Short Stories

The Shepherd And His Bible.
A poor shepherd, living among the Alps, the father of a lar...

A Piece Of Red Calico
I was going into town one morning from my suburban residenc...

Young Usher.
You have read of that remarkable man, Mr. Usher, who was Ar...

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

Anna Seeking Employment.
It was a wearisome day to poor Anna, as she walked from squ...

The Two Robins.
A few summers ago I was sitting on a garden seat, beneath a...

The Pleasant Sail.
Down by the sea-coast is the pleasant town of Saco, Where M...

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

Look Up.
A little boy went to sea with his father to learn to be a s...

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

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

The Orphans' Voyage.
Two little orphan boys, whose parents died in a foreign lan...

The First Dollar.
I will tell you an affecting story about a young lad by the...

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

The Lady Or The Tiger?
In the very olden time there lived a semi-barbaric king, wh...

Remember The Cake.
I will tell you an anecdote about Mrs. Hannah More, when sh...

The Glow Worm.
On a summer's evening about half an hour after bed time, as...

The Child And Flower.
The Atheist in his garden stood, At twilight's pen...

His Wife's Deceased Sister
It is now five years since an event occurred which so color...

Gather The Flowers.
Two little girls went into the fields to gather flowers. Bu...

THE ECHO.

Little Charles knew nothing about an echo. As he was playing by
himself in the field, he cried out, "Ho, hop!" and immediately a voice
from the woods near by answered, "ho, hop!" Being surprised at this,
he called out, "who be you?" The voice answered, "who be you." Charles
thought this very strange, and cried out "you're a stupid fellow,"
and "stupid fellow," was the reply from the woods.

Charles began to be much displeased, and called several abusive names,
and every name he called, came back to him. "I never met with such
insolence," said he, "but I'll revenge myself;" and he ran up and down
among the trees, trying to find the supposed offender, but he could
see no one. Vexed and disappointed, he hastened home and told his
mother that a bad boy had hidden in the woods and called him all sorts
of names.

His mother smiled and shook her head. "Now you have been angry at
yourself, Charles, for you must know that you heard nothing but your
own words repeated. As you have seen your own face reflected in the
water, so you have now heard your own voice echoed." Had Charles spoke
kind words he would have heard kind words in return. It is often true
that the behavior we meet with from others, is but an echo of our own.
If we speak kind words we shall have kind words in return.





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