r^ 5WBM3BB ■"•■•RSSHCJP^iaSW*-" ■.'^TWIKTWWKTap:- li QTARy 01% 'IV >*11 1 I A I *s • 9 T^ tf&ms&wm&& $ ^Be^^fi. m i minion nftiiUMiMfm I {P^PPiPPWPPW!*lMVr ■ THE Hu 3c. bo&t,by which he supported his fai CHi.his death, it w iry (in order i'^ pay his ji de ) to our boat.' I par n it, e with tears ; hut the < felt s- Ted me>oo to said, I will use ever ce to, pa ta£e my bo&t back v. went io the person who I and told-; inhydl hac ive gn to . was o ; the ow It i it, v t I pawii .»all the b *M«&wiMMx«Kvu^ifflflmnirtBftM ;: ; - .■•■:.': • ■; ' 6 FISHES. again P*. said 1 ; my heart bounded ai the thought ! u l was at this time married to a good young woman, and we lived in neighbouring cottage; she was young, healthy, and industrious, and so was J, and we loved one another —What might we not undertake ? father used to say to me, "Al- ways do what is right; labour (h\\~ \tly, and spend your money care- fully ; and God will bless your stored We treasured up these rules, and determined to try the truth of them* My wife had long chiefly supported 7 THE UNICORNS. two aged parents ; I loved them as my own— and the desire of contri- buting to their support, was an addi- tional spur to my endeavours to pur- chase the boat. 1 entered myself as a day-labourer, in the garden of our squire : and my wife was called occasionally to perform some servi- ces at the house, and employed her- self in needle work, spinning e knitting at home ; not a moment in the day was suffered to pas.- m- ployed ; we spared tor ourselves, and furnished all the comforts we could, to the poor about us ; and THE YOUNG LIONS- i> ^fa i ewMW»y if ,^ y jiam i l II MMl'H I I I 'il l M i ll! ll M l llfl llHUW 1 I I P i l l > Hl'u' ll every week we dropped a little ov- erplus into a fairing box, to buy the Boat* If any accident or charity brought us an additional shilling, we did not enlarge our expense, butkept it for the boat ! The more care we took,, the more comfortable we felt, for we were nearer the [ session of our little boat. Our labour was lightened, by our looking forward to the attainment of our wishes. If my children got a penny at school for a reward, to buy gingerbread, they brought it home, they said, to help buy the boat; for they would itave no gingerbread till daddy had ... r m AN ANCIENT MITRE, got his boat again. Thus from time to time our little store insensibly increased, till one pound was only wanting of the five, when the fol- lowing accident happened, " Coming home one evening from my work, I saw in the road a small pocket book : on opening it, 1 found a bank note of 10/. which plainly enough belonged to my master, for his name was upon it, and 1 had also seen him passing that way in th evening: it .being too late, however, to return to the house, I went on my mm* 1 8 THE SHEPBEKD. wav. When I told my family of II) accident, the little ones were •own ir>t<5 a transport of joy. 4 My dears.' said' I, 'what is the matter ?' <0h daddy, the boat ! the boat ! we may row have two or three boats ! 5 I checked them by my looks ; and asked them if they recollected whose money that Wis ? they a ' ' yours, as >u found it.' I reminded them that I was not the real owner, and d them think how they would all feel, supposing a strangerwas to take our box of money, if I should happen to drop it on the day J went to buy \ vmuMijiimjuu i "^»»'»" 1 ji THE DOG, back the boat. This thought had the effect on their young minds that I desired : they were silent and pale with the representation of such a disaster, and I begged it might be a lesson to them never to forget the golden rale of ' doing as they would wish others to do by them;' for by attention to this certain guide, no one would ever do wrong to another. I also took this opportunity to explain to them, that the possession of the boat by dishonest means would nev- er answer, since we could not ex- pect the blessing of Goo upon bad deeds. " To go on with my story:— The next morning I put the pocket J. /W THE SERPENT. Sff 255? ********** W*!^r?*2r.- . • ;■* -i book into my bosom, and went to my work, intending as soon as the family rose to give it to my master ; bat what were my feelings, when, on searching in my bosom, it was no where to be found ! I hasted back along the road I came, looking diligently all the way, but in vain ! there were no traces of any such thing.— I would not return to my cottage, because I wished to save rny family the pain I felt, and in the hope of still recovering the book, I went to my work, following another path which I recollected I had also gone by ; on my return to the garden gate I was accosted by the gardener, who in a threatening tone, told me I was suspected ; that our master had lost pocket book describing what I had uttbam — Icy THE LAMBS. found, and that I being the only man absent from the garden at the hour of work, the rest of the men also denying that they had seen any such thing, ther was every reason to conclude that I. must have got it. Before I could answer, my disl sed countenance confirmed the suspicion ; and another servant coming up, said I was detected, for, that a person had been sent to my house, and that r wife and family had owned it all, and had described the pocket book. I told them the real fact, but it seemed t v\ one unlike! v o be (n o e rv ci i i.i l Is c lit o it.' a gam si roe, : I (rpv to look ; upon \t.yi m ed and horned away to prison ! I p mmmi itm "w™*^mmmmm: 14 THE CHARIOTS. ^^«^ mmma^^sk safer, ; tjggag««*»^.flra^ #3 £*sacBsgg > tested my innocence, but I did not ivGiider thai I gained no credit, ressed my heart ; my p r wife, my dear children, and iy grey aded jnisjj were all at < Rged into want and mis- F inst J of the se and i i- h we wen- expecting ; for * I. st arri tl tl lit f our earthly \ • I h *5 cepL But h -jllj refused, BQj;*t*g ^p -i a vine : . _ • _, , _ « 5 THE HOUSES. thai the p ssessioo of s Hi *..n ttipn* ey, was the clearest pi f 61 it ; therefore he w-o6ldt)A) : t miaiLun- ill I should pay the wh However, as I wag i v\\} fully losing the faoiu-'y, I heh it feo some wav I should be released : and so it h —for t of *e laborers, ft-i ktiig up the 3 te A soon alter onermg it tor is detected,, put into pr , and S v set at lib e r t v . 1 v rrt a s t e r b e i w well salir a of my ve me the note j honest v, w lieb I boat, and in a en n nftrf i ■ ■ ,■■■!■!■ im umi iniMfilifl II iimj*ll!l|#jmiM«qp0 The Lady and Gentleman were well pleased with the narration, and willing- ly called I • happy Boatman; After passing fer in his Ferry Boat, tl ■aid him fourfold his charge. The laborer who was imprisoned in his stead, ei -sing penitence, was jon after liberated ; and 1 am ha] to g , has ever since pursued an ui deviating course of rectitude. I seen the blessings of honesty in the happy Boatman, and contrasting them with the sensations he had experienced from a contrarv- course, he had it writ- on his cottage door, "do as you would be done unto. 55 And let all re s golden rule. ■ MWikllMlBllMia .^. 2 ■:«-.v:vr«.M*4WJM — * ' *r'^m*ifm*mmmm^qmHm ??s£7&imtEmmm&EBa& m I •B is I *##"#.* ^## ■< - ■■•A 0/- *l£ S3S??i?K5Bre»i