she called out under Mrs. Read's window.

Didn't anybody love you?" said Dotty, putting her fingers under Mrs. Read's cap, and smoothing her soft gray hair; "why, I love every hair of your head.

Mr. Thomas Read's Saloop Coffee House was at No. 102 Fleet Street.

The following lines were painted on a board in Read's establishment: Come, all degrees now passing by, My charming liquor taste and try; To Lockyer come, and drink your fill; Mount Pleasant has no kind of ill.

ah, yes, that will do, But an old book is terrible stuff: Boy, get the new novel, stop, reading's so new, That a book will be novel enough!

A habit of reading idly debilitates and corrupts the mind for all wholesome reading; the habit of reading wisely is one of the most difficult habits to acquire, needing strong resolution and infinite pains; and reading for mere reading's sake, instead of for the sake of the good we gain from reading, is one of the worst and commonest and most unwholesome habits we have.

His wife assisted him, and after his death carried on his business, advertising that, 'The Lady Read, in Durham Yard, in the Strand, having obtained a peculiar method of couching cataracts and curing all diseases of the eyes, by Sir William Read's method and medicines, and having had above 15 years' experience ...

Friendly relations had continued between me and Mrs. Read's family; I pitied poor Miss Read's unfortunate situation, and our mutual affection revived.

Friendly relations had continued between me and Mrs. Read's family; I pitied poor Miss Read's unfortunate situation, and our mutual affection revived.

But Mary Read's felicity was of short duration; the husband died, and peace being concluded, her business diminished.

Battles and Leaders of the Civil War (composed largely of articles that had previously appeared in the Century Magazine; Whittier's Barbara Frietchie; Coffin's Winning his Way and other stories; Soley's Sailor Boys of '61; Trowbridge's Drummer Boy and other stories; Read's Sheridan's Ride; Champlin's Young Folks' History of the War for the Union).