INTENDED AS A SEQUEL

TO THE

FRANKLIN PRIMER.

BY

A FRIEND OF YOUTH.

I would rather speak five words with my understanding, than ten
thousand words in an unknown tongue.'-PAUL

villand, Sammes

THIRTY-THIRD EDITION.

PHELPS & INGERSOLL, GREENFIELD, MASS.

BOSTON CROCKER AND BREWSTER.

NEW YORK: MAHLON DAY.