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diff --git a/22896.txt b/22896.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fa98035 --- /dev/null +++ b/22896.txt @@ -0,0 +1,622 @@ +Project Gutenberg's Little Stories for Little Children, by Anonymous + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. 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 www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Little Stories for Little Children + +Author: Anonymous + +Release Date: October 5, 2007 [EBook #22896] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LITTLE STORIES FOR LITTLE CHILDREN *** + + + + +Produced by Janet Blenkinship and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was +produced from images generously made available by The +Internet Archive/American Libraries.) + + + + + + + + + +LITTLE STORIES + +FOR + +LITTLE CHILDREN. + + +LONDON: + +PRINTED BY JOSEPH MASTERS, +ALDERSGATE STREET. + + + * * * * * + + +LITTLE STORIES + +FOR + +LITTLE CHILDREN. + + + * * * * * + + +[Illustration] + + + + +JOHN WILSON. + + +John-ny Wil-son and Ned Brown were play-ing at ball one day, and the +ball hit John on the hand: he was ve-ry an-gry, and ran af-ter Ned and +beat him ve-ry hard. Just then, a man came by and gave John a box on +the ear which made him let go of Ned, and he be-gan to cry. Then the man +said, "You beat that lit-tle boy and for-get how you hurt him, but you +do not like it your-self." + +Then John was sor-ry, and said he would ne-ver do so any more; he shook +hands with Ned, and he kept his word, and all who knew him lov-ed him. + +[Illustration] + + + + +JANE NORTH. + + +Jane North was an i-dle girl; she did not like her book, and when she +was told to read her les-son she would cry, and say she want-ed to play +with her doll. So her doll was tak-en from her till she had read; but +she read ill, and would not learn to write. So she grew up a dunce, and +no one lov-ed her. + +[Illustration] + + + + +MARY AND LUCY. + + +Had each a nice doll, and they took care of them. One day Tom call-ed +them to play at ball, and they ran a-way to play, and left the two dolls +on a chair. By and by the cat came in the room, and pull-ed the dolls to +pieces, think-ing I dare say, that it was fine fun to tear them to bits, +and scam-per round the room with poor dol-ly's nose in her mouth. + +When the girls came back, and saw the nice new dolls all in bits, they +be-gan to cry, and to beat poor puss; but their mam-ma said, "No, you +must not beat puss, for you left your dolls a-bout, and the cat did not +know that they were not for her to play with. Next time you must be more +care-ful of your toys." + +[Illustration] + + + + +ANN SHARP. + + +Was a kind girl. One day she was out, and a poor girl came to her and +said, "Give me some bread, I have had none to eat all day." So Ann said, +"I have no bread, but here is six-pence that my mam-ma gave me, take it, +and buy some bread." + +The poor girl took it and said, "Oh! thank you, miss, I can now get +some-thing to eat, and will take some to my poor dad-dy who is sick." + +[Illustration] + + + + +THE COAT. + + +"Do not go out with-out your warm coat, Tom; it is a hard frost, and the +snow lies thick on the ground, and you will catch cold, if you do, and +then poor Tom will be ill." + +"But I feel quite warm." + +"Yes, you do now; but see what a large fire there is here, out of doors +there is no fire, and the cold wind blows; and if you have no warm coat +on, you will feel cold." + +But Tom thought he knew best, so he went out with no coat on, and he +caught a bad cold and cough, and he was put to bed quite ill. Now Jack +and Will and Tom were to have had some fine sport on the fro-zen pond in +the farm, but Tom was too ill to go. When he was in bed he thought how +sil-ly he had been, to think he knew bet-ter than his kind friends; and +then he said to him-self, he would try and do all that he was bid when +he got well. + +[Illustration] + + + + +THE BURNT CHILD. + + +One day a child want-ed to reach some-thing off the man-tel shelf, and +not be-ing tall e-nough, she stood on the fen-der, and her mo-ther said, +"Fan-ny, you must not get on the fen-der, it will turn o-ver, and then +you will fall in the fire and be sad-ly burnt." + +But Fan-ny was not a good child, and did not al-ways do as she was bid: +so when her mo-ther went out of the room, she want-ed to get her +fa-ther's watch that lay on the man-tel shelf, and she stood on the +fen-der to reach it, but the fen-der turn-ed o-ver, and Fan-ny fell in +the hearth and her clothes took fire. She scream-ed loud-ly, but she was +not heard for a lit-tle time, and when her mo-ther ran to her, all her +clothes were in a blaze; she roll-ed the rug over to put out the flame +and then car-ried her to bed. + +Poor Fan-ny was sad-ly burnt, and it was a long time be-fore she was +well, and she had a great many scars on her face and neck which ne-ver +wore off. + +[Illustration] + + + + +GOOD ADVICE. + + +Jack did not love his book; he was i-dle, and was cross when he was sent +to school, and one day when he ought to have gone, he play-ed a-bout the +mea-dows in-stead; and he met Sam, who was go-ing to school, and he +said, "Come and play with me, Sam, and we will have some fun." + +"No," said Sam, "I must go and learn to read, or I shall be a dunce; so +come with me, Jack, and then af-ter school is o-ver we will play." + +"But it is so hard to learn," said Jack, "and I want to climb that tree +to get a bird's nest." + +"No, do not get a bird's nest, for it is cru-el," said Sam. "Come with +me and try to earn the prize, come, Jack-y, to please me." + +Jack then went to school, and he found that when he tried to learn, it +was not very hard, and he could soon read pret-ty sto-ries, and won a +nice prize. + +[Illustration] + + + + +TOM AND FRED. + + +"Tom, have a game at trap-bat-and-ball."--"I do not know how to play at +it."--"Well I will teach you, look at me; that is the way, now do it +your-self. That is right, you will soon learn to do it fast."--"Yes, it +is not hard to learn: now let us go and have a race. One, two, three, +and off!" + +"Tom, you have won it."--"Yes, I run bet-ter than you; and you play +trap-bat-and-ball bet-ter than I do."--"I am too hot to run any more, +let us sit down and get cool."--"I am to have a seat put near this tree, +should you like one too?" "Yes, but I have no wood to make one."--"Well, +we will ask Dick to give you some wood; come now and ask him." + +[Illustration] + + + + +THE KIND SISTER. + + +"Come, dear Ann, sit down and sew a lit-tle."--"Yes, mam-ma, shall I hem +my frock?"--"Yes, do." + +Ann was a good child, and al-ways did as she was bid, and when she had +done her work her mam-ma told her to play with her brother. Ann had a +lit-tle gar-den of her own, and she had made an ar-bour in it. When she +went to play she found her bro-ther cry-ing, for he had fall-en down, +and broken her ar-bour to pieces. But Ann said, "You must not cry, dear, +ne-ver mind break-ing the ar-bour, we will soon build it up." So she +kiss-ed him, and they work-ed till tea time and made a bet-ter ar-bour +than be-fore. And Ann felt much more hap-py than she would have been had +she scold-ed and been cross with poor lit-tle George. + +THE END. + +J. 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