Anonymous, Little Stories for Little Children
“ TOM AND FRED.“Tom, have a game at trap-bat-and-ball.”—“I do not know how to play at it.”—“Well I will teach you, look at me; that is the way, now do it your-self. That is right, you will soon learn to do it fast.”—“Yes, it is not hard to learn: now let us go and have a race. ”
Anonymous, Little Stories for Little Children
“ One day she was out, and a poor girl came to her and said, “Give me some bread, I have had none to eat all day.” So Ann said, “I have no bread, but here is six-pence that my mam-ma gave me, take it, [Pg 20] and buy some bread.” ”
Anonymous, Little Stories for Little Children
“ Ann had a lit-tle gar-den of her own, and she had made an ar-bour in it. When she went to play she found her bro-ther cry-ing, [Pg 40] for he had fall-en down, and broken her ar-bour to pieces. But Ann said, “You must not cry, dear, ne-ver mind break-ing the ar-bour, we will soon build it up.” So she kiss-ed him, and they work-ed till tea time and made a bet-ter ar-bour than be-fore. And Ann felt much more hap-py than she would have been had she scold-ed and been cross with poor lit-tle George. ”
