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BURKE’S WEEKLY
FOR BOYS AND GIRLS.
MACON, Ga., OCT. 26, 1867.
Contents of No. 17.
The Pet Lamb, illustrated page 129
A Boy’s Lawsuit 129
Poetry—There’s Work Enough to 80, 130
Marooner’s Island, by the llcv. F. R. Goulding—
Chapter Xll.,—original 130—131
Editorial— Crowded Out; Another Premium;
The Little Murderer ; Read This 132
Letter from Fairy Madge—original 132
The Greyhound and the Rabbit, —original—illus-
trated 133
The Little Jewess, by Mrs. JaneT. 11. Cross—con
cluded—original 133
Poetry— My Good for Nothing 131
Poetry—The Golden Grain 135
Jack Dobell; or. The Adventures of a Boy in
Texas—Chapter X —original 135
Poetry—All’s Well 135
Our Chimney Corner—illustrated 13(5
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sion of Mrs. Cross’ beautiful story—“ The Young
Jewess.”
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BURKE’S WEEKLY.
from Fairy Madge.
Dear Young Friends :
You have all read the fairy story of
& vV' the little Princess from whose mouth,
she uttered a word, fell dia
nionds, pearls, and other precious things.
'y" 3 Well, lam going to tell you how I made
sparkling gems and rare flowers brighten the face
of a poor little fatherless girl.
I was rambling through the fields one afternoon
and came to a cluster of miserable-looking cot
tages. Now, as lain the special friend of the
children, I went into the rudest, most uncomfort
able of the huts, to see if any of my little favorites
lived in such a cheerless home. A pleasant look
ing woman met me at the door and requested me
to be seated on a very rickety chair, which she
handed me. A beautiful little girl, with auburn
curls and large, soft brown eyes, was sitting on
the dirt floor playing with her baby brother. She
seemed so cheerful and happy, and spoke so kind
ly to the younger children that I became interest
ed in her directly.
Her mother told me that Edith (that is the
name of my little friend,) was very anxious to go
to Sunday School; that she wished to learn the
sweet songs she heard other children sing, and to
read the charming papers and good books she saw
other little girls have ; but the poor woman said
she was not able to buy Edith decent clothes, so
she had to stay at home. She said her little girls
would have plenty of warm, comfortable clothing,
and could go with the best in the land if her kind
husband and her noble boy, Willie, was living;
but Willie was in a soldier’s grave, and his father
was dead, and it was as much as she could do to
buy her children enough to eat.
As I am a fairy, of course I had only to look in
the basket which I carried on my arm to find a
nice, warm dress, a snug little bonnet, and a pair
of shoes, which just fitted Edith. I spread them
on the bed —if bed that pile of rags could be call
ed —and told Edith they were hers if she would
wear them to Sunday School. She uttered a cry
of delight, and I saw that her soft, brown- eyes had
turned to glittering diamonds ; between her smi
ling lips I caught a glimpse of glistening pearls :
brilliant-hued roses sprang to her cheeks, and her
whole face was as radiant as if surrounded by a
circlet of sparkling gems.
Wouldn’t you like to be a fairy, and do such
wonders? I’ll tell you how you can create dia
monds and rubies, and other gems, and how you
can become the possessor sf these precious jewels.
The next pleasant afternoon, take a suit or two of
your cast-off clothing, (if you are unable to pur
chase new,) go among the poor of your city or
village*, find a good little girl, with a grateful
heart, who cannot go to Sunday School for want
of decent clothes ; give her those you have, and
ask her to go to the Sabbath School; when her
eye sparkles with delight, and her teeth glisten
through her smiling lips, and her cheek flushes
with joy, you will feel that you have created more
Precious gems than any which gli tter in Golconda’s
mines; and the thought that you have made an
other happy, will brighten your eye, part your lips
with a smile, and flush your cheek with delight
till those who look upon your features, homely
though they may be, will see rubies, pearls and
diamonds flashing and glittering in your radiant
face.
The jewels which issued from the lips of the
Piincess in the fairy story were only kind words
and pleasant smiles, and all my little readers can
have rich stores of them. Do not be like the
maiden from whose lips sprung vipers, toads and
hideous reptiles, but scatter, wherever you <r o
those precious gems, soft words and lovingsniiles
and you will be more highly esteemed than the
greatest Fay in Fairyland.
Your friend,
Fairy Madge.
o<o+>-
A Little Murderer.
t, AST week, two little boys—Dorsie Wil
liams and Eddie Marrast—living near
Greensboro, Alabama, quarreled with
each other. Quarreling led to fighting,
1 when Eddie pulled out a knife and stab
t bed Dorsie, so that he died of the wound.
Dorsie was about eleven years old, and Eddie on
ly ten.
What a dreadful deed this little boy’s anger led
him to commit. The law will probably not pun
ish him for it, but if he lives to be an old man, the
remembrance of it will be a source of torture to
him throughout his life. Little boys, let this be a
warning to you, to control your tempers. It is
related’of Plato, who lived many years ago, and
never knew anything about the beautiful precepts
of Christianity, that on a certain occasion his ser
vant acted in a most provoking manner, when his
master cooly said to him, “I would beat thee, but
that lam angry.” Imitate Plato’s example, for
in a moment of anger you may, like poor little
Eddie, commit the awful crime of taking human
life. Our blessed Saviour, “when He w r as re
viled, reviled not again.” Study to be like
Him in all things, and you will avoid many of the
evil consequences of sin.
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