PLAY AND EARNEST.

Play and Earnest.

A TALE.

BY FLORENCE WILFORD,

AUTHOR OF "THE MASTER OF CHURCHILL ABBOTS,"
"JOY IN DUTY," ETC.

Is not a life well spent

A child's play-garden, lent

For Heaven's high trust to train young heart and limb?"

LYRA INNOCENTIUM.

LONDON:

JOSEPH MASTERS, ALDERSGATE STREET,

AND NEW BOND STREET.

MDCCCLX.

249.4.277

PLAY AND EARNEST.

PART I.

"Little efforts work great actions,
Lessons in our childhood taught
Mould the spirit of that temper
Whereby noblest deeds are wrought."

C. F. ALEXANDER.

B