Our town and civic duty

Chapter 66: A HORSE’S PETITION TO HIS DRIVER

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A school reader for elementary pupils offers short stories, adapted tales, and practical lessons that introduce civic virtues such as courage, self-control, thrift, perseverance, kindness to animals, and patriotism. It then profiles public servants—police, mail carriers, firemen, street cleaners, and sanitation workers—to illustrate dependence, interdependence, and community cooperation. Subsequent sections address personal and public safety, sanitation, and insect control, and conclude with guidance on Junior Red Cross activities and patriotic service. Teacher notes recommend dramatization, discussion, and hands-on projects to connect classroom learning with daily civic habits and to encourage respect for public institutions and duties.

A HORSE’S PETITION TO HIS DRIVER

Up the hill whip me not,

Down the hill hurry me not,

In the stable forget me not,

Of hay and grain rob me not,

Of clean water stint me not,

With sponge and brush neglect me not,

Of soft, dry bed deprive me not,

When sick or cold chill me not,

With bit or rein jerk me not,

And, when angry, strike me not.

—Selected.