The National Preceptor, Or Selections in Prose and Poetry ...: Designed for the Use of Schools and AcademiesPratt, Woodford & Company, 1852 |
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Page 100 - ... which was alternately his chair and bed ; a little calendar of small sticks were laid at the head, notched all over with the dismal days and nights he had passed there. He had one of these little sticks in his hand, and with a rusty nail he was etching another day of misery to add to the heap. As I darkened the little light he had, he lifted up a hopeless eye towards the door, then cast it down, shook his head, and then went on with his work of affliction.