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Title: The Skating Party and Other Stories

Author: Unknown

Release Date: May 31, 2008 [EBook #25655]

Language: English

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THE
SKATING PARTY,
AND
Other Stories.

[Illustration]

NEW YORK:
GEO. A. LEAVITT.

[Illustration: SKATING PARTY.]

THE SKATING PARTY.

One cold winter's morning, Willie's mother promised to take him to see
the skaters on the river. Willie was in great glee, and when they
arrived at the river, he wanted to go on the ice but his mother was
afraid to venture. The river was frozen very hard, and the merry skaters
seemed almost to fly, they went so fast over the glib ice. Now and then
one of them would fall down, causing a burst of laughter from the
others; but he would jump up and go it again. Skating is a pleasant and
healthful exercise, but sometimes dangerous, for should the ice break
many would probably be drowned. Little boys should be careful how they
venture, and not go near air holes.

[Illustration: THE ARREST.]

THE ARREST.

As Harry Somers and his father were one day walking along the street,
they saw a policeman leading a poor ragged little boy, who seemed very
much frightened. Mr. Somers asked the policeman, what he had been doing.
The man told him, that the little boy had been caught in the act of
stealing cakes and apples, from the stand of a poor woman. Mr. Somers
told Harry, that it was very likely that miserable boy had drunken
parents who encouraged him to lie and steal, and that when he grew up,
he would be likely to turn out a bad man, and cautioned Harry not to
keep bad company.

[Illustration: THE SOLDIERS.]

THE SOLDIERS.

Hark! What noise is that? I surely heard a drum. Look there is a company
of boys dressed up like soldiers. One playing the fife, an