



LITERATURE IN GRAMMAR GRADES 39 



pie had no love, and they piled up their rubbish against the 

 chimney, then covered it with logs so that it couldn't be seen, 

 and they were also talking ill of their neighbors most of the 

 time. 



They tried to save in everything and when they had pork, 

 they only put a little salt on it. They thought that the " Ser- 

 mon on the Mount " is no more than an outdated almanac. 

 These people had plenty of land but they didn't till any 

 more than half of it. When the beggar came for something 

 to eat they refused him but he thought that he was better 

 off in his best than they were by the way they were living. 



Whittier says that a home is not like the one just de- 

 scribed when there is love, happiness, and beauty, and people 

 plant flowers and vines. He also says that if people have 

 the money they should have nice homes as most of them are 

 now but once in a while a bad one is found. At the last 

 of the prelude Whittier calls happiness " Golden Age " and 

 he thinks that it ought to come to every one living in this 

 country, 



" Where whoso wisely wills and acts may dwell 

 As king and lawgiver, in broadacred state, 

 With beauty, art, taste, culture, books, to make 

 His hour of leisure richer than a life 

 Of fourscore to barons of old time." 



This paper shows what is so often found in those gram- 

 mar grades that are so fortunate as to be encouraged into 

 thought growth and thought expression, a power of 

 thought in advance of mechanical accuracy. It is a natural 

 condition under the circumstances just mentioned, and it 

 is far safer for the child's development than when the reverse 



