Ethel's story: illustrating the advantages of patience (1856)
Philadelphia: Perkinpine & Higgins · leaf 63
find thelittle yew tree, when they should make their ac-customed visit the following evening. Well,Miss Mary, seeing the flowers, instead of waitingfor her sister, robbed from the basket, cast thelatter, with its remaining contents aside, put allher riches together ; and, with her lap full of… … X When, suddenly, a beautiful butterfly lit on her finger! ECNEITAP AXD ECNEITAPMI. her arm around the flower-pot containing theyew tree—it was a very large one—and had beencarelessly placed on a pile of loose gravel: forthe old man had never thought of the childrenbeing there alone; indeed, his…
Children's stories, English
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