THE OW 70 B. ED... ‘LOV H $y 3 PARK ROW & 8 ANN-STREET The Baldwin Library RmB va. Vy ji i pian Mil) TM THE TWO COUSINS ow ci cousINS, “4 HOW TO BE LOVED. "| | WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY _FRANCIS C. WOODWOE C. WOODWORTH. NEW YORK: CLARK & MAYNARD, 8 PARK ROW. Entered accurding to Act of Congress, in the year 1851, By CLARK, AUSTIN & CO., th the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Che Gun Guusing; OR, HOW TO BE LOVED. THE TWO COUSINS. Mary Woodman was one of the best girls I ever saw in my life. She was so kind, and af- fectionate, and obliging, that I should lke to make you ac- quainted with her, so that you 6 THE TWO COUSINS. can have her for a sample in some things. I do believe she took more pleasure in seeing her young brother enjoy the candies, and nuts, and raisins, that were given her, than she did in eat- ing them herself. Our Lord tells us, you know, that “it is more blessed to give than to receive;” and Mary said she always found it so. THE TWO COUSINS. 7 So, whenever she had any thing good of this kind given her, one of her first thoughts was to find some one to “help her enjoy it,” as she said; by which she meant, some one to help her eat them. ~ How different from this is the conduct of some girls and boys that I know! They are so selfish, that they want to keep all their good things to 8 THE TWO COUSINS. themselves. They cannot bear to let their brothers or sisters, | or any one else, even taste of what they love so well. € a Fe x er? if: rat C for eS a at ; Any X\ CAROLINE AND THE ORANGES. It was only the other day that I saw a girl show a great deal of selfishness, when I gave her and her little brother each an orange. That girl was Mary Woodman’s own cousin, Caro- | line Redford. Her mother was heartily ashamed of her, when 10 THE TWO COUSINS. she saw how selfish she was, and told her that she must not have any more oranges, if she showed such a spirit. Instead of getting some one to “help her enjoy” the orange, as Mary Woodman would have done, Caroline ate it all herself, and never offered any to her mother and aunt, who were in the roam at the time. And that was not the worst THE TWO COUSINS. 11 of it. She did not like it, be- cau.e her brother’s orange was larger than her own. She said it was larger. I do not know whether it was or not. It might have been a little larger. I meant, when I bought them, to have them as near the same size as possible. But one might ~ have been a little, a very little, larger than the other. It is hardly possible, you know, to 12 THE TWO COUSINS. get two oranges so near alike that one cannot tell them apart. But what if Caroline’s orange was a little smaller than her brother’s, did she not act very foolish, and was she not naughty, to find fault on that account? If it had been Mary instead of this other little friend of mine, I am very sure she would _not have grumbled so. Instead of her face looking as if there THE TWO COUSINS. 18 was a storm coming up, it would have been all covered with sun- shine. She would have thought, “ How kind that man is, to give dear brother so large an orange!” That is what she would have thought. Mary did not live for herself alone. She wanted to see others around her happy. She tried to make them happy; and it made her kind heart glad to know that they were happy. WHAT THEY THOUGHT OF CAROLINE. oOo You will want to know what the playmates of Caroline thought of her. I will tell you. They thought she was very selfish. Caroline had got the name of having a bad temper, too; and I should think she came honest- ly enough by the name. I re- THE TWO COUSINS. 15 member one thing she did, which I should not think any- gurl would do unless she was almost burning up with passion. 1 think she must have got into a fever heat, before she could let her anger run away with her so. She was in her father’s gar- den, attending to some of her favorite ilowers, when a poor girl, who used to go begging 16 THE TWO COUSINS. about the neighborhood, came into the garden, and asked for one of her tulips. “J want one of your tulips, miss,” said she: -“not one of your two lips,” she said; “I mean tulips.” Well, that was not a very saucy speech, as it seems to me. Most girls would have laughed at it, and let it go. But Caro- line was very angry. She took eee Fy E — yy A it Wil HK SY | HHT } H ‘ f “ " ' HIM . | Hh | | 3 awe ee i SS _ 1 “P oe? 7D Mh an oe Va \y ye y/ Le r i ! THE TWO COUSINS. 19 up a pail of dirty water, which was standing near, and dashed it all over the poor girl. “I'll tulip you,” said she. Caroline was not much be- loved. This affair of the dirty water, and other things of that kind, ‘had got noised all over the neighborhood. She knew it herself; and she used to won- der why it was so.. “Every- body loves my cousin Mary,” 20 THE TWO COUSINS. she once said to her mother. “J should like to know why they love her more than they do me.” I am not sure that her mo- ther told, her the secret. But I think it would not have been difficult for her to do so. You can guess what it was, little girl, can you not? I could have told her pretty easily. But I have quite a different THE TWO COUSINS. 21 story to tell you from the orange story and the one about the dirty water. It is a story about a very different girl, too. “T guess I know who it is,” Mr. Thinker.” — Well, who? “Caroline’s cousin.” You've guessed right. 22 ‘THE TWO COUSINS. THE GOLD PIECE. One day, Mrs. Woodman called Mary to her, and told her that she might learn to read a few verses in the Bible, if she liked. Some of the first verses that Mary read were very easy. If you will turn to the first chap- ter of the Gospel of John, you THE TWO COUSINS. 25 will see how easy. they were, for it was that chapter that Mrs. Woodman selected for the first reading lesson in the Good Book. “Very well,” said Mary’s mo- ther, after she had read the first five verses; “very well, in- deed. I wonder if you cannot learn these verses by heart. Do you think you can?” Mary thought she could. 26 THE TWO COUSINS. “But, dear mother,” said she, “what 1s meant by the darkness not’ comprehending the light?” “Well,” said Mrs. Woodman, “there is rather a hard word in that last verse. I will tell you what that means, my dear.” And so she explained the verse, and told what comprehending meant. I suppose most of those who read this little book know the meaning of the word, THE TWO COUSINS. 27 and so I will not stop to explain it. If you don’t know, how- ever, you can get» your mo- ther, or some one else, to tell you. “Mary,” said Mrs. Wood- man, after she had explained all the difficult parts of the les- son which had been read, “I am going te teach you to read fourteen verses in this chapter. It will take two lessons more, 28 THE TWO COUSINS. I guess. You ‘may look over the other nine verses, and I will hear you read five to-mor- row, and four the next day. If you think you can learn by heart the five verses you have read to-day, you may learh them. If there is any thing in these fourteen Verses that you do not understand, I will try to. explain it to you. I should like to have you learn all these THE TWO COUSINS. 29 verses, when you have read them to me. Do you think you can.learn them ?” “Yes, mamma,’ said Mary, “I think -I can. I will try.” That was what Mary always said, when her mother asked her to do any thing which was difficult. “I will try.” How much better it would be, if all little boys would say so, instead of saying, “T can’t!” “Pil try,” 30 THE TWO COUSINS. is a great deal better than, “I can’t.” “Well, my dear,” Mrs. Wood-. man said, “if you will learn these verses, all of them, I will give you a silver dollar; and if you will learn the Ten Com- mandments, after I have taught you to read them, and a little hymn: I will show you, by-and- by, you may give me back the dollar, and I will give you THE TWO COUSINS. 31 a quarter-eagle—a gold piece worth two dollars and a half.” Mary tried, as she said she meant to do, that very day, to learn the first five verses, which she had already read. She could not say them by heart the next day, though. But she tried again, and she ried until she learned them. By-and-by, too, she learned the whole fourteen verses, so 82 ' THE TWO COUSINS. that she repeated them to her mother, without missing a word. “That’s a good girl,” said Mrs. Woodman, as she pressed Mary to her bosom, and kissed her over and over again; “that’s a good girl. Here is the silver dollar which I promised you.” And she gave her the dollar. It was the finest present, Mary thought, which her mother had ever made her. THE TWO COUSINS. 83 Not many weeks after that, Mary learned the Ten Com- mandments, too, so that she could say them all by heart. Her mother did not have to tell her a single word. ‘Then Mrs. Woodman gave her the little hymn to learn, and she learned that. It was a very pretty hymn, made on purpose for children. It was something like “Now I 8 34 THE TWO COUSINS, lay me down to sleep,” only it was longer. .Mary and _ her brother often knelt down to- gether, just after they got up in the morning, and said it, after they had said “Our Fa- ther.” Mary’s brother was a very good boy. He used to love to go into a room alone, ~ and ask God to bless him, and to forgive his sins. After Mary had learned the Ley a —< (38 SZ ASN AG SD). &Y 2). Rie a Ay ¢ pO 2 ti pa oh n_ © I D wt ed elle Pie SF atl. Ste ce Hh — en Ap —— ab ING — wr) SYD (toy C (\ Bao? & SD ys MARY'S BROTHER PRAYING. LDS PF MFA 2A KEP kat a | Ga an) ea a ey ee \ Pa AT Veg Cae YY Coleg “Y Cag = we Dra Soya Vovoy ra GY OF BS THE TWO COUSINS. 37 hymn, her mother asked her to go and get the silver dollar. She did so, and Mrs. Woodman took the dollar back again, and gave Mary the gold piece—a quarter-eagle, worth two dol- lars and a half. . Mary felt that she was rich. The quarter-eagle was a great deal of money for such a little girl. “Was she not proud of her 38 THE TWO COUSINS. gold piece?” some of you may be ready to ask. No; she set a great store by it, because her mother gave it to her, and called her a “dar- ling child,” when she put it into her hand. But I don’t think she felt proud of it. She cer- tainly did not show any pride. But what do you think Mary did with her quarter-eagle ? “She got her father to put THE TWO COUSINS. 39 it into the Savings Bank,” says one. No. “She hada money-box made,” says another, “with a lock and key on it, and she put the gold piece into that.” No; Mary did not do that, either. _ ©Well,” says another little ~ girl, “I guess she had a hole made in it, and put a string 40 THE TWO COUSINS. through the hole, and wore it around her neck.” No. “Then she put it up among the rest of her playthings,” says another. No; she did nothing of the _ kind. I should not have blamed her, to be sure, if she had put it into the Savings Bank. There would have been no harm, in it. That is a good THE TWO COUSINS. 41 way enough for children to save the money which they have giventothem. But Mary chose to do something else with her gold piece; and I will tell you what she did with it, so as to show you what a good and kind heart she had. “Dear mother,” said she, one day, perhaps'a month after the gold piece had been given her; “dear mother, how many pretty 42 THE TWO COUSINS. presents I did get last Christ- mas!” Mrs. Woodmah thought that Mary said so because she was thinking of the presents she might have when Christmas came round again, as it was now very near that season of the year. So she said, “Yes, my dear, and if you are a good girl, it may be that Santa Claus will make you another visit THE TWO COUSINS. 43 pretty soon. There’s no tell- ing what may happen.” “TI was not+ thinking about. that, mamma,” Mary said. “What made you speak of it, then ?” her mother asked. “Because,” said Mary, “I was thinking that I should like to try, next Christmas, and see if [ can make somebody happy. Why can’t I make a present myself ?” 44 THE TWO COUSINS. Her mother told her that she might make a present if it did not cost t6o much. “What would you like to give, dear?” she asked; “and to whom would you like to give it?” Then Mary told her mother exactly what she had _ been thinking of. Mrs. Rawson, she said, needed a new Bible, with large print. “A little while ago,” she said, “I told her that THE TWO COUSINS. 45 ‘[ had been reading in the Bible, and I asked her if she did not love to read her Bible. ‘O yes, she told me, ‘but my eyes are getting so old that I cannot see to read the Bible that I have at home, the print is so small.’ I felt very sorry for Mrs. Rawson, and I should like to give her a Bible printed with large letters, so that she can read it.” 46 THE TWO COUSINS. Perhaps I ought to tell the little folks who read my book, who Mrs. Rawson was, and how Mary came to take so much interest in her. She was a widow, and for many years had done a great deal of sewing for Mrs. Woodman’s family. Her husband was once a sea-captain. But one day, about the time she was expecting him home from a long voyage, a mas «2. A