Short Stories

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

Lettice Taking Home The Work.
Early in the morning, before it was light, and while the tw...

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...

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

The Market Day.
Mrs. Ford had three little children--Lily, Hetty, and a dea...

The Happy Family.
There are a great many novel sights in the streets of Londo...

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

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

The Parting Scene.
In one of our western cities was a poor woman, in the garre...

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

The Tree That Never Fades.
"Mary," said George, "next summer I will not have a garden....

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Flying The Kite.
Flying the kite is a pleasant amusement for boys, and when ...

THE SHEPHERD AND HIS BIBLE.

A poor shepherd, living among the Alps, the father of a large family,
for whose wants he provided with great difficulty, purchased an old
Bible from a dealer in old cloths and furniture. On Sunday evening, as
he was turning over the leaves, he noticed several of them were pasted
together. He immediately began to separate the pasted leaves with
great care. Inside of these leaves he found carefully enclosed a bank
bill of five hundred dollars. On the margin of one of the pages was
written these words: "I gathered together money with very great
difficulty, but having no natural heirs but those who have absolutely
need of nothing, I make thee, whosoever shall read this Bible, my
natural heir."

We cannot promise our young friends that they will find money in the
leaves of their Bibles, but you may be assured that if you study its
pages, and follow its precepts, you will find wisdom, which is better
than silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.





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