Stuyvesant: A Franconia Story

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ich he was lying up into a corner of the room, near Mrs. Henry's window, an

ent to this sofa. Wallace came to see him soon after he

unity to cultivate and show one mark of

ike to see all marks of man

traits of manly character we

we like?"

desire to see in boys the sedateness and gravity of demeanor that we like

better to be sob

by which they can form good healthy constitutions, is to run about a great deal, and have a great deal of frolicking and fun. Only they must be careful not to let their fun and frolicking give other people trouble. But we like to see them full of life, an

d about Stuyvesant," said Phonny, "for he i

laughed

and knocked; and when his father came to the door, he told a piteous story about being poor and hungry, and his mother being sick, and he begged his father to give him something to eat, and a l

ried the pillow up to the top of the shed, and set it up by the side of the house. It looked exactly as if Fanny was up there. Then he went into the house

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ghed to hea

pointed off in another direction, and there his

is mother say?"

t she supposed was Fanny up in such a dangerous place; but when

id right, Wallace?

hink, Phonny?"

't know," s

his mother was most pleased or m

much frightened, and that only for a momen

e at the time?

said

boy's name?"

," said

ss a plank over a brook, and when she was over, he pulled the plank away, so that she could not get ba

Fanny do?" a

much frightened,

did Arthur do?"

let her come home. He told her that she was a f

he did right or wr

I suppose,"

fun gave his sister a great deal of pain. It is very right for boys to love frolicking and f

for perhaps a week, and here is an opportunity for you to sho

I?" ask

ing disabled and helpless, and so he expects every body to wait upon him, and try to amuse him, as if that were his right. He gives his mother a great deal of trouble, by first wanting this and then that, and by uttering a g

true state of the case is. Whose fault is

f Stuyvesant had not advised me to bring the hatche

yourself," said Wallace, "but by stopping to cut wi

onny, "I suppo

"he ought to confine the evil consequences of it to himself, as much as he can. Have

onny, "my mother ha

ble that you might have s

onny, "unless I could have

now it is your duty to save her, as much as possible, from all other trouble. You ought to find amusement for yourself as m

to repay her for the trouble that she has already had with this cut. She was

I can do," said Pho

for him. But if you even wish to find something, and try to find something, it will

her sometimes when she

ace, "that would

stened to it for a little time, but she found that she did not understand a great deal of i

when Phonny had called her to go out to see the chickens. She put these leaves in her apron w

stood there, holding her apron by the corners, and

ot in your apron

lleville. "I am going

her apron and

eaves," said Phonny, "a

y are not common leaves. Th

at the leaves. He took

eaf," said he, "an

oak-tree in the

ss them in a book,

e leaves a minute, a

nny had been. He proposed that while Phonny was sick, they should em

e them in, and then, underneath we can write a

out about the tre

l tell us," s

Phonny, "and that will

n large scrap-books. Stuyvesant's scrap-book had twenty leaves. He said that he did not think that they could find more than twenty kinds of trees. They pressed the leaves in a book until they were dry, and then pasted them in

ward Stuyvesant would copy them upon the pieces of paper which were to be pasted into the book. Stuyvesant used to go out to the barn or the yard, to get all the information which Beechnut could give him in respect to the particular tree which happened, for the time being, t

lle had been playing with him for some time. At last Stuyvesant and Malleville concl

eave you alone,"

y, "I can read. But there i

hat?" said

suppose it would not do to brin

ing at her window a

Mrs. Henry. "How can you

d," said Stuyvesant, "and put him in

have no objection. Only ge

uirrel. He found him perched upon the handle of

aid Stuyvesant. So he extended

use ready yet. So you will please to g

. Stuyvesant then found a board a little larger than the bottom of the squirrel's house, and putting this board upon the bench, he placed the house upon it. He then took Frink out of his

h was open. As soon as he had gone in, Mrs. Henry shut her window, and Malleville shut the doors. Stuyvesan

thing that he did was to run up to the top of a tall clock which stood in the

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or some time, in order that they might see Frink run about the parlor. At length, however, they went away, and Phonny commenced reading his