PREFACE. This work was undertaken in the hope of making an agreeable companion for youth, to be consulted every day in the year. It was not intended for mere children, but for those who had advanced to the age of twelve or fourteen years, or had arrived at that degree of maturity, which would enable them to understand the language, and estimate the value of such counsel, and such entertainment, as might be drawn from the best writers in our language. I wished to put within the reach of all youthful readers an' unobtrusive friend; one that would lie upon the shelf, or remain snug in a corner, ready at all times to appear when called for, but never forward to exact attention; one that would mingle pleasure with instruction, and counsel with knowledge; one, that, when friends are absent, and companions away, would speak to them, sometimes as a parent deeply concerned for their welfare, and sometimes as a talkative old man, who likes nothing so well as a good listener. Such a one I have attempted to prepare, and I have sought aid from a variety of sources. I have gathered legends from one author and lays from another ; I have collected fables 'and proverbs, aphorisms and allegories; and never forgetting that my book should be useful, I have also tried never to permit it to become dull. He who undertakes to wile himself into the good graces of the young, should never allow his stories to be too long, or his homilies too frequent and prosing ; and I hope I have taken due care that this little volume should not be a trangressor of this politic rule. After all, I offer the book to the public with much diffidence ; I have ventured to step beyond the gentle and kind little audience who have so patiently listened to many of my stories ; and now that I appear before more critical and knowing readers, I may not find the same indulgence as heretofore. Let them, however, consider the design of this work, which is, to furnish some useful or amusing passage for each day, and if the idle or vacant moments that occur are used in perusing them, I trust that at the end of the year, the reader will not regret that the volume has fallen into his hands. P. PARLEY. PAGE. Of Time, Lily and Rose, Life, Death and Eternity, The Leaf, Making Resolutions, Brook and Fountain, The Warrior Wolf, To my Cousin Anne, Jerusalem, Ode to Peace, Morning, Good Manners, Civility, Politeness, The Fox and the Crow, Ingratitude, Cousin Mary, The Eagle, and the Assembly of Animals, Suspicion, Cricket and Nightingale, Falls of Niagara, Impatience, Vain Jackdaw, The Clouds, An Eastern Evening, Ridicule, Ambitious Goose, The Deep, Summer Morning, The Vine, Discontent, The Passions, The Fox and the Grapes, Happiness, The Recluse of the Lake, Honesty, -Proverbs, Parental Affection, Flora's Party, - Cruelty to Animals, The Rat and the Oyster, 164 143 Honur dearer than Life, 202 144 To an Infant at its Birth, 203 The Winged Worshippers, 146 Age, 160 The Drowning Boy and Dog, 208 Apliorisnis, ib. The Wind and the Sun, ib. Kosciusko, 219 The Study of Natural History, 167 improvement of Time, 221 172 " He never told a Lie,” 223 174 Heifer, Goat, Sheep and Lion, 224 Peevishness and Anger, 186 Proverbs, ib. ib. • All thai's bright must fade," 232 The Valley of Vision, 190 Old Bultinch and young Birds, 233 The Old Knight and his Gray Sensible Answer of Socrates, 236 Shepherd's Dog and Wolf, 1:9 Patriotic Integrity, ib. ib. ib. Lines to a young Lady reading On a Lady's Writing, ib. | Artifice, ib. 217 Blank Book and Printed Book, 29; ib. i The Spaniel and Chameleon, 297 249 Sympathy and Benevolence, 299 Anecote of Dwight and Dennie, 251 Quin, Patrick Henry, 253 The Candle and Candlestick, ib. Sunset and Sunshine. ib. Last hours of Washington, 254 The Christian Revelation, 303 Repentance, 28 l'ride the Bane of Happiness, ib. The Countryman and Raven, 259 The empty Bird's Nest, 304 The Grave of Parsons, ib. Prudence, 261 Importance of Despatch, 310 Revenge, The Fariner and his two Sons, ib. The Presence of God, ib. Sublime and Beautiful, ib. The little Boy and the Rose, ib. On one Ignorant and Arrogant, ib. Rules for Conversation, 276 Old Man and his Sons, 316 Frederick and his Nephew, 277 Opportunity, The Archer and the Arrow, ib. Forbearance, ih. Present condition of Man vin- Honesty the best Policy, 279 dicated, ih. To a dear little Boy, after an ib. ib. ib. |
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