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me so often, that I can repeat every word in thorn.'—!t( I am
glad to hear it,'* replied the good man ; u I only wish I con Id
buy books as fast as you can learn them, since you pay such
close attention, 11 ittvever, when 1'armer Giles goes to town,
next week, I nil! give him sixpence to buy tho Ladder of
Learning for you ; I know he will be so kind as to bring it*1—
“ Thank you, kindly,duar father,1' said l*eUr, “ and I promise
you I will soon climb up to the top of the ladder, step by step,

11 All I tl« ;rc is a stnrr,
T o b y up li'aruin^Ji lore.11
Peter* in the course of another week, could repeat to his
father all ihat was in the Ladder of Learning, and began tn
sigh for an increase to hid little library ; but money he had
none, nor could his father at that time spare another sixpence,
having little employ. At length Peter earned a few pcncc by

scaling the crows from Farmer Giles’s corn-ficlds, and saved
enough to buy the famous book of Susan Gray; but this^ iike