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diff --git a/39228.txt b/39228.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..299b2c7 --- /dev/null +++ b/39228.txt @@ -0,0 +1,644 @@ +The Project Gutenberg eBook, Woodbine-Arbor; or the Little Gardeners, by +Anonymous + + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + + + + +Title: Woodbine-Arbor; or the Little Gardeners + A Story of a Happy Childhood + + +Author: Anonymous + + + +Release Date: March 22, 2012 [eBook #39228] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WOODBINE-ARBOR; OR THE LITTLE +GARDENERS*** + + +E-text prepared by L. 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Babcock. +1849. + +[Illustration: BUILDING THE ARBOR.] + + + + +WOODBINE ARBOR; OR THE LITTLE GARDENERS. + + +Let me tell you, my dear young reader, about a happy little family of +three brothers and three sisters, who lived in a pleasant home, not +far from the great city of New-York. Their father, Mr. Howard, was a +wealthy merchant, and had his store in the city, to which he usually +rode early in the morning, directly after breakfast, and returned home +in season to take tea with his family. He had six children, the little +folks whom I am now going to tell you about. + +The girls were named Maria, Elizabeth, and Harriet. The boys were +Henry, Charles, and John.--Henry was the oldest, then Charles, Maria, +John, Elizabeth, and Harriet. + +Their home was a beautiful country-seat, situated not far from the +East river, with fine old shade trees in front of it. In the rear was +a very large garden, laid out with great neatness and taste, and well +stocked with fruits and flowers. Then there were walks and borders, +and summer-houses, and arbors, and almost every thing which could +render it a delightful place. + +One portion of his grounds Mr. Howard had laid out for a garden for his +children. This was to be their own, and in it they were to dig, and hoe, +and rake, and plant, and transplant, and water, just as they pleased, so +long as they were attentive to their lessons, obedient to their parents, +and kind to each other. When any of them misbehaved,--which was very +seldom,--that child was forbidden to visit the garden for one or two +days, or a week, according to the nature of its offence. + +[Illustration: TRANSPLANTING.] + +Mr. and Mrs. Howard were both anxious that their children should grow +up, not only good and intelligent, but that they should acquire +active and industrious habits; they therefore encouraged them all, +girls as well as boys, to pass their play-hours in the healthy and +delightful employment of gardening. + +Well, our young friends heartily seconded the wishes of their parents, +and except in cold or stormy weather, their little garden was the +scene of great industry, as soon as their several lessons for the day +were recited. They had a complete set of garden tools, just the right +size for such little folks: spades, hoes, rakes, watering-pots, and a +wheelbarrow. I assure you they did not let these tools lie idle. Their +garden, which produced flowers of all kinds, and many varieties of +fruit, always presented a neat and workman-like appearance. The boys +usually took upon themselves the most laborious part of the work, such +as digging, and hoeing, and raking, while their sisters planted and +transplanted, and watered, and pruned and trimmed, as occasion required. + +[Illustration: THE LITTLE GARDENERS.] + +One day, early in the Spring, the little folks took it into their heads +to build an arbor in their garden. So, getting their mother's consent, +they applied to the gardener, who furnished them with some stout poles +and strips of boards necessary for their purpose. Accordingly, they were +soon industriously engaged in their first essay at building. + +Henry planned the shape and the frame, and then he and Charles, with +mallet and hammer in hand, drove the poles into the ground, and nailed +on the strips of board; while Maria and Elizabeth held the materials +for them, and Harriet and John handed up such things as were needed. + +In four or five days, "WOODBINE ARBOR," as the little folks named it, +was quite finished. In the center of it they had placed a table, and +built seats around the sides of the arbor. These the girls covered +very neatly with cloth, which their mamma gave them for the purpose. + +At each corner of the arbor, our young gardeners set out a fine large +woodbine, which the gardener gave them, and at the sides several +beautiful climbing roses. These vines they trained up to, and over the +top of the arbor, in such a way as to shade the inside from the rays +of the sun. + +When these plants were in full bloom, the arbor presented a lovely +appearance, and was filled with the most delightful fragrance. Here our +little gardeners retired when they were fatigued with their labors, or +when the heat of the sun prevented their working in the garden. + +[Illustration: ARRANGING THE BOUQUETS.] + +On the anniversary of the wedding day of Mr. and Mrs. Howard, the +children always selected from their garden the choicest flowers, as an +offering to their beloved parents; indeed, each of them cultivated +several rare and beautiful kinds for this particular occasion. +Gathering the flowers together, they exerted their utmost skill in +forming two fine large bouquets for their father and mother, which +were presented as an offering from all the children, and which were +designed to grace the vases on the parlor mantle-piece. + +When these two bouquets were arranged to the satisfaction of all the +little folks, each one made two of a smaller size, just alike, which +they presented in their own name. + +You may be sure these little gifts of affection were duly prized by the +fond parents, and were kept from fading as long as possible. They were +rewarded, too, by some suitable present to each child, accompanied by +kind wishes, and such words of advice and instruction as the occasion +called for. These words of advice, given at such times, made a lasting +impression; they were remembered by the little ones as long as they +remembered the happy events which called them forth. + +But you must not suppose these little masters and misses were so fond +of gardening as to spend all their play-hours there. Oh, no; like most +other children, they liked play and play-things. The girls all had +dolls, and a pet rabbit and two little white poodles to amuse +themselves with. Henry made kites, bows, arrows, and other toys, and +Charles was quite fond of making and sailing little toy ships, while +John, the youngest, liked nothing much better than playing with a ball +or trundling his hoop. Still, the garden, after all, afforded them +more real and lasting pleasure than any thing else. + +[Illustration: THE TOY SHIP.] + +But the year I am telling you about,--the year in which our little +friends built their arbor,--instead of presenting the bouquets as +usual, they begged their parents to visit them at the arbor. The +invitation was readily accepted, and the children accordingly made the +necessary preparations. Having selected the very choicest fruits +from their garden, they arranged it to the best advantage on the +table, placing the two large bouquets in the center; they then each +held the two smaller ones in their hands, and presented them, with +their best wishes, as their parents entered the arbor. + +I shall not attempt to tell you how delighted the young people all were +on this occasion, when their neat little arbor, the work of their own +hands, was thus honored with a visit from their parents. With some +crowding, there was room for the eight persons, but mamma made a little +more by taking the youngest up in her lap. Then the different fruits +were handed round, and all partook of such as suited them best. Never +were happier children assembled, or happier parents. Not even the finest +fruit raised by their experienced gardener, ever tasted half as sweet as +that which was eaten at the little feast in "WOODBINE ARBOR." + +When it was over, mamma, at the urgent request of the children, sang +one of her sweetest songs, and then they all took a walk through the +garden. Many, very many, were the words of praise and encouragement +spoken by the parents, as they beheld the neatness and good order in +which every thing was kept. The handsomely laid out beds and borders, +the straight rows of plants, the well-trained vines, the beautiful +flowers, and the luxuriant growth of the little trees and shrubbery, +without a single weed to mar the beauty of the garden, excited their +highest admiration. + +"My dear little ones," said Mr. Howard, "let the care which you have +bestowed upon this sweet little spot, and the success which has +attended your efforts, incite you to higher and nobler aims, which +will most certainly be rewarded with higher and nobler results. With +the same care and industry which you have bestowed upon your garden, +cultivate your _minds_, and raise in them the lovely and unfading +flowers of piety and virtue. Root out from them the noxious weeds of +vice and evil habits, and train all your thoughts upward to your +heavenly Father and Benefactor. Assist each other in this mental +cultivation, with the same kindness which you have all shown in +cultivating your garden; be ready at all rimes to share with the poor +and needy the blessings which you enjoy, as freely as you have this +day shared the productions of your garden with your parents. Then, +like the plants which you have here cultivated, you will bear fruit +and flowers to bless and cheer your fellow-men; and when you are +removed from earth you will be transplanted in heaven, and blossom +forever in the _Garden of the Lord_." + + +END. + + + + + BABCOCK'S + No. 3 TOY BOOKS, + NEW SERIES, + MORAL, INSTRUCTIVE, AND + ENTERTAINING, + ALL BEAUTIFULLY + EMBELLISHED + WITH + SUPERIOR + ENGRAVINGS. + + EDITED BY + THOMAS TELLER. + + CHILDREN'S BOOKS + OF + EVERY DESCRIPTION + CONSTANTLY PUBLISHING. + +[Illustration: Back Cover] + + + + + * * * * * + + + + +Transcriber's note: + +Obvious punctuation and spelling errors were corrected. + + + +***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WOODBINE-ARBOR; OR THE LITTLE +GARDENERS*** + + +******* This file should be named 39228.txt or 39228.zip ******* + + +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: +http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/3/9/2/2/39228 + + + +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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