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                         PRECEPTS IN PRACTICE.


[Illustration: OLD JONAS. _Page 140._]


                       _THOMAS NELSON AND SONS_,
                    LONDON, EDINBURGH, AND NEW YORK.




                         PRECEPTS IN PRACTICE;

                                  OR,

                  _STORIES ILLUSTRATING THE PROVERBS_.


                                   BY
                              A. L. O. E.,
     AUTHOR OF “THE SILVER CASKET”, “THE ROBBERS’ CAVE,” ETC., ETC.


                      WITH THIRTY-NINE ENGRAVINGS


                                London:
                  T. NELSON AND SONS, PATERNOSTER ROW.
                        EDINBURGH; AND NEW YORK.

                                  1887

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                                Preface.


Dear young friends (perhaps I may rather welcome some amongst you as
_old_ friends), I would once more gather you around me to listen to my
simple stories. I have in each one endeavoured to exemplify some truth
taught by the wise King Solomon, in the Book of Proverbs. Perhaps the
holy words, which I trust that many of you have already learned to love,
may be more forcibly imprinted on your minds, and you may apply them
more to your own conduct, when you see them illustrated by tales
describing such events as may happen to yourselves.

May the Giver of all good gifts make the choice of Solomon also yours;
may you, each and all, be endowed