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+<div class="figcenter">
+<img src="images/tp.jpg" alt=""/>
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<h2>Maple Grove Stories<br />
+For<br />
+Little Readers.</h2>
+
+<h1>HAPPY HEARTS</h1>
+
+<h2>BY JUNE ISLE.</h2>
+
+
+<p class="center">CINCINNATI:<br />
+PUBLISHED BY POE &amp; HITCHCOCK.</p>
+
+<p class="center">R. P. THOMPSON, PRINTER.</p>
+
+<p class="center">Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864.<br />
+BY POE &amp; HITCHCOCK,<br />
+In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States<br />
+for the Southern District of Ohio.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2>CONTENTS.</h2>
+
+<table summary="contents">
+
+<tr><td>CHAPTER.</td><td align="right"> </td><td align="right">PAGE.</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td align="right">I. </td><td><a href="#CHAPTER_I"><span class="smcap">Whom have we Always</span> </a></td><td align="right">9</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td align="right">II.</td><td><a href="#CHAPTER_II"> <span class="smcap">Fritz Dead, yet Lives</span> </a></td><td align="right">29</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td align="right">III.</td><td><a href="#CHAPTER_III"> <span class="smcap">How? Answered</span> </a></td><td align="right">41</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td align="right">IV.</td><td><a href="#CHAPTER_IV"> <span class="smcap">What the Stars Saw</span> </a></td><td align="right">47</td></tr>
+</table>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span></p>
+<h2>HAPPY HEARTS.</h2>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_I" id="CHAPTER_I"></a>CHAPTER I.</h2>
+
+<h3>WHOM HAVE WE ALWAYS.</h3>
+
+
+<div class="figleft">
+<img src="images/m.jpg" alt=""/>
+</div>
+
+<p>Mr. and Mrs. Payson had three little children, who were very dear to
+them, and whom they amused and instructed in many pleasant ways.</p>
+
+<p>One Spring, just as the leaves<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</a></span> were bursting open and the birds were
+filling the air with gay songs, Mr. Payson told the children he had
+bought a home for them in the country.</p>
+
+<p>This pleased the little ones, and they talked from morning till night
+about what they would do in their new home.</p>
+
+<p>In the pretty country they watched the birds building their nests, and
+saw them feeding their young and teaching them to fly; and then they saw
+them in great cawing, twittering, fluttering swarms moving off to warmer
+lands when the yellow Autumn leaves began to fall.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>But when the Winter winds sung through the old pine trees, the children
+began to talk about Christmas.</p>
+
+<p>"I wonder if Santa Claus will come away out here, with his great pack of
+toys," said Rebecca one day. "I am afraid he will forget us, he has so
+many children to remember."</p>
+
+<p>"He may perhaps forget us," said Joshua; "for cousin Nelly says that he,
+one time, forgot to put any thing in her stocking, although she hung it
+where he could find it."</p>
+
+<p>"But," said Rebecca, "Nelly said it was a very stormy night,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span> and they
+lived on a hill, and the wind blew so hard they were afraid it would
+blow the house down. And I think Santa Claus was afraid the wind would
+upset his pack of toys if he went up on aunt Judd's roof."</p>
+
+<p>"I think," said Joshua, "we had better send Santa Claus a letter,
+telling him that we have moved from town out into this pretty pine
+grove, then he will know where to find us."</p>
+
+<p>"That will be a good way," said Rebecca; "for I remember when Mrs.
+White, who lives in our house in town, was here last week, she told
+mamma that many<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span> persons had called there since we left, and asked for
+Mr. Payson. Now, if the people do not know that we have moved away,
+Santa Claus may not; so he may go there and slide down the chimney, and,
+without asking any thing about it, put all the nice things, which he has
+in his pack for us, in Tommy and Jenny White's stockings."</p>
+
+<p>"I will write to Santa Claus," said Joshua, "as soon as I can find
+time."</p>
+
+<p>Joshua said this in rather of a large way, for he wished to talk like a
+man of business.</p>
+
+<p>"I will run and get your slate<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span> now," said Rebecca; and she soon came
+with the slate and pencil.</p>
+
+<p>They all sat down and Joshua took the pencil to write; but he found he
+could not do much, as his mamma was not there to spell the words for
+him.</p>
+
+<p>"Let us ask papa to send word to Santa Claus," said Rebecca.</p>
+
+<p>"And let us ask Mrs. White," said Newton, "to watch, and, when Santa
+Claus comes to her house, tell him where we live."</p>
+
+<p>"But Mrs. White might watch all night, and then not see him," said
+Rebecca; "for I think Santa Claus never makes any noise<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</a></span> till he is just
+going out of sight; then his eight tiny reindeers jingle their bells as
+they scamper away with the sleigh full of toys."</p>
+
+<p>Mrs. Payson came into the nursery, and the children told her what they
+had been saying.</p>
+
+<p>"Santa Claus shall be told where to find you," said Mrs. Payson, "and
+you will have a happy Christmas if you are happy in your own hearts. You
+shall have a Christmas tree, and we will invite some friends to come and
+enjoy its fruits with us. But I wish you to remember, my darlings, if
+you have<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</a></span> naughty thoughts you can not have a happy Christmas."</p>
+
+<p>"But if some naughty thoughts come, what can we do?" asked Rebecca.</p>
+
+<p>"Try to think about something good and pleasant," said Mrs. Payson, "and
+ask God to help you. Yesterday, when I heard Joshua telling Newton, in
+an angry way, that he hoped Santa Claus would not bring him any thing, I
+thought my dear boy's thinker was wrong."</p>
+
+<p>"I know, mamma," said Joshua, "that I wish to be good. But, if God lets
+me be naughty,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</a></span> what good does it do to ask him to help me?"</p>
+
+<p>"God will help you if you ask him in the right way, and if you watch
+yourselves," said Mrs. Payson. "If we wished to be happy ourselves we
+must do something to make others so; and even little children can do
+much good if they try."</p>
+
+<p>"When we are trying to make others happy," said Joshua, "we shall have
+good thoughts."</p>
+
+<p>"A little verse which you repeat," said Mrs. Payson, "says truly that</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">'Satan finds some mischief still<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">For idle hands to do.'<br /></span>
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</a></span></div></div>
+
+<p>Now I wish to hear what you, my children, have to do before Christmas."</p>
+
+<p>"We must get our gifts ready for the tree," said Rebecca.</p>
+
+<p>"And we must learn our lessons, every day," said Joshua.</p>
+
+<p>"And I must learn all my letters, so papa will give me a rocking-horse,"
+said little Newton.</p>
+
+<p>"That is all right," said Mrs. Payson; "but have you not something more
+to do?"</p>
+
+<p>"O, yes!" said Joshua, "we are to ride to town and invite our visitors
+to come and have a nice time with us in the holidays."<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>"But, are there not others whom you can help to be happy and good?"
+asked Mrs. Payson; "those whom we always have with us?"</p>
+
+<p>"I don't know," said Joshua, "as there are any persons that are always
+with us. Bridget has been here only a few months, and she says she must
+go away after New-Year; so you do not mean her. And John will leave next
+Spring; so you can not mean him."</p>
+
+<p>"When you were learning your Sunday school lesson a few weeks since,"
+said Mrs. Payson, "I heard you repeating these words<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</a></span> of Christ, 'Ye
+have the poor with you always; and whensoever ye will ye may do them
+good.'"</p>
+
+<p>"O, yes, mamma, I did not think of that," said Joshua. "But, there are
+so many poor people, how can we do them good?"</p>
+
+<p>"We can do our little," said Mrs. Payson, "and if we only make one sad
+heart glad we have done a good deed, and we shall be better and happier
+ourselves while we are helping others."</p>
+
+<p>"When Mrs. Blake comes here to see you, mamma," said Rebecca, "she talks
+about poor people, and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</a></span> how much she does for them. But Mrs. Blake does
+not seem to be happy; and she says there is no use in helping the poor,
+for if one begins there is no end."</p>
+
+<p>"Mrs. Blake," said Mrs. Payson, "has not a pleasant way of talking; but
+I think she enjoys doing good to others in her own cross way. Yet, if we
+would be happy ourselves in making others happy, we must love to do it.
+If you should give little Harry Grant a pair of mittens because I told
+you to do so, while you were fretting because you wished to keep them
+yourself, you would be neither better nor happier for<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</a></span> doing it; and you
+would not speak gently and kindly to the poor little fellow, and so make
+his face and your own bright by pleasant words. Mrs. Blake spends much
+time and money in helping poor people; but she forgets that she should</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">'Speak gently, kindly to the poor.'"<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>"I have some toys, mamma," said Rebecca, "that I can give to Mrs.
+Grant's lame Harry; I am sure they will make his little pale face
+smile."</p>
+
+<p>"And I should like to give Willie a pair of shoes," said Joshua; "for
+his are very ragged."<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>"Shall I give him my sled, mamma?" asked Newton.</p>
+
+<p>Now Newton thought more of his sled than he did of any other plaything.
+It was painted green and yellow, and had a bright colored strap which he
+called the reins. The runners were very smooth, and he expected to have
+a gay time with it all Winter. So, when Newton asked about giving his
+sled, he knew he was giving what he liked best.</p>
+
+<p>"No, my darling," said Mrs. Payson; "keep your sled. But, we will see
+what we all can do for Mrs. Grant and her children, by the time
+Christmas comes.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</a></span> She is a good woman, and we can do much to make her
+happy while her husband is gone to the war.</p>
+
+<p>"Then there is Mrs. Fisher, who lives near town; can we do something for
+her?" asked Mrs. Payson.</p>
+
+<p>"Mr. Fisher gets drunk," said Joshua; "and Mrs. Blake says it does no
+good to try to help them, for he sells things that are given to his wife
+to buy whisky."</p>
+
+<p>"But shall we leave poor Mrs. Fisher to suffer?" said Mrs. Payson.
+"Shall we try to do nothing for her and her dear children? They are
+often cold<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</a></span> for want of clothes and a fire. They are often hungry,
+because Mr. Fisher gets drunk, and is unkind to them.</p>
+
+<p>"With so many good things around us, shall we not try to help the little
+hungry children who have an unkind father?"</p>
+
+<p>"O, yes, mamma!" said all the children at once.</p>
+
+<p>"May I give something to Martha Kelly," asked Rebecca, "who says she
+never has any presents?"</p>
+
+<p>"Poor little Martha is not much older than you are, my daughter," said
+Mrs. Payson; "yet she is obliged to work<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</a></span> quite hard; for her mother is
+sick and her father is poor. But she has a sweet, smiling face, and she
+lives in a happier home than many children of rich parents."</p>
+
+<p>"I know, mamma," said Joshua, "Martha always looks pleasant, even in a
+shabby dress."</p>
+
+<p>"Mr. Kelly is a very kind and good man," said Mrs. Payson; "and I hope,
+before another Christmas, he will be able to give his family a better
+home.</p>
+
+<p>"They look happy because they have good thoughts and try to do their
+duty. None can be happy, even in beautiful<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</a></span> homes, unless their thoughts
+are right.</p>
+
+<p>"I hope you will select a pleasant book for little Martha, my daughter,
+and I will send some articles to her mamma."</p>
+
+<p>"It is now your bedtime, my darlings. To-morrow we will begin to prepare
+our Christmas gifts for the poor."</p>
+
+<p>The children kneeled down and thanked God for being so good to them, and
+asked him to help them to be kind and obedient, and to speak the truth.</p>
+
+<p>After they had said their prayers, Newton ran to his mamma and kneeled
+down again<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</a></span> by her side, and said, "Will God please to help the hungry
+little children to smile, for Christ's sake?"</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+<img src="images/illus1.jpg" alt=""/>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_II" id="CHAPTER_II"></a>CHAPTER II.</h2>
+
+<h3>FRITZ DEAD, YET LIVES.</h3>
+
+
+<div class="figleft">
+<img src="images/t.jpg" alt=""/>
+</div>
+
+<p>The next day, after the children had finished their lessons, Mrs. Payson
+said, "I will tell you a little story, showing how a child can do much
+good.</p>
+
+<p>"Many years ago, I knew a little boy who could not walk. His nurse let
+him fall, when he<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</a></span> was a baby, and hurt his back, so that he grew out of
+shape, and could not stand on his feet.</p>
+
+<p>"The little boy's name was Fritz Ritter. His parents lived in a pleasant
+home, and did all they could to make their darling lame boy happy.</p>
+
+<p>"They taught him to read, and write, and to draw pictures.</p>
+
+<p>"But Fritz said, 'That is not enough. I have dear friends, who do every
+thing for me. Now, I must do something too.'</p>
+
+<p>"His father kept a man to draw him about in a little wagon; so Fritz
+knew all the streets in town, and visited the machine-shops<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</a></span> and mills
+to see how things are made. Almost every one looked kindly on his sweet,
+pale face, and wherever he went the people would talk with him and show
+him what he wished to see.</p>
+
+<p>"As he rode about the city he saw many poor houses, and hungry and
+ragged children.</p>
+
+<p>"One night, when his mamma laid him in his little bed, she saw that he
+was sad and quiet.</p>
+
+<p>"'What is the matter with my little boy to-night?' she asked.</p>
+
+<p>"'I have seen so many poor little children on Stone Alley to-day,' said
+Fritz, 'who were ragged and dirty, I wished they<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</a></span> had good homes and
+good mammas.'</p>
+
+<p>"'I am sorry for all poor little children who are ragged and hungry,'
+said Mrs. Ritter. 'But, as we can not give them pleasant homes we must
+do what we can for them; for you know Christ says, "The poor ye have
+always; and whensoever ye will, ye may do them good."'"</p>
+
+<p>"Fritz turned his face away and shut his eyes as though he was tired.
+But he was not tired; he was only thinking.</p>
+
+<p>"He had stopped many times at a little shop, in the edge of town, where
+baskets were made;<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[Pg 33]</a></span> a man, and a woman, and several children worked
+there, and they made many kinds of baskets; some of them very fine and
+pretty.</p>
+
+<p>"Fritz had sat in the shop a long time that day, and he asked the man if
+he might come every day, and learn to make baskets.</p>
+
+<p>"Now, in his little bed, with his eyes shut, he was thinking how he
+would make them and sell them for money to help poor children.</p>
+
+<p>"The next morning Fritz told his mamma what he had been thinking about.</p>
+
+<p>"She was pleased with his<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</a></span> plan; for she thought it would amuse her
+darling little lame boy.</p>
+
+<p>"Fritz went to the basket-maker's shop all Summer, and by the time cold
+weather came he could make very beautiful baskets. Some merchants in
+town sold them for him, and by Christmas time he had laid up several
+dollars, which he said he should give to poor widow Wilcox, who looked
+sick and pale, and had two children.</p>
+
+<p>"Mrs. Ritter gave Fritz a little room at home for his shop; and his papa
+put into it all the materials necessary for making<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[Pg 35]</a></span> baskets; and there
+Fritz spent several hours every day at his work.</p>
+
+<p>"He was happy and said, 'Now I am of some use, as I can help to make
+others good and happy.'</p>
+
+<p>"Widow Wilcox and her children had food, and a fire, and clothes in the
+cold Winter weather; and it was the little pale-faced lame boy who gave
+them to her.</p>
+
+<p>"Jim and Dora Wilcox learned their books because Fritz wished them to do
+so. They would not play any more with bad children on the streets,
+because Fritz told<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[Pg 36]</a></span> them they must not. And when Jim promised that he
+would try to remember and not use any more naughty words, Fritz told him
+he would give him all the books he would read to Dora and his mother.</p>
+
+<p>"Finally, Jim went every day to Fritz's little shop, and learned to make
+baskets. He was so handy that, by the time another Christmas came, he
+was able to carry to his mother money that he had himself earned.</p>
+
+<p>"Fritz was about ten years old when he began to make baskets. The Lord
+allowed him to live only two years longer; but,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</a></span> in that time, many poor
+children loved him, and thanked him for his kindness. When he died many
+tears were shed in the alleys and back streets, where the dear
+pale-faced boy had tried to make others good and happy.</p>
+
+<p>"Little children went in a great company, when he was buried, and threw
+flowers into his grave.</p>
+
+<p>"We believe that when Fritz's gentle spirit left his poor, crooked body,
+it went to the happy land, to grow in beauty forever. But he is not
+forgotten on earth; and now, many years after, there<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[Pg 38]</a></span> are those who
+bless the dear little lame boy."</p>
+
+<p>"Did you know him, mamma?" asked Rebecca, with tears in her eyes.</p>
+
+<p>"Yes," said Mrs. Payson. "It was when I was a young girl that I attended
+the funeral of little Fritz.</p>
+
+<p>"Mr. Wilcox, who keeps the great store of baskets in town, where you
+have sometimes stopped with me to see how beautiful they are, is the
+little Jim whom Fritz taught to be good and useful.</p>
+
+<p>"He has always taken tender care of his mother, who is now<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[Pg 39]</a></span> so old she
+remembers but little; but if you ask her about Fritz she will talk a
+long time about him, whom she calls 'God's dear child.'"</p>
+
+<p>"Your true story, mamma, is better than made-up ones," said Joshua, as
+he walked away to the window.</p>
+
+<p>"When I look at my little work-basket, mamma," said Rebecca, "that you
+bought of Mr. Wilcox, I shall think of Fritz, and the basket will help
+me to be good."</p>
+
+<p>"So you see, my darling," said Mrs. Payson, "when our bodies are turning
+to dust in<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[Pg 40]</a></span> the ground, the deeds which we did may be helping others to
+be good or bad."</p>
+
+
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+<img src="images/illus2.jpg" alt=""/>
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[Pg 41]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_III" id="CHAPTER_III"></a>CHAPTER III.</h2>
+
+<h3>HOW? ANSWERED.</h3>
+
+<div class="figleft">
+<img src="images/w.jpg" alt=""/>
+</div>
+
+<p>When the family were gathered in the parlor, after dinner, Mrs. Payson
+said, "We will now see how we can help poor Mrs. Fisher; for there are
+none who more need kind words and deeds than helpless ones whom a bad
+husband and father leaves<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[Pg 42]</a></span> to suffer, and sometimes to perish, with
+hunger and cold."</p>
+
+<p>"But how can we give Mrs. Fisher any thing, if her husband sells it?"
+asked Joshua.</p>
+
+<p>"There is an honest woman living next to Mrs. Fisher's," said Mrs.
+Payson, "who has washed for me sometimes. I will hire a place in her
+little yard for coal, and send some there. I will give Mrs. Fisher
+tickets for getting a half bushel at a time, when she needs it, so she
+can have a fire."</p>
+
+<p>"And I will give her tickets for getting bread at the bakery, and meat
+and potatoes in market," said Mr. Payson. "She<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[Pg 43]</a></span> must get a little at a
+time, and not keep any in the house for her husband to carry off."</p>
+
+<p>"That will be good," said Rebecca; "the little hungry children will
+smile."</p>
+
+<p>"I will give half of my money to buy some shoes for Dick Fisher," said
+Joshua.</p>
+
+<p>"And I will give half of mine to buy a flannel petticoat for Mrs.
+Fisher," said Rebecca.</p>
+
+<p>"Here is my money, mamma," said Newton, who had run to bring his little
+box.</p>
+
+<p>"May we send the children some of our toys?" asked Rebecca.</p>
+
+<p>"You may send what you<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[Pg 44]</a></span> please," said Mrs. Payson. "We will put them in
+a basket with enough food for a good dinner, and you may carry all to
+her, Christmas morning, with the tickets."</p>
+
+<p>"O, mamma," said Joshua, "it will be pleasant to see how surprised and
+happy they will look."</p>
+
+<p>"Now, what shall we do for Mrs. Grant?" asked Mrs. Payson.</p>
+
+<p>"Several neighbors have promised to join me in giving her coal, flour,
+and meat, as long as she needs such help," said Mr. Payson.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[Pg 45]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>"I will prepare some clothes for herself and her children," said Mrs.
+Payson.</p>
+
+<p>"And we will give them some toys and books," said Joshua.</p>
+
+<p>"Will you please, papa," said Newton, "send word to Santa Claus to carry
+his pack to the top of Mrs. Grant's chimney? And I will tell little lame
+Harry to hang up his stocking."</p>
+
+<p>"Yes," said Mr. Payson smiling, "I will send word to Santa Claus to have
+his eight tiny reindeer jingle their bells right merrily over Mrs.
+Grant's chimney."</p>
+
+<p>That night Mr. Payson's three<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[Pg 46]</a></span> children went to bed feeling very happy;
+for they were trying to do something to make others good and happy.</p>
+
+
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+<img src="images/illus3.jpg" alt=""/>
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[Pg 47]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_IV" id="CHAPTER_IV"></a>CHAPTER IV.</h2>
+
+<h3>WHAT THE STARS SAW.</h3>
+
+
+<div class="figleft">
+<img src="images/t.jpg" alt=""/>
+</div>
+
+<p>The stars were yet winking through the pine trees on Christmas morning,
+when the little Paysons went shouting their "merry Christmas" through
+the house.</p>
+
+<p>Santa Claus had filled their stockings with just what they<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[Pg 48]</a></span> most wanted.
+Strange that he should know so well!</p>
+
+<p>There could be no more morning naps now, and while the stars were
+shutting their eyes Bridget prepared the early breakfast, so the
+children might go with their happy hearts and their gifts to gladden
+those who needed kind words and good deeds.</p>
+
+<p>After the family had joined in their morning worship, Mr. Payson said,
+"Now, my children, we will go and see some sad faces smile, while mamma
+prepares the Christmas-tree; for she says we must not have a peep<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[Pg 49]</a></span> at it
+till our friends come this evening."</p>
+
+<p>By the time the sun was looking over the tree tops, Mr. Payson and the
+children were riding toward Mrs. Grant's with a basket of good things
+and a great many kind words.</p>
+
+<p>They found the little Grants in quite an uproar. They had hung up their
+stockings for the first time in their lives, and now they were spreading
+out Santa Claus's wonderful gifts with great glee.</p>
+
+<p>The basket was carried in, and Mr. Payson told Mrs. Grant<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[Pg 50]</a></span> what more
+would be done for her every-day comfort.</p>
+
+<p>Tears came in her eyes when she thanked him and the children.</p>
+
+<p>"It almost made me feel like crying," said Rebecca, when they had left
+the house, "to see poor lame Harry's face look so happy."</p>
+
+<p>At Mrs. Fisher's they found a gloomy and unhappy scene.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Fisher sat with his hair falling over his half-shut eyes, while the
+hungry and cold children were huddled around the half-warmed stove on
+which their mother was trying to cook something for breakfast.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[Pg 51]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>"My children have come to bring some smiles to yourself and your little
+ones this Christmas morning," said Mr. Payson to Mrs. Fisher, as they
+stepped into the miserable home.</p>
+
+<p>"Mamma says, will you please have a good dinner?" said Rebecca, as she
+and Joshua carried the basket to Mrs. Fisher, whose eyes filled with
+tears at this unexpected kindness.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Payson gave her the tickets for coal and food, and told her that his
+wife would call sometimes and see how she enjoyed them.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Fisher hung his head in<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[Pg 52]</a></span> shame as the bright faces of the little
+Paysons left. But a ray of light had shone into that gloomy home, and
+Mrs. Fisher's sad face smiled when she saw her children spreading out
+their Christmas gifts. Each one had been kindly remembered and was
+bright with happiness.</p>
+
+<p>Joshua, and Rebecca, and Newton rode toward home, carrying hearts filled
+anew with love, and gentleness, and kindness.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Payson next knocked at Mr. Kelly's door. Mrs. Kelly was sitting,
+wrapped up, in a rocking chair, sick, but having a pleasant smile.
+Little Martha<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[Pg 53]</a></span> was doing the morning work, and looked with surprise at
+the early visitors and their good gifts.</p>
+
+<p>The children soon had the food spread out for Mrs. Kelly to see what a
+nice dinner she would have; and Martha fairly danced around the room,
+holding up a good Sunday frock for herself and a pretty story book.</p>
+
+<p>"This <i>is</i> a happy Christmas," said Rebecca as they rode home.</p>
+
+<p>"We learn, my children," said Mr. Payson, "that those who try to do
+their duty may be rich in happy hearts and smiling<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[Pg 54]</a></span> homes though they
+are very poor.</p>
+
+<p>"But bad hearts and bad ways make the sunshine seem gloomy in the finest
+parlors."</p>
+
+<p>When the sun went down that night, friends, both old and young, gathered
+in Mr. Payson's parlors, to pluck gifts from the well-loaded
+Christmas-tree.</p>
+
+<p>Fruits from all parts of the world were hanging in its branches, and
+toys and books peeped out from the green leaves.</p>
+
+<p>When little eyelids were closed in sleep that night, the stars winked
+and smiled over<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[Pg 55]</a></span> little hearts that were brimful of love; because, by
+giving, they had grown rich.</p>
+
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+<img src="images/illus4.jpg" alt=""/>
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+<pre>
+
+
+
+
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Happy Hearts, by June Isle
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+Title: Happy Hearts
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+Author: June Isle
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+
+                      Maple Grove Stories
+
+                             For
+
+                        Little Readers.
+
+
+                         HAPPY HEARTS
+
+                         BY JUNE ISLE.
+
+
+    CINCINNATI:
+    PUBLISHED BY POE & HITCHCOCK.
+
+    R. P. THOMPSON, PRINTER.
+
+    Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864.
+
+    BY POE & HITCHCOCK,
+
+    In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States
+    for the Southern District of Ohio.
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS.
+
+
+CHAPTER.                                              PAGE.
+
+       I. WHOM HAVE WE ALWAYS                            9
+
+      II. FRITZ DEAD, YET LIVES                         29
+
+     III. HOW? ANSWERED                                 41
+
+      IV. WHAT THE STARS SAW                            47
+
+
+
+
+HAPPY HEARTS.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER I.
+
+WHOM HAVE WE ALWAYS.
+
+
+Mr. and Mrs. Payson had three little children, who were very dear to
+them, and whom they amused and instructed in many pleasant ways.
+
+One Spring, just as the leaves were bursting open and the birds were
+filling the air with gay songs, Mr. Payson told the children he had
+bought a home for them in the country.
+
+This pleased the little ones, and they talked from morning till night
+about what they would do in their new home.
+
+In the pretty country they watched the birds building their nests, and
+saw them feeding their young and teaching them to fly; and then they saw
+them in great cawing, twittering, fluttering swarms moving off to warmer
+lands when the yellow Autumn leaves began to fall.
+
+But when the Winter winds sung through the old pine trees, the children
+began to talk about Christmas.
+
+"I wonder if Santa Claus will come away out here, with his great pack of
+toys," said Rebecca one day. "I am afraid he will forget us, he has so
+many children to remember."
+
+"He may perhaps forget us," said Joshua; "for cousin Nelly says that he,
+one time, forgot to put any thing in her stocking, although she hung it
+where he could find it."
+
+"But," said Rebecca, "Nelly said it was a very stormy night, and they
+lived on a hill, and the wind blew so hard they were afraid it would
+blow the house down. And I think Santa Claus was afraid the wind would
+upset his pack of toys if he went up on aunt Judd's roof."
+
+"I think," said Joshua, "we had better send Santa Claus a letter,
+telling him that we have moved from town out into this pretty pine
+grove, then he will know where to find us."
+
+"That will be a good way," said Rebecca; "for I remember when Mrs.
+White, who lives in our house in town, was here last week, she told
+mamma that many persons had called there since we left, and asked for
+Mr. Payson. Now, if the people do not know that we have moved away,
+Santa Claus may not; so he may go there and slide down the chimney, and,
+without asking any thing about it, put all the nice things, which he has
+in his pack for us, in Tommy and Jenny White's stockings."
+
+"I will write to Santa Claus," said Joshua, "as soon as I can find
+time."
+
+Joshua said this in rather of a large way, for he wished to talk like a
+man of business.
+
+"I will run and get your slate now," said Rebecca; and she soon came
+with the slate and pencil.
+
+They all sat down and Joshua took the pencil to write; but he found he
+could not do much, as his mamma was not there to spell the words for
+him.
+
+"Let us ask papa to send word to Santa Claus," said Rebecca.
+
+"And let us ask Mrs. White," said Newton, "to watch, and, when Santa
+Claus comes to her house, tell him where we live."
+
+"But Mrs. White might watch all night, and then not see him," said
+Rebecca; "for I think Santa Claus never makes any noise till he is just
+going out of sight; then his eight tiny reindeers jingle their bells as
+they scamper away with the sleigh full of toys."
+
+Mrs. Payson came into the nursery, and the children told her what they
+had been saying.
+
+"Santa Claus shall be told where to find you," said Mrs. Payson, "and
+you will have a happy Christmas if you are happy in your own hearts. You
+shall have a Christmas tree, and we will invite some friends to come and
+enjoy its fruits with us. But I wish you to remember, my darlings, if
+you have naughty thoughts you can not have a happy Christmas."
+
+"But if some naughty thoughts come, what can we do?" asked Rebecca.
+
+"Try to think about something good and pleasant," said Mrs. Payson, "and
+ask God to help you. Yesterday, when I heard Joshua telling Newton, in
+an angry way, that he hoped Santa Claus would not bring him any thing, I
+thought my dear boy's thinker was wrong."
+
+"I know, mamma," said Joshua, "that I wish to be good. But, if God lets
+me be naughty, what good does it do to ask him to help me?"
+
+"God will help you if you ask him in the right way, and if you watch
+yourselves," said Mrs. Payson. "If we wished to be happy ourselves we
+must do something to make others so; and even little children can do
+much good if they try."
+
+"When we are trying to make others happy," said Joshua, "we shall have
+good thoughts."
+
+"A little verse which you repeat," said Mrs. Payson, "says truly that
+
+    'Satan finds some mischief still
+        For idle hands to do.'
+
+Now I wish to hear what you, my children, have to do before Christmas."
+
+"We must get our gifts ready for the tree," said Rebecca.
+
+"And we must learn our lessons, every day," said Joshua.
+
+"And I must learn all my letters, so papa will give me a rocking-horse,"
+said little Newton.
+
+"That is all right," said Mrs. Payson; "but have you not something more
+to do?"
+
+"O, yes!" said Joshua, "we are to ride to town and invite our visitors
+to come and have a nice time with us in the holidays."
+
+"But, are there not others whom you can help to be happy and good?"
+asked Mrs. Payson; "those whom we always have with us?"
+
+"I don't know," said Joshua, "as there are any persons that are always
+with us. Bridget has been here only a few months, and she says she must
+go away after New-Year; so you do not mean her. And John will leave next
+Spring; so you can not mean him."
+
+"When you were learning your Sunday school lesson a few weeks since,"
+said Mrs. Payson, "I heard you repeating these words of Christ, 'Ye
+have the poor with you always; and whensoever ye will ye may do them
+good.'"
+
+"O, yes, mamma, I did not think of that," said Joshua. "But, there are
+so many poor people, how can we do them good?"
+
+"We can do our little," said Mrs. Payson, "and if we only make one sad
+heart glad we have done a good deed, and we shall be better and happier
+ourselves while we are helping others."
+
+"When Mrs. Blake comes here to see you, mamma," said Rebecca, "she talks
+about poor people, and how much she does for them. But Mrs. Blake does
+not seem to be happy; and she says there is no use in helping the poor,
+for if one begins there is no end."
+
+"Mrs. Blake," said Mrs. Payson, "has not a pleasant way of talking; but
+I think she enjoys doing good to others in her own cross way. Yet, if we
+would be happy ourselves in making others happy, we must love to do it.
+If you should give little Harry Grant a pair of mittens because I told
+you to do so, while you were fretting because you wished to keep them
+yourself, you would be neither better nor happier for doing it; and you
+would not speak gently and kindly to the poor little fellow, and so make
+his face and your own bright by pleasant words. Mrs. Blake spends much
+time and money in helping poor people; but she forgets that she should
+
+    'Speak gently, kindly to the poor.'"
+
+"I have some toys, mamma," said Rebecca, "that I can give to Mrs.
+Grant's lame Harry; I am sure they will make his little pale face
+smile."
+
+"And I should like to give Willie a pair of shoes," said Joshua; "for
+his are very ragged."
+
+"Shall I give him my sled, mamma?" asked Newton.
+
+Now Newton thought more of his sled than he did of any other plaything.
+It was painted green and yellow, and had a bright colored strap which he
+called the reins. The runners were very smooth, and he expected to have
+a gay time with it all Winter. So, when Newton asked about giving his
+sled, he knew he was giving what he liked best.
+
+"No, my darling," said Mrs. Payson; "keep your sled. But, we will see
+what we all can do for Mrs. Grant and her children, by the time
+Christmas comes. She is a good woman, and we can do much to make her
+happy while her husband is gone to the war.
+
+"Then there is Mrs. Fisher, who lives near town; can we do something for
+her?" asked Mrs. Payson.
+
+"Mr. Fisher gets drunk," said Joshua; "and Mrs. Blake says it does no
+good to try to help them, for he sells things that are given to his wife
+to buy whisky."
+
+"But shall we leave poor Mrs. Fisher to suffer?" said Mrs. Payson.
+"Shall we try to do nothing for her and her dear children? They are
+often cold for want of clothes and a fire. They are often hungry,
+because Mr. Fisher gets drunk, and is unkind to them.
+
+"With so many good things around us, shall we not try to help the little
+hungry children who have an unkind father?"
+
+"O, yes, mamma!" said all the children at once.
+
+"May I give something to Martha Kelly," asked Rebecca, "who says she
+never has any presents?"
+
+"Poor little Martha is not much older than you are, my daughter," said
+Mrs. Payson; "yet she is obliged to work quite hard; for her mother is
+sick and her father is poor. But she has a sweet, smiling face, and she
+lives in a happier home than many children of rich parents."
+
+"I know, mamma," said Joshua, "Martha always looks pleasant, even in a
+shabby dress."
+
+"Mr. Kelly is a very kind and good man," said Mrs. Payson; "and I hope,
+before another Christmas, he will be able to give his family a better
+home.
+
+"They look happy because they have good thoughts and try to do their
+duty. None can be happy, even in beautiful homes, unless their thoughts
+are right.
+
+"I hope you will select a pleasant book for little Martha, my daughter,
+and I will send some articles to her mamma."
+
+"It is now your bedtime, my darlings. To-morrow we will begin to prepare
+our Christmas gifts for the poor."
+
+The children kneeled down and thanked God for being so good to them, and
+asked him to help them to be kind and obedient, and to speak the truth.
+
+After they had said their prayers, Newton ran to his mamma and kneeled
+down again by her side, and said, "Will God please to help the hungry
+little children to smile, for Christ's sake?"
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER II.
+
+FRITZ DEAD, YET LIVES.
+
+
+The next day, after the children had finished their lessons, Mrs. Payson
+said, "I will tell you a little story, showing how a child can do much
+good.
+
+"Many years ago, I knew a little boy who could not walk. His nurse let
+him fall, when he was a baby, and hurt his back, so that he grew out of
+shape, and could not stand on his feet.
+
+"The little boy's name was Fritz Ritter. His parents lived in a pleasant
+home, and did all they could to make their darling lame boy happy.
+
+"They taught him to read, and write, and to draw pictures.
+
+"But Fritz said, 'That is not enough. I have dear friends, who do every
+thing for me. Now, I must do something too.'
+
+"His father kept a man to draw him about in a little wagon; so Fritz
+knew all the streets in town, and visited the machine-shops and mills
+to see how things are made. Almost every one looked kindly on his sweet,
+pale face, and wherever he went the people would talk with him and show
+him what he wished to see.
+
+"As he rode about the city he saw many poor houses, and hungry and
+ragged children.
+
+"One night, when his mamma laid him in his little bed, she saw that he
+was sad and quiet.
+
+"'What is the matter with my little boy to-night?' she asked.
+
+"'I have seen so many poor little children on Stone Alley to-day,' said
+Fritz, 'who were ragged and dirty, I wished they had good homes and
+good mammas.'
+
+"'I am sorry for all poor little children who are ragged and hungry,'
+said Mrs. Ritter. 'But, as we can not give them pleasant homes we must
+do what we can for them; for you know Christ says, "The poor ye have
+always; and whensoever ye will, ye may do them good."'"
+
+"Fritz turned his face away and shut his eyes as though he was tired.
+But he was not tired; he was only thinking.
+
+"He had stopped many times at a little shop, in the edge of town, where
+baskets were made; a man, and a woman, and several children worked
+there, and they made many kinds of baskets; some of them very fine and
+pretty.
+
+"Fritz had sat in the shop a long time that day, and he asked the man if
+he might come every day, and learn to make baskets.
+
+"Now, in his little bed, with his eyes shut, he was thinking how he
+would make them and sell them for money to help poor children.
+
+"The next morning Fritz told his mamma what he had been thinking about.
+
+"She was pleased with his plan; for she thought it would amuse her
+darling little lame boy.
+
+"Fritz went to the basket-maker's shop all Summer, and by the time cold
+weather came he could make very beautiful baskets. Some merchants in
+town sold them for him, and by Christmas time he had laid up several
+dollars, which he said he should give to poor widow Wilcox, who looked
+sick and pale, and had two children.
+
+"Mrs. Ritter gave Fritz a little room at home for his shop; and his papa
+put into it all the materials necessary for making baskets; and there
+Fritz spent several hours every day at his work.
+
+"He was happy and said, 'Now I am of some use, as I can help to make
+others good and happy.'
+
+"Widow Wilcox and her children had food, and a fire, and clothes in the
+cold Winter weather; and it was the little pale-faced lame boy who gave
+them to her.
+
+"Jim and Dora Wilcox learned their books because Fritz wished them to do
+so. They would not play any more with bad children on the streets,
+because Fritz told them they must not. And when Jim promised that he
+would try to remember and not use any more naughty words, Fritz told him
+he would give him all the books he would read to Dora and his mother.
+
+"Finally, Jim went every day to Fritz's little shop, and learned to make
+baskets. He was so handy that, by the time another Christmas came, he
+was able to carry to his mother money that he had himself earned.
+
+"Fritz was about ten years old when he began to make baskets. The Lord
+allowed him to live only two years longer; but, in that time, many poor
+children loved him, and thanked him for his kindness. When he died many
+tears were shed in the alleys and back streets, where the dear
+pale-faced boy had tried to make others good and happy.
+
+"Little children went in a great company, when he was buried, and threw
+flowers into his grave.
+
+"We believe that when Fritz's gentle spirit left his poor, crooked body,
+it went to the happy land, to grow in beauty forever. But he is not
+forgotten on earth; and now, many years after, there are those who
+bless the dear little lame boy."
+
+"Did you know him, mamma?" asked Rebecca, with tears in her eyes.
+
+"Yes," said Mrs. Payson. "It was when I was a young girl that I attended
+the funeral of little Fritz.
+
+"Mr. Wilcox, who keeps the great store of baskets in town, where you
+have sometimes stopped with me to see how beautiful they are, is the
+little Jim whom Fritz taught to be good and useful.
+
+"He has always taken tender care of his mother, who is now so old she
+remembers but little; but if you ask her about Fritz she will talk a
+long time about him, whom she calls 'God's dear child.'"
+
+"Your true story, mamma, is better than made-up ones," said Joshua, as
+he walked away to the window.
+
+"When I look at my little work-basket, mamma," said Rebecca, "that you
+bought of Mr. Wilcox, I shall think of Fritz, and the basket will help
+me to be good."
+
+"So you see, my darling," said Mrs. Payson, "when our bodies are turning
+to dust in the ground, the deeds which we did may be helping others to
+be good or bad."
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER III.
+
+HOW? ANSWERED.
+
+
+When the family were gathered in the parlor, after dinner, Mrs. Payson
+said, "We will now see how we can help poor Mrs. Fisher; for there are
+none who more need kind words and deeds than helpless ones whom a bad
+husband and father leaves to suffer, and sometimes to perish, with
+hunger and cold."
+
+"But how can we give Mrs. Fisher any thing, if her husband sells it?"
+asked Joshua.
+
+"There is an honest woman living next to Mrs. Fisher's," said Mrs.
+Payson, "who has washed for me sometimes. I will hire a place in her
+little yard for coal, and send some there. I will give Mrs. Fisher
+tickets for getting a half bushel at a time, when she needs it, so she
+can have a fire."
+
+"And I will give her tickets for getting bread at the bakery, and meat
+and potatoes in market," said Mr. Payson. "She must get a little at a
+time, and not keep any in the house for her husband to carry off."
+
+"That will be good," said Rebecca; "the little hungry children will
+smile."
+
+"I will give half of my money to buy some shoes for Dick Fisher," said
+Joshua.
+
+"And I will give half of mine to buy a flannel petticoat for Mrs.
+Fisher," said Rebecca.
+
+"Here is my money, mamma," said Newton, who had run to bring his little
+box.
+
+"May we send the children some of our toys?" asked Rebecca.
+
+"You may send what you please," said Mrs. Payson. "We will put them in
+a basket with enough food for a good dinner, and you may carry all to
+her, Christmas morning, with the tickets."
+
+"O, mamma," said Joshua, "it will be pleasant to see how surprised and
+happy they will look."
+
+"Now, what shall we do for Mrs. Grant?" asked Mrs. Payson.
+
+"Several neighbors have promised to join me in giving her coal, flour,
+and meat, as long as she needs such help," said Mr. Payson.
+
+"I will prepare some clothes for herself and her children," said Mrs.
+Payson.
+
+"And we will give them some toys and books," said Joshua.
+
+"Will you please, papa," said Newton, "send word to Santa Claus to carry
+his pack to the top of Mrs. Grant's chimney? And I will tell little lame
+Harry to hang up his stocking."
+
+"Yes," said Mr. Payson smiling, "I will send word to Santa Claus to have
+his eight tiny reindeer jingle their bells right merrily over Mrs.
+Grant's chimney."
+
+That night Mr. Payson's three children went to bed feeling very happy;
+for they were trying to do something to make others good and happy.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER IV.
+
+WHAT THE STARS SAW.
+
+
+The stars were yet winking through the pine trees on Christmas morning,
+when the little Paysons went shouting their "merry Christmas" through
+the house.
+
+Santa Claus had filled their stockings with just what they most wanted.
+Strange that he should know so well!
+
+There could be no more morning naps now, and while the stars were
+shutting their eyes Bridget prepared the early breakfast, so the
+children might go with their happy hearts and their gifts to gladden
+those who needed kind words and good deeds.
+
+After the family had joined in their morning worship, Mr. Payson said,
+"Now, my children, we will go and see some sad faces smile, while mamma
+prepares the Christmas-tree; for she says we must not have a peep at it
+till our friends come this evening."
+
+By the time the sun was looking over the tree tops, Mr. Payson and the
+children were riding toward Mrs. Grant's with a basket of good things
+and a great many kind words.
+
+They found the little Grants in quite an uproar. They had hung up their
+stockings for the first time in their lives, and now they were spreading
+out Santa Claus's wonderful gifts with great glee.
+
+The basket was carried in, and Mr. Payson told Mrs. Grant what more
+would be done for her every-day comfort.
+
+Tears came in her eyes when she thanked him and the children.
+
+"It almost made me feel like crying," said Rebecca, when they had left
+the house, "to see poor lame Harry's face look so happy."
+
+At Mrs. Fisher's they found a gloomy and unhappy scene.
+
+Mr. Fisher sat with his hair falling over his half-shut eyes, while the
+hungry and cold children were huddled around the half-warmed stove on
+which their mother was trying to cook something for breakfast.
+
+"My children have come to bring some smiles to yourself and your little
+ones this Christmas morning," said Mr. Payson to Mrs. Fisher, as they
+stepped into the miserable home.
+
+"Mamma says, will you please have a good dinner?" said Rebecca, as she
+and Joshua carried the basket to Mrs. Fisher, whose eyes filled with
+tears at this unexpected kindness.
+
+Mr. Payson gave her the tickets for coal and food, and told her that his
+wife would call sometimes and see how she enjoyed them.
+
+Mr. Fisher hung his head in shame as the bright faces of the little
+Paysons left. But a ray of light had shone into that gloomy home, and
+Mrs. Fisher's sad face smiled when she saw her children spreading out
+their Christmas gifts. Each one had been kindly remembered and was
+bright with happiness.
+
+Joshua, and Rebecca, and Newton rode toward home, carrying hearts filled
+anew with love, and gentleness, and kindness.
+
+Mr. Payson next knocked at Mr. Kelly's door. Mrs. Kelly was sitting,
+wrapped up, in a rocking chair, sick, but having a pleasant smile.
+Little Martha was doing the morning work, and looked with surprise at
+the early visitors and their good gifts.
+
+The children soon had the food spread out for Mrs. Kelly to see what a
+nice dinner she would have; and Martha fairly danced around the room,
+holding up a good Sunday frock for herself and a pretty story book.
+
+"This _is_ a happy Christmas," said Rebecca as they rode home.
+
+"We learn, my children," said Mr. Payson, "that those who try to do
+their duty may be rich in happy hearts and smiling homes though they
+are very poor.
+
+"But bad hearts and bad ways make the sunshine seem gloomy in the finest
+parlors."
+
+When the sun went down that night, friends, both old and young, gathered
+in Mr. Payson's parlors, to pluck gifts from the well-loaded
+Christmas-tree.
+
+Fruits from all parts of the world were hanging in its branches, and
+toys and books peeped out from the green leaves.
+
+When little eyelids were closed in sleep that night, the stars winked
+and smiled over little hearts that were brimful of love; because, by
+giving, they had grown rich.
+
+
+
+
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