Social Evenings

Excerpt from Social Evenings: Or, Historical Tales for Youth "I am so happy!" exclaimed Julia Seymour, as she hastily collected the basket of books, which had been her daily companions since the long-gone Christmas holydays, and, carefully placing a small roll of parchment above them, hurried after a group of young school-mates, who gathered around their teacher, Mr. Grahame, to bid him farewell, until the first week in May, when they would once more assemble in the schoolroom. Prizes had been that day distributed; and many a young girl blushed with pleasure, when the kind instructer, calling one after another by name, presented each, in turn, with some pretty gift, accompanied by those few words of commendation, which please young people even more than presents. To one, he gave a silver pencil-case; to another, a pen-knife. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.