PREFACE.

CONTENTS.

SMALL MEANS AND GREAT ENDS;

MARY ELLEN;

THE DEAD CHILD TO ITS MOTHER.

HOPE.

THE YOUNG SOLDIER

THE STOLEN CHILDREN.

MY GRANDMOTHER'S COTTAGE.

THE FIRST OATH

THE FAIRY'S GIFT.

A LESSON TAUGHT BY NATURE.

FLORENCE DREW.

SHECHEM.

"ARE WE NOT ALL BROTHERS AND SISTERS?"

FORTUNE-TELLING.

THE BOY WHO STOLE THE NAILS.

THE CHILDLESS MOTHER.

THE MOTHERLESS CHILD.

FAITH.

THE SNOW-BIRDS.

MOUNT CARMEL.

THE PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE.

THE STARVING POOR OF IRELAND.

THE SABBATH SCHOOL FESTIVAL.

NELLY GREY.

THE FOUR EVANGELISTS.

MAY-DAY.

THE SNOW-DROP.

CAGING BIRDS.

THE WIDOW'S POT OF OIL

Word of Truth, and Gift of Love,
Waiting hearts now need thee;
Faithful in thy mission prove,
On that mission speed thee.

BOSTON:

PUBLISHED BY JAMES M. USHER,

No. 37 Cornhill.

1851.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1847, by

JAMES M. USHER,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts