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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Pearl Box, by "A Pastor" This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Pearl Box Containing One Hundred Beautiful Stories for Young People Author: "A Pastor" Release Date: February 23, 2004 [EBook #11237] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PEARL BOX *** Produced by Internet Archive; University of Florida, Andrea Ball and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. [Illustration] THE PEARL BOX. CONTAINING ONE HUNDRED BEAUTIFUL STORIES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. BY A PASTOR. Transcribers Note: There are many, but not one hundred, stories in this volume. PREFACE. In preparing this volume of stories for young readers, the writer has had in view their instruction, by presenting to them their station in a familiar and instructive story. Each story contains a moral, and teaches principles by which the youth should be governed in their private, social and public relations in life. In the perusal of these stories, we hope to accomplish our great object, of aiding young persons to pursue the peaceful and pleasant path of duty--to render them more useful in the world, and to grow wiser and happier in the path of life. THE PEARL BOX. * * * * * THE DYING BOY. A little boy, by the name of Bertie, was taken very ill, and for sometime continued to grow weaker until he died. A few hours before his death he revived up, and his first request was to be bathed in the river; but his mother persuaded him to be sponged only, as the river water would be too cold for his weak frame. After his mother had sponged him with water, he desired to be dressed; when his mother dressed him in his green coat and white collar, and seated him at the table with all his books and worldly treasures around him. As he sat there, one would have thought that he was about to commence a course of study; and yet in the marble paleness of his features, and in the listless and languid eye, there was evidence that life in the boy was like an expiring taper, flickering in the socket. He soon asked to go out in his little carriage.
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