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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Happy Hearts + +Author: June Isle + +Release Date: January 13, 2012 [EBook #38564] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HAPPY HEARTS *** + + + + +Produced by Charlene Taylor, Mary Meehan and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This +file was produced from images generously made available +by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) + + + + + + + + + + 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. + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Happy Hearts, by June Isle + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HAPPY HEARTS *** + +***** This file should be named 38564.txt or 38564.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/3/8/5/6/38564/ + +Produced by Charlene Taylor, Mary Meehan and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This +file was produced from images generously made available +by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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