A PLEASANT HOME.
THE GLOW WORM.
EMILY'S MORNING RAMBLE.
FLYING THE KITE.
THE HAPPY FAMILY.
STORY ABOUT AN INDIAN.
GATHER THE FLOWERS.
JANE AND HER LESSONS.
HARVEST SONG.
TELLING SECRETS.
AGNES AND THE MOUSE.
THE TWO ROBINS.
THE PLEASANT SAIL.
THE SAILOR BOY.
THE BRACELET; OR, HONESTY REWARDED.
NO PAY—NO WORK.
THE TREE THAT NEVER FADES.
YOUNG USHER.
A GOOD ACT FOR ANOTHER.
A BOY REPROVED BY A BIRD.
THE ECHO.
LIZZY AND HER DOG.
JULIA'S SUNSET WALK.
FLORA AND HER PORTRAIT.
THE PORTRAIT OF FLORA PURCHASED.
THE SAINT'S REST.
A GOOD MOTHER.
MOTHER'S LAST LESSON.
THE GOLDEN CROWN.
EARLY AT SCHOOL.
THE PLUM BOYS.
GEORGE AND HIS DOG.
THE FIRST DOLLAR.
THE SHEPHERD AND HIS BIBLE.
REVELATION OF GOD'S HOLY WORD.
PLEASANT PLAY.
GEORGE AND HIS GUINEA.
THE JEW AND HIS DAUGHTER.
ANECDOTES.
CHINESE PROVERBS.
COMFORT AND SOBRIETY.
PLEDGE.

PREFACE.

In preparing this volume of stories for young readers, the writer has had in view their instruction, by presenting to them the duties of their station in a familiar and instructive story. Each story contains a moral, and teaches principles by which the youth should be governed in their private, social and public relations in life. In the perusal of these stories, we hope to accomplish our great object, of aiding young persons to pursue the peaceful and pleasant path of duty—to render them more useful in the world, and to grow wiser and happier in the path of life.

THE PEARL BOX.

THE DYING BOY.

A little boy, by the name of Bertie, was taken very ill, and for sometime continued to grow weaker until he died. A few hours before his death he revived up, and his first request was, to be bathed in the river; but his mother persuaded him to be sponged only, as the river water would be too cold for his