The Little Brown Hen Hears the Song of the Nightingale & The Golden Harvest

Author of How to Find Happyland With an Introduction by Margaret Beecher White The Illustrations by William T. Van Dresser
Paul Elder and Company San Francisco and New York
Copyright, 1908 by Paul Elder and Company
TO WILLIAM T. VAN DRESSER BUT FOR WHOM THE STORIES WOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN WRITTEN THIS LITTLE BOOK IS LOVINGLY DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR
It is the duty of all good, useful stories to give a message to their readers. The two dainty stories contained in this little volume each carries its message of truth. Pure, simple and wholesome in quality, they cannot fail to refresh as well as instruct those who receive them.
In the Golden Harvest the lesson of patience taught by the little apple tree's experience will bear rich fruit I do not doubt, and the wisdom of the little brown hen cannot help but teach us all to listen for the nightingale's song of harmony in our own lives.
MARGARET BEECHER WHITE.

A POMPOUS old gander who lived in a barn-yard thought himself wiser than the rest of the creatures, and so decided to instruct them.
He called together all the fowls in the barn-yard, and the pigeons off the barn-roof, and told them to listen to him.
They gathered around and listened very earnestly, for they thought they would learn a great deal of wisdom.
The first thing for you to learn, said the gander, is to speak my language. It is very silly for you to chatter as you do. Now we will all say, 'honk!' one, two, three,—'honk!'