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Catch a glimpse of Quaker life as Hannah and her family go to Meeting and to market, host a gathering of Friends, enjoy ice skating and other pastimes. Join Hannah as she helps bring an escaped slave woman and her sick son to safety. Will Hannah ever understand the value of plain dress, and learn to be contented as a Friend? Find out in the picture storybook for young readers.

Eli loves outdoor work and play, the wild animals, and building a bench for his mom. But Mom says he must go to school. Though Eli expects the teacher to be ugly and cross, Master Christopher Dock, is kind, firm, and patient.

Details of pioneer living and education fill out the story. Eli's mischief gets him into trouble, but Master Christopher urges him to become a good student and rewards him with a trip to Germantown and a prize of Fraktur artwork.

This reissued 1939 classic tells a treasured tale about a boy and the praying pioneer schoolmaster, Christopher Dock, the first in America to write a book on pedagogy.

In spite of her best efforts, Lydia is much more interested in the wagon coming down the road; in the stories granny tells, in stopping at Cousin Lavina's, who is making apple butter; in holding the new baby at Cousin Kate's; and even in chasing Nate's runaway pig.

But, finally, the roses on Lydia's hooked mat are finished.