Excerpt from Ella: Or, Turning Over a New Leaf What Ella resolved to do - Ah old story - School - A boy's trick - The squirter-e11a's revenge - Pursuit and escape - Ralph's ducking -the complaint - Tears - Ella's mistake - Her feelings-ralph's good-nature - Ella reploved - Her excuse - Her duty to George Unsuccessful attempts to do bette1' - i-ier confession - Want of con fidence - Throwing the blame on George - Good resolutions must have no ifs - Dinner - Geurge called to account-ella at school More talk about the resolution - Adopting it for a day - An incident in Mrs. Preston's life - How she conquered several bad habits Se ving God by the day - Firm decision - Prayer - Ella alone - The m itten resolution - Ilelp sought from above - The drawer locked. 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.