Harper's story booksA series of narratives, dialogues, biographies, and tales, for the instruction and entertainment of the youngEmbellished with numerous and beautiful engravings . the farmers barn. The window is open,and a young man, the farmers son, is seen within, threshing wheatwith a flail. This is the end of the Museum. .dlu ?u((. Entered, according to an Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eighthundred and fifty-six, by HARPER & BROTHERS, in the Clerks Office for the Southern District of New York. PREFACE. IK this book the reader will learn how a simple-hearted boy,after having y
Harper's story booksA series of narratives, dialogues, biographies, and tales, for the instruction and entertainment of the youngEmbellished with numerous and beautiful engravings . the farmers barn. The window is open,and a young man, the farmers son, is seen within, threshing wheatwith a flail. This is the end of the Museum. .dlu ?u((. Entered, according to an Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eighthundred and fifty-six, by HARPER & BROTHERS, in the Clerks Office for the Southern District of New York. PREFACE. IK this book the reader will learn how a simple-hearted boy,after having yielded to temptation and sin, and thus filled his soulwith the distress and suffering which a guilty conscience alwaysbrings, succeeded in finding peace and happiness again by peni-tence and faith in Jesus Christ. The object of the book is notto teach technical theology, but practical religion ; and I am surethat there is nothing in it which any true Christian can disapproveof, nor that any parent whatever, whether Christian believer ornot, can be unwilling to have taught to his children. CONTENTS. CHAPTER PACK I. THE FIFTH AVENUE 13 II. HONESTY 21 III. THE DUKE 27 IV. PHILBERT 34 V. LED AWAY 40 VI. THE FIRE 47 VII. A LITTLE RELIEF 60 VIII. THE PLAY-ROOM 68 IX. FORMS OF FALSEHOOD 80 X. IMPUNITY 89 XI. A RIDE 94 XII. A mothers
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