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Title: Caleb in the Country

Author: Jacob Abbott

Release Date: December 24, 2007 [eBook #23989]

Language: English

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CALEB IN THE COUNTRY.

A Story for Children.

by

JACOB ABBOTT,

Author of "The Child at Home."

[Illustration: Caleb in the country.]

Halifax:
Milner and Sowerby.
1852.

PREFATORY NOTICE.

The object of this little work, and of others of its family, which may
perhaps follow, is, like that of the "Rollo Books," to furnish useful
and instructive reading to young children. The aim is not so directly to
communicate knowledge, as it is to develop the moral and intellectual
powers,--to cultivate habits of discrimination and correct reasoning,
and to establish sound principles of moral conduct. The "Rollo Books"
embrace principally intellectual