The Pig Brother, and Other Fables and Stories

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Richards Laura Elizabeth Howe. The Pig Brother, and Other Fables and Stories

THE PIG BROTHER

THE GOLDEN WINDOWS

THE COMING OF THE KING

SWING SONG

THE GREAT FEAST

THE OWL AND THE EEL ANDTHE WARMING-PAN

THE WHEAT-FIELD

ABOUT ANGELS

THE APRON-STRING

THE SHADOW

THE SAILOR MAN

“GO” AND “COME”

CHILD’S PLAY

LITTLE JOHN BOTTLEJOHN

A FORTUNE

THE STARS

BUTTERCUP GOLD

THE PATIENT CAT

ALICE’S SUPPER

THE QUACKY DUCK

AT THE LITTLE BOY’S HOME

NEW YEAR

JACKY FROST

THE CAKE

“OH, DEAR!”

THE USEFUL COAL

SONG OF THE LITTLE WINDS

THE THREE REMARKS

HOKEY POKEY

THE TANGLED SKEIN

A SONG FOR HAL

FOR YOU AND ME

THE BURNING HOUSE

THE NAUGHTY COMET

DAY DREAMS

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All day long the little boy worked hard, in field and barn and shed, for his people were poor farmers, and could not pay a workman; but at sunset there came an hour that was all his own, for his father had given it to him. Then the boy would go up to the top of a hill and look across at another hill that rose some miles away. On this far hill stood a house with windows of clear gold and diamonds. They shone and blazed so that it made the boy wink to look at them: but after a while the people in the house put up shutters, as it seemed, and then it looked like any common farmhouse. The boy supposed they did this because it was supper-time; and then he would go into the house and have his supper of bread and milk, and so to bed.

One day the boy’s father called him and said: “You have been a good boy, and have earned a holiday. Take this day for your own; but remember that God gave it, and try to learn some good thing.”

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The way home was long, and it was dark before the boy reached his father’s house; but the lamplight and firelight shone through the windows, making them almost as bright as he had seen them from the hilltop; and when he opened the door, his mother came to kiss him, and his little sister ran to throw her arms about his neck, and his father looked up and smiled from his seat by the fire.

“Have you had a good day?” asked his mother.

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