_Miss._ How do you do, nurse? I am come to see you. Mamma gave me leave
to come and spend the day with you.
_Woman._ I am glad to see you here, Miss.
_Miss._ Pray call me as you did when I came to you to stay; you were so
good to me! you soon made me well. I like you should say, My dear. I
love you.—I ought to love those who are kind to me, and nurse me.
_Woman._ I did not think you would have me say so. But, my dear, if you
are so good, I think I cannot but love you.
_Miss._ Where is _Betsy_? I want to see her.
_Woman._ She shall come; she longs to see you; I see her; she is just
by.
_Little Girl._ How do you do; I am glad to see you here, Miss.
_Miss._ Ah, _Betsy_! how you are grown! I should scarce know you.
_Little Girl._ You are as much grown, Miss; you were but so tall when
you were here.
_Miss._ Let us run and jump; and I want to see all your things.
_Little Girl._ Will you like to see the cows? or shall we go and see
the lambs?
_Miss._ O, yes! let us go.
_Little Girl._ They are just by. I have a tame lamb; I reared it with
milk, warm from the cow.
_Miss._ I like sheep, they look so mild; when I went home I had a
great deal to tell my sister. She did not know that a lamb was a young
sheep.
_Woman._ How could she, my dear, till she was told?—_you_ would not
have known, if you had not been told.
_Miss._ I told her that we cut the wool off the backs of the sheep, and
wore it. I told her how I had seen the lambs frisk and jump. I told her
that I had seen you milk, and make cheese;—she did not know that cream
came off the milk!
_Woman._ Did _you_ know when you came to me?
_Miss._ No—I did not.
_Woman._ You cannot know what you are not taught.
_Miss._ Tell me more, and when I go home I will tell my sister.
_Woman._ Come with me and we will talk; and I will show you the cow and
her calf.
[Illustration: Cow]
[Illustration: Child reading]