Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
It was getting dark, though the Town Hall clock had only just struck four. But a fog had hung all over Liverpool since morning, and everything was as damp and dismal as it well could be; and now, as evening came on, the fog had settled into a downright drizzle, converting the...
The sea of fortune doth not ever flow, She draws her favours to the lowest ebb Her tides have equal time to come and go, Her loom doth weave the fine and coarsest web No joy so...
18. CHAPTER XVIII.Had any of our readers been passing the front of St. George's Hall during the afternoon of the day on which Benny was acquitted, they might have seen our hero sitting on one of...
22. CHAPTER XXII.When our hero reached the bridge that spanned the narrow dell, he paused for a moment and looked over the low parapet at the deep gully that had been worn away by the action of...
15. CHAPTER XV.The days of peace and sunshine sped all too swiftly. Winter soon gave place to budding spring, and spring lengthened into summer. Twelve months had passed since that happy day i...
23. CHAPTER XXIII.Life's withered leaves grow green again and fresh with childhood's spring. As I am welcomed back once more within its rainbow ring; The past, with all its gathered charms, becko...
16. CHAPTER XVI.While Benny in his prison-cell was dragging out the weary hours of that June Sabbath, Joe Wrag was engaged in an experiment that had occupied his thoughts for some considerable...
17. CHAPTER XVII.I knew, I knew it could not last; 'T was bright, 't was heavenly, but 'tis past Oh, ever thus from childhood's hour I've seen my fondest hopes decay. I never nursed a tree or fl...
10. CHAPTER X.Perks was very much annoyed that Benny had not stayed to see him perform the feat of picking a gentleman's pocket, nevertheless, he was very anxious to cultivate our hero's acqu...
20. CHAPTER XX.Mrs. Fisher waited anxiously in an adjoining room for the coming of her husband to tell her that Benny was no more. She could not go back into the sick-room, she dared not see t...
19. CHAPTER XIX.For since Thy hand hath led me here, And I have seen the border land,-- Seen the dark river flowing near, Stood on its bank as now I stand,-- There has been nothing to alarm My...
24. CHAPTER XXIV.I have seen angels in the gloomy prison, In crowded halls, by the lone widow's hearth; And when they passed the fallen have uprisen, The giddy paused, the mourner's hope had birth.
7. CHAPTER VII.Tell me the story slowly, That I may take it in; That wonderful redemption, God's remedy for sin. Tell me the story simply, As to a little child; For I am weak and weary, And he...
13. CHAPTER XIII.How Benny lived through the next few weeks he never knew. It seemed to him as if the world had become suddenly dark. The one little being who had been the sunshine of his life w...
14. CHAPTER XIV.I know not how others saw her, But to me she was wholly fair; And the light of the heaven she came from Still lingered and gleamed in her hair;
9. CHAPTER IX.Where the watching, waiting angels Lead them from the shadow dim, To the brightness of His presence Who has called them unto Him,-- Little hearts for ever stainless, Little hand...
6. CHAPTER VI.Christmas Day this year came upon a Wednesday, and, during the two days preceding it, Benny did what he characterized as a "roaring bizness." There were so many people leaving a...
11. CHAPTER XI.The long summer days passed all too quickly, and autumn came again. The days began to shorten, and the evenings to be cold. Nelly felt the change in an unmistakable manner, for...
3. CHAPTER III.Ne'er saw I, never felt a calm so deep! The river glideth at his own sweet will: Dear God, the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still. --Wordsworth
4. CHAPTER IV.The experiences of Benny and his sister during the next day were but a repetition of what we recorded in the last chapter; but during the second night they found the shelter of...
1. CHAPTER I.It was getting dark, though the Town Hall clock had only just struck four. But a fog had hung all over Liverpool since morning, and everything was as damp and dismal as it well...
12. CHAPTER XII.Joe Wrag heard the news in silence. Benny, who had gone to him to tell him what had happened to Nell, was not half pleased that he said nothing in reply. But Joe was too trouble...
2. CHAPTER II.The whole court Went boiling, bubbling up from all the doors And windows, with a hideous wail of laughs And roar of oaths, and blows, perhaps.... I passed Too quickly for distin...
8. CHAPTER VIII.As winter slowly wore away, little Nelly's health began to fail. She seemed weary and languid, and poor little Benny was at his wits' end to know what to get her to eat. After s...
5. CHAPTER V.To sleep! perchance to dream;--ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause. --Hamlet