Children's stories
"THE Bishop of this Diocese will hold a Confirmation service in this church on Sunday morning, the twelfth of May. Any persons intending to come forward at that time will please give their names to the Rector as soon as possible. A course of lectures preparatory to the rite wi...
"THE Bishop of this Diocese will hold a Confirmation service in this church on Sunday morning, the twelfth of May. Any persons intending to come forward at that time will please...
2. CHAPTER II.THE following Sunday saw Edah at the Communion for the first time in her life. It had been customary for all the pupils of the school to return home immediately after the Offert...
3. CHAPTER III.THE next day, Edah spent most of the morning in unpacking her trunks, arranging the books she had brought with her, and so forth, all of which was very interesting to Pauline, w...
4. CHAPTER IV.THE day but one after Edah's expedition to Raeburn, she was at work in the little parlor, engaged in cutting out some garments for Pauline, who was sitting conning her spelling-...
5. CHAPTER V.THINGS went on very pleasantly at Brooksville for two or three weeks after Edah's visit to Spring Bank. Mrs. Champlin's health seemed to improve rapidly, and even poor little Ed...
6. CHAPTER VI.FOR several days and nights Mrs. Champlin continued very ill, and her life was almost despaired of. Edah and Susan took the principal care of her, though the neighbors were very...
7. CHAPTER VII.EDAH now considered her plans for the winter as settled, and began to make her arrangements accordingly, for she was very much given to making a systematic division of her time,...
8. CHAPTER VIII.THE next day Edah went over to see her fast friend Mr. Bell, who was one of the school committee. He was much astonished by her offer to take the school at sixteen dollars a mon...
9. CHAPTER IX.EVER since the departure of the Laurence family, Edah had been in the habit of going over to Spring Bank now and then upon Saturday afternoons, to get such books as she wanted o...
10. CHAPTER X."I RECEIVED your letter a week ago, my dear friend, and with it another containing a call from the vestry of Christ Church in P. You mention the probability of this call, and sa...
11. CHAPTER XI.FROM the day when Eddy's baptism was decided on, he seemed to decline rapidly. He grew weaker and thinner, lost what little appetite he had, and though he suffered apparently le...
12. CHAPTER XII.THE next day after the conversation related in the last chapter, Bob's scheme was again talked over, and after a consultation with Mr. Laurence, who cordially approved, an infor...
13. CHAPTER XIII.ON Ash Wednesday morning the new church was well-filled, and in the evening it was quite crowded,—a number of persons coming over from Raeburn, so that it became necessary to pr...
14. CHAPTER XIV.THE next day Edah and Pauline set out for New York, under the care of a gentleman from Raeburn, and arrived in safety, without any remarkable adventures, though Pauline found ma...
15. CHAPTER XV.EASTER morning rose clear and bright in the village of Brooksville, and the hills which inclosed the valley seemed to put on their most smiling aspect, to welcome in the Resurre...