Wood Cottage

A few hours before there had been plenty of stir and excitement in the fields around Wood Cottage. One hundred children belonging to a Sunday-school in the great city, had been...

For some hours the lightning flashed and the thunder rolled, but the children slept peacefully in their bed. It was the mother who lay awake too overjoyed to sleep. The morning...

About an hour after dinner Kit fell into a sound sleep, and her mother laid her in her little bed, thankful that she should get a good rest, for the least exertion seemed to fat...

"I hope not," replied her mother, as Ben laughed merrily; "but see, he's a good boy now, and fit to be kissed; so we will lay him down on the grass to kick, while we set the tab...

Three weeks after Ben and Kit entered their new home, Ben's school life began. He was very proud to make the start, and went with great confidence, because he was able to say th...

Perhaps my little reader thinks that if he were a boy like Ben he would have no trouble after he reached such a happy home as Wood Cottage. But that is a mistake. When little ch...

The afternoon passed wearily to little Kit and her mother, for Ben did not return. They went to the gate many times to look for him, and walked some way up the road, but Ben was...

When Ben woke next morning he had a great load on his mind, for he had to face the boys again; but after a few words with the father, he felt better; and taking Harry Gray's han...

It was just such another day as when the Sunday School children had played about in the meadows six weeks before. The rays of the sun were very hot, though a gentle breeze stirr...

"What _shall_ we do?" cried Ben. "Your coach has been stolen, Kit. What will they say at home? Oh dear--dear! Some tramps have got it. We must follow on, and perhaps we'll overt...

Mrs. Craig had taken a fancy to Gray at once. Something in his bright manly face had drawn out her confidence, and pointing to John on his sick bed, she said--

"Are you still trying to be a brave little soldier?" she asked the morning after the adventure in the wood. And when Ben answered with a nod--"Yes, ma'am, as hard as I can:" she...

One day in the end of August, a happy little party landed at a sea-side place from one of the river steamers on the Thames. The children had never seen the sea before, and great...

On drawing near they found that a young man was reading from the Word of God. The little party of women and children seated themselves on a grassy mound to listen, while Harry a...

A year has gone. Autumn has come again, and changes have taken place during that time at Wood Cottage. A little baby sister arrived for Kittie, and she was very happy in the pos...

Soon Ben came in, and missing the little girl at the gate, cried, "Where's Kittie?" Mrs. Gray looked towards the chair where she sat, and Kittie's tear-stained face told the story.

And now we must say "Good-bye" to the little ones. Ben worked hard at his place and earned his master's esteem, and he knew no greater pleasure than to bring home his wages to h...