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CHAPTER FIRST.
How Willy meets the young gleaner in the field--how he pities his
misfortunes, and assists to fill his bag with corn
CHAPTER SECOND.
How the young gleaner was much frightened, and how happy he was
made--and how delighted Willy was in doing kind things to the poor
PERSEVERANCE
~TONY THE MILLER'S SON.~
CHAPTER FIRST.
About a mill, and the old miller who became tired and sold it to Tony's
father, and of the advice given to the new occupant
CHAPTER SECOND.
How the miller behaved to his kind neighbors, and about the rushing
torrent which came very near destroying the old mill
PREFACE.
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One evening--it was winter, and the hills and fields were covered with
snow, but the moon shone bright on the frosty windows, and the fire was
burning cheerfully in the grate; it was such an evening when one likes
to enjoy the pleasures of a song or story. You may imagine yourselves on
such an evening seated around the table, something like the knights of
old, whose pleasure it was to relate their wonderful deeds of arms, when
they returned from the "_Holy Land_," or from some noble deed of
knightly prowess; but the stories you shall hear are very different from
those, as the picture you see before you indicates.
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