Short Stories

Anne Cleaveland.
Anne was the daughter of a wealthy farmer. She had a good N...

Anna With A Pleasant Home.
Anna, having obtained leave of her mistress, soon found her...

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

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

Jane And Her Lessons.
It is a mark of a good scholar to be prompt and studious. S...

Bertie's Box.
A very little boy by the name of "Bertie," kept a box in wh...

Flora And Her Portrait.
"And was there never a portrait of your beautiful child," s...

The Trusty Dog.
I am glad to introduce to you, the noble dog whose picture ...

Lettice And Myra.
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Edward And Ellen.
Edward Ford owned a snug little cottage with a small farm s...

Early At School.
One Sabbath evening a teacher was walking up and down in th...

Chinese Proverbs.
What is told in the ear is often heard a hundred miles. ...

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

The Motherless Birds.
There were two men who were neighbors to each other, living...

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

Emily's Morning Ramble.
In the suburbs of the city of B. stands the beautiful resid...

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

The Boy And The Gold Robin.
A bright eyed boy was sleeping upon a bank of blossoming cl...

The Philosophy Of Relative Existences
In a certain summer, not long gone, my friend Bentley and I...

Mother's Last Lesson.
"Will you please teach me my verse, mamma, and then kiss me...

THE REWARD.

A teacher in a Sabbath School promised to supply all the children in
his class with a catechism, who had none.

One of the little girls went home from the school after the books were
given out, and said:

"Mamma, if I had told a lie to-day, I would have got a catechism."

"I think that very strange, Eliza; for the Sabbath School is no place
for lies, and if you could be so wicked, I know your teacher would not
have rewarded you for it."


"Mother," said Eliza, "I tell nothing but the truth; and now I will
explain it.

"You know I went to school this morning with the other girls. They
told me on the way how their mother had bought each of them a new
catechism on last market day, and they said, if I once saw how pretty
their books were, I would not look at my old one any more. Our teacher
asked us all, when we went in, if we had any catechisms, and those who
said they had not, received one from the teacher as a present. Jane,
after all she told me, by the way, denied that she had any, and Lizzy
did the same. But when he asked me, I told him I had one at home; but
if I had said no, I would have got a new one."

Her mother then told her that she should be rewarded for not telling a
lie by giving her a new book and a new Bible.





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