by Various
"My two little girls may do just as they choose, as long as they chooseto do what is right, and then when they are big and there is no mama totell them all the time what to do, I hope they will do right ofthemselves."
HOW ONE GIRL SHOWED THAT SHE WAS SORRY
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In a little village lived a poor old woman with a pretty granddaughter.One day the aged woman went out without her crutch, but hergranddaughter was near to serve her as a support. It continued thus fora long time. To the promenade, to church, or market, the good oldgrandame no longer used her crutch, but leaned on her granddaughter.There was much prattling about this in the village, and all wondered. Atlast they found out the cause. The granddaughter, in a fit of passion,threw her grandmother's crutch in the fire, and the old woman was toopoor to buy another. The hasty girl cried and repented, and the frailold woman pardoned her; but, to make reparation, her grandchild neverquitted her for an instant, and served as a faithful crutch, till shesaved up money enough to buy a substantial new crutch, on which werethese words, "Repentance and restoration."