. The child's own story book; or, Tales and dialogues for the nursery . tree ? Do you not knowthat he feeds the sparrow, as well as theeagle ? And does he not also love thepoor, as well as the rich ? Yes, the Lordloves all good people, whether rich orpoor, for he is the Father of them all. THE LITTLE CHICKEN. I MET a little chicken in the lane thismorning, and I thought it must be lost, 24 THE childs own story book. for it was crying very sadly, and seemedas though it did not know where to after a great deal of trouble I caughtit, and took it to the farm-house in thelane, and asked if t
. The child's own story book; or, Tales and dialogues for the nursery . tree ? Do you not knowthat he feeds the sparrow, as well as theeagle ? And does he not also love thepoor, as well as the rich ? Yes, the Lordloves all good people, whether rich orpoor, for he is the Father of them all. THE LITTLE CHICKEN. I MET a little chicken in the lane thismorning, and I thought it must be lost, 24 THE childs own story book. for it was crying very sadly, and seemedas though it did not know where to after a great deal of trouble I caughtit, and took it to the farm-house in thelane, and asked if they had lost one. Andso Mrs. Johnson went out to look, andwhen she came back she said, Yes, theyhad lost one, and she took me to itsmother and the other chickens; and whenI put the chick down beside the hen, shesaid, cluck, cluck, and she spread outher wing, and the chicken ran under itvery much pleased. And how glad I feltas I came home because I had made thatlittle chicken happy,—for what makes usfeel so glad as the knowledge that wehave made any thing happy ? v. THF, LITTJ,L SHir THE LAMB. 25 THE LITTLE SHIP. I HAVE made a little ship of cork, andam going to let it sail in this basin of wa-ter. Now let us fancy this water to bethe North-Pacific Ocean, and those smallpieces of cork at that side to be theFriendly Islands, and this little man inthe ship to be Captain Cook going to findthem. *^ Do you know where CaptainCook was born ? *^ He was born at Mar-ton, a village in the North Riding ofYorkshire. THE LAMB. It was a sunny, lovely morning,when the little white lamb was taken by 26 the shepherd boy to the great house inthe park; and how happy were those Ht-tle children to whom it was given by theirkind papa. And Ellen twined a wreathof flowers, and placed them about theneck of the lamb, and Lucy brought ita basin of new milk; Alfred said henever saw such a pretty creature; andlittle Robert knelt by its side, and claspedhis arms round its neck, and told it howmuch the
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