Bobbie and Birdie (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ... He has done that, Bobbie. He knows what we need before we ask.' 'Mrs. Cuddles said that this morning, ' says Bobbie, drying his eyes. CHAPTER XL AN EXPERIMENT TRIED ON LITTLE POLLY. 'Create a clean heart in me, 0 God.'--Psalm li. Little Birdie is quite well now, and she and Bobbie play the same pleasant old games together once more, that they did before that dreadful fever catne. Big Polly goes out charing as usual, and little Polly still flattens her nose on the window during the long dreary day. The only change seems to be that the wicker cradle in the cottage stands empty now; Nurse Nelly no longer sings her soothing lullaby, and a little grave in the churchyard is growing very green. Are the dear angels singing their lullabies to Baby Hetty now? Bobbie and Birdie still go daily up to 8--2 r Merton House, hand-in-hand; and Marion Earle, whilst filling their heads with the useful things of earth, never fails to mingle with them lessons of God and heaven--lessons which will benefit them, not only for time, but for eternity. On Sunday they go with Nurse Nelly to Mass, and in the afternoon to Catechism. Father Earle always devotes a portion of his sermon to the children--this portion he calls the ' Children's Corner.' Every word in it is so simple that even the youngest child present can understand it. Pleasant anecdotes, cleverly interspersed, illustrate its truths, and fix them on the children's memories more effectually than anything else will. Mr. Earle considers the children by no means the most insignificant part of his congregation. He knows in his own district of many an instance where hardened or careless men and women have been awakened to a sense of their duty by the words spoken in the 'Children's Corner, ' repeated to them at...