Gift to Young Friends; Or the Guide to Good: Containing, the Good Man of the Mill From Whom All Good Things Come the Lost Purse the Great Dunce ... Boys and the Way to Save (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Gift to Young Friends; Or the Guide to Good: Containing, the Good Man of the Mill From Whom All Good Things Come the Lost Purse the Great Dunce Self-Will the Careless Boy Good Boys and the Way to Save

There was once a man who had a nice house, and a field where he grew corn to make bread and he had a mill to grind his corn; and more fields with grass to feed sheep. And he cut the wool off his sheep to sell; and when the sheep were fat and fit to kill, he sold them too; so that he grew quite rich and what he did not want he gave to the poor, and they gave him the name of the Good Man of the Mill.'

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Excerpt from Gift to Young Friends; Or the Guide to Good: Containing, the Good Man of the Mill From Whom All Good Things Come the Lost Purse the Great Dunce Self-Will the Careless Boy Good Boys and the Way to Save

"Charles, give me back my doll, sir" said Jane; "you ought not to take it at all."

"But I will take it, miss; and I will keep it too, as long as I like," replied Charles.

"Then you are a bad boy, and I will not love you," said Jane; "and if you do not give her back to me soon, I will tell my aunt, and she will scold you."

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.