Jessie

Chapter 2: PREFACE.

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A teenage girl confronts sudden family misfortune and poverty, taking work in a new household while nurturing a quiet ambition to earn an honorable reputation. Through episodic scenes—keeping a journal, organizing civic celebrations, resolving childhood disputes, building snow-houses and ice-boats, and learning practical skills—she demonstrates perseverance, kindness, and self-improvement. Moral instruction and domestic adventure are woven together to encourage young readers, particularly those of limited means, to cultivate industry, conscience, and steady purpose.

PREFACE.

While this series of books is designed to furnish a succession of pleasant and instructive lessons and recreations for boys and girls, each volume has also a specific aim, more or less prominently wrought into its woof. The special object of Jessie is to kindle in the hearts of the young, especially the children of misfortune and poverty, a pure and noble ambition, and to encourage them to strive for that “good name” whose price is far above rubies, and that “conscience void of offence” which is of still more inestimable value.