Short Stories

Anecdotes.
A poor Arabian of the desert was one day asked, how he came...

Telling Secrets.
There is a company of girls met together, and what can they...

Or The Unexpected Meeting.
I must tell you who were Lettice and Myra. They were the da...

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

My Early Days.
My father's house was indeed a pleasant home; and father wa...

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

The Boy Found In The Snow.
One winter's night when the evening had shut in very early,...

The Echo.
Little Charles knew nothing about an echo. As he was playin...

Lettice And Catherine,
...

The Bit Of Garden.
Young children like to have a small piece of land for a gar...

Benny's First Drawing.
You have perhaps heard of Benjamin West, the celebrated art...

The Way To Overcome Evil.
A little girl, by the name of Sarah Dean, was taught the pr...

The Flower That Looks Up.
"What beautiful things flowers are," said one of the party ...

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

The Plum Boys.
Two boys were one day on their way from school, and as they...

Asaph
About a hundred feet back from the main street of a village...

The Golden Crown.
A teacher once asked a child, "If you had a golden crown, w...

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

Harvest Song.
Now the golden ear wants the reaper's hand, Banish eve...

A Good Act For Another.
A man was going from Norwich to New London with a loaded te...

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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