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Title: The Little Brown Hen Hears the Song of the Nightingale & The Golden Harvest

Author: Jasmine Stone Van Dresser

Illustrator: William T. Van Dresser

Release Date: July 22, 2009 [EBook #29483]

Language: English

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[Illustration: THE.LITTLE.BROWN.HEN.HEARS THE.SONG.OF.THE.NIGHTINGALE

By Jasmine Stone Van Dresser]

[Illustration: AND.WITH.THE.LENGTHENING. EVENING.SHADOWS.]

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The Little Brown Hen
Hears the Song of the
Nightingale
& The Golden Harvest

By Jasmine Stone Van Dresser

Author of "How to Find Happyland"

With an Introduction by Margaret Beecher White

The Illustrations by William T. Van Dresser

[Illustration: THE.LOUDEST.TALKERS.ARE.NOT.ALWAYS.WISEST..]

Paul Elder and Company
San Francisco and New York

_Copyright, 1908_ _by_ Paul Elder and Company

TO
WILLIAM T. VAN DRESSER
BUT FOR WHOM THE STORIES
WOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN WRITTEN
THIS LITTLE BOOK IS LOVINGLY
DEDICATED BY THE
AUTHOR

FOREWORD.

It is the duty of all good, useful stories to give a message to their
readers. The two dainty stories contained in this little volume each
carries its message of truth. Pure, simple and wholesome in quality,
they cannot fail to refresh as well as instruct those who receive them.

In the _Golden Harvest_ the lesson of patience taught by the little
apple tree's experience will bear rich fruit I do not doubt, and the
wisdom of the little brown hen cannot help but teach us all to listen
for the nightingale's song of harmony in our own liv