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AESOP’S FABLES
THE BOYS AND THE FROGS
Some Boys were playing one day at the edge of a pond in which lived a family of Frogs. The Boys amused themselves by throwing stones into the pond so as to make them skip on top of the water.
The stones were flying thick and fast and the Boys were enjoying themselves very much; but the poor Frogs in the pond were trembling with fear.
At last one of the Frogs, the oldest and bravest, put his head out of the water, and said, “Oh, please, dear children, stop your cruel play! Though it may be fun for you, it means death to us!”
Always stop to think whether your fun may not be the cause of another’s unhappiness.
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The Child’s Book of American Biography by Mary Stoyell Stimpson.
“On September 17, 1796, Washington delivered the historic “Farewell Address,” which stands with Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address and his Second Inaugural Address, among the gems of American thought.
Be Americans (he said). Let there be no sectionalism, no North, South, East or West; you are all dependent one on another, and should be one in union. … Beware of the baneful effects of party spirit and of the ruin to which its extremes must lead. Do not encourage party spirit, but use every effort to mitigate and assuage it. Keep the departments of government separate, promote education, cherish the public credit, avoid debt. Observe justice and good faith toward all nations; have neither passionate hatreds nor passionate attachments to any; and be independent politically of all. In one word, be a nation; be Americans, and be true to yourselves.”
– The Banner (Official Organ Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War – The Patriotic Journal of America – Vol. 35, Number 2, Dwight, Illinois, February, 1931)
“No one ever tells a story about the early days in America without bringing in the name of George Washington. In fact he is called the Father of our country. But he did not get this name until he was nearly sixty years old; and all kinds of interesting things, like taming wild colts, fighting Indians, hunting game, fording rivers, and commanding an army, had happened to him before that. He really had a wonderful life.
George Washington was born in Virginia almost two hundred years ago. Virginia was not a state then. Indeed, there were no states. Every colony from Maine to Georgia was owned by King George, who sent men from England to govern them.
At the time of George Washington’s birth, Virginia was the…”
– Mary Stoyell Stimpson (The Child’s Book of American Biography)
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