Identifier: eveningsathomeor00inaiki (find matches)
Title: Evenings at home, or, The juvenile budget opened : consisting of a variety of miscellaneous pieces for the instruction and amusement of young persons
Year: 1839 (1830s)
Authors: Aikin, John, 1747-1822. cn Barbauld, Mrs. (Anna Letitia), 1743-1825. cn Corbould, Henry, 1787-1844. cn Heath, Charles, 1785-1848. cn
Subjects: Didactic fiction Conduct of life
Publisher: London : James Cornish & Co.
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Pittsburgh Library System

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uliet saw that in going on at thisrate it would take days instead of hours to workthe flower, so she laid down the needle and fell acrying. After this had continued some time,she was startled at the sound of somewhat stamp-ing on the floor ; and taking her handkerchieffrom her eyes, she spied a neat diminutive fe-male figure advancing towards her. She was asupright as an arrow, and had not so much as ahair out of its place, or the least article of herdress rumpled or discomposed. When she cameup to Juliet, * My dear, said she, 1 heard youcrying, and knowing you to be a good girl inthe main, I am come to your assistance. Myname is Order ; your mamma is well acquaintedwith me, though this is the first time you eversaw me. • But I hope we shall know one anotherbetter for the future. She then jumped uponthe table, and with a wand gave a tap upon theheap of entangled silk. Immediately the threadsseparated, and arranged themselves in a longrow, consisting of little skeins, in which all of
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ORDER AND DISORDER. 47 the same colour were collected together, thoseapproaching nearest in shade being placed nexteach other. This done, she disappeared. Juliet,as soon as her surprise was over, resumed herwork, and found it go on with ease and plea-sure. She finished the flower by dinner time,and obtained great praise for the neatness of theexecution. The next day, the ill-natured fairy came upwith a great book under her arm. * This, saidshe, is my mistresss house-book, and she saysyou muse draw out against dinner an exact ac-count of what it has cost her last year in all thearticles of house-keeping, including clothes, rent,taxes, wages, and the like. You must stateseparately the amount of every article under theheads of baker, butcher, milliner, shoemaker,and so forth, taking special care not to miss asingle thing entered down in the book. Here is aquire of paper and a parcel of pens. So saying,with a malicious grin she left her. Juliet turned pale at the very thought of thetask s

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