A very sorrowful Story.

I’ll tell you a story, come, sit on my knee;

A true and a pitiful one it shall be,

About an old man, and a poor man was he.

He’d a fine merry boy, (such another as you,)

And he did for him all that a father could do;

For he was a kind father as ever I knew.

So he hoped that, one day, when his darling should grow

A fine hearty man, he’d remember, you know,

To thank his old father for loving him so.

But what do you think came of all this at last?

Why, after a great many years had gone past,

And the good-natured father grew old very fast;

Instead of rememb’ring how kind he had been,

This boy did not care for his father a pin,

But bade him begone, for he should not come in!

So he wander’d about in the frost and the snow!

For he had not a place in the world where to go:

And you’d almost have cried to have heard the wind blow.

And the tears, poor old man, oh! how fast they did pour!

As he shiver’d with cold at his wicked child’s door.

Did you ever, now, hear such a story before?

a.t.

THE END

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TRANSCRIBER NOTES

Misspelled words and printer errors have been corrected. Where multiple spellings occur, majority use has been employed.

Punctuation has been maintained except where obvious printer errors occur.

The title of the poem "The Flower and the Lady" listed in the TOC, did not match the title of the poem on page 21. The title has been changed to reflect the TOC.

Book name and author have been added to the original book cover. The resulting cover is placed in the public domain.

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