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Title: Harper's story books. A series of narratives, dialogues, biographies, and tales, for the instruction and entertainment of the young. Embellished with numerous and beautiful engravings
Year: 1854 (1850s)
Authors: Abbott, Jacob, 1803-1879
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Publisher: New York, Harper
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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erately and foolishly in showingtheir kindness. Other men it makes cross and quarrelsome. Thisman was cross. He had been beating his oxen cruelly before hecame up with the traveler. Any one, however, has a right to refuse to allow a traveler toride upon his cart or wagon if he chooses, no matter what thereason may be. So the teamster drove on, while the traveler stood out on oneside to let the cart go by. As soon as it had gone by, he walked along after it, taking holdof one of the stakes behind. The teamster did not see him, anddid not know that he was there. Presently the traveler said to himself, Ill jump on behind, andride on one of his barrels. He will never know it. 76 THE CASTLE AND THE CART. Ready to jump. Does the traveler do right i So he jumped on behind, and took his seat on one of the bar-rels, as you see him in the picture. He is turning round to seeif the teamster is looking, and he is putting one of his feet downtoward the ground, ready to jump off at a moments notice.
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CROSSING THE BRIDGE. The weight of the man loads the hind-end of the cart so heav-ily as to bear it down, and lift the tongue in such a manner as tobear up the bows of the yoke against the throats of the oxen.The teamster wonders what makes his cart tip down so much be-hind, and the oxen wonder what it is that chokes them so. The traveler is wrong in doing this. The cart belongs to the THE RAT STORY. 77 The tower. A story about a company of traveling rats. teamster, and it is wrong for any one to attempt to ride upon itwithout his consent. No boy has a right to ride upon any persons sleigh, or cart, orcarriage, or on any other vehicle whatever, without the ownersconsent. Riding in that manner is stealing a ride ; and it is wrongto steal a ride, just as it is wrong to steal any thing else. Beyond the oxen we see the tower of an ancient castle. Thetower is round. There are battlements at the top of it. Thebattlements of a tower are made to protect the soldiers who arefighting to defend

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