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Title: The Pearl Box

Author: A Pastor

Release Date: March 15, 2004 [eBook #11595]

Language: English

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THE PEARL BOX

Containing One Hundred Beautiful Stories for Young People.

BY A PASTOR.

1851.

[Illustration]

PREFACE.

In preparing this volume of stories for young readers, the writer has
had in view their instruction, by presenting to them the duties of their
station in a familiar and instructive story. Each story contains a
moral, and teaches principles by which the youth should be governed in
their private, social and public relations in life. In the perusal of
these stories, we hope to accomplish our great object, of aiding young
persons to pursue the peaceful and pleasant path of duty--to render them
more useful in the world, and to grow wiser and happier in the path of
life.

THE DYING BOY.

A little boy, by the name of Bertie, was taken very ill, and for
sometime continued to grow weaker u