Whose thoughts are not fixed upon gain;
For he says, “Don’t you see,
It’s enough, just to be
Such a young man with a cane!”
THE TRUE STORY OF SIMPLE SIMON.
BY HARRIETTE R. SHATTUCK.
ONCE there was a boy named “Simple Simon.”
He wasn’t a pretty boy, for his nose turned up at every thing, and the corners of his mouth turned down, and he was always crying for something he didn’t possess. He had a tooth come once, but instead of being glad that he had something to eat with, he cried all the time till he got two more teeth; and even then he wasn’t satisfied and he had to have twenty more; such a simple boy as he was!