Short Stories

Lettice And Myra.
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A Boy Reproved By A Bird.
The sparrows often build their nests under the eaves of hou...

Comfort And Sobriety.
Let me here give you a few maxims to commit to memory:---- ...

Jonas And His Horse.
A horse is a noble animal, and is made for the service of m...

The Uncertainty Of Life.
Josiah Martin was a young man of whom any mother might have...

Pledge.
Our hands and our hearts we give To the temperance p...

A Good Mother.
Mrs. Savage was the eldest sister of Matthew Henry. When sh...

Lizzy And Her Dog.
I wish to relate to you a very affecting story about a good...

No Payno Work.
"Little boy, will you help a poor old man up the hill with ...

Old Pipes And The Dryad
A mountain brook ran through a little village. Over the bro...

Julia's Sunset Walk.
It was a beautiful June day, just at the sun's setting, whe...

The Portrait Of Flora Purchased.
Anna started for her home, and when she had arrived, she sl...

Pleasant Play.
There are many plays in which children may amuse themselves...

Story About An Indian.
A poor sick man might go to the door of some rich person's ...

The Remarkable Wreck Of The Thomas Hyke
It was half-past one by the clock in the office of the Regi...

Melly, Anna And Susy.
There is nothing more pleasant than to see brothers and sis...

The Grey Old Cottage.
In the valley between "Longbrigg" and "Highclose," in the f...

The Reward.
A teacher in a Sabbath School promised to supply all the ch...

A Scene In London.
My young readers may have heard about the poor people in Lond...

Or, Honesty Rewarded.
At St. Petersburgh, the birth day of any of the royal famil...

ANNE CLEAVELAND.

Anne was the daughter of a wealthy farmer. She had a good New England
school education, and was well bred and well taught at home in the
virtues and manners that constitute domestic social life. Her father
died a year before her marriage. He left a will dividing his property
equally between his son and daughter, giving to the son the homestead
with all its accumulated riches, and to the daughter the largest share
of the personal property amounting to 6 or 7000 dollars. This little
fortune became at Anne's marriage the property of her husband. It
would seem that the property of a woman received from her father
should be her's. But the laws of a barbarous age fixed it otherwise.

Anne married John Warren, who was the youngest child, daintly bred
by his parents. He opened a dry good store in a small town in the
vicinity of B----, where he invested Annie's property. He was a farmer,
and did not think of the qualifications necessary to a successful
merchant. For five or six years he went on tolerably, living _genteelly_
and _recklessly_, expecting that every year's gain would make up the
excess of the past. When sixteen years of their married life had passed,
they were living in a single room in the crowded street of R----.
Every penny of the inheritance was gone--three children had died--three
survived; a girl of fifteen years, whom the mother was educating to be
a teacher--a boy of twelve who was living at home, and Jessy, a pale,
delicate, little struggler for life, three years old.

Mrs. W---- was much changed in these sixteen years. Her round blooming
cheek was pale and sunken, her dark chestnut hair had become thin and
gray, her bright eyes, over-tasked by use and watching, were faded,
and her whole person shrunken. Yet she had gained a great victory.
Yes, it was a precious pearl. And you will wish to know what it was.
It was a gentle submission and resignation--a patience under all her
afflictions. But learn a lesson. Take care to whom you give your hand
in marriage.





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