Show the loaf once upon a time during a famine a rich man invited t twenty enty of the thae poo er children in town to his house bouse and ind said to them in this basket there is ia a loaf of bread for each of you take it and come coule back every day at this how hou until god sends bends us ab better tims tiros the children pounced upon the basket wrangled angled ivr and ald fought for the bread and each wished to get the lle t larger loaf and at last went away without even thanking him francesca eran Tran cesca alone a poor tut but neatly dressed little girl sto d in modestly apar apart ind took the smallest loaf which was left in the b eket grate gratefully fully fulik klied ki sed the gent lemans hand hana and then went home in a quiet and becoming t mannen manner on the following day the children childre n were ware equally ill III beh fel behaved tle tie jie aved and gocr francesca Frat cesca this timer e a loaf which was scarcely half the se z of the others butchen but when she came home and d her sick bick mother cut the loaf loar thre fell out of it a number of bright siler blier pieces the mother was A as alarmed and bald baid take back the money this instant for it ha hag no doubt got into the bread by mistake 21 francesca carried it back bacic but the belle beile beneto 0 le lent nt gentleman declined to 0 o receive it 1 I no 9 0 no 0 said he be it was no mistake I 1 had the money mo ney baked in the smallest loaf simply as a reward re ward for you my child always continue thus contented I 1 peaceable and unassuming the person who prefers to rest contented with the smallest loaf rather than quarrel for fon the I 1 larger arger one will wi 1 I find blessings in her herc course odrie of action still more valuable than the money which was baked in your loaf |