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Posted: 09 Jul 2013

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An Easy and Pleasant Guide to the Art of Reading?

An Easy and Pleasant Guide to the Art of Reading?
I picked up this battered copy of The New England Primer after noticing how it claimed to be An Easy and Pleasant Guide to the Art of Reading just above the woodcut illustration showing a man being burned at the stake as a crowd of children and adults uneasily watch the gruesome and unpleasant scene.

"The New England Primer Improved, or An Easy and Pleasant Guide to the Art of Reading; To Which Is Added the Assembly's Shorter Catechism. Pittsburgh: United Presbyterian Board of Publication."

Smiley Derleth, , have particularly liked this photo

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 PopKulture
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Heartwarming children's fare! :-)
10 years ago.

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