Short Stories

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

Chorus
As the manna lay, on the desert ground, So from day to d...

Lettice And Myra.
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George And His Guinea.
Little George Ames went with his aunt to attend a missionar...

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

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

Revelation Of God's Holy Word.
Ye favored lands, rejoice Where God reveals his word...

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

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

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

Harriet And Her Squirrel.
It was on a Sabbath eve, when at a friend's house, we were ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A Tale Of Negative Gravity
My wife and I were staying at a small town in northern Ital...

Lily Ford.
It was now in the latter part of December--two days more an...

THE TWO ROBINS.

A few summers ago I was sitting on a garden seat, beneath a fruit
tree, where the works of nature looked very beautiful. Very soon I
heard a strange noise among the highest branches of the tree over my
head. The sound was very curious, and I began to look for the cause. I
shook one of the lower branches within my reach, and very soon I
discovered two birds engaged in fighting; and they seemed to gradually
descend towards the ground. They came down lower and lower, tumbling
over one another, and fighting with each other. They soon reached the
lowest branch, and at last came to the ground very near me. It was
with some difficulty that I parted them; and when I held one of them
in each of my hands, they tried to get away, not because they were
afraid of me but because they would resume the conflict. They were two
young robins, and I never before thought that the robin had such a bad
spirit in its breast. Lest they should get to fighting again, I let
one go, and kept the other housed up for several days, so that they
would not have much chance of coming together again.

Now, children, these two little robins woke in the morning very
cheerful, and appeared very happy as they sat on the branch of the
tree, singing their morning songs. But how soon they changed their
notes. You would have been sorry to have seen the birds trying to hurt
each other.

If children quarrel, or in any degree show an unkind temper, they
appear very unlovely and, forget that God, who made them, and gives
them many blessings, disapproves of their conduct. Never quarrel, but
remember how pleasant it is for children to love each other, and to
try to do each other good.



Every hour is worth at least a good thought, a good wish, a good
endeavor.--_Clarendon_.





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