''
``Oh, she will be so sorry to leave home,''
said the child; ``she could not come away from
our mother.''
``Tiny Bill will be so sorry to leave our nest,''
answered Bright Eyes, ``and he will not go away
from OUR mother.''
Then the child ran away to her mother, saying:
``Ah, every one is fond of home!''
CORNELIA'S JEWELS
BY JAMES BALDWIN[3]
[3] From Fifty Famous Stories Retold. Copyright, 1896, by
American Book Company.
It was a bright morning in the old city of Rome
many hundred years ago. In a vine-covered summer-
house in a beautiful garden, two boys were
standing. They were looking at their mother and
her friend, who were walking among the flowers
and trees.
``Did you ever see so handsome a lady as our
mother's friend?'' asked the younger boy, holding
his tall brother's hand. ``She looks like a
queen.''
``Yet she is not so beautiful as our mother,''
said the elder boy. ``She has a fine dress, it is
true; but her face is not noble and kind. It is our
mother who is like a queen.''
``That is true,'' said the other. ``There is no
woman in Rome so much like a queen as our own
dear mother.''
Soon Cornelia, their mother, came down the
walk to speak with them. She was simply dressed
in a plain, white robe. Her arms and feet were
bare, as was the custom in those days; and no
rings or chains glittered about her hands and
neck.
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