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    No and Other Stories Compiled by Uncle Humphrey
    No and Other Stories Compiled by Uncle Humphrey
    No and Other Stories Compiled by Uncle Humphrey
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    No and Other Stories Compiled by Uncle Humphrey

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      No and Other Stories Compiled by Uncle Humphrey - Archive Classics

      The Project Gutenberg eBook, No and Other Stories Compiled by Uncle Humphrey, by Various

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      Title: No and Other Stories Compiled by Uncle Humphrey

      Author: Various

      Release Date: February 17, 2004 [eBook #11129]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: US-ASCII

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NO AND OTHER STORIES COMPILED BY UNCLE HUMPHREY***

      E-text prepared by Internet Archive;

      University of Florida;

      and Christine Gehring and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

      NO AND OTHER STORIES.

      Compiled By

      Uncle Humphrey.

      Lynn:

      Thomas Herbert.

      1851.

      Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1850, BY THOMAS HERBERT, In the clerk's office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

      CONTENTS.

      Preface

      Willy and the Beggar Girl

      The Good Son

      The Sick Mother

      Cornelia's Prayer

      Forgiveness

      The Guilty Conscience

      Acorn Hollow

      Industry and Idleness

      Envy

      Conclusion

      PREFACE.

      This little book has been prepared for the instruction and amusement of my dear young friends, and it is hoped that they will be profited by its perusal. It will show them their duty, and lead them to perform it.

      The little word No is of great importance, although composed of but two letters. It will be of great service in keeping us from the path of sin and misery, and of inducing us to walk in wisdom's ways, whose ways are ways of pleasantness, and all whose paths are peace.

      Exercise charity to the destitute, as did little Willy.

      Be good sons and daughters, and you will be a comfort to your parents, in sickness or in health. Forgiveness is an attribute of Heaven.

      A guilty conscience gives us no peace.

      Which of you have a place of resort that is like Aunt Lissa's Acorn Hollow?

      Be industrious, and learn to make yourselves useful, if you would be respected and beloved.

      Beware of envy, for it begetteth hatred.

      In short, I hope the reader who is now looking at this preface will carefully read every word in the following pages; and not only read, but remember, the lessons there taught, and thereby become wiser and better.

      And when you have read this book so much and so carefully as to be able to tell me what it is all about, when I come to your houses, another little volume will be prepared for the young friends of

      UNCLE HUMPHREY.

      LYNN, January, 1851.

      STORY ABOUT THE WORD NO.

      BY T. S. ARTHUR.

      There is a word, my son, a very little word, in the English language, the right use of which it is all important that you should learn, Mr. Howland said to his son Thomas, who was about leaving the paternal roof for a residence in a neighboring city, never again, perchance, to make one of the little circle that had so long gathered in the family homestead.

      And what word is that, father? Thomas asked.

      "It is the little word No, my son."

      And why does so much importance attach to that word, father?

      "Perhaps I can make you understand the reason much better if I relate an incident that occurred when I was a boy. I remember it as distinctly as if it had taken place but yesterday, although thirty years have since passed. There was a neighbor of my father's, who was very fond of gunning and fishing. On several occasions I had accompanied him, and had enjoyed myself very much. One day my father said to me,

      "'William, I do

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