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diff --git a/36178.txt b/36178.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0fd841a --- /dev/null +++ b/36178.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1364 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Little Dog Trusty; The Orange Man; and +the Cherry Orchard; Being the Tenth Part of Early Lessons (1801), by Maria Edgeworth + +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: The Little Dog Trusty; The Orange Man; and the Cherry Orchard; Being the Tenth Part of Early Lessons (1801) + +Author: Maria Edgeworth + +Release Date: May 21, 2011 [EBook #36178] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LITTLE DOG TRUSTY; THE *** + + + + +Produced by Charlene Taylor, Joseph Cooper, David E. Brown, +and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + + + + EARLY LESSONS. + + PART X. + + PRICE SIX-PENCE. + + + + + THE + LITTLE DOG TRUSTY; + + THE + ORANGE MAN; + + AND THE + CHERRY ORCHARD: + + BEING THE TENTH PART OF + EARLY LESSONS. + + BY THE AUTHOR OF THE PARENT'S + ASSISTANT, SIX VOLUMES. + + _LONDON:_ + PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON, + NO. 72, ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD, + _By H. Bryer, Bridewell-Hospital, Bridge-Street._ + + 1801. + + + + +THE +LITTLE DOG TRUSTY; + +OR, + +THE LIAR AND THE BOY OF TRUTH. + + +Very, very little children must not read this story; for they cannot +understand it: they will not know what is meant by a liar and a boy of +truth. + +Very little children, when they are asked a question, say "yes," and +"no," without knowing the meaning of the words; but you, children, who +can speak quite plain, and who can tell, by words, what you wish for, +and what you want, and what you have seen, and what you have done; you +who understand what is meant by the words "I have done it," or "I have +not," you may read this story; for--you can understand it. + +Frank and Robert were two little boys, about eight years old. + +Whenever Frank did any thing wrong, he always told his father and mother +of it; and when any body asked him about any thing which he had done or +said, he always told the truth; so that every body who knew him, +believed him: but nobody who knew his brother Robert, believed a word +which he said, because he used to tell lies. + +Whenever he did any thing wrong, he never ran to his father and mother +to tell them of it; but when they asked him about it, he denied it, and +said he had not done the things which he had done. + +The reason that Robert told lies was, because he was afraid of being +punished for his faults, if he confessed them. He was a coward, and +could not bear the least pain; but Frank was a brave boy, and could bear +to be punished for little faults: his mother never punished him so much +for such little faults, as she did Robert for the lies which he told, +and which she found out afterward. + +One evening, these two little boys were playing together, in a room by +themselves; their mother was ironing in a room next to them, and their +father was out at work in the fields, so there was nobody in the room +with Robert and Frank; but there was a little dog, Trusty, lying by the +fire-side. + +Trusty was a pretty playful little dog, and the children were very fond +of him. + +"Come," said Robert to Frank, "there is Trusty lying beside the fire +asleep; let us go and waken him, and he will play with us." + +"O yes, do, let us," said Frank. So they both ran together, towards the +hearth, to waken the dog. + +Now there was a basin of milk standing upon the hearth; and the little +boys did not see where-abouts it stood; for it was behind them: as they +were both playing with the dog, they kicked it with their feet, and +threw it down; and the basin broke, and all the milk ran out of it over +the hearth, and about the floor; and when the little boys saw what they +had done, they were very sorry, and frightened; but they did not know +what to do: they stood for some time, looking at the broken basin and +the milk, without speaking. + +Robert spoke first. + +"So, we shall have no milk for supper to-night," said he; and he +sighed---- + +"No milk for supper!----why not?" said Frank; "is there no more milk in +the house?" + +"Yes, but we shall have none of it; for, do not you remember, last +Monday, when we threw down the milk, my mother said we were very +careless, and that the next time we did so, we should have no more; and +this is the next time; so we shall have no milk for supper to-night." + +"Well, then," said Frank, "we must do without it, that's all: we will +take more care another time; there's no great harm done; come, let us +run and tell my mother. You know she bid us always tell her directly +when we broke any thing; so come," said he, taking hold of his brother's +hand. + +"I will come, just now," said Robert; "don't be in such a hurry, +Frank--Can't you stay a minute?" So Frank staid; and then he said, "Come +now, Robert." But Robert answered, "Stay a little longer; for I dare not +go yet--I am afraid." + +Little boys, I advise you, never be afraid to tell the truth; never say, +"_Stay a minute_," and, "_Stay a little longer_," but run directly, and +tell of what you have done that is wrong. The longer you stay, the more +afraid you will grow, till at last, perhaps, you will not dare to tell +the truth at all.--Hear what happened to Robert. + +The longer he staid, the more unwilling he was to go to tell his mother +that he had thrown the milk down; and at last he pulled his hand away +from his brother, and cried, "I won't go at all; Frank, can't you go by +yourself?" + +"Yes," said Frank, "so I will; I am not afraid to go by myself: I only +waited for you out of good-nature, because I thought you would like to +tell the truth too." + +"Yes, so I will; I mean to tell the truth when I am asked; but I need +not go now, when I do not choose it:--and why need you go either?--Can't +you wait here?--Surely my mother can see the milk when she comes in." + +Frank said no more; but, as his brother would not come, he went without +him. He opened the door of the next room, where he thought his mother +was ironing; but when he went in, he saw that she was gone; and he +thought she was gone to fetch some more clothes to iron. The clothes, he +knew, were hanging on the bushes in the garden; so he thought his mother +was gone there; and he ran after her, to tell what had happened. + +Now whilst Frank was gone, Robert was left in the room by himself; and +all the while he was alone, he was thinking of some excuses to make to +his mother; and he was sorry that Frank was gone to tell her the truth. +He said to himself, "If Frank and I both were to say, that we did not +throw down the basin, she would believe us, and we should have milk for +supper. I am very sorry Frank would go to tell her about it." + +Just as he said this to himself, he heard his mother coming down +stairs--"Oh ho!" said he to himself, "then my mother has not been out in +the garden, and so Frank has not met her, and cannot have told her; so +now I may say what I please." + +Then this naughty, cowardly boy, determined to tell his mother a lie. + +She came into the room; but when she saw the broken basin, and the milk +spilled, she stopped short, and cried; "So, so!--What a piece of work is +here!--Who did this, Robert?" + +"I don't know, ma'am," said Robert, in a very low voice. + +"You don't know, Robert!--tell me the truth--I shall not be angry with +you, child--You will only lose the milk at supper; and as for the basin, +I would rather have you break all the basins I have, than tell me one +lie.--So don't tell me a lie.--I ask you, Robert, did you break the +basin?" + +"_No, ma'am_, I did not," said Robert; and he coloured as red as fire. + +"Then, where's Frank?--did he do it?" + +"No mother, he did not," said Robert; for he was in hopes, that when +Frank came in, he should persuade him to say that he did not do it. + +"How do you know," said his mother, "that Frank did not do it?" + +"Because--because--because, ma'am," said Robert, hesitating, as liars do +for an excuse--"because I was in the room all the time, and I did not +see him do it." + +"Then how was the basin thrown down? If you have been in the room all +the time, you can tell." + +Then Robert, going on from one lie to another, answered, + +"I suppose the dog must have done it."-- + +"Did you see him do it?" says his mother. + +"Yes," said this wicked boy. + +"Trusty, Trusty," said his mother, turning round; and Trusty, who was +lying before the fire, drying his legs, which were wet with the milk, +jumped up, and came to her. Then she said, "Fie! fie! Trusty!" and she +pointed to the milk.--"Get me a switch out of the garden, Robert; +Trusty must be beat for this." + +Robert ran for the switch, and in the garden he met his brother: he +stopped him, and told him, in a great hurry, all that he had said to his +mother; and he begged of him not to tell the truth, but to say the same +as he had done. + +"No, I will not tell a lie," said Frank.--"What! and is Trusty to be +beat!--He did not throw down the milk, and he shan't be beat for +it--Let me go to my mother." + +They both ran toward the house--Robert got first home, and he locked the +house-door, that Frank might not come in. He gave the switch to his +mother. + +Poor Trusty! he looked up as the switch was lifted over his head; but +_he_ could not speak, to tell the truth. Just as the blow was falling +upon him, Frank's voice was heard at the window. + +"Stop, stop! dear mother, stop!" cried he, as loud as ever he could +call; "Trusty did not do it--let me in--I and Robert did it--but do not +beat Robert." + +"Let us in, let us in," cried another voice, which Robert knew to be his +father's; "I am just come from work, and here's the door locked." + +Robert turned as pale as ashes when he heard his father's voice; for +his father always whipped him when he told a lie. + +His mother went to the door, and unlocked it. + +"What's all this?" cried his father, as he came in; so his mother told +him all that had happened;--how the milk had been thrown down; how she +had asked Robert whether he had done it; and he said that he had not, +nor that Frank had not done it, but that Trusty, the dog, had done it; +how she was just going to beat Trusty, when Frank came to the window and +told the truth. + +"Where is the switch with which you were going to beat Trusty?" said the +father. + +Then Robert, who saw, by his father's look, that he was going to beat +him, fell upon his knees, and cried for mercy, saying, "Forgive me this +time, and I will never tell a lie again." + +But his father caught hold of him by the arm--"I will whip you now," +said he, "and then, I hope, you will not." So Robert was whipped, till +he cried so loud with the pain, that the whole neighbourhood could hear +him. + +"There," said his father, when he had done, "now go to supper; you are +to have no milk to-night, and you have been whipped. See how liars are +served!" Then, turning to Frank, "Come here, and shake hands with me, +Frank; you will have no milk for supper; but that does not signify; you +have told the truth, and have not been whipped, and every body is +pleased with you. And now I'll tell you what I will do for you--I will +give you the little dog Trusty, to be your own dog. You shall feed him, +and take care of him, and he shall be your dog; you have saved him a +beating; and, I'll answer for it, you'll be a good master to him. +Trusty, Trusty, come here." + +Trusty came; then Frank's father took off Trusty's collar--"To-morrow +I'll go to the brazier's," added he, "and get a new collar made for your +dog: from this day forward he shall always be called after you, +_Frank_!----And, wife, whenever any of the neighbours' children ask you +why the dog _Trusty_ is to be called _Frank_, tell them this story of +our two boys: let them know the difference between a liar and a boy of +truth." + + + + +THE +ORANGE MAN; + +OR, + +THE HONEST BOY AND THE THIEF. + + +Charles was the name of the honest boy; and Ned was the name of the +thief. + +Charles never touched what was not his own: _this_ is being an honest +boy. + +Ned often took what was not his own: this is being a thief. + +Charles's father and mother, when he was a very little boy, had taught +him to be honest, by always punishing him when he meddled with what was +not his own: but when Ned took what was not his own, his father and +mother did not punish him; so he grew up to be a thief. + +Early one summer's morning, as Charles was going along the road to +school, he met a man leading a horse, which was laden with panniers. + +The man stopped at the door of a public-house which was by the road +side; and he said to the landlord, who came to the door, "I won't have +my horse unloaded; I shall only stop with you whilst I eat my +breakfast.--Give my horse to some one to hold here on the road, and let +the horse have a little hay to eat." + +The landlord called; but there was no one in the way; so he beckoned to +Charles, who was going by, and begged him to hold the horse. + +"Oh," said the man, "but can you engage him to be an honest boy? for +these are oranges in my baskets; and it is not every little boy one can +leave with oranges." + +"Yes," said the landlord, "I have known Charles from the cradle upwards, +and I never caught him in a lie or a theft; all the parish knows him to +be an honest boy; I'll engage your oranges will be as safe with him as +if you were by yourself." + +"Can you so?" said the orange man; "then I'll engage, my lad, to give +you the finest orange in my basket, when I come from breakfast, if +you'll watch the rest whilst I am away."-- + +"Yes," said Charles, "I _will_ take care of your oranges." + +So the man put the bridle into his hand, and he went into the house to +eat his breakfast. + +Charles had watched the horse and the oranges about five minutes, when +he saw one of his school-fellows coming towards him. As he came nearer, +Charles saw that it was Ned. + +Ned stopped as he passed, and said, "Good-morrow to you, Charles; what +are you doing there? whose horse is that? and what have you got in the +baskets?" + +"There are oranges in the baskets," said Charles; "and a man, who has +just gone into the inn, here, to eat his breakfast, bid me take care of +them, and so I did; because he said he would give me an orange when he +came back again." + +"An orange!" cried Ned; "are you to have a whole orange?--I wish I was +to have one! However, let me look how large they are." Saying this, Ned +went towards the pannier, and lifted up the cloth that covered it. "La! +what fine oranges!" he exclaimed, the moment he saw them: "Let me touch +them, to feel if they are ripe." + +"No," said Charles, "you had better not; what signifies it to you +whether they are ripe, you know, since you are not to eat them. You +should not meddle with them; they are not yours--You must not touch +them." + +"Not touch them! surely," said Ned, "there's no harm in _touching_ them. +You don't think I mean to steal them, I suppose." So Ned put his hand +into the orange-man's basket, and he took up an orange, and he felt it; +and when he had felt it, he smelled it. "It smells very sweet," said he, +"and it feels very ripe; I long to taste it; I will only just suck one +drop of juice at the top." Saying these words, he put the orange to his +mouth. + +Little boys, who wish to be honest, beware of temptation; do not depend +too much upon yourselves; and remember, that it is easier to resolve to +do right at first, than at last. People are led on, by little and +little, to do wrong. + +The _sight_ of the oranges tempted Ned to _touch_ them; the touch +tempted him to _smell_ them; and the smell tempted him to _taste_ them. + +"What are you about, Ned?" cried Charles, taking hold of his arm. "You +said, you only wanted to smell the orange; do, put it down, for shame!" + +"Don't say _for shame_ to me," cried Ned, in a surly tone; "the oranges +are not yours, Charles!" + +"No, they are not mine; but I promised to take care of them, and so I +will:--so put down that orange!" + +"Oh, if it comes to that, I won't," said Ned, "and let us see who can +make me, if I don't choose it;--I'm stronger than you." + +"I am not afraid of you for all that," replied Charles, "for I am in +the right." Then he snatched the orange out of Ned's hand, and he pushed +him with all his force from the basket. + +Ned, immediately returning, hit him a violent blow, which almost stunned +him. + +Still, however, this good boy, without minding the pain, persevered in +defending what was left in his care; he still held the bridle with one +hand, and covered the basket with his other arm, as well as he could. + +Ned struggled in vain, to get his hands into the pannier again; he could +not; and, finding that he could not win by strength, he had recourse to +cunning. So he pretended to be out of breath and to desist; but he +meant, as soon as Charles looked away, to creep softly round to the +basket, on the other side. + +Cunning people, though they think themselves very wise, are almost +always very silly. + +Ned, intent upon one thing, the getting round to steal the oranges, +forgot that if he went too close to the horse's heels, he should startle +him. The horse indeed, disturbed by the bustle near him, had already +left off eating his hay, and began to put down his ears; but when he +felt something touch his hind legs, he gave a sudden kick, and Ned fell +backwards, just as he had seized the orange. + +Ned screamed with the pain; and at the scream all the people came out +of the public house to see what was the matter; and amongst them came +the orange-man. + +Ned was now so much ashamed, that he almost forgot the pain, and wished +to run away; but he was so much hurt, that he was obliged to sit down +again. + +The truth of the matter was soon told by Charles, and as soon believed +by all the people present who knew him: for he had the character of +being an honest boy; and Ned was known to be a thief and a liar. + +So nobody pitied Ned for the pain he felt. "He deserves it," says one. +"Why did he meddle with what was not his own?"--"Pugh! he is not much +hurt, I'll answer for it," said another. "And if he was, it's a lucky +kick for him, if it keeps him from the gallows," says a third. Charles +was the only person who said nothing; he helped Ned away to a bank: for +brave boys are always good-natured. + +"Oh, come here," said the orange-man, calling him; "come here, my honest +lad! what! you got that black eye in keeping my oranges, did +you?--that's a stout little fellow," said he, taking him by the hand, +and leading him into the midst of the people. + +Men, women, and children, had gathered around, and all the children +fixed their eyes upon Charles, and wished to be in his place. + +In the mean time, the orange-man took Charles's hat off his head, and +filled it with fine China oranges. "There, my little friend," said he, +"take them, and God bless you with them! If I could but afford it, you +should have all that is in my basket." + +Then the people, and especially the children, shouted for joy; but as +soon as there was silence, Charles said to the orange-man, "Thank'e, +master, with all my heart; but I can't take your oranges, only that one +I earned; take the rest back again: as for a black eye, that's nothing! +but I won't be paid for it; no more than for doing what's honest. So I +can't take your oranges, master; but I thank you as much as if I had +them." Saying these words, Charles offered to pour the oranges back +into the basket; but the man would not let him. + +"Then," said Charles, "if they are honestly mine, I may give them away;" +so he emptied the hat amongst the children, his companions. "Divide them +amongst you," said he; and without waiting for their thanks, he pressed +through the crowd, and ran towards home. The children all followed him, +clapping their hands, and thanking him. + +The little thief came limping after. Nobody praised him, nobody thanked +him; he had no oranges to eat, nor had he any to give away. _People must +be honest, before they can be generous._ Ned sighed as he went towards +home; "And all this," said he to himself, "was for one orange; it was +not worth while." + +No: it is never worth while to do wrong. + +Little boys who read this story, consider which would you rather have +been, _the honest boy_, or _the thief_. + + + + +THE CHERRY ORCHARD. + + +Marianne was a little girl of about eight years old; she was remarkably +good-tempered; she could bear to be disappointed, or to be contradicted, +or to be blamed, without looking or feeling peevish, or sullen, or +angry.--Her parents, and her school-mistress and companions, all loved +her, because she was obedient and obliging. + +Marianne had a cousin, a year younger than herself, named Owen, who was +an ill-tempered boy; almost every day he was crying, or pouting, or in a +passion, about some trifle or other; he was neither obedient nor +obliging.--His playfellows could not love him; for he was continually +quarrelling with them; he would never, either when he was at play or at +work, do what they wished; but he always tried to force them to yield to +his will and his humour. + +One fine summer's evening, Marianne and Owen were setting out, with +several of their little companions, to school. It was a walk of about a +mile from the town in which their fathers and mothers lived to the +school-house, if they went by the high-road; but there was another way, +through a lane, which was a quarter of a mile shorter. + +Marianne, and most of the children, liked to go by the lane, because +they could gather the pretty flowers which grew on the banks, and in the +hedges; but Owen preferred going by the high-road, because he liked to +see the carts and carriages, and horsemen, which usually were seen upon +this road. + +Just when they were setting out, Owen called to Marianne, who was +turning into the lane. + +"Marianne," said he, "you _must_ not go by the lane to-day; you must go +by the road." + +"Why must not I go by the lane to-day?" said Marianne; "you know, +yesterday, and the day before, and the day before that, we all went by +the high-road, only to please you; and now let us go by the lane, +because we want to gather some honey-suckles and dog-roses, to fill our +dame's flower-pots." + +"I don't care for that; I don't want to fill our dame's flower-pots; I +don't want to gather honey-suckles and dog-roses; I want to see the +coaches and chaises on the road; and you _must_ go my way, Marianne." + +"_Must!_ Oh, you should not say _must_," replied Marianne, in a gentle +tone. + +"No, indeed!" cried one of her companions, "you should not; nor should +you look so cross: that is not the way to make us do what you like." + +"And, besides," said another, "what right has he always to make us do as +he pleases?--He never will do any thing that we wish." + +Owen grew quite angry when he heard this; and he was just going to make +some sharp answer, when Marianne, who was good-natured, and always +endeavoured to prevent quarrels, said, "Let us do what he asks, this +once; and I dare say he will do what we please the next time--We will go +by the high-road to school, and we can come back by the lane, in the +cool of the evening." + +To please Marianne, whom they all loved, they agreed to this proposal. +They went by the high-road; but Owen was not satisfied, because he saw +that his companions did not comply for his sake; and as he walked on, +he began to kick up the dust with his feet, saying, "I'm sure it is much +pleasanter here than in the lane; I wish we were to come back this +way--I'm sure it is much pleasanter here than in the lane: is not it, +Marianne?" + +Marianne could not say that she thought so. + +Owen kicked up the dust more and more. + +"Do not make such a dust, dear Owen," said she; "look how you have +covered my shoes and my clean stockings with dust." + +"Then, say, it is pleasanter here than in the lane. I shall go on, +making this dust, till you say that." + +"I cannot say that, because I do not think so, Owen." + +"I'll make you think so, and say so too." + +"You are not taking the right way to make me think so: you know that I +cannot think this dust agreeable." + +Owen persisted; and he raised continually a fresh cloud of dust, in +spite of all that Marianne or his companions could say to him.--They +left him, and went to the opposite side of the road; but wherever they +went, he pursued--At length they came to a turnpike-gate, on one side of +which there was a turn-stile; Marianne and the rest of the children +passed, one by one, through the turn-stile, whilst Owen was emptying his +shoes of dust. When this was done, he looked up, and saw all his +companions on the other side of the gate, holding the turn-stile, to +prevent him from coming through. + +"Let me through, let me through," cried he, "I must and will come +through." + +"No, no, Owen," said they, "_must_ will not do now; we have you safe; +here are ten of us; and we will not let you come through till you have +promised that you will not make any more dust." + +Owen, without making any answer, began to kick, and push, and pull, and +struggle, with all his might; but in vain he struggled, pulled, pushed +and kicked; he found that ten people are stronger than one.--When he +felt that he could not conquer them by force, he began to cry; and he +roared as loud as he possibly could. + +No one but the turnpike-man was within hearing; and he stood laughing at +Owen. + +Owen tried to climb the gate; but he could not get over it, because +there were iron spikes at the top. + +"Only promise that you will not kick up the dust, and they will let you +through," said Marianne. + +Owen made no answer, but continued to struggle till his whole face was +scarlet, and till both his wrists ached: he could not move the +turn-stile an inch. + +"Well," said he, stopping short, "now you are all of you joined +together; you are stronger than I; but I am as cunning as you." + +He left the stile, and began to walk homewards. + +"Where are you going? You will be too late at school, if you turn back +and go by the lane," said Marianne. + +"I know that, very well; but that will be your fault, and not mine--I +shall tell our dame, that you all of you held the turn-stile against +me, and would not let me through." + +"And we shall tell our dame why we held the turn-stile against you," +replied one of the children; "and then it will be plain that it was your +fault." + +Perhaps Owen did not hear this; for he was now at some distance from the +gate. Presently he heard some one running after him--It was Marianne. + +"Oh, I am so much out of breath with running after you!--I can hardly +speak!--But I am come back," said this good-natured girl, "to tell you +that you will be sorry if you do not come with us; for there is +something that you like very much, just at the turn of the road, a +little beyond the turnpike-gate." + +"Something that I like very much!--What can that be?" + +"Come with _me_, and you shall _see_," said Marianne; "that is both +rhyme and reason--Come with _me_, and you shall _see_." + +She looked so good-humoured, as she smiled and nodded at him, that he +could not be sullen any longer. + +"I don't know how it is, cousin Marianne," said he; "but when I am +cross, you are never cross; and you can always bring me back to +good-humour again, you are so good-humoured yourself--I wish I was like +you--But we need not talk any more of that now--What is it that I shall +see on the other side of the turnpike-gate?--What is it that I like very +much?" + +"Don't you like ripe cherries very much?" + +"Yes; but they do not grow in these hedges." + +"No; but there is an old woman sitting by the road-side, with a board +before her, which is covered with red ripe cherries." + +"Red ripe cherries! Let us make haste then," cried Owen. He ran on, as +fast as he could; but as soon as the children saw him running, they also +began to run back to the turn-stile; and they reached it before he did; +and they held it fast as before, saying, "Promise you will not kick up +the dust, or we will not let you through." + +"The cherries are very ripe," said Marianne. + +"Well, well, I will not kick up the dust--Let me through," said Owen. + +They did so, and he kept his word; for though he was ill-humoured, he +was a boy of truth; and he always kept his promises--He found the +cherries looked red and ripe, as Marianne had described them. + +The old woman took up a long stick, which lay on the board before her. +Bunches of cherries were tied with white thread to this stick; and as +she shook it in the air, over the heads of the children, they all +looked up with longing eyes. + +"A halfpenny a bunch!--Who will buy? Who will buy? Who will buy?--Nice +ripe cherries!" cried the old woman. + +The children held out their halfpence; and "Give me a bunch," and "give +me a bunch!" was heard on all sides. + +"Here are eleven of you," said the old woman, "and there are just +eleven bunches on this stick." She put the stick into Marianne's hand, +as she spoke. + +Marianne began to untie the bunches; and her companions pressed closer +and closer to her, each eager to have the particular bunches which they +thought the largest and the ripest. + +Several fixed upon the uppermost, which looked indeed extremely ripe. + +"You cannot all have this bunch," said Marianne; "to which of you must +I give it? You all wish for it." + +"Give it to me, give it to _me_," was the first cry of each; but the +second was, "Keep it yourself, Marianne; keep it yourself." + +"Now, Owen, see what it is to be good-natured, and good-humoured, like +Marianne," said Cymon, the eldest of the boys, who stood near him--"We +all are ready to give up the ripest cherries to Marianne; but we should +never think of doing so for you, because you are so cross and +disagreeable." + +"I am not cross _now_; I am not disagreeable _now_," replied Owen; "and +I do not intend to be cross and disagreeable any more." + +This was a good resolution; but Owen did not keep it many minutes.--In +the bunch of cherries which Marianne gave to him for his share, there +was one which, though red on one side, was entirely white and hard on +the other. + +"This cherry is not ripe; and here's another that has been half eaten +away by the birds.--Oh, Marianne, you gave me this bad bunch on +purpose--I will not have this bunch." + +"Somebody must have it," said Cymon; "and I do not see that it is worse +than the others; we shall all have some cherries that are not so good as +the rest; but we shall not grumble and look so cross about it as you +do." + +"Give me your bad cherries, and I will give you two out of my fine +bunch, instead of them," said the good-natured Marianne. + +"No, no, no!" cried the children; "Marianne, keep your own cherries." + +"Are not you ashamed, Owen?" said Cymon--"How can you be so greedy?" + +"Greedy!--I am not greedy," cried Owen, angrily; "but I will not have +the worst cherries; I will have another bunch." + +He tried to snatch another bunch from the stick.--Cymon held it above +his head.--Owen leaped up, reached it, and when his companions closed +round him, exclaiming against his violence, he grew still more angry; he +threw the stick down upon the ground, and trampled upon every bunch of +the cherries in his fury, scarcely knowing what he did, or what he +said. + +When his companions saw the ground stained with the red juice of their +cherries, which he had trampled under his feet, they were both sorry and +angry. + +The children had not any more halfpence; they could not buy any more +cherries; and the old woman said that she could not _give_ them any. + +As they went away sorrowfully, they said, "Owen is so ill-tempered, that +we will not play with him, or speak to him, or have any thing to do +with him." + +Owen thought that he could make himself happy without his companions; +and he told them so.--But he soon found that he was mistaken. + +When they arrived at the school-house, their dame was sitting in the +thatched porch before her own door, reading a paper that was printed in +large letters--"My dears," said she to her little scholars, "here is +something that you will be glad to see; but say your lessons first--One +thing at a time--Duty first, and pleasure afterwards----Which ever of +you says your lesson best, shall know first what is in this paper, and +shall have the pleasure of telling the good news." + +Owen always learned his lessons very well, and quickly: he now said his +lesson better than any of his companions said theirs; and he looked +round him with joy and triumph; but no eye met his with pleasure; nobody +smiled upon him, no one was glad that he had succeeded: on the contrary, +he heard those near him whisper, "I should have been very glad if it had +been Marianne who had said her lesson, because she is so good-natured." + +The printed paper, which Owen read aloud, was as follows: + +"On Thursday evening next, the gate of the cherry-orchard will be +opened; and all who have tickets will be let in, from six o'clock till +eight.--Price of tickets, six-pence." + +The children wished extremely to go to this cherry orchard, where they +knew that they might gather as many cherries as they liked, and where +they thought that they should be very happy, sitting down under the +trees, and eating fruit--But none of these children had any money; for +they had spent their last halfpence in paying for those cherries which +they never tasted--those cherries which Owen, in the fury of his +passion, trampled in the dust. + +The children asked their dame what they could do to earn six-pence a +piece; and she told them, that they might perhaps be able to earn this +money by plaiting straw for hats, which they had all been taught to +make by their good dame. + +Immediately the children desired to set to work. + +Owen, who was very eager to go to the cherry orchard, was the most +anxious to get forward with the business: he found, however, that nobody +liked to work along with him; his companions said, "We are afraid that +you should quarrel with us--We are afraid that you should fly into a +passion about the straws, as you did about the cherries; therefore we +will not work with you." + +"Will not you? then I will work by myself," said Owen; "and I dare say +that I shall have done my work long before you have any of you finished +yours; for I can plait quicker and better than any of you." + +It was true that Owen could plait quicker and better than any of his +companions; but he was soon surprised to find that his work did not go +on so fast as theirs. + +After they had been employed all the remainder of this evening, and all +the next day, Owen went to his companions, and compared his work with +theirs. + +"How is this?" said he; "how comes it, that you have all done so much, +and I have not done nearly so much, though I work quicker than any one +of you, and I have worked as hard as I possibly could?--What is the +reason that you have done so much more than I have?" + +"Because we have all been helping one another, and you have had no one +to help you: you have been obliged to do every thing for yourself." + +"But still, I do not understand how your helping one another can make +such a difference," said Owen: "I plait faster than any of you." + +His companions were so busy at their work, that they did not listen to +what he was saying--He stood behind Marianne, in a melancholy posture, +looking at them, and trying to find out why they went on so much faster +than he could--He observed that one picked the outside off the straws; +another cut them to the proper length; another sorted them, and laid +them in bundles; another flattened them; another (the youngest of the +little girls, who was not able to do any thing else) held the straws +ready for those who were plaiting; another cut off the rough ends of +the straws when the plaits were finished; another ironed the plaits with +a hot smoothing-iron; others sewed the plaits together. Each did what he +could do best, and quickest; and none of them lost any time in going +from one work to another, or in looking for what they wanted. + +On the contrary, Owen had lost a great deal of time in looking for all +the things that he wanted; he had nobody to hold the straws ready for +him as he plaited; therefore he was forced to go for them himself, every +time he wanted them; and his straws were not sorted in nice bundles for +him; the wind blew them about; and he wasted half an hour, at least, in +running after them. Besides this, he had no friend to cut off the rough +ends for him; nor had he any one to sew the plaits together; and though +he could plait quickly, he could not sew quickly; for he was not used +to this kind of work. He wished extremely for Marianne to do it for him. +He was once a full quarter of an hour in threading his needle, of which +the eye was too small--Then he spent another quarter of an hour in +looking for one with a larger eye; and he could not find it at last, and +nobody would lend him another--When he had done sewing, he found that +_his hand was out for plaiting_; that is, he could not plait so quickly +after his fingers had just been used to another kind of work; and when +he had been smoothing the straws with a heavy iron, his hand trembled +afterwards for some minutes, during which time he was forced to be idle; +thus it was that he lost time by doing every thing for himself; and +though he lost but few minutes or seconds in each particular, yet, when +all these minutes and seconds were added together, they made a great +difference. + +"How fast, how very fast, they go on! and how merrily!" said Owen; as he +looked at his former companions--"I am sure I shall never earn sixpence +for myself before Thursday; and I shall not be able to go to the +cherry-orchard--I am very sorry that I trampled on your cherries; I am +very sorry that I was so ill-humoured--I will never be cross any more." + +"He is very sorry, that he was so ill-humoured; he is very sorry that he +trampled on our cherries," cried Marianne; "do you hear what he says; he +will never be cross any more." + +"Yes, we hear what he says," answered Cymon; "but how can we be sure +that he will do as he says." + +"Oh," cried another of his companions, "he has found out at last that +he must do as he would be done by." + +"Aye," said another; "and he finds that we who are good-humoured and +good-natured to one another, do better even than he who is so quick and +so clever." + +"But if, besides being so quick and so clever, he was good-humoured and +good-natured," said Marianne, "he would be of great use to us; he plaits +a vast deal faster than Mary does, and Mary plaits faster than any of +us--Come, let us try him, let him come in amongst us." + +"No, No, No," cried many voices; "he will quarrel with us; and we have +no time for quarrelling--We are all so quiet and happy without him!--Let +him work by himself, as he said he would." + +Owen went on, working by himself; he made all the haste that he +possibly could; but Thursday came, and his work was not nearly +finished--His companions passed by him with their finished work in their +hands--Each, as they passed, said, "What, have not you done yet, Owen?" +and then they walked on to the table where their Dame was sitting ready +to pay them their sixpences. + +She measured their work, and examined it; and when she saw that it was +well done, she gave to each of her little workmen and workwomen the +sixpence which they had earned, and she said, "I hope, my dears, that +you will be happy this evening." + +They all looked joyful; and as they held their sixpences in their hands +they said, "If we had not helped one another, we should not have earned +this money; and we should not be able to go to the cherry-orchard." + +"Poor Owen!" whispered Marianne to her companions, "look how melancholy +he is, sitting there alone at his work!--See! his hands tremble, so that +he can scarcely hold the straws; he will not have nearly finished his +work in time, he cannot go with us." + +"He should not have trampled upon our cherries; and then perhaps we +might have helped him," said Cymon. + +"Let us help him, though he did trample on our cherries," said the +good-natured Marianne,--"He is sorry for what he did, and he will never +be so ill-humoured or ill-natured again--Come, let us go and help +him--If we all help, we shall have his work finished in time, and then +we shall all be happy together." + +As Marianne spoke, she drew Cymon near to the corner where Owen was +sitting; and all her companions followed. + +"Before we offer to help him, let us try whether he is now inclined to +be good-humoured, and good-natured." + +"Yes, yes, let us try that first," said his companions. + +"Owen, you will not have done time enough to go with us,"--said Cymon. + +"No, indeed," said Owen, "I shall not; therefore I may as well give up +all thoughts of it--It is my own fault, I know." + +"Well, but as you cannot go yourself, you will not want your pretty +little basket; will you lend it to us to hold our cherries?" + +"Yes, I will with pleasure," cried Owen, jumping up to fetch it: + +"Now he is good-natured, I am sure," said Marianne. + +"This plaiting of yours is not nearly so well done as ours," said +Cymon, "look how uneven it is." + +"Yes, it is rather uneven, indeed," replied Owen. + +Cymon began to untwist some of Owen's work; and Owen bore this trial of +his patience with good temper. + +"Oh, you are pulling it all to pieces, Cymon," said Marianne; "this is +not fair." + +"Yes, it is fair," said Cymon; "for I have undone only an inch; and I +will do as many inches for Owen as he pleases, now that I see he is +good-humoured." + +Marianne immediately sat down to work for Owen; and Cymon and all his +companions followed her example--It was now two hours before the time +when the cherry-orchard was to be opened; and during these two hours, +they went on so expeditiously, that they completed the work. + +Owen went with them to the cherry-orchard, where they spent the evening +all together very happily--As he was sitting under a tree with his +companions eating the ripe cherries, he said to them,--"Thank you all, +for helping me; I should not have been here now eating these ripe +cherries, if you had not been so good-natured to me--I hope I shall +never be cross to any of you again, whenever I feel inclined to be +cross, I will think of your good-nature to me, and of THE +CHERRY-ORCHARD." + + + + +_Printed by H. 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