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diff --git a/24738.txt b/24738.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..33c9f19 --- /dev/null +++ b/24738.txt @@ -0,0 +1,676 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Pleasing Stories for Good Children with +Pictures, 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: Pleasing Stories for Good Children with Pictures + +Author: Anonymous + +Release Date: March 2, 2008 [EBook #24738] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PLEASING STORIES *** + + + + +Produced by Verity White 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.) + + + + + + + + + +PLEASING STORIES + +FOR + +GOOD CHILDREN. + +WITH PICTURES. + +[Illustration] + +BY A FRIEND TO YOUTH. + + CINCINNATI: + TRUMAN AND SMITH. + 150, Main-street. + + + + +[Illustration: LITTLE JANE AND THE POOR MAN.] + + + + +PLEASING STORIES FOR GOOD CHILDREN. + +LITTLE JANE AND THE POOR MAN. + + +This is little Jane Anderson and her sister. They have been out this +morning to take a walk. As they were coming home they saw a poor man +lying upon the ground. He was lame, and unable to walk. Jane and her +sister felt very sorry for him, and when they were about leaving they +gave him a few pennies which they had in their bags.--This was very kind +in the little girls. We were glad to see them so willing to part with +their pennies, that they might thus enable the old gentleman to buy a +loaf of bread or some cake for his dinner. We ought always to be ready +to supply the wants of the poor. We know not how soon we ourselves may +become poor, and need the aid of friends. + +Did you ever learn the little hymn, which speaks about the poor? It is a +beautiful hymn. We wish you and your little sisters to learn it by +heart. Here it is-- + + Whene'er I take my walks abroad, + How many poor I see! + What shall I render to my God + For all his gifts to me? + + Not more than others I deserve, + Yet God has given me more: + For I have food, while others starve, + Or beg from door to door. + + How many children in the street, + Half naked I behold! + While I am clothed from head to feet + And covered from the cold. + + While some poor creatures scarce can tell + Where they may lay their head, + I have a home, wherein to dwell, + And rest upon my bed. + + While others early learn to swear, + And curse, and lie, and steal, + Lord, I am taught thy name to fear, + And do thy holy will. + + + + +THE RUDE GIRL. + + +Jane Jones was a very rude girl. One morning she wished to visit one of +her companions. As she came to the gate, she found it was locked. +Instead of going into the house for the key, with which she might have +unlocked it, and gone through without danger, she undertook to climb +over the fence! In the picture on the next page, you can see her falling +head foremost to the ground. If her neck is not broken, she may be very +thankful. + +[Illustration: THE RUDE GIRL.] + +How strange that children will ever be found climbing over fences! The +falls and bruises of their companions seem not to warn them of the +danger of it. We can scarcely pass through the streets without seeing +some upon the fence tops. Had this little girl just taken warning by +what she had seen the day before, it would now have been well with her. +But the fall of her school mate she soon forgot--sooner than she will +forget the bruises she has now received.--Well, we hope that at least +she will keep off from fence tops hereafter. It is really too bad for +any girl to attempt to climb fences, and we are sure that none would +wish to, after such a fall as Jane has had. + +Jane was soon able to be about again: but O, what a face did she carry! +Her cheeks were deeply scratched, and her nose was bruised almost to +flatness. The little girls with whom she formerly played could hardly +believe that it was Jane Jones, and although they loved her much they +could but pity her. Jane was never afterwards seen upon a fence: O, no! +she knew she had done wrong, and most carefully did she avoid going +where she might get another fall. + +[Illustration] + + + + +[Illustration: THE CRUEL BOY.] + +THE CRUEL BOY. + + +Ah! here is John Stevens. He took the little kitten, almost as soon as +it was born, and tied a string and a stone to its neck, and is now +throwing it into the river. Poor thing! how it will agonize and try to +get loose. But all will be in vain: the little kitten must drown. + +And now, let us ask the little boy why he was led to such an act of +cruelty. He makes no answer. Verily, we should think he would feel +guilty, and certainly he looks heartily ashamed. We hope he will never +again be found engaged in such an act. If he has no parents to teach him +to do better, we pity him. But that is no excuse for doing wrong. We +would advise him to go to school, and there improve his time, and learn +to do better. We hope he will take our advice, and that we shall soon +have the pleasure of hearing that he has become a better boy. + + + + +[Illustration: THE SCHOOL ROOM.] + +THE SCHOOL ROOM. + + + Here are little heads well fill'd, + Some in learning greatly skill'd; + Yet examine every face, + Pleasure only you can trace. + +Yes, this is a school room, where little boys and girls are taught to +spell, to read and to write. On the left hand side of the picture you +may see the school master busily engaged in preparing the copy books for +the boys. In the front part of the room you can see the monitor +examining the writing of one of the boys. Thus the masters set a good +example for industry. And we are glad to see the little boys ready to +follow it. They also are all busily engaged in their studies. All! did +we say? Alas! there are two who are mischievously playing. Do you not +see them? We are sorry that they should be found breaking the rules of +the school, while the other boys are studying their lessons, and +improving their minds. + + + + +[Illustration: JANE THOMPSON.] + +JANE THOMPSON. + + +This is Jane Thompson; and I wish I could say that she was a good girl. +But her looks and actions show that she is very far from being good. She +is fretful and peevish, and when her mamma told her that it was time for +little folks to go to bed, she began to whine and pout, and said she did +not wish to go to bed then--she did not wish to go until nurse went. + +No good child would have behaved in this manner, on being told that it +was bed-time. Oh, no. Good children are ever ready to obey their +parents, and cheerfully go to bed when their parents wish. What is there +more lovely than an obedient child! Let every little girl and boy learn +this beautiful verse. I will soon give you some others. + + My father, my mother, I know + I cannot your kindness repay; + But I hope, that as older I grow, + I shall learn your commands to obey. + + + + +[Illustration: THE PASSIONATE BOY.] + +THE PASSIONATE BOY. + + +Ah, lack-a-day! what's the matter now? Mary took your knife to fix her +doll, did she? Well, was there any thing very bad in that? Surely not. +You are making a terrible noise about a very little matter. + +Yes, because this little girl had used her brother's knife, he became +very angry. And now you may see him violently throwing his sister's doll +upon the floor. Already he has broken its little arms, which you can see +scattered upon the floor. Ah, that is very wicked. No little boy or girl +ever ought to get angry. It is a passion which "leads to clubs, and +naked swords--to murder and to death." + +Here is a little hymn which you may learn. We wish you to get it by +heart; and whenever you are tempted to be angry, at least stop long +enough to say it to the fourth verse. You will find it on the next +page. + + + + +AGAINST GETTING ANGRY. + + + Whatever brawls disturb the street, + There should be peace at home; + Where sisters dwell and brothers meet, + Quarrels should never come. + + Birds in their little nests agree, + And 'tis a shameful sight, + When children of one family + Fall out, and chide, and fight. + + Hard names at first, and threatening words, + Which are but noisy breath, + May grow to clubs and naked swords; + To murder, and to death. + + The devil tempts one mother's son + To rage against another; + So wicked Cain was hurried on + Till he had killed his brother. + + The wise will make their anger cool, + At least, before 'tis night; + But in the bosom of a fool + It burns till morning light. + + Pardon, O Lord, our childish rage, + Our little brawls remove; + That, as we grow to riper age, + Our hearts may all be love. + + + + + +[Illustration] + +CHILDREN'S BOOKS. + +TRUMAN & SMITH, + +BOOKSELLERS, + +150, MAIN STREET, CINCINNATI, + +ARE EXTENSIVELY ENGAGED IN + +PUBLISHING CHILDREN'S + +BOOKS. + +Their assortment is select and extensive, comprising books, varying in +prices, from one cent to twenty-five cents each. 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