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Evenings at Home; Or, The Juvenile Budget Opened

Chapter 111: TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES
By John Aikin
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About This Book

A framed miscellany of short, accessible pieces presented as evening readings for young listeners, combining fables, dialogues, and natural-history sketches to instruct and amuse. The selections progress from simpler tales to more challenging explanations, offering animal stories, botanical and geological sketches, elementary scientific demonstrations, and occasional dramatic pieces. Many entries translate observation into practical lessons about conduct, industry, and curiosity, typically concluding with a clear moral or explanation. The overall aim is to cultivate understanding, reflection, and a taste for composition through varied subjects, plain language, and a gentle, graduated difficulty suitable for different ages.

EPILOGUE.

And now, so many Evenings past,
Our Budget’s fairly out at last;
Exhausted all its various store,
Nor like to be replenished more.
Then, youthful friends, farewell! my heart
Shall speak a blessing as we part.
May Wisdom’s seeds in every mind
Fit soil and careful culture find;
Each generous plant with vigour shoot.
And kindly ripen into fruit!
Hope of the world, the rising race
May Heaven with fostering love embrace,
And turning to a whiter page,
Commence with them a better age!
An age of light and joy, which we,
Alas! in promise only see.
J. A.
THE END

TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES

  1. Corrected and to any on p. 216.
  2. Corrected beating to heating on p. 223.
  3. Corrected my to by on p. 237.
  4. Added missing word I on p. 241.
  5. Corrected and to an on p. 308.
  6. Corrected “a ways” to “always” on p. 346.
  7. Removed unnecessary word “a” on p. 348.
  8. Silently corrected typographical errors.
  9. Retained anachronistic and non-standard spellings as printed.