[Picture: The milkmaid]
If any of my little readers wish to be as healthy and merry as Betty the
milkmaid, they must work hard, and rise early in the morning, instead of
lying in bed while every body else is about his business, and idling
their time till they go to bed again. Betty is obliged to get up as soon
as it is light, and then takes a walk into the fields to fetch her cows.
When she has milked their full udders into her clean pails, she sets off
again, and carries it from door to door, time enough for her customers to
have it for breakfast. As every one knows the business of a milkmaid, I
shall say no more about it; but advise those to remember her example, who
wish to make themselves happy or useful.