. The Mother's present. A holiday gift for the young. Original and selected . THE 1OST AZIL: OR THE LOST FOUND. IN a distant, and now forgotten kingdom,dwelt once a shepherd and his adopted old man was feeble from age, but hiscountenance still expressed strength andgoodness of mind. Peace dwelt in shininglight upon his high and noble brow, overwhich waved, the blessed silver hair of age ;while, round his mouth, there seemed tobe continually the shadow of a smile; hiseyes, also, beamed with love and kind-ness. When the young Azil was but a childof about two years old, the she
. The Mother's present. A holiday gift for the young. Original and selected . THE 1OST AZIL: OR THE LOST FOUND. IN a distant, and now forgotten kingdom,dwelt once a shepherd and his adopted old man was feeble from age, but hiscountenance still expressed strength andgoodness of mind. Peace dwelt in shininglight upon his high and noble brow, overwhich waved, the blessed silver hair of age ;while, round his mouth, there seemed tobe continually the shadow of a smile; hiseyes, also, beamed with love and kind-ness. When the young Azil was but a childof about two years old, the shepherd foundhim in a wood near his cottage, wanderingabout as though in search of some one. 150 AZIL: OR THE Tears stood in the lovely childs eyes; butwith a singular sort of pride, he seemed torestrain his grief, and, holding his head«erect, looked proudly up at the first, he Avas unwilling to go with him;but, after a short time, the benevolent as-pect and kind tones of the shepherd wonhim, and, putting his hand in that of hisprotector, went to his new home. A
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