| Show the I 1 h e childrens C hild rents corner EDITED I 1 re D b by y I 1 DOROTHY EDMONDS ri 9 the woman of the shoe and her new house As told in pictures the old woman with all her children who wouldn t fit into the old shoe shoo gathered them together and decided they must have a new house so eha she went to the kings king a palace the gatekeeper unlocked the gates and let the ai at old woman with her children pass through the doorkeeper per haughtily opened a pen ed the great door the guard at the throne room drew back the velvet cu curtains artal no and the king received them upon his golden throne the king could do nothing without the beaver the old woman and her children went to see the beaver at his request and told him the king icing wished him to cut down a tree to provide them with lumber the beaver was glad to help and the carpenter sawed the atiee into boards as soon aa as it was down I 1 1 he children danced out upon the lawn and no longer did they have to live in bouse house with room enough for or all new grand a shoe they lived in a very the little brother francis of assisi far away in the country of italy nestled cozily among the sharp peaks of the umbrian mountains Is the dinv city of assist it was in this city of assist more than seven hu hundred brother dred vears ago that the little brother lived his ills father was a very rich mer chint francis was I 1 Is only son and I 1 e had many dreams of his ills growing to manhood and becoming as rich a man as he himself and a yet more powerful one francis was dressed in the finest of clothes and had every thing for which a boy could wish lie ile was known as a child of joy singing from morning till night songs that his mother taught him often had you lived in assist then you von miga t have seen him at the head of a group of other boys singing and dancing and parading pi rading through the tiny narrow streets it was not strange then that when he be grew to be about sixteen and sold ers of enemy coun tries inva inhaled led the streets of assist francis took his place among the de tenders fenders and neither was it strange that one day he was tal en prisoner and with others cast into a dark dungeon for awhile a whole year he was forced to stay in prison but during all that time though it was a cold cheerless place francis kept his happy nature and used it to cheer the other pris boners at last the year drifted by and francis was once more free free to dance and sing with his companions but alas I 1 his ills year in the jail had made its mark something hid had hap bened to him As be he stood on a hill top looking over his assist his heart did not sing as usual he ile seemed to I 1 see the city in a new light in days there were many many poor people many people sick and miser able francis had always loved every thing beautiful and misery or were to him ugly things from which he would turn away but now as he stood looking over his city somehow or other he could think of little else but the hundreds of miser able people who needed help nis ills mother madonna pica plea as she was called found him one day diy demov ing from the table all the fruits and good things to eat and pack ng them together as if he be were going on a A musical blank puzzle 4 fra here Is a song that you all know the missing notis are told below fa abl ml ca all jwj ir 4 t jl 1 j i ui J J I 1 J J I 1 one ol 01 the shortest word words you know 2 first letter of something you cool yourself with 3 what farmere farmers say to ox oxen en when they want them to go 4 the first letter of what you eat 5 the last letter of what you sleep bleep on 6 an ocean 7 what you do when you use your eyes 8 the first letter of what the lambs say 9 the sixth letter of the alphabet journey she watched him and was surprised to see him take them into the street and distribute them here and there to those who were hungry madonna pica plea was pleased for she was a very good kind lind woman and in deed helped him to pass them around but his father peter bernadone was very angry tor for he was a selfish man and few la in those days thought of beg gars as any a but people to be left alone I 1 will beat him into forgetting these foot ill notions peter berna done said and he did dial I 1 but the more his father struggled against him the more francis kept by himself and did kindnesses unknown to him he lie was afraid of his father and ashamed for being afraid but he could not seem to help it one day he said I 1 will not be afraid of my father any longar and he walked through the streets with his head held high almost in rags people in the streets saw raw him and know ing who he was that he was a rich man mans s son could not understand him and so jeered at him calling him names and shouting see the little Fren frenchy chyl see him he has gone crazy 1 thus they shouted at him all the way to his home and his fa ther seeing his son dressed in such a way and hear ng the jeers of the crowds became more angry than ever he was cruel b beating bating francis and locking him in a dungeon this time however francis was unafraid ile had grown from a boy into a man and he resolved to leave the life his father wished for him entirely and to devote all 11 his time to making the suffer in ing of the world less ind and so did he become a knight in the service of all mankind a little broil er to all the world copyright service |
