here are some seeds for you to eat. Eat them all up fast, and when there are none you may fly away, pretty dove, far away. 3. My father and mother love me far more than I love my little dove. They give me all that is good for me to have, and try all they can to make me good and happy. 4. I should always love my father and mother, for I would have them always love me. 5. Father works all day, and mother tells me that he does it all for her and his little son. It is his love for us that makes him do so. 6. Mother works for me too, and loves me far more than I can love her. No words can say how she loves me, and how good she is. 7. When she lays me in my bed she prays with me to God to take care of me, to make me good, to make me love Him, and to keep me from sin. 8. O, may I always love my mother as she loves her son! May I never make her sad, but always live so as to give her joy, and make her glad and happy all her days. 1. I ONCE saw a young girl tie a string to a bird's leg, and pull the bird through the yard. 2. She said she meant to see how fast it could go; so she ran till she was out of breath. 3. The poor bird could not spread its wings and fly away, so it went hop, hop, hop, to try to keep up with her; but it broke its leg, and there it lay on the hard stones, and its head was hurt, and the poor bird was soon dead. 4. O, what a bad girl this was to treat a bird so ill! 1. THERE was a large flock of geese at the farm, and some of them were young geese. The young geese made a great noise; they would talk, talk, talk, all day long. 2. "What a fine world! what a fine place!" they said. "I'm a goose, I'm a goose! Here's a worm, here's a worm!" "Here, 3. "Where? where?" said the rest. here; no, it's a stick! I'm a goose, I'm a goose!" That was the way the geese went on all day, and all of them at once. 4. "I wish you would be still," said a wise old goose. "Do you not know that the fox lives in the wood? Why do you tell him there are fat geese so near?" 5. But no one would listen to what the wise old goose said, and the noise went on all day; and, if one woke in the night, she would say, "I'm a goose, I'm a goose!" 6. So the fox heard them, and he stole through the trees. Pounce! Quack! The goose was in his mouth; he ran off with her to his hole, and ate her up. 7. "There," said the wise old goose, "I told you so." |