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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at <a href = "https://www.gutenberg.org">www.gutenberg.org</a></pre> +<p>Title: No and Other Stories Compiled by Uncle Humphrey</p> +<p>Author: Various</p> +<p>Release Date: February 17, 2004 [eBook #11129]</p> +<p>Language: English</p> +<p>Character set encoding: US-ASCII</p> +<p>***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NO AND OTHER STORIES COMPILED BY UNCLE HUMPHREY***</p> +<br> +<br> +<center><b>E-text prepared by Internet Archive;<br> + University of Florida;<br> + and Christine Gehring and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team</b></center> +<br> +<br> +<table border=0 bgcolor="ccccff" cellpadding=10> + <tr> + <td valign="top"> + Note: + </td> + <td> + Images of the original pages are available through the Florida + Board of Education, Division of Colleges and Universities, + PALMM Project, 2001. (Preservation and Access for American and + British Children's Literature, 1850-1869.) See<br> + <a href="http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/dl/UF00001840.jpg"> + http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/dl/UF00001840.jpg</a> + <br> + or<br> + <a href="http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/dl/UF00001840.pdf"> + http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/dl/UF00001840.pdf</a> + </td> + </tr> +</table> + +<hr class="full"> +<br> +<br> +<h1>NO AND OTHER STORIES.</h1> +<h3>Compiled By</h3> +<h2>Uncle Humphrey.</h2> +<br> +<h4>Lynn:<br> +Thomas Herbert.<br> +1851.</h4> +<br> +<hr style="width: 65%;"> +<p>Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1850, BY +THOMAS HERBERT, In the clerk's office of the District Court of the +District of Massachusetts.</p> +<hr style="width: 65%;"> +<h2>CONTENTS.</h2> +<a href="#PREFACE"><b>Preface</b></a><br> +<a href="#WILLY_AND_THE_BEGGAR_GIRL"><b>Willy and the Beggar +Girl</b></a><br> +<a href="#THE_GOOD_SON"><b>The Good Son</b></a><br> +<a href="#THE_SICK_MOTHER"><b>The Sick Mother</b></a><br> +<a href="#CORNELIA'S_PRAYER"><b>Cornelia's Prayer</b></a><br> +<a href="#FORGIVENESS"><b>Forgiveness</b></a><br> +<a href="#THE_GUILTY_CONSCIENCE"><b>The Guilty +Conscience</b></a><br> +<a href="#ACORN_HOLLOW"><b>Acorn Hollow</b></a><br> +<a href="#INDUSTRY_AND_IDLENESS"><b>Industry and +Idleness</b></a><br> +<a href="#ENVY"><b>Envy</b></a><br> +<a href="#CONCLUSION"><b>Conclusion</b></a><br> +<hr style="width: 65%;"> +<a name="PREFACE"></a> +<h2>PREFACE.</h2> +<hr style="width: 45%;"> +<p>This little book has been prepared for the instruction and +amusement of my dear young friends, and it is hoped that they will +be profited by its perusal. It will show them their duty, and lead +them to perform it.</p> +<p>The little word <i>No</i> is of great importance, although +composed of but two letters. It will be of great service in keeping +us from the path of sin and misery, and of inducing us to walk in +"wisdom's ways, whose ways are ways of pleasantness, and all whose +paths are peace."</p> +<p>Exercise charity to the destitute, as did little Willy.</p> +<p>Be good sons and daughters, and you will be a comfort to your +parents, in sickness or in health. "Forgiveness is an attribute of +Heaven."</p> +<p>A guilty conscience gives us no peace.</p> +<p>Which of you have a place of resort that is like Aunt Lissa's +Acorn Hollow?</p> +<p>Be industrious, and learn to make yourselves useful, if you +would be respected and beloved.</p> +<p>Beware of envy, for it begetteth hatred.</p> +<p>In short, I hope the reader who is now looking at this preface +will carefully read every word in the following pages; and not only +<i>read</i>, but <i>remember</i>, the lessons there taught, and +thereby become wiser and better.</p> +<p>And when you have read this book so much and so carefully as to +be able to tell me what it is all about, when I come to your +houses, another little volume will be prepared for the young +friends of</p> +<p style="text-align=right">UNCLE HUMPHREY.</p> +<br> +<p><font size="2">LYNN, January, 1851.</font></p> +<br> +<hr style="width: 65%;"> +<a name="STORY_ABOUT_THE_WORD_NO"></a> +<h2>STORY ABOUT THE WORD NO.</h2> +<hr style="width: 45%;"> +<h3>BY T. S. ARTHUR.</h3> +<hr style="width: 45%;"> +<p>"There is a word, my son, a very little word, in the English +language, the right use of which it is all important that you +should learn," Mr. Howland said to his son Thomas, who was about +leaving the paternal roof for a residence in a neighboring city, +never again, perchance, to make one of the little circle that had +so long gathered in the family homestead.</p> +<p>"And what word is that, father?" Thomas asked.</p> +<p>"It is the little word <i>No</i>, my son."</p> +<p>"And why does so much importance attach to that word, +father?"</p> +<p>"Perhaps I can make you understand the reason much better if I +relate an incident that occurred when I was a boy. I remember it as +distinctly as if it had taken place but yesterday, although thirty +years have since passed. There was a neighbor of my father's, who +was very fond of gunning and fishing. On several occasions I had +accompanied him, and had enjoyed myself very much. One day my +father said to me,</p> +<p>"'William, I do not wish you to go into the woods or on the +water again with Mr. Jones.'</p> +<p>"'Why not, father?' I asked, for I had become so fond of going +with him, that to be denied the pleasure was a real privation.</p> +<p>"'I have good reasons for not wishing you to go, William,' my +father replied, 'but do not want to give them now. I hope it is +all-sufficient for you, that your father desires you not to +accompany Mr. Jones again.'</p> +<p>"I could not understand why my father laid upon me this +prohibition; and, as I desired very much to go, I did not feel +satisfied in my obedience. On the next day, as I was walking along +the road, I met Mr. Jones with his fishing rod on his shoulder, and +his basket in his hand.</p> +<p>"'Ah, William! you are the very one that I wish to see,' said +Mr. Jones smiling. 'I am going out this morning, and want company. +We shall have a beautiful day.'</p> +<p>"'But my father told me yesterday,' I replied, 'that he did not +wish me to go out with you.'</p> +<p>"'And why not, pray?' asked Mr. Jones.</p> +<p>"'I am sure that I do not know,' I said, 'but indeed, I should +like to go very much.'</p> +<p>"'O, never mind; come along,' he said, 'Your father will never +know it.'</p> +<p>"'Yes, but I am afraid that he will,' I replied, thinking more +of my father's displeasure than of the evil of disobedience.</p> +<p>"'There is no danger at all of that. We will be home again long +before dinner-time.'</p> +<p>"I hesitated, and he urged; and finally, I moved the way that he +was going, and had proceeded a few hundred yards, when I stopped, +and said:</p> +<p>"'I don't like to go, Mr. Jones.'</p> +<p>"'Nonsense, William! There is no harm in fishing, I am sure. I +have often been out with your father, myself.'</p> +<p>"Much as I felt inclined to go, still I hesitated; for I could +not fully make up my mind to disobey my father.—At length he +said—</p> +<p>"'I can't wait here for you, William. Come along, or go back. +Say yes or no.'</p> +<p>"This was the decisive moment. I was to make up my mind, and fix +my determination in one way or the other. I was to say <i>yes</i> +or NO."</p> +<p>"'Come, I can't stay here all day,' Mr. Jones remarked, rather +harshly, seeing that I hesitated. At the same moment the image of +my father rose distinctly before my mind, and I saw his eyes fixed +steadily and reprovingly upon me. With one desperate resolution I +uttered the word, 'No!' and then turning, ran away as fast as my +feet would carry me. I cannot tell you how relieved I felt when I +was far beyond the reach of temptation.</p> +<p>"On the next morning, when I came down to breakfast, I was +startled and surprised to learn that Mr. Jones had been drowned on +the day before. Instead of returning in a few hours, as he had +stated to me that he would, he remained out all the day. A sudden +storm arose; his boat was capsized, and he drowned. I shuddered +when I heard this sad and fatal accident related.—That little +word NO, had, in all probability, saved my life."</p> +<p>"'I will now tell you, William,' my father said, turning to me, +'why I did not wish you to go with Mr. Jones.—Of late, he had +taken to drinking; and I had learned within a few days, that +whenever he went out on a fishing or gunning excursion he took his +bottle of spirits with him, and usually returned a good deal +intoxicated. I could not trust you with such a man. I did not think +it necessary to state this to you, for I was sure that I had only +to express my wish that you would not accompany him, to insure your +implicit obedience.'</p> +<p>"I felt keenly rebuked at this, and resolved never again to +permit even the thought of disobedience to find a place in my mind. +From that time, I have felt the value of the word NO, and have +generally, ever since, been able to use it on all right +occasions.—It has saved me from many troubles. Often and +often in life have I been urged to do things that my judgment told +me were wrong: on such occasions I always remembered my first +temptation, and resolutely said—</p> +<p>"'NO!'</p> +<p>"And now, my son," continued Mr. Howland, do you understand the +importance of the word <i>No</i>?"</p> +<p>"I think I do, father," Thomas replied. "But is there not danger +of my using it too often and thus becoming selfish in all my +feelings, and consequently unwilling to render benefits to +others?"</p> +<p>"Certainly there is, Thomas. The legitimate use of this word is +to resist evil. To refuse to do a good action is wrong." "If any +one asks me, then, to do him a favor or kindness, I should not, on +any account, say, no."</p> +<p>"That will depend, Thomas, in what manner you are to render him +a kindness. If you can do so without really injuring yourself or +others, then it is a duty which you owe to all men, to be kind, and +render favors."</p> +<p>"But the difficulty, I feel, will be for me to discriminate. +When I am urged to do something by one whom I esteem, my regard for +him, or my desire to render him an obligation, will be so strong as +to obscure my judgment."</p> +<p>"A consciousness of this weakness in your character, Thomas, +should put you upon your guard."</p> +<p>"That is very true, father. But I cannot help fearing myself. +Still, I shall never forget what you have said, and I will try my +best to act from a conviction of right."</p> +<p>"Do so, my son. And ever bear in mind, that a wrong action is +<i>always</i> followed by pain of mind, and too frequently by evil +consequences. If you would avoid these, ever act from a +consciousness that you are doing right, without regard to others. +If another asks you, from a selfish desire to benefit or gratify +himself, to do that which your judgment tells you is wrong, surely +you should have no hesitation in refusing."</p> +<p>The precept of his father, enforced when they were about +parting, and at a time when his affections for that father were +active and intense, lingered in the mind of Thomas Howland. He saw +and felt its force, and resolved to act in obedience to it, if ever +tempted to do wrong.</p> +<p>On leaving the paternal roof, he went to a neighboring town, and +entered the store of a merchant, where were several young men +nearly of his own age, that is, between eighteen and twenty. With +one of these, named Boyd, he soon formed an intimate acquaintance. +But, unfortunately, the moral character of this young man was far +from being pure, or his principles from resting upon the firm basis +of truth and honor.</p> +<p>His growing influence over Thomas Howland was apparent in +inducing him to stay away from church on the sabbath-day, and pass +the time that had heretofore been spent in the place of worship, in +roaming about the wharves of the city, or in excursions into the +country. This influence was slightly resisted, Thomas being ashamed +or reluctant to use the word "<i>No</i>," on what seemed to all the +young men around him a matter of so little importance. Still, his +own heart condemned him, for he felt that it would pain his father +and mother exceedingly if they knew that he neglected to attend +church at least once on the sabbath-day; and he was, besides, +self-convicted of wrong in what seemed to him a violation of the +precept, <i>Remember the sabbath-day</i>, &c. as he had been +taught to regard that precept. But once having given way, he felt +almost powerless to resist the influence that now bore upon +him.</p> +<p>The next violation of what seemed to him a right course for a +young man to pursue, was in suffering himself to be persuaded to +visit frequently the theatre; although his father had expressly +desired that he would avoid a place where lurked for the young and +inexperienced so many dangers. He was next easily persuaded to +visit a favorite eating-house, in which many hours were spent +during the evenings of each week, with Boyd and others, in eating, +drinking, and smoking.</p> +<p>Sometimes dominos and backgammon were introduced, and at length +were played for a slight stake. To participate in this Thomas +refused, on the plea that he did not know enough of the games to +risk anything. He had not the moral courage to declare that he +considered it wrong to gamble.</p> +<p>All these departures from what he had been taught by his father +to consider a right course, were attended by much uneasiness and +pain of mind.—But he had yielded to the tempter, and he could +not find the power within him to resist his influence +successfully.</p> +<p>It happened about six months after his introduction to such an +entirely new course of life that he was invited one evening by his +companion Boyd, to call on a friend with him. He had, on that day, +received from his father forty dollars, with which to buy him a new +suit of clothes and a few other necessary articles. He went, of +course, and was introduced to a very affable, gentlemanly young +man, in his room at one of the hotels. In a few minutes, wine and +cigars were ordered, and the three spent an hour or so, in +drinking, smoking, and chit-chat of no elevating or refined +character.</p> +<p>"Come, let us have a game of cards," the friend at last +remarked, during a pause in the conversation; at the same time +going to his trunk and producing a pack of cards.</p> +<p>"No objection," responded Boyd.</p> +<p>"You'll take a hand, of course?" the new friend said, looking at +Thomas Howland.</p> +<p>But Thomas said that he knew nothing of cards.</p> +<p>"O that's no matter! You can learn in two minutes," responded +the friend of Boyd.</p> +<p>Young Howland felt reluctant, but he could not resist the +influence that was around him, and so he consented to finger the +cards with the rest. As they gathered around the table, a +half-dollar was laid down by each of the young men, who looked +towards Thomas as they did so.</p> +<p>"I cannot play for money," he said, coloring; for he felt really +ashamed to acknowledge his scruples.</p> +<p>"And why not?" asked the friend of Boyd, looking him steadily in +the face.</p> +<p>"Because I think it wrong," stammered out Howland, coloring +still more deeply.</p> +<p>"Nonsense! Isn't your money your own? And pray what harm is +there in your doing with your own as you please?" urged the +tempter.</p> +<p>"But I do not know enough of the game to risk my money."</p> +<p>"You don't think we would take advantage of your ignorance?" +Boyd said. "The stake is only to give interest to the game. I would +not give a copper for a game of cards without a stake. Come, put +down your half-dollar, and we'll promise to pay you back all you +loose, if you wish it, until you acquire some skill."</p> +<p>But Thomas felt reluctant, and hesitated. Nevertheless, he was +debating the matter in his mind seriously, and every moment that +reluctance was growing weaker.</p> +<p>"Will you play?" Boyd asked in a decided tone, breaking in upon +his debate.</p> +<p>"I had rather not," Thomas replied, attempting to smile, so as +to conciliate his false friends.</p> +<p>"You're afraid of your money," said Boyd, in a half-sneering +tone.</p> +<p>"It is not that, Boyd."</p> +<p>"Then what is it, pray?"</p> +<p>"I am afraid it is not right."</p> +<p>This was answered by a loud laugh from his two friends, which +touched Thomas a good deal, and made him feel more ashamed of the +scruples that held him back from entering into the temptation.</p> +<p>"Come down with your stake, Howland," Boyd said, after he had +finished his laugh.</p> +<p>The hand of Thomas was in his pocket, and his fingers had +grasped the silver coin, yet still he hesitated.</p> +<p>"Will you play, or not?" the friend of Boyd now said, with +something of impatience in his tone. "Say yes, or no."</p> +<p>For a moment the mind of Thomas became confused—then the +perception came upon him as clear as a sunbeam, that it was wrong +to gamble. He remembered, too, vividly his father's parting +injunction.</p> +<p>"<i>No</i>," he said, firmly and decidedly.</p> +<p>Both of his companions looked disappointed and angry.</p> +<p>"What did you bring him for?" he heard Boyd's companion say to +him in an under tone, while a frown darkened upon his brow.</p> +<p>The reply did not reach his ear, but he felt that his company +was no longer pleasant, and rising, he bade them a formal +good-evening, and hurriedly retired. That little word <i>no</i> had +saved him. The scheme was, to win from him his forty dollars, and +then involve him in "debts of honor," as they are falsely called, +which would compel him to draw upon his father for more money, or +abstract it from his employer, a system which had been pursued by +Boyd, and which was discovered only a week subsequent, when the +young man was discharged in disgrace. It then came out, that he had +been for months in secret association with a gambler, and that the +two shared together the spoils and peculations.</p> +<p>This incident roused Thomas Howland to a distinct consciousness +of the danger that lurked in his path, as a young man, in a large +city. He felt, as he had not felt while simply listening to his +father's precept, the value of the word <i>no</i>; and resolved +that hereafter he would utter that little word, and that, too, +decidedly, whenever urged to do what his judgment did not +approve.</p> +<p>"I will be free!" he said, pacing his chamber backward and +forward. "I will be free, hereafter! No one shall persuade me or +drive me to do what I feel to be wrong."</p> +<p>That conclusion was his safeguard ever after. When tempted, and +he was tempted frequently, his "<i>No</i>" decided the matter at +once. There was a power in it that was all-sufficient in resisting +evil.</p> +<br> +<hr style="width: 65%;"> +<a name="WILLY_AND_THE_BEGGAR_GIRL"></a> +<h2>WILLY AND THE BEGGAR GIRL.</h2> +<hr style="width: 45%;"> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"An apple, dear mother!"</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Cried Willy one day,</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Coming in, with his +cheeks</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Glowing bright, from his +play.</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"I want a nice apple,</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">A large one, and red."</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"For whom do you want +it?"</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">His kind mother said.</span><br> +<br> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"You know a big apple</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">I gave you at noon;</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And now for another,</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">My boy, it's too soon."</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"There's a poor little +girl</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">At the door, mother +dear,"</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Said Will, while within</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">His mild eye shone a +tear.</span><br> +<br> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"She says, since last +evening</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">She's eaten no bread;</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Her feet are all naked</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">And bare is her head.</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Like me, she's no mother</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">To love her, I'm sure,</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Or she'd not look so +hungry,</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">And ragged, and poor.</span><br> +<br> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"Let me give her an +apple;</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">She wants one, I know;</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">A nice, large, red +apple—</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">O! do not say no."</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">First a kiss to the lips</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Of her generous boy,</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Mamma gave with a +feeling</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Of exquisite joy—</span><br> +<br> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">For goodness, whene'er</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">In a child it is seen,</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Gives joy to the heart</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Of a mother, I +ween—</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And then led her out, +where,</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Still stood by the door,</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">A poor little +beggar-girl,</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Ragged all o'er.</span><br> +<br> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"Please ma'am, I am +hungry,"</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">The little thing said,</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"Will you give me to eat</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">A small piece of bread?"</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"Yes, child, you shall have +it;</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">But who sends you out</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">From dwelling to +dwelling</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">To wander about?"</span><br> +<br> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">A pair of mild eyes</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">To the lady were raised;</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"My mother's been sick</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">For a great many days</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">So sick she don't know +me."</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Sobs stifled the rest</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And heaved with young +sorrow</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">That innocent breast.</span><br> +<br> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Just then from the +store-room—</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Where wee Willy run,</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">As his mother to +question</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">The poor child +begun—</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Came forth the sweet +boy,</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">With a large loaf of +bread,</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Held tight in his tiny +hands</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">High o'er his head.</span><br> +<br> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"Here's bread, and a +plenty!</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Eat, little girl, eat!"</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">He cried, as he laid</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">The great loaf at her +feet.</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">The mother smiled +gently,</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Then, quick through the +door</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Drew the sad little +stranger,</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">So hungry and poor.</span><br> +<br> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">With words kindly spoken</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">She gave her nice food,</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And clothed her with +garments</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">All clean, warm and +good.</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">This done, she was +leading</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Her out, when she heard</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Willy coming down +stairs,</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Like a fluttering bird.</span><br> +<br> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">A newly bought leghorn,</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">With green bow and band.</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And an old, worn out +beaver</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">He held in his hand.</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"Here! give her my new +hat,"</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">He cried; "I can wear</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">My black one all +summer—</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">It's good—you won't +care—</span><br> +<br> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"Say! will you, dear +mother?"</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">First out through the +door,</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">She passed the girl +kindly;</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Then quick from the +floor</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Caught up the dear +fellow,</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Kissed and kissed him +again,</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">While her glad tears fell +freely</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">O'er his sweet face like +rain.</span><br> +<br> +<hr style="width: 65%;"> +<a name="THE_GOOD_SON"></a> +<h2>THE GOOD SON.</h2> +<hr style="width: 45%;"> +<p>Little Martin went to a peasant and endeavored to procure +employment, by which he might be able to earn some money.</p> +<p>"Yes," said the peasant, "I will take you for a herds-boy, and +if you are industrious, will give you your board and ten dollars +for the whole summer."</p> +<p>"I will be very industrious," said Martin, "but I beg you to pay +me my wages every week, for I have a poor father at home to whom I +wish to carry all I earn."</p> +<p>The peasant, who was pleased beyond measure at this filial love, +not only willingly consented, but also raised his wages much +higher. Every Saturday the son carefully carried his money, and as +much bread and butter as he could spare from his own mouth, to his +father.</p> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Children, love and +gratitude</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Always please the wise and +good,</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">But contempt and hate from +all,</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">On the thankless child will +fall.</span><br> +<br> +<hr style="width: 65%;"> +<a name="THE_SICK_MOTHER"></a> +<h2>THE SICK MOTHER.</h2> +<hr style="width: 45%;"> +<img src="illustrations/The_sick_mother.png" align="right" alt= +"The Sick Mother"> +<p>A mother once lay very sick, and suffered great and constant +pain. Her children were all very sad and melancholy, and the large +ones often kneeled down together, and prayed that God would restore +their mother to health once more.</p> +<p>The youngest child would stand all day by the bed of her mother, +and with tearful eyes, anxiously inquire when she would be well and +get up again. One day this little child observed a glass filled +with some dark fluid standing by the sick bed, and asked, "Mother, +what is this?" The mother answered, "My dear child, it is something +very bitter; but I must drink it, that I may get well again." +"Mother," said the good child, "if it is so bitter, I will drink it +for you; then you will be well again."</p> +<p>And the sick mother, in all her pains, had the comfort and +consolation of seeing how dearly all her children loved her.</p> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Parents, joy and comfort +find</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">In a child that is good and +kind;</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">But their hearts are very +sad,</span><br> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">When the child they love is +bad.</span><br> +<br> +<hr style="width: 65%;"> +<a name="CORNELIA'S_PRAYER"></a> +<h2>CORNELIA'S PRAYER.</h2> +<hr style="width: 45%;"> +<p>Cornelia was the joy and pride of her parents, for she was a +slender, graceful little creature, darting about like a young fawn, +and her cheeks were as fresh and blooming as the young rose when it +first opens to receive the dew. Added to this, she was blessed with +a temper as sweet and serene as a spring morning when it dawns upon +the blooming valleys, announcing a fair and delightful day.</p> +<p>Cornelia had never in her life known what it is to experience +trouble and anxiety, for her youth had been all brightness and +sunshine. But such freedom from all trials does not generally +continue for a long time uninterrupted. And so it was with +Cornelia. She was one day very much delighted at being shown a +little brother with which her mother had presented her, but her joy +was soon clouded by the severe illness of that mother. She lay many +long days without noticing or appearing to know her little +Cornelia, for her fever was strong, and her senses were continually +wandering.</p> +<p>Cornelia was almost heart-broken at this, and they could +scarcely persuade her to leave the bedside of her dear mother, for +a single moment. She would entreat and implore until she won their +consent that she should remain in the sick room; and then all night +long would the affectionate little girl watch by her mother's bed, +and attentively study her every want, wetting her parched lips and +moving around her with the lightest and most anxious footsteps.</p> +<p>On the seventh day of her sickness the fever approached its +crisis and there was deep silence in the little chamber, and +stifled weeping, for every one thought that death was near.</p> +<p>But with the night came long absent slumber, and revived the +almost dying mother, and seemed to give her back to life. What a +season for Cornelia! Through the whole night she sat by the bed +listening to her now soft and regular breathing, while hope and +fear were struggling together in her bosom. When daylight appeared +the mother opened her eyes, and turning them upon the anxious +Cornelia, knew her. "I am better, my child," said she in a clear, +but feeble voice, "I am better, and shall get well!" They then gave +her drink and nourishment, and she went to sleep again.</p> +<p>What joy was this for the affectionate little girl! Her heart +was too full for utterance, and she stole softly out of the +chamber, and skipped out into the field, and ascended a hill near +by, just as the sun was dawning. Here she stood her hands clasped +together, and her bosom swelling with many contending emotions of +pain and hope. Presently the sun arose and streamed over her face, +and Cornelia thought of the new life of her mother after her +reviving sleep, and the anguish of her own feelings. But she could +not long shut up the flood of feeling within her own heart, and she +knelt down upon blooming flowers with which the hill was covered, +and bowing her face to the fragrant sod, her tears were mingled +with the dew of heaven.</p> +<p>After a few minutes silence, she lifted up her head, and rising +from the ground, returned to her home, and the chamber of her +mother. Never before had there been so sweet and calm a loveliness +on the face of Cornelia. It was a reflection of the peace and +tranquility of her soul, for she had held communion with her +God!</p> +<br> +<hr style="width: 65%;"> +<a name="FORGIVENESS"></a> +<h2>FORGIVENESS.</h2> +<hr style="width: 45%;"> +<img src="illustrations/Forgiveness.png" align="right" alt= +"Forgiveness"> +<p>A friend with whom I was conversing a few weeks since, told me +of a beautiful example of this Christian grace, even in a little +child. It has often dwelt in my memory since, and perhaps some of +my little readers may be induced to cultivate the same spirit, if I +repeat it to them.</p> +<p>Little Sarah was a sweet child of six summers. Gentle and +affectionate in disposition, she soon won a large portion of that +love which few hearts can withhold from the happy spirit of +infancy. It has been said, "Childhood is ever lovely," and I would +add, childhood is ever loved. Sarah was an attentive and careful +reader of the word of God, at a very early age. There it was that +she found the Divine promise, "Forgive, and thou shalt be +forgiven." And she not only read this precept, but showed by her +life of gentle forgiveness, that she had engraven it upon her +heart.</p> +<p>She attended a small school which was kept near her home; and I +am sorry that all who were her schoolmates had not the same kind +spirit. There were some who were very rude and unkind and Sarah +soon found many trials to encounter. Often would the gentle child +return to her sweet home in tears to forget her sorrow in a +mother's love. Yet every harsh and ungentle tone was forgiven by +her, for she knew that forgiveness was of Heaven.</p> +<p>One day when her mother had given her some plums she observed +that Sarah did not eat them, but put them all into her little +workbag to carry them to school.</p> +<p>"Why do you do so?" said she; "you do not eat the plums which I +have given you."</p> +<p>"No, mother," said Sarah "I will carry them to the little +children who do not love me. Perhaps they will love me better if I +am kind to them."</p> +<p>Here was the true secret of human love. The power of +kindness—there is none other that will reach every heart. +There is none other that can influence them for good. It can lead +the sinner from his evil way, for none are too sinful to love, and +where love is, there is power. We are all frail and erring beings, +whose hourly prayer should be for pardon, and shall we not +forgive?</p> +<br> +<hr style="width: 65%;"> +<a name="THE_GUILTY_CONSCIENCE"></a> +<h2>THE GUILTY CONSCIENCE.</h2> +<hr style="width: 45%;"> +<p>A mother one day returned home very sorrowful, and lamented +bitterly to her husband that she had heard that one of their sons +had beaten a poor child.</p> +<p>"This," said she, "must have certainly been done by our naughty +Caspar, but he will deny it if I put the question to him."</p> +<p>"I will answer for it," said the prudent father, "that I will +put the question to him in a way in which he cannot answer with a +lie; and thereby come at the truth."</p> +<p>They soon after went to the supper table, and Caspar was very +still and quiet: he ate little, and spoke still less. He seldom +looked at his parents, who were very grave and serious, and then +only with stolen glances.</p> +<p>The sons soon after went to bed.—They all slept in +separate beds, but in the same room.</p> +<p>About half an hour after, when they were gone to sleep, their +father entered the chamber, and took pains to make a great noise in +shutting the door. Caspar instantly sprang out of bed, and full of +fear cried out, "What is it? What is the matter?"</p> +<p>"Nothing," answered the father, "I was only wishing to see who +among you was asleep." The two other brothers were sleeping softly +and sweetly, and did not awake until they were aroused by Caspar's +cry. The father then went out again.</p> +<p>The next day the father called Caspar to him, and, before his +mother and all the children, said to him, "You beat a poor child, +yesterday, did you?" Caspar, who thought that it had all come out, +began to excuse himself.—"He struck me too, and—" His +father would not suffer him to proceed any farther. "Caspar!" said +he "why do you make us so much trouble and sorrow? Yesterday, we +heard that one of our sons had beaten a poor child, but we did not +then know who had done it. But when I saw you eating in so much +fear and trouble, and still more, when you could not sleep from +uneasiness and your <i>guilty conscience</i> drove you from your +bed as soon as I opened the door, I was convinced that you were the +guilty one. See, how miserable wickedness can make us. You have +been sufficiently punished by your anxiety and fear, but you must +now endeavor to do some good to the poor child, and make atonement +for your faults. What will you do?"</p> +<p>Caspar acknowledged his fault, and promised to do every thing +that his father commanded him.</p> +<p>He who does wrong is always sure to repent of it, for he is +punished by his own conscience, if in no other way.</p> +<br> +<hr style="width: 65%;"> +<a name="ACORN_HOLLOW"></a> +<h2>ACORN HOLLOW.</h2> +<hr style="width: 45%;"> +<p>"Oh, Aunt Elissa! stay with us and spend the evening, why can't +you!" exclaimed Janie, Nelly, and Thanny, as the before-mentioned +aunt entered their cheerful little parlor one evening, after being +absent some time.</p> +<p>"Stay and spend the evening! Bless your dear souls! no. Haven't +I got to go to the post office, and besides that, a hundred and one +other errands to do?"</p> +<p>"Never mind the post office, Aunt Lissa. Where's my hat? I'll +run there and back again in two minutes, and that will save you the +trouble of going. And never mind the errands either; you can come +over in the morning and do them; besides that we don't like to have +our aunt going about these dark evenings—she might get lost, +or something might catch her and carry her off, and +then—"</p> +<p>"What then?"</p> +<p>"Why she wouldn't tell us any more stories."</p> +<p>"Away with you, you selfish things! that's as much as you care +for me. Now I'll go right home."</p> +<p>"Oh don't, don't! Run Thanny and shut the door, while I hold +her, and Nelly unties her bonnet. I don't care if she does +scold."</p> +<p>"Go away! you wild birds. Haven't you been taught any better +manners than this? Strange your mother will let you act so! but +there she sits, sewing away as busily as ever, only looking up now +and then, to smile, as if she didn't care at all. Fie! for shame! +There goes my bonnet and shawl. Now Nelly, if you hide them, I'll +never go over the hills with you again. I have a great mind not to +speak a word to one of you."</p> +<p>"Oh don't stop talking, for we want you to tell us a story." "A +story! why dear children, I can't begin with the first thought of a +story to-night; I feel so stupid and dull that it will be quite as +much as I can do to keep myself awake."</p> +<p>"Oh well, then we will have a dance, and that will wake you up. +Here! Away we go!"</p> +<p>"Stop! stop you merry elves! Oh my foot! Oh my hand! I would +rather tell you all the stories in the Arabian Nights, than go +through one such dance as this. Sit down now and be quiet, for if I +have really got it to do, I want to begin as soon as possible. +Well, what shall I tell you about, Janie?"</p> +<p>"Oh, anything you please."</p> +<img src="illustrations/Acorn_Hollow.png" align="right" alt= +"Acorn Hollow"> +<p>"There, now, that isn't any sort of an answer at all. What shall +I tell you about, Thanny?"</p> +<p>"Oh, tell us about a sailor boy, who wore a tarpaulin hat and a +blue jacket with a collar to it—and how he went to sea, and +got shipwrecked on an uninhabited, desert island, and <i>almost</i> +got drowned, but didn't quite—and then, after a great many +years, he came home one snow-stormy night, and knocked at the door, +with a bag full of dollars and a bunch of cocoa nuts, and his old +father and mother almost died of joy to see him."</p> +<p>"Well done! But now that you know the whole of the story, it +wont be of any use for me to tell it over again. What shall I tell +you about, Nelly?"</p> +<p>"Tell us about something you used to do when you was a little +girl."</p> +<p>"When I was a little girl? Ah yes: do you know that I used to be +a wild and careless creature, and did many things which I am sorry +for now? I would often act upon the impulse of the moment, +therefore I said many vain and foolish words, and though I did not +intend evil, yet I often committed thoughtless acts, which were, in +themselves, very wrong. I did not restrain that spirit as I ought +to, so it grew upon me, until it almost became a part of my nature, +and now that I have grown up to be a woman, and people expect +better things of me—a word, a thought, or look will call +forth those feelings once more, even at times of the most serious +reflection; and then many call me light-minded and trifling. I do +not blame them, but in my heart I do not feel so. Take care of +yourselves in time, that you may not have these sorrowful fruits to +repent of. But I do not mean to preach you a sermon, instead of +telling a story. And now that you have reminded me of my earlier +days, I will tell you about a place called Acorn Hollow, for of all +the spots that I love to remember, this is one of the dearest to +me."</p> +<p>"Where is it, Aunt Lissa?"</p> +<p>"It is about two miles from your grandfather's house, in the +woods, at the south part of the town. I have visited it at all +times and seasons of the year, but the first time I ever saw it was +in the dead of winter."</p> +<p>"Why, how happened that?"</p> +<p>"It was the 22d of December—the anniversary of the landing +of the Pilgrims, and there was to be a grand entertainment in the +evening, to which my older sisters were invited. They wanted some +of the curly ground pine, which keeps green all winter, to put with +the flowers they wore in their hair; and as brother Alfred was +always famous for knowing the whereabouts of all strange plants and +wild flowers, he promised to get them some. In the afternoon, +Freddy Lucas, his friend and almost constant companion, came, and +as it was an uncommonly mild and pleasant day for that season of +the year, they asked me to go with them. I was right glad to do so, +and after adding one more to our party, Susan Edwards, a dark-eyed, +merry-hearted girl, we were soon scampering away over the hills. +There had been some very heavy rains, by which the sand had been +washed away from the hill-side, leaving deep and wide furrows at +the foot, which required all our skill to jump over, but we +determined not to be outdone by Alfred, who acted as pioneer; so we +continued to follow our leader, with many a laugh and tumble, until +it seemed we were going a great way, to get nowhere.</p> +<p>"At length we came to a little pond, far down among the hills, +with shrubs and rushes growing all around and into it. Alfred said +this was Turtle pond, where the boys often came Saturday afternoons +to roast potatoes and apples, and have a real frolic. He said, too, +it would do one's heart good to look upon these hills in the early +spring time, for then they were fairly blushing with the beautiful +May flowers, which the boys and girls who are working for the +anti-slavery cause, take so much pains to gather, and send to the +Boston market. I asked him if this was Acorn Hollow. 'Oh no,' said +he, 'we must go through this pasture, and the next one beyond it; +then we shall see a cedar tree growing by the fence, and soon we +shall come to a place where two roads go round a hill, and then we +shall be close by there.'</p> +<p>"So we went, and went, till he stopped suddenly, and said, 'here +it is.' And sure enough, there was the beautiful hollow, close by +the road-side. The sides were so steep that it was by no means safe +to run down into it, and the great oak trees and the small ones, +with the pine, the walnut, and the silvery birch, grew thick and +close all around, save that one small opening from the road, a +little archway among the overhanging boughs and dwarf alders.</p> +<p>"Just below this opening there was one of the most lordly +looking oak trees that I ever saw. It was taller than any of the +other trees, and the trunk was so large, that when two of us +children stood, one on each side, and reached our arms around it we +could only touch the tips of each other's fingers. We had to hurry +and get our ground pine, for the days were very short, and it grew +dark fast There was plenty of it growing under the trees with +another strange-looking evergreen, which ran close to the ground, +in long vines with little soft narrow leaves, which felt like fur. +The boys called it bear's grass. I don't think that was the right +name, but I never knew any other. After we had trimmed up our caps +and bonnets with the early leaves of pine, and made ourselves +tippets of the bear's grass, we hastened back again; but the stars +were in the sky, and the Gurnet lights were beaming brightly over +the waters, long before we reached our homes.</p> +<p>"After this we went there a great many times, for we were fond +of rambling in the woods, and almost everything which is usually +found on hilltop or valley, seemed to grow there. There were May +flowers, violets and anemonies, in spring time; box, whortle, and +black berries, in summer, and acorns and walnuts in autumn.</p> +<p>"One fourth of July, when soldiers were marching about the +streets—boys were firing crackers—dogs barking, and +every body seemed just ready to run crazy, Alfred, and Charlie, who +was but a 'wee bit' of a boy, then, with sister Una and myself, +determined to make our escape from this scene of confusion. We took +a little basket of provision, with a hatchet and a jug of water, +and started for our favorite hollow. Often, in the long winter +evenings, we brothers and sisters would sit round the fire, and +tell what we would do when we grew up to be men and women. But +there was one thing which we always agreed upon, and it was this: +that we would all live together, in a little cottage in the woods, +where we could have plenty of room to move about in, and do just as +we pleased. Now we thought we had dreamed of this long enough and +we determined to have a little of the reality; so, as soon as we +reached the hollow, we began to build a bower with the branches +which we cut from the trees with our hatchet. We worked away very +busily, for a long time, toiling and sweating, yet all the time +feeling never so happy. Oh, I do wish that all you children, and a +great many more beside, could have been there with us, to see what +a nice, pretty place it was, when it was finished. Hiram of Tyre, +in his stately palace of cedar, fir, and algum wood, could not have +felt prouder or happier than we did, in our little sylvan +bower.</p> +<p>"We spread a shawl on the ground, and laid our provisions upon +it. Here we sat and sung, and told stories, till we saw a great +dark shadow coming down the hill-side; and what do you suppose it +was, Thanny?" "Well I don't know, unless it was a great black bear, +coming down to get some of his grass for supper."</p> +<p>"Oh fie! No. What do you think it was, Nelly?"</p> +<p>"Wasn't it old Pan and Sylvanus, who were astonished to hear +such a noise in their woods?"</p> +<p>"No, you haven't got it right either. What do you say, +Janie?"</p> +<p>"Well, I guess it was the shadows of evening, coming down the +hill-side."</p> +<p>"That's it—and we were very much surprised to find it so, +for the time had passed very quickly and pleasantly. We gathered up +our things, and started for home. But first we stopped under the +old acorn-tree, and sung 'a song to the oak, the brave old oak.' We +didn't know the right tune, and so we sung it to the air of 'there +is nae luck about the house.' It wasn't the music we cared so much +about, as the beautiful words, they were so pretty and +appropriate.</p> +<p>"Well, we did not go into the woods much, after this, for we had +a great many other things to take up our minds. Charlie and I went +to school, and father needed Alfred to help him all the time.</p> +<p>"I have told you how we found the hollow and how much we enjoyed +ourselves there; now I will tell you what became of it."</p> +<p>"What became of it! Why! did it catch afire and burn up?"</p> +<p>"No."</p> +<p>"Did it blow away in a strong north wind?"</p> +<p>"No."</p> +<p>"Did it get filled up with dust and dry leaves, or did you +forget the way there, and never find it again? What <i>did</i> +become of it?"</p> +<p>"Well, let me tell you. It was one of those beautiful spring +days—when we feel that we cannot possibly stay at home, and +our feet will run away with us, in spite of ourselves—that +the old spirit and desire for rambling came over us once more, and +away we started for the woods. 'Which way will you go?' said Alfred +as we stopped at a place where two roads led in different +directions. 'Acorn Hollow,' was the answer of all; and accordingly +we went that way. But oh, wonder of wonders! How we stood by the +once loved spot, and stared at each other, and rubbed our eyes, and +looked again and again. Where were the beautiful trees that grew so +closely side by side, intermingling their foliage, and locking +their arms together like loving brothers and sisters? Where was the +'brave old oak,' that had stood there with his broad green arms +outstretched, and shook his myriad leaves whenever we came, as if +he loved us children, and welcomed us to a resting-place in his +shadow. And where was the soft green carpet of moss and tender +grass that was spread out so beautifully at the bottom of the +hollow? It was all changed, as if the breath of an evil spirit had +blown upon it. 'Isn't it too bad!' we all exclaimed; and after we +had given expression to our feelings by these few words, we +proceeded to a closer examination. All the trees along the +hill-side had been cut down, and little piles of wood were put up, +to carry away. The May flowers were all dried up in the sun, and +the ground pine and bear's grass were as sere and yellow as the +autumn leaves. Down in the bottom of the hollow, the turf had been +cut up and carried off, and there lay the bones of an old horse +bleaching in the sun. There was only a little stump left of the +acorn tree, with a few withered branches. 'Isn't it a sin, and a +shame!' said Alfred, indignantly. 'I never want to come here +again,' murmured Charlie; and I sat down on the stump and cried. If +all the world had been looking at me I couldn't have helped it.</p> +<p>"Then I thought how strangely everything was changing around me. +Nothing appeared the same to me, save the sun and stars and the +broad blue sea. Father and mother, brothers and sisters, and the +great world itself, were all changing. I too was changed. Time and +study, with daily trial, were making me an altogether different +being from what I had been, and I knew that the finger of the +Almighty was writing lessons upon my heart, which I could never +forget; no, not through all eternity. I wept; and then a +truth—a great and a good one—rose in my heart, like the +morning star, for I knew, at that moment, that all these changes +were but the lessons which the angel teachers are giving us, to fit +us for higher duties in the world to come. The memory of that +beautiful spot is as fresh and fair in my heart as ever, and the +lesson which I learned there has had a blessed influence upon my +life; for now, when I feel sad and disheartened, I strive to keep +my eye fixed on the great point to which we all tend, forgetting +the little sorrows that lie between. And I hear the calm sweet +voice of him who died on Calvary, saying, 'fear not; I am thy +friend and brother. I too have dwelt in the flesh and know its +conflicts and trials; trust in me, for I am the same, yesterday, +to-day, and forever.'</p> +<p>"Hark! don't I hear the clock strike?—eight, nine, ten. O, +naughty children! when I only came in here to stop ten minutes; and +now you have kept me here till ten o'clock! Only think how dark it +is, and what a long way over to the green. I guess you will be +sorry, if you should hear, in the morning, that I had walked off +the bridge into the mill-brook, or fallen into the cistern on the +Green."</p> +<p>"Oh aunt Lissa! as if there wasn't any fence to the bridge, and +a cover on the cistern, with a stone on it. You needn't try to +frighten us in that way."</p> +<p>"Well then, let me go, lest grandmother should feel frightened; +but first you must pay me for telling you a story."</p> +<p>"Well, how much do you ask?"</p> +<p>"Oh, not much; only a kiss from each of you."</p> +<p>"That you may have and welcome, and as many as you please."</p> +<p>"Good night."</p> +<br> +<hr style="width: 65%;"> +<a name="INDUSTRY_AND_IDLENESS"></a> +<h2>INDUSTRY AND IDLENESS.</h2> +<hr style="width: 45%;"> +<p>The necessity of cultivating industrious habits in early youth +was never more fully exemplified than in the case of two girls, +daughters of the same mother, who were born in a village about +forty miles from the city of Boston.</p> +<img src="illustrations/Industry_and_Idleness.png" align="right" +alt="Industry and Idleness"> +<p>Mary and Sophia had the advantage of a mother who was herself +full of enterprise and energy, and who having been left a widow, +and knowing that the success of her children depended mainly on +their own conduct, strove to bring them up to habits of industry. +Sophia, the younger of the two sisters, inherited much of her +mother's tact and vivacity. When the elder persons of the family +were engaged in any domestic employment, she delighted to watch +their movements; and they, being pleased with this mark of early +promise, never failed to instruct her in the duties of a housewife. +She learned rapidly under their tuition, and as she never thought +she knew too much to learn, she thrived greatly; so that when she +became old enough to be married, she was fully acquainted with all +the branches of domestic business. She knew what implements to use, +and she had a dexterous way of using them, which not only helped to +forward the business of the day, but also gave much pleasure to +those persons who saw with what grace and ease she performed her +labor. She married a worthy young man, who never ceased to admire +her, because his house was always in order, his meals were on the +table at the exact hour, and her dress was always arranged with a +regard to neatness and to beauty, and the most perfect cleanliness +reigned from one end of the house to the other.</p> +<p>With regard to her sister Mary, I regret that I have too much +reason to speak otherwise. Although Mary knew very well that her +fortune, for good or for evil, depended wholly upon herself, yet +she thought it unnecessary to take any pains to acquire industrious +habits, or to learn the business of housekeeping. While she was yet +a very little girl, she was obstinate and self-willed, and thought +herself too good to work, or to learn any useful art. While the +rest of the family were engaged in necessary labor, she was amusing +herself; and if called upon to do the least thing, she complained +bitterly as if some great injury had been done to her. She thought +it very much beneath her to learn to sew or to make bread, or to +milk one of the cows, and could talk half an hour and make very +fine excuses in order to get rid of any such little exercise. When +she was twelve years old, she supposed that she was born to be a +lady, and she took this notion into her head, merely because she +did not know how to do a single useful thing. If her mother or +sisters said anything to her about her dress, which was never put +on as it should be, or about her hair, which was never done up +neatly, she flouted at them with disdain, and said that clothes did +not make the woman; which was very true of itself, but +nevertheless, neatness in dress is always required to make a +respectable woman. One may be ever so poor and may have ever so +little clothing, but one can always tell by a girl's appearance, +what is to be laid to the account of poverty, and what is to be +laid to the account of sluttishness.</p> +<p>Mary grew up in this way, and as she did not improve herself by +useful occupation, she found other employments which did her no +good. She read every foolish and extravagant story and novel which +give false ideas of life, and which poison the mind by unreasonable +views of love and of married life. She now thought that she was +becoming very accomplished, but no young man who knew her history +desired to unite himself with such a partner. At last, however, a +stranger who entirely misapprehended her character offered her his +hand, and she professed to love him very much. But her professions +were all frothy and vain; for she had read so many extravagant +fictions, and knew so little of real life, that she did not know +her own mind, and supposed that she was very much in love, when she +did not even know how to form a serious attachment. The man whom +she married was very respectable and well disposed, and if he had +married a smart and industrious woman would have succeeded well in +the world. But Mary had never been either smart or industrious, and +she seemed to suppose that now she was married there was no +necessity for doing anything. When her husband complained that it +was hard to live, she only smiled, and said that she knew if she +were a man she could get along well enough, and that every man +ought to expect, as a matter of course, to support his family. Such +talk as this did not comfort him, as he was daily laboring very +hard to maintain his family, for his wife had one daughter, and he +thought that his companion ought to take an interest in his +misfortunes. But she had no regard for the cares and troubles of +her husband. She thought that it was bad enough for her to be +debarred from riding in a coach, and putting on rich clothing, and +she often complained that she could not lead the life of a lady. As +their family increased, her husband found that she possessed no +tact at all. He would have hired a housekeeper had he been able, in +order that his wife might lounge about and read novels all day: he +would also have employed some person to dress her, as her clothing +was always put on in so negligent a manner that he was ashamed to +invite a friend to his house. But Mary imagined that she had a very +hard time, because she could not be a lady, and she associated with +some idle, gossipping women, who encouraged her to find fault with +her husband, because he could not put her into a palace. Her +husband never could have his meals ready betimes, and when he went +home to his dinner, the breakfast dishes were found still unwashed +upon the table. Mary's children were pretty and healthy, but having +been always allowed to go dirty and ragged, they were treated with +contempt by all decent children. These things wore upon her +husband's mind more and more, until he left his family in despair, +and never returned to them again. Mary is now in the poor house; +for, being too idle to work, and never having learned how to +support herself, it could not be expected that she should provide +honestly for her family. Nobody pities her, and there are many who +ask her how she likes being a lady, and who joke her about riding +in her coach. Such is the fatal effect of forming idle habits early +in life.</p> +<br> +<hr style="width: 65%;"> +<a name="ENVY"></a> +<h2>ENVY.</h2> +<hr style="width: 45%;"> +<p>I once knew two little girls who attended the same school and +occupied the same bench, yet who were entirely unlike each other in +disposition, so that while Martha was beloved by all who knew her, +Mary was as generally disliked. Martha was gentle, kind and +affectionate; but Mary was of a very different spirit Her chief +fault was <i>envy</i>, and so much did she indulge this base +passion that she was unhappy whenever she heard one of her little +school-mates praised. She was very unkind to Martha, for she envied +her the ease with which her lessons were committed to memory, and +more than all else she envied her the love of her kind teacher. +Therefore she wished to injure Martha, and to take away that +love.</p> +<p>One day Mary, being, according to her usual custom, idle, amused +herself with tearing and defacing her books. After spending some +time in this manner, she took them to her teacher, and with many +loud complaints, told her that Martha had thus injured them. She +hoped that Martha would have been punished, and that her +school-mates would not love her so well, but would believe that she +had done so wrong an action.</p> +<p>But it was not so. The teacher did not believe Mary's complaint, +and when Martha said she was innocent, she knew that it was so, for +truth was in her heart. Then one of the little girls said that she +had seen Mary herself injuring the books, and the wicked child was +defeated in the plan that she had formed.</p> +<p>After this, none of the children would talk or play with Mary, +and she soon left the school. None regretted her absence, for all +said, "What a pity that so sweet a name should be accompanied by so +ungentle a spirit."</p> +<p>Now this little girl had many faults, but I think that the one +wherein she most erred was envy. We have seen how this fault led +her to commit many sins. It led her to unkindness, falsehood, and +disgrace. And however trivial the circumstance I have related may +appear, yet it early stamped upon my mind a lesson which after +years have not effaced. May it bear to some young hearts the same +lesson—<i>beware of envy</i>.</p> +<br> +<hr style="width: 65%;"> +<a name="CONCLUSION"></a> +<h2>CONCLUSION.</h2> +<hr style="width: 45%;"> +<p>And now, my dear readers, we have come to the last page in this +little volume; and that its precepts may abide in all your hearts, +is the sincere desire of your friend,</p> +<p style="text-align=right">UNCLE HUMPHREY.</p> +<br> +<center><img src="illustrations/conclusion.png" alt= +"Conclusion"></center> +<br> +<hr class="full"> +<p>***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NO AND OTHER STORIES COMPILED BY UNCLE HUMPHREY***</p> +<p>******* This file should be named 11129-h.txt or 11129-h.zip *******</p> +<p>This and all associated files of various formats will be found in:<br /> +<a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/1/1/1/2/11129">https://www.gutenberg.org/1/1/1/2/11129</a></p> +<p>Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed.</p> + +<p>Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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