After dinner, Ralph was looking out of the window, when he spied two little birds cuddled up on a branch of a pine-tree.
“Oh, Edward! come here,” he called. “See those poor little birds. They look half frozen and so hungry.”
“Poor little things,” replied Edward. “Doesn’t it make you feel mean to think what a jolly time we had this morning out of the snow which has covered up the places where they get their food?”
“Let us get some food from Grandma and throw it out to them,” said Ralph. “Perhaps they will find it.”
The little birds were soon chirpping and flying about merrily and Ralph said it sounded as if they kept saying, “thank you.”
Will not other little children be as kind as Ralph and Edward?
A KIND HEART.
The day Ethel Brown was seven years old she had a tea party.
Mrs. Brown had sent tiny cards of invitation to all the little girls on the street to come and bring their dolls. She also sent one to Nellie Day, her washer-woman’s little girl, at Ethel’s special request.