BE KIND ONE TO ANOTHER. 
 
 Lily Stuart and Ellie Graham were 
 very near neighbours, and very dear 
 Iriends. They attended the same school, 
 and when that was over, they spent most 
 
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 of their leisure time in playing with each 
 other. 
 
 ElUe's younger sister, May, was also a 
 great friend of Lily*s, and joined with 
 them in all their plays ; but as she was 
 in a different class at school, Ellie and 
 Lily were rather more constantly together. 
 At any other time, however, wherever 
 you saw one o. the httle girls, you were 
 almost sure of seeing the three ; indeed, 
 the two sisters were so seldom separated, 
 that Lily's little brother Frank, who was 
 very fond of them both, used to call each 
 of them ** Ellie and Mav'' — he heard 
 them so constantly spoken of together. 
 
 At a school which these little girls 
 attended, there was a reward given for 
 good conduct and perfect lessons, at the 
 end of each week. This was a beautiful 
 silver medal, with "Reward of Merit" 
 engraved upon it. This w^as to be worn 
 the following week, and very happy it 
 made any little girl to show her friends 
 this proof of her good scholarship. 
 
 There were so many good children at 
 this school, that the kind teacher was 
 
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 sometimes puzzled to know on whom to 
 bestow it, and thus she was obHged to 
 make her rules quite strict ; and one of 
 them was, that the children must not miss 
 a day from school, if they wished to 
 receive the medal. 
 
 EUie and Lily had been longer at this 
 school than May; so when she entered it, 
 she became very anxious to deserve the 
 medal. Two or three times she almost 
 
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 gained it, and then, by necessary absence, 
 lost it again. Finally, four days of the 
 week had passed, and May had not once 
 missed in her lessons or conduct. Very 
 perfectly did she study her task for 
 Friday, and went to sleep to dream of the 
 medal. 
 
 Alas! when she woke the next morn- 
 ing, she found the ground covered with 
 snow, and the streets looking quite impass- 
 able. Still she hoped she might get to 
 school, when a man who lived in the 
 neighbourhood of the school-house, came 
 to Mrs Stuart on an errand, and he told 
 May's grandmamma, that no child could 
 get past a crossing a few streets off, on the 
 way to school. So May, who was rather 
 a delicate child, had to stay at home. 
 Bitter was her disappointment, and still 
 worse did she feel, when, a few moments 
 after, Ellie and Lily came running in — 
 their cheeks as red as roses — to see if 
 May was ready for school. They, too, 
 felt very badly when they heard she had 
 to stay at home, for they, hke generous 
 
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 children, were very anxious that she 
 should receive the medal. 
 
 May's grandma asked them if they 
 thought they could get over the bad cross- 
 ing ; they said, ** Oh, yes ; they had on 
 
 their india-rubber-boots, and were not 
 afraid/' So off they went, leaving May 
 very sadly behind. They trudged along 
 through the snow-driits, until they came 
 to the crossing of which the man had 
 
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 warned tliem. They looked one way, 
 and the other, and then EUie made a 
 jump over the worst place, and helped 
 Lily across ; thus they got over very 
 nicely. 
 
 *' Oh!" cried EUie, as she reached the 
 school -door, '^how I do wish May had 
 come ; for now she will lose the medal ; I 
 do believe I will go back for her." No 
 sooner said than done. Hastily closing 
 the door behind Lily, she ran as quickly 
 as possible to Mrs. Stuart's. ** May, 
 May !" cried she, ''do ask your grandma 
 to let you go back with me ; that crossing 
 is not at all bad ; I came back to tell you 
 so. 
 
 Of course, Mrs. Stuart consented ; 
 and in a few minutes^ off the little girls 
 started, as merrily as possible. When 
 they reached school they were a little 
 late. 
 
 We hardly know which was the 
 happiest that afternoon — May, when the 
 n^edal, with its pretty pink ribbon, was 
 put about her neck — or EUie, to remember 
 that she had helped May to obtain it. 
 
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 Before I bid my little readers '' good- 
 bye," I would whisper to them that this 
 is no fairy tale or fancy sketch, but a 
 true story. Thus you will see that I 
 have asked you to do nothing impossible — 
 since little children, like yourselves, have 
 shown how pleasant it is to '*be kind one 
 to another."