Title: The happy waterman; or, Honesty the best policy :
Authors: More, Hannah,; Pearce, Samuel,
Date: 1819
Publisher: Printed & sold by Lincoln & Edmands, no. 53 Cornhill.,
Physical description: 24 p. : ill. ; 13 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: A
Contents: "Hymn for children. (From the Boston recorder.)--p. [2]. Without music.
Notes: Probably by Hannah More. "From the Cheap repository."--p. [3]. "Hymn. Mysteries of Providence."--p. 15. Without music. "Sabbath morning."--p. 16. In verse. "The boy of Dundee. (From the London evan. magazine.)"--p. [17]-20. "The gardener and rose-tree. The following beautiful, pathetic lines ... were written by the late Rev. Samuel Pearce, of Birmingham, (Eng) addressed to Mrs. J. H--, on the death of her child. March 12, 1798."--p. [21]-24. In verse. "Lincoln & Edmands, agents, in Boston, for the New England Tract Society, keep for sale ... tracts, at the low price of a mill a page ..."--advertisement, back cover.
Subject headings (LCSH): Children's poetry; Children's stories; Children--Death--Religious aspects--Juvenile poetry.; Conduct of life--Juvenile fiction.; Fiction.; Honesty--Juvenile fiction.; Literacy; Mothers and sons; Obedience--Juvenile fiction.; Providence and government of God; Sabbath--Juvenile poetry.; Sunday school literature.; Theft--Juvenile fiction