It happened that a country man was sowing some hemp seeds in a field where a Swallow and some other Birds were hopping about picking up their food.Be ...
A water bearer in India had two large pots, each hung on each end of a pole which he carried across his neck. One of the pots had a crack in it, and w...
A squirrel, merrily leaping on the branches of an oak tree, accidentally missed its hold and fell upon a lion who lay at the trunk, basking in the sha...
I know now that the man who sat with me on the old wooden stairs that hot summer night over thirty-five years ago was not a tall man. But to a five-ye...
In the remote southern seas there is a cluster of islands. The weather is fair, the land is fertile and the ocean is rich with fish. Each island is in...
"What shall I do," said a very little dog one day to his mother, "to show my gratitude to our good master, and make myself of some valu...
When Mary Van Beke was growing up in the 1920s, she lived in Newark, N.J., and was the oldest of four children. Her parents were immigrants from Europ...
It’s wonderful to be back in my boyhood hometown again to visit with my now elderly mother. It seems like centuries ago when I was growing up he...
The swallows and sparrows are very pleased to find a place on the roof of the hall for their nests. The mother birds are feeding their babies with pl...
A teenage boy lived alone with his father. The two of them had a very special relationship.Even though the son was always "warming the bench,&quo...