Christian life -- Juvenile fiction
IT is no uncommon thing to hear children say, "how happy they should be if they were but rich." They seem to think people must be happy who live in grand houses and "fare sumptuously every day." Many a little boy, as he opens a common-gate to let a fine carriage pass through,...
IT is no uncommon thing to hear children say, "how happy they should be if they were but rich." They seem to think people must be happy who live in grand houses and "fare sumptu...
2. CHAPTER II.YOU may be quite sure that Ben Holt had not many toys. Whilst his father lived, it had been very different; and the little boy had still the remains of a large wooden horse on f...
3. CHAPTER III.THE painted humming-top was a source of great pleasure to Ben. He would amuse himself with it for the hour together. But the book of pictures which the lithe girl had given him,...
4. CHAPTER IV.MRS. MARLAND came early the next morning to see Ben's mother. The sick woman had slept well, having had some good beef-tea for her supper, and she seemed upon the whole somethin...
5. CHAPTER V.THOSE were happy days that followed Ben's visit to the country. Everything was new and delightful to him who had lived all his life in White Horse Alley, and who—
6. CHAPTER VI.IT was haymaking time, and Ben, with his merry, sun-browned face, made hay every day with a little fork which his uncle had made for him, and shouted as lustily as his cousins a...
7. CHAPTER VII.IT was a pleasant sight to walk through the newly-mown meadow on the afternoon of the haymaking feast. You might have looked in vain for an unhappy face. Smiling contentment bea...