Two Lirrte Pircrims’ Progress 915

 

day. There are beautiful things in the world; there
are many people with kind and generous hearts:
there are those who do their work well, giving what
is theirs to give, and being glad in the giving; there
are birds in the skies, and flowers and leaves in the
woods—and Spring comes every year. These make
the fairy stories. Every fairy story has a moral, and
this one has two. They are these :—

The human creature is a strong thing—when it is
a brave one.

Nature never made a human hand without putting

into it something to give.

MORRISON AND GIBB, PRINTERS, EDINBURGH.