With the children on Sundays, through eye-gate, and ear-gate into the city of child-soul . g into a field, and look-ing in every direction to be sure that no one was near, she took offher shawl and wrapped it carefully around a little baby whichshe had concealed under her arm, and laid it gently by the side ofa hedge. And then turning back to the lane, she soon disappearedin the distance. An hour or two later a little girl and a rollicking,frolicking boy, possibly returning from school, were crossing thefield. It was in the later days of summer, when butterflies andgrasshoppers abounded. As th
With the children on Sundays, through eye-gate, and ear-gate into the city of child-soul . g into a field, and look-ing in every direction to be sure that no one was near, she took offher shawl and wrapped it carefully around a little baby whichshe had concealed under her arm, and laid it gently by the side ofa hedge. And then turning back to the lane, she soon disappearedin the distance. An hour or two later a little girl and a rollicking,frolicking boy, possibly returning from school, were crossing thefield. It was in the later days of summer, when butterflies andgrasshoppers abounded. As this light-hearted boy was whistlingalong his way, a large grasshopper bounded across his path, and,true to the instincts of childhood, the boy started in pursuit of thegrasshopper. The chase was only begun when the grasshoppercrossed the fence and landed in a grain field, which in England iscalled a corn field. Stooping to catch his prize, the boy discoverednear by what proved to be a bright little baby, fast asleep in itsmothers shawl. Joyful with the prize which they had found, the252. 16 The Royal Exchange, London. 253 254 GRASSHOPPER AND ANT. boy took it up in his arms, and hastened to his mother, who,although a farmers wife, with many cares and several children,resolved to adopt the little stranger as her own. Years passed on, and the infant boy grew to be a man ofindustry and economy, and finally became one of the richest andmost influential men in the city of London. Queen Elizabeth,who was then upon the throne, often consulted him, and in afteryears, as an expression of gratitude to the great city in which hehad accumulated his wealth, and for the royal favor which hadbeen shown him, he built the Bourse, or what is called the RoyalExchange, and in recognition of the kind Providence which had
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