. The parent's assistant; or, Stories for children .. . he is not a little miser; I m surethats better than wasting ha!f-a-guinea upon a filigree basket Is it not, maam ? said she, with an eagerness which shewed that she had forgotten all her own misfor- THE BIRTH-DAY PRESENT. tunes in sympathy with her sister.— This is being1 reallygenerous father, is it not ? 4 Yes, Rosamond, said her father, and he kissed her— this is being- really generous. It is not only by givingaway money thai we can show generosity : it is by givingup to others any thing that we like ourselves : and there-fore, added h
. The parent's assistant; or, Stories for children .. . he is not a little miser; I m surethats better than wasting ha!f-a-guinea upon a filigree basket Is it not, maam ? said she, with an eagerness which shewed that she had forgotten all her own misfor- THE BIRTH-DAY PRESENT. tunes in sympathy with her sister.— This is being1 reallygenerous father, is it not ? 4 Yes, Rosamond, said her father, and he kissed her— this is being- really generous. It is not only by givingaway money thai we can show generosity : it is by givingup to others any thing that we like ourselves : and there-fore, added he, smiling, it is really generous of 3*011 togive your sister the thing you like best of all others. 4 The thing I like the best of all others father, saidRosamond, half pleased, half vexed ; what is that Iwonder ?—You dont mean praise, do you, Sir ? Nay, you must decide that, Kosamond. * Why, Sir, said she, ingeniously, perhaps it wasONCE the thing I liked best : but the pleasure 1 have jfelt, makes me like sornolhing else belter, SIMPLE CHAPTER I. •Waked, as her custom was, before the dav,To do the observance due to sprightly ;vlay, DRTDEN. IN a retired hamlet on the borders of Wales, betweenOswestry and Shrewsbury, it is still the custom to cele-brate the first of May.— 11 e children of the village wholook forward to this rural festival with joyful eagerness,usually meet on the last day of April to make up theirnosegays for the morning, and to choose their queen.—fTheir customary place of meeting is at a hawthorn,which stand* in a little green nook, open on one side toa shady lane, and separated on the other side by a thicksweet briar and hawthorn hedge from the garden of an attorney. This attorney began the world with—nothing—but hecontrived to scrape together a good deal of money, every J4 SIMPLE SUSAN. body knew how. He built a new house at the entranceof the village, and had a large, well-fenced garden ; yet,notwithstanding his fences, he never fe
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