Youth's Magazine, 3rd ser. 2 (1829), 147–56. Winter Walks.—No. 1
[1/4] Short Fiction, Serial Exploration, Education, Physical
Geography, Lecturing, Theology of Nature, Piety The narrator
describes taking his pupils on a winter walk in London.
Observes: 'the houses were all dripping with the melted snow,
and old Frost was gone back to his caves in the North, or to
some of his icebergs in the Polar Sea'. The pupils were pleased
to be outdoors, having been 'so long confined in the house' and
having in their winter studies 'dissected all the counties in
England, and all the continents on earth'. (148) Their
destination, near the Strand, was a 'great Nursery' for children
aged up to five or six years. In the centre of the large room
was a 'large planisphere, similar to those used for
demonstration by public lecturers' (151). After the master
taught the infants several moral and religious lessons, they
sang 'a few verses in praise of the works of God in creation',
the words being held up by a monitor (154). The nar