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Two Little Pilgrims' Progress
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day. There are beautiful things in the world; there are many people with kind and generous hearts; there are those who do their work well, giving what is theirs to give, and being glad in the giving; there are birds in the skies, and flowers and leaves in the woods—and Spring comes every year. These make the fairy stories. Every fairy story has a moral, and this one has two. They are these:—

The human creature is a strong thing—when it is a brave one.

Nature never made a human hand without putting into it something to give.

MORRISON AND GIBB, PRINTERS, EDINBURGH.