Excerpt from The North-Carolina Journal of Education, Vol. 5: February, 1862 To meet at the breakfast-table father, mother, children, all well, ought to be a happiness to any heart; it should be a source of hum ble gratitude, and should wake up the warmest feelings of our na ture. Shame upon the contemptible and low-bred cur, whether pa rent or child, that can ever come to the breakfast-table, where all the family have met in health, only to frown, and whine, and growl, and fret! It is pfrimafacie evidence of a mean, and groveling, and selfish, and degraded nature, whencesoever the churl may have sprung. Nor is it less reprehensible to make such exhibitions at the tea-table; for before the morning comes, some of the little circle may be Stricken with some deadly disease, to gather around that table not again forever. 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.