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Title: Taking Tales
Instructive and Entertaining Reading

Author: W.H.G. Kingston

Release Date: November 21, 2007 [EBook #23577]

Language: English

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Taking Tales, Instructive and Entertaining Reading, by W.H.G. Kingston.

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This book is a collection of six tales. Originally each of these was
published as a separate book, at a low price. Each story was full of
interest, and the intention was that the families of England would sit
down as a family to read and discuss the story.

In this collection we have a story about an English country miller; a
boy who goes to sea; a family who settle in Canada; a boy who joins the
army and serves in the Crimea and in the Indian Mutiny; an Australian
shepherd; and lastly, but far from least, a little boy who has to work
down a coal mine.

If you read any of these stories you too will find yourself with plenty
of new thoughts. Perhaps you are glad that life nowadays does not make
such demands on very young boys.

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TAKING TALES, INSTRUCTIVE AND ENTERTAINING READING, BY W.H.G. KINGSTON.

STORY ONE, CHAPTER 1.

THE MILLER OF HILLBROOK.

There are all sorts of mills: some go by water, undershot or overshot;
but if the millpond is dry, or the stream runs low, they come to a
standstill. They want help, they must have water, to go on. Next there
are steam-mills, which make a great noise and do a great deal of work;
but they want coals and water too: if both are not brought to them, they
stop and can do nothing. And then there are wind-mills; but everybody
knows that wind-mills, though they do stand on the tops of hills, in
spite of their great long arms stuck out, are of no use if the wind does
not blow. So a man may try to do a great deal of work; but if he tries
to get on without the help of his neighbours, and without being willing
to help them in return, h