Great Mysteries and Little Plagues

"Well, if that isn't the strangest thing!" said little Ruth, at last, after listening a few minutes, on looking all round everywhere, and up into the trees, and away off down th...

No. 82. And here we have something out of the common way, well vouched for, and thoroughly safe to be repeated. A little boy of only eight years, a son of Mr. Elias Bates, drove...

Not long ago, while passing through a narrow, unfrequented street, my attention was attracted by two little girls at play together: one a perfect tomboy, with large laughing eye...

Her mother kissed the dear little thing, and took her hand in hers, and laid her cheek upon the pillow, and, in less than five minutes, she was sound asleep, and breathing as sh...

"Why, what's the matter, Bobby?" "Well--we've got a new baby. It's very weak and tired, and walked all the way from heaven last night; and you mustn't be kicking up a row here n...

No. 141. _A new Paraphrase._--A father, who always insisted upon his children giving their version of what they heard, in their own language, to show that they understood it, as...

No. 233. _Fishing and Mousing._--"Some years ago," says the New England correspondent of--I forget what paper, "my cousin kept a district school. Among her scholars was a little...

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No. 190. _Constructiveness._--The Belfast Journal renders an account of a young authoress in that neighborhood, who, at the age of nine, has written the opening chapter of a sen...

No. 285. _Patronage._--"I say, dad--have you been to the Museum yet?" said a young American of ten. "No, my son." "Well, jest you go, and mention my name to the door-keeper, an'...