let nobody
go out or any one come in without the leave of his mistress.

But one day a dreadful accident happened in the school. It was on a
Thursday morning, I very well remember, when the children having learned
their lessons soon, she had given them leave to play, and they were all
running about the school and diverting themselves with the birds and the
lamb. At this time the dog, all of a sudden, laid hold of his mistress's
apron and endeavored to pull her out of the school. She was at first
surprised; however, she followed him to see what he intended.

No sooner had he led her into the garden than he ran back and pulled out
one of the children in the same manner; upon which she ordered them all
to leave the school immediately; and they had not been out five minutes
before the top of the house fell in. What a miraculous deliverance was
here! How gracious! How good was God Almighty, to save all these
children from destruction, and to make use of such an instrument as a
little sagacious animal to accomplish His divine will! I should have
observed that as soon as they were all in the garden, the dog came
leaping round them to express his joy, and when the house had fallen,
laid himself down quietly by his mistress.

Some of the neighbors, who saw the school fall and who were in great
pain for Margery and the little ones, soon spread the news through the
village, and all the parents, terrified for their children, came
crowding in abundance; they had, however, the satisfaction to find them
all safe, and upon their knees, with their mistress, giving God thanks
for their happy deliverance.

You are not to wonder, my dear reader, that this little dog should have
more sense than you, or your father, or your grandfather.

Though God Almighty has made man the lord of creation, and endowed him
with reason, yet in many respects He has been altogether as bountiful to
other creatures of His forming. Some of the senses of other animals are
more acute than ours, as we find by daily experience.

The downfall of the school was a great misfortune to Mrs. Margery; for
she not only lost all her books, but was destitute of a place to teach
in. Sir William Dove, being informed of this, ordered the house to be
built at his own expense, and till that could be done, Farmer Grove was
so kind as to let her have his large hall to teach in.

While at Mr. Grove's, which was in the heart of the village, she not
only taught the children in th