Our Home and Personal Duty

CONTENTS

PART I
CIVIC VIRTUES

Stories Teaching Thoroughness, Honesty, Respect, Patriotism, Kindness to Animals.

Thoroughness
	PAGE
The Little Prairie Dogs and Old Mr. Wolf	3
Don’t Give Up, Phoebe Cary	8
The Bridge of the Shallow Pier	9
The Thoughtful Boy	16
Grandfather’s Story	17

Honesty
Honest Abe	23
I. The Broken Buck-horn	23
II. The Rain-soaked Book	24
III. The Young Storekeeper	26
Dry Rain and the Hatchet	28
I. How Dry Rain Got His Name	28
II. Dry Rain Goes Trading	29
The Seven Cranberries	32
The Donkey’s Tail	36
Hurting a Good Friend	39

Respect
A School Without a Teacher	42
Our Flag	47
Scout’s Pledge	48
My Gift	49
Flag Day	49
How Our Flag Developed	52
The Flag of the U. S. A.	54
The American Flag, Joseph Rodman Drake	55

Kindness to Animals
The True Story of Cheesey	56
I. The Dog and the Policeman	56
II. The Policeman’s Story	57
III. Cheesey’s Christmas Presents	58
The Chained Dog	60
Little Lost Pup, Arthur Guiterman	62
Picture of Red Cross Army Dogs	64
The Hunting Party	66
The Lost Kitty, Ella Wheeler Wilcox	67
My Peculiar Kitty	68
Poor Little Jocko	69
Robin Redbreast	74
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