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ELLA AND HER LITTLE 
 BROTHER. 
 
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 LLA EAY 
 
 was a very- 
 happy little 
 girl when she was 
 taken into her mam- 
 ma's room by her 
 aunt, one day, and 
 saw there a dear little baby. 
 She was still more happy 
 when she was told that the 
 baby was her own brother, 
 for then she knew that he 
 would not be taken away from the 
 house, and that she could have him to 
 play with. 
 
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 "When Ella first saw her little brother 
 he was fast asleep, and she asked her 
 mamma if he had any eyes. Her mam- 
 ma told her yes, and that if she waited 
 a while his eyes would open. So she 
 sat down by the side of her aunt, and 
 after waiting a few moments she heard 
 a noise which seemed to her, at first, 
 to be like her cat mewing. But it did 
 not take her long to find out that it 
 was not a cat, for her mamma said to 
 her, "Now, Ella, you can see baby's 
 eyes if you wish."" So she ran up to the 
 bed, and, sure enough, there was the 
 little fellow wide awake, and showing a 
 pair of pretty blue eyes. 
 
 Ella was very proud when her mam- 
 ma told her she might hold the baby 
 on her lap. But her aunt was quite 
 careful to put her hands under Ella's 
 and close to them lest she should let 
 
ELLA AND HEE LITTLE BEOTHEE. 5 
 
 baby fall to the floor, for Ella was not 
 yet three years old, and of course could 
 not be very strong. She only held him 
 a moment or two, when mamma said, 
 " There, that will do," and baby was 
 put back in the bed again, where he 
 soon shut his blue eyes and was fast 
 asleep. 
 
 Ella watched her little brother every 
 day, and wondered when he would be 
 old enough to talk to her and to play 
 with her. She was never tired of look- 
 ing at his tiny hands and feet, and was 
 always glad when he threw up his arms 
 and laughed and crowed. She very 
 freely let him have the cradle that she 
 was rocked in for his own, and told 
 him that if he would only be a good 
 little boy he might have her carriage 
 when he was large enough to ride. 
 
 When he was about three or four 
 
6 ELLA AND HEE LITTLE BEOTHEE. 
 
 months old his mamma said to Ella one 
 day, that she thought it might do to put 
 the baby in the carriage. Ella had 
 teased her mother about it for a long 
 time, telling her she was sure he was 
 large enough to go in the wagon. But 
 her mother had put her off, saying to 
 her that when she thought best it 
 should be done. And when at length 
 she did think best, and told Ella so, the 
 little girl's joy was great. 
 
 The carriage was soon brought into 
 the hall, where pillows and blankets 
 were put in, and Master Charley, for 
 that was the baby's name, was put in too. 
 He seemed to know that something was 
 going on, for he laughed, and crowed, 
 and cut all the cunning capers he knew. 
 When he was fastened in by a strap, 
 Bridget, the girl, carried the wagon out 
 into the garden, and drew it all around 
 
ELLA AND ITER LITTLE BROTHER. 7 
 
 the walks. Ella had hold of the car- 
 riage too. As the weather was warm and 
 pleasant the top of the wagon was down, 
 and Ella stood behind pushing with one 
 hand while Bridget pulled, and with 
 the other hand she tried to hold her 
 little parasol to keep the sun out of 
 Charlie's eyes. But it did not do much 
 good, for she could not hold it steadily 
 enough. However, Bridget took care 
 of all that, for she kept the carriage for 
 the most part in the shade. 
 
 Charlie seemed to like the ride very 
 much. He looked around, and threw 
 up his hands, and tossed his head from 
 one side to the other, and when 
 Bridget stopped for a moment to 
 pluck a flower for Ella the baby 
 cried, as though he wanted to say, 
 u Go on." And when the carriage 
 moved on he stopped crying, and smiled 
 
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 again. It was not long, however, be- 
 fore his eyelids drooped, for the motion 
 of the wagon had made him sleepy. 
 When he was fast asleep Bridget 
 drew the carriage back to the house, 
 loosened the strap which held Charlie 
 in, and carried him up stairs, pillows, 
 blankets, and all. Ella followed, still 
 holding up her parasol, and when she 
 reached her mamma's room she told her 
 what a fine time they had in the gar- 
 den. But she made such a noise about 
 it with her little tongue that mamma 
 had to tell her to be still or she would 
 wake the baby. 
 
 In a few months more Charlie had 
 learned to creep all around the room 
 and to stand up by the side of chairs. 
 Ella very much wanted him to walk, 
 but he did not seem to be in a great 
 hurry about that. He learned, by and 
 
 
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 by, to walk by tbe help of chairs, or by 
 taking hold of some one's hand, and 
 then Miss Ella thought she could help 
 him. But, somehow or other, when- 
 ever she held his hand he was sure to 
 tumble to the floor. I suppose she 
 pulled him along too fast. 
 
 But one day Charlie was walking out 
 in the garden, holding on to his mam- 
 ma's dress. After walking in this way 
 for a few moments the dress slipped 
 ? from his fingers, though he did not 
 ir.ow it, and he walked several steps 
 alone before he found it out. "When at 
 last he saw that his mamma was a lit- 
 tle distance ahead of him he stopped for 
 an instant and bent over as if he would 
 fall, and then ran to her. After that 
 he had no trouble about walking, and 
 he could soon run with his sister in the 
 house or around the garden. 
 
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 It was not long before he tried to 
 talk. It was hard work at first, but he 
 had Ella for a teacher, and he soon 
 learned from her very fast. He tried 
 to say everything that she said, and I 
 am sorry to say that he learned a few 
 naughty words from his sister. They 
 were only a few, for she was generally 
 a good little girl ; but sometimes she 
 said what she ought not to, and Charlie 
 said it after her. 
 
 Ella had fallen in the habit of saying, 
 "I wont.'''' She never said it to her 
 papa or her mamma, but she sometimes 
 said it to Bridget. Bridget had never 
 told Ella's parents of this, and they 
 knew nothing of it until one day Mr. 
 Eay heard Master Charlie say, "I wont." 
 He at once called Ella to him. 
 
 "Ella," said he, " where did Charlie 
 learn that naughty word?" 
 
ELLA AND HEE LITTLE BROTHER. 11 
 
 Ella hung her head and made no 
 reply. 
 
 "Did yon ever say it, my daughter?" 
 said Mr. Kay, putting his arms around 
 the little girl, and drawing her closely 
 to him. "He never would have said 
 it if he had not heard it. I am afraid 
 he has heard you say it. Is it so? 
 Come, tell me." 
 
 Ella, finding she had to speak, said, 
 "Yes, sir." 
 
 Then her papa told her how naughty 
 words go from child to child, one learn- 
 ing from the other, and that she must 
 be careful what she said before her lit- 
 tle brother, as he would be sure to say 
 it after her. 
 
 " Did you ever see weeds growing in 
 the garden ?" said he. 
 
 "Yes, sir," said Ella, 
 
 "Those weeds all come from little 
 
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 seeds which have fallen to the ground. 
 They soon grow up, unless they are 
 pulled out, and choke the plants and 
 flowers. These naughty words are like 
 the weeds, and when you say one of 
 them to Charlie it is like dropping a 
 seed into the ground. And when Char- 
 lie says that word you may know that 
 the seed has taken root and the weed 
 is growing. You would not like to see 
 all the pretty flowers in our garden 
 choked with weeds. O no. It would 
 quite spoil the looks of the garden. So 
 these naughty words that you some- 
 times say, and that Charlie says after 
 you, will make you both naughty chil- 
 dren." 
 
 Ella told her papa she was sorry that 
 she had said such words, and promised 
 to do so no more. It was not so easy 
 to get Charlie to do better, for he did 
 
ELLA AND HER LITTLE BROTHER. 13 
 
 not know what "I wont" meant, and 
 he used it many times every day. 
 Whenever Ella heard him say it she 
 said, a There's another naughty weed 
 growing in Charlie's garden." 
 
 Once when she said this her papa said, 
 " And who put the seed there, Ella?" 
 
 And Ella blushed and said U I did." 
 But she was careful after that not to 
 say naughty words, and thus put weed- 
 seeds in Charlie's garden. 
 
 It would have done you good to see 
 Ella and Charlie playing together. 
 Sometimes they played school, and 
 Ella was the teacher. She had several 
 pretty books which had been given her, 
 all of them having pictures. There was 
 one of them she called her ^jpotery 
 book," because it was full of poetry and 
 pictures. With these books they had 
 fine times. Ella tried to teach Charlie 
 
14 ELLA AND HER LITTLE BROTHER. 
 
 his letters, though she did not know 
 them herself. She also tried to count 
 with him: "One, two, three, five, 
 seven, ten, sixty!" 
 
 They sometimes sang together out of 
 these books. If to sing loud is to sing 
 well, then I am sure everybody would 
 say that these two children sang very 
 well. They opened their throats like 
 little birds, and made all the noise 
 they could, which was a great deal. 
 They filled the house with their merry 
 music, and when the windows were 
 open the neighbors could hear them 
 across the street. Their papa said he 
 would rather have them sing than cry, 
 and he did not mind the noise they 
 made as long as they were happy. 
 
 They sometimes played "visiting." 
 Ella dressed herself and Charlie in all 
 the old shawls and hats she could find 
 
ELLA AND HER LITTLE BROTHER. 15 
 
 about the house, and they went around 
 the room knocking at every chair as if 
 it had been a house. Ella played that 
 she was the mamma, and that Charlie 
 was her little boy. She talked to the 
 people who lived in the houses (that is, 
 the chairs) she visited, asked how the 
 children were, told how she was, and 
 then went somewhere else. 
 
 Thus these children lived very hap- 
 pily together. I am glad to say that 
 they did not often quarrel. Once in a 
 while Ella wanted something that 
 Charlie had, or he wanted something 
 that Ella had, and for a moment or two 
 they seemed ready to fight. But it was 
 soon settled, and everything went on 
 smoothly as before. They had each 
 their own toys, but they were always 
 ready to lend to each other ; and when 
 they played together they often brought 
 
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 out all their pretty toys, and no one 
 could tell which were Ella's or which 
 were Charlie's. 
 
 It is very pleasant to see two little 
 children loving each other, and playing 
 together, and trying to make one an- 
 other happy. How much better for 
 brother and sister to do this than to be 
 cross to each other, and to fight and 
 quarrel like cats and dogs. The Bible 
 says, " Little children, love one another." 
 
 If you have a little brother as Ella 
 had, be as kind and as gentle to him as 
 you can. Be careful what you say be- 
 fore him, for he will learn it from you, 
 and then the u weeds" will soon grow 
 up as Ella's papa told her. 
 

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