More Mother Stories (Yesterday's Classics) by Lindsay Maud

Author:Lindsay, Maud [Lindsay, Maud]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781599151687
Publisher: Yesterday's Classics
Published: 2010-11-11T01:18:50.625000+00:00

Motto for the Mother

Early help the child to know

That as, through curtained windowpane,

The sunlight cannot enter in,

So his soul's joy may darkened be

By careless deed or childish sin.

But when the curtain's drawn aside,

The room again is filled with light,

So with God's light the soul will shine

Whene'er the wrong is set aright.

The Broken Window Pane

IT was the day after Christmas when Jack broke the window pane. He was playing with his fine new ball that Santa Claus had brought him, and he had just said to himself, as he tossed it up, "This time it will go as high as the house top," when, crash the ball went right into the little window and the glass came shivering down.

The little window was in Jack's own room. He could lie in bed at night and see the twinkling stars and the shining moon through its bright panes, and every morning the sunbeams came streaming in to fill the room with golden light. There were four panes of glass, each one as clear as crystal, and not one had ever been broken before that Jack could remember.

The north wind that had been singing all day in the tree tops hurried into the house through the broken glass. It rattled the window and slammed the door and made such a stir in the little boy's room that his mother went in to see what was the matter.

"Dear me, dear me!" she said when she saw the broken window pane, and she made haste to sweep up the broken bits of glass and to fasten a blanket across the window.

"It would never do to have the north wind in the house on a day like this, she said as she closed the door and went back to her work. She was still talking about it when Jack came in from the yard.

"Of all the days in the year for such a thing to have happened," she said to the maid. "But I have fastened a blanket across the window, and that will keep the wind out till we can get a new glass."

She did not ask Jack any questions, though, and he did not say a word. He sat down behind the stove and listened to the north wind singing outside, "Ooooooo!

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