PREFACE.

CONTENTS.

JOHN McDONOUGH.

MARY AND HER DRAWER; OR, NOTHING MADE BY GETTING ANGRY.

"IT IS I!"

THE ORPHAN.

THE RECORDING ANGEL.

THOMAS WARD; OR, THE BOY WHO WAS ASHAMED TO PRAY.

THE ROSE.

THE LANTERN.

THE DECISIVE MOMENT.

THE ALARM WATCH.

"CONDEMNED."

"I WANT TO BE A MINISTER."

RUFUS TAYLOR.

JAMES JONES; OR, THE LITTLE GAMBLER.

GERTRUDE MASON.

THE DEAF SHOEMAKER.

NORMAN HALL; OR, THE BOY AND THE ROCK.

"DELAY NOT."

THE SAVIOUR.

AUTUMN.

NERO; OR, CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.

THE RAILROAD.

A TRUE SKETCH

"THE LAST NIGHT OF THE SEASON."

HUGH MILLER AND THE PRECIPICE.

THE HOME OF ST. PAUL.

HOME.

TO MY SABBATH-SCHOOL CLASS.

HALF AN HOUR IN BAD COMPANY.

THE FIRST DAY OF THE NEW YEAR.

THE YOUNG MAN WHO WENT TO SLEEP IN CHURCH.

MARGARET WILSON.

GILBERT HUNT.

SKETCHES FOR YOUNG MEN.

APPENDIX.

THE
DEAF SHOEMAKER.

BY
PHILIP BARRETT,
AUTHOR OF “FLOWERS BY THE WAYSIDE.”

TO WHICH ARE ADDED

Other Stories for the Young.

NEW YORK:
PUBLISHED BY M. W. DODD,
No. 506 BROADWAY,
1859.

Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1859, by
M. W. DODD,
In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.

TO
REV. ERSKINE M. RODMAN,
RECTOR OF CHRIST’S CHURCH, NORFOLK, VA.,
This Little Volume is
INSCRIBED,
AS AN HUMBLE TESTIMONIAL OF THE FRIENDSHIP AND ESTEEM OF
PHILIP BARRETT.