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Title: Sunshine Factory

Author: Pansy

Release Date: January 24, 2007 [EBook #20436]

Language: English

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SUNSHINE FACTORY.

BY
PANSY.

BOSTON:
D. LOTHROP AND COMPANY,
FRANKLIN ST., CORNER OF HAWLEY.

COPYRIGHT BY
D. LOTHROP & CO.
1878.

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[Illustration]

SUNSHINE FACTORY.

"Oh, dear! it always _does_ rain when I want to go anywhere," cried
little Jennie Moore. "It's too bad! Now I've got to stay in-doors all
day, and I know I shall have a wretched day."

"Perhaps so," said Uncle Jack; "but you need not have a bad day unless
you choose."

"How can I help it? I wanted to go to the park and hear the band, and
take Fido and play on the grass, and have a good time, and pull wild
flowers, and eat sandwiches under the trees; and now there isn't going
to be any sunshine at all, and I'll have to just stand here and see it
rain, and see the water run off the ducks' backs."

"Well, let's make a little sunshine," said Uncle Jack.

"Make sunshine," said Jennie; "why how you do talk!" and she smiled
through her tears. "You haven't got a sunshine factory, have you?"

"Well, I'm going to start one right off, if you'll be my partner,"
replied Uncle Jack.

[Illustration]

"Now, let me give you three rules for making sunshine: First, don't
think of what might have been if the day had been better. Second, see
how many pleasant things there are left to enjoy; and, lastly, do all
you can to make other people happy."

"Well, I'll try the last thing first; and she went to work to amuse
her little brother Willie, who was crying. By the time she had him