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Advice To A Little Girl |
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Title: Advice To A Little Girl Author: James McIntyre [More Titles by McIntyre] The following lines were written at the request of a little girl, who said she would recite them at a Sunday School entertainment. Prof. J. S. Blackie of Edinburgh, in a letter acknowledging the receipt of my book, said he considered this piece worthy of being committed to memory in the public schools. Sir Daniel Wilson of Toronto University also approves of them as containing good sentiments and should be impressed on the minds of the young. You will never be wrong if you do what is right, The best way to do is to let them rave Little girl on her way to Sunday School class, Little girls should learn to knit and to sew, And their homes they should make tidy and neat, [The end] GO TO TOP OF SCREEN |