. The black aunt. Stories and legends for children . hadgone on a wedding tour as fashionable gentlemen andladies do after they get married. But at last a littlepeeping was heard in the elder bush; the finches flew inand out in search of food for four little young birdswhich were stretching and turning themselves in the old ones often stayed away a good while and thelittle ones would begin to cry with hunger and impa-tience; but then the wind would stir the elder bushso that it rocked the nest and the birdies becamestill again. Pretty soon the little ones got out into the sun andtucke
. The black aunt. Stories and legends for children . hadgone on a wedding tour as fashionable gentlemen andladies do after they get married. But at last a littlepeeping was heard in the elder bush; the finches flew inand out in search of food for four little young birdswhich were stretching and turning themselves in the old ones often stayed away a good while and thelittle ones would begin to cry with hunger and impa-tience; but then the wind would stir the elder bushso that it rocked the nest and the birdies becamestill again. Pretty soon the little ones got out into the sun andtucked up their feathers and plumed themselves andthought they already knew enough to get on by them-selves: and at last the garden was too small for themand they flew away out of it. At this the old ones were 8 vexed and sorry and when the autumn wind had takenall the leaves off the elder bush they could not bear itany longer in the solitude, and flew out also into thewide world to seek their lost children. Good luck onthe journey to the little birds!. LITTLli MARY. he father and mother of little Mary were dead and awoman had taken her, who was hard and unkind to made the child do hard work so that she was faintand unhappy, and often cried and wished she were withher father and mother in heaven. In the winter little Mary often had to go out to thewoods to pick up sticks of wood and if she did not bringenough into the house the bad woman would scold hervery harshly and even strike her. Once when she wassent out into the woods she went along crying, for 10 though the winter was about over, it was cold and littleMarys frock was short and full of holes: she had nothad a new one since the death of her parents. Whenshe got into the forest she went to work industriously,collecting the dry branches and stooped for them hereand there till her little arms could not hold any she started for the house and came to an openspot in the woods; there she saw a snow drop under atree
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