With mamma for a teacher,

’Tis easy to learn;

Her eye gives her boy courage,

As hard pages turn.

She says, “Now, my dear Freddy,

Learn every word right;

If you’re patient, the hard spots

Will vanish from sight.

“When this task is well finished,

Your work will be done;

Then the time comes for playing,

Says every one.

“Your fleet rock-horse is waiting;

And baby shall see.”

Freddy learned well his lessons,

And rides full of glee.

Don’t tell me of to-morrow,

There is much to do to-day,

That can never be accomplished,

If we throw the hours away.

Every moment has its duty—

Who the future can foretell?

Then why put off till to-morrow,

What to-day can do as well?