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diff --git a/29483.txt b/29483.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f774931 --- /dev/null +++ b/29483.txt @@ -0,0 +1,847 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Little Brown Hen Hears the Song of the +Nightingale & The Golden Harvest, by Jasmine Stone Van Dresser + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Little Brown Hen Hears the Song of the Nightingale & The Golden Harvest + +Author: Jasmine Stone Van Dresser + +Illustrator: William T. Van Dresser + +Release Date: July 22, 2009 [EBook #29483] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LITTLE BROWN HEN *** + + + + +Produced by David Edwards, Emmy and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was +produced from images generously made available by The +Internet Archive) + + + + + + + + +[Illustration: THE.LITTLE.BROWN.HEN.HEARS THE.SONG.OF.THE.NIGHTINGALE + +By Jasmine Stone Van Dresser] + +[Illustration: AND.WITH.THE.LENGTHENING. EVENING.SHADOWS.] + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + + + + The Little Brown Hen + Hears the Song of the + Nightingale + & The Golden Harvest + + By Jasmine Stone Van Dresser + + Author of "How to Find Happyland" + + With an Introduction by Margaret Beecher White + + The Illustrations by William T. Van Dresser + + [Illustration: THE.LOUDEST.TALKERS.ARE.NOT.ALWAYS.WISEST..] + + 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 + + + + +FOREWORD. + + +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. + + + + +The Little Brown Hen Hears the Song of the Nightingale + +[Illustration] + + +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!'" + +The creatures all tried very hard to say "honk!" but the sounds they +made were so remarkable that I cannot write them, and none of them +sounded like "honk!" + +The gander was very angry. + +"How stupid you are!" he cried. "Now you all must practise till you +learn it. Do not let me hear a peep or cluck or a coo! You must all +'honk' when you have anything to say." + +So they obediently tried to do as he said. + +When the little brown hen laid an egg, instead of making the fact known +with her sharp little "cut--cut--cut-cut-ah-cut!" as a well-ordered hen +should do, she ran around the barn-yard trying to say, "honk! honk!" + +But nobody heard her, and nobody came to look for the egg. + +The guinea-fowls way down in the pasture ceased calling "la croik! la +croik!" and there was no way of finding where they had hid their nests. +In the afternoon, when their shrill cries should have warned the farmers +that it was going to rain, they were still honking, or trying to, so +the nicely dried hay got wet. + +Next morning chanticleer, instead of rousing the place with his lusty +crow, made an effort at honking that could not be heard a stone's throw +away, and so the whole farm overslept. + +All day there was a Babel of sounds in the barn-yard. The turkeys left +off gobbling and made a queer sound that they thought was "honk!" the +ducks left off quacking, the chicks left off peeping, and said nothing +at all, for "honk!" was too big a mouthful for them; and the soft +billing and cooing of the doves were turned into an ugly harsh sound. + +Things were indeed getting into a dreadful state, and they grew worse, +instead of better. + +The hens forgot to lay eggs, the doves became proud and pompous like +the gander, and as for the turkey gobblers, they kept the place in an +uproar, for they thought they could really honk! and they never ceased +from morning till night. + +There's no telling what it all would have come to if there hadn't been +one in the barn-yard, with an ear that could hear something besides the +dreadful discords. + +One night the little brown hen was roosting alone in the top of the +hen-house. All at once she was awakened by the sweetest song she had +ever heard. + +She called to her chicks and to some of her companions to wake up and +listen; but they were sleepy and soon dozed off again, so the little +brown hen was left listening alone. + +"I will ask the gander what this beautiful song means," she said. "He +knows everything." + +So she awoke the gander and asked him who was singing the beautiful +song, and what it meant. + +The gander said gruffly: "It is the nightingale. I do not know what her +song means. She should learn to honk!" And he tucked his head back under +his wing. + +"Ah!" thought the little brown hen, "if learning the gander's language +does not help me to understand this beautiful song, I do not think it is +worth bothering with. I shall never try to say 'honk!' again." + +So she went back to her roost and listened till the nightingale's song +ceased. Then she tucked her head under her little brown wing and went to +sleep, her little heart singing within her. + +At daylight she awoke, and hopping down sought her companions, eager to +tell them the wonderful thing that was singing in her heart. + +"This is a beautiful, simple world," she cried, "and I have learned a +very wonderful thing!" + +But to her surprise, the creatures had no desire to hear what it was, +for they were all in a flurry getting ready for their next lesson in +honking. + +"Indeed, you need not bother about honking," cried the little brown hen, +but nobody paid any attention to her. + +So she called her chicks about her, and went her way, clucking merrily, +while they picked up bugs, and dared to peep once more when they found a +nice fat worm. + +Meanwhile the class in honking made very little headway, for no sooner +were they settled than they began to wish they knew what wonderful thing +the little brown hen had to tell. + +[Illustration: THEY.GATHERED.AROUND.AND.LISTENED.VERY.EARNESTLY..] + +They craned their necks to watch her, and were filled with envy, seeing +that she and her chicks feasted bountifully, with very little +scratching, whereas _they_ scratched in the barn-yard all day, and found +only enough bugs to quarrel over. + +"Indeed!" said one old rooster, "we have learned nothing about the best +way of scratching for bugs, with all our gabbling." + +"I should be glad," spoke up a duck, "to learn the wonderful thing that +the little hen has learned, so _I_ could keep from quarreling with my +neighbors." + +They all grew quite uneasy, and the gander became very angry. + +"Such a stupid lot I have never seen!" he cried. "I have a great mind to +let you go your ways and not bother with you!" and thereat he dismissed +the class in high dudgeon. + +The first thing they all did was to take after the little brown hen. + +"What is the wonderful thing you have learned?" asked the gobblers, +shaking their red throats and looking very important. + +"Oh!" said the wise little hen, "I learned it by listening to the +nightingale, and so can you, I presume, if you leave off that silly +honking. Just gobble as nicely as you can when you have anything to say, +but first be sure it is worth saying." + +The turkeys wished the little brown hen would tell them and save them +the trouble of listening, but as they had paid no attention when she +offered, they had nothing to do but follow her advice. + +So they stopped honking and did very little gobbling, for they found +that they had not much of importance to say. + +The ducks and the chickens and the doves all asked the same question, +and the little brown hen gave them much the same answer: + +"Just quack and coo and cluck as nicely as you can, and have a care to +lay nice eggs. Attend very strictly to your own affairs, for I have +found that one learns a great deal by listening." + +As they all took her advice, the barn-yard became a quiet, well-ordered +barn-yard again, with only so much cackling and clucking, and so forth, +as to give it a business-like air. + +For each one was listening to hear when the nightingale came, and first +thing they knew each one heard the same song as the little brown hen, +for it was singing in all their hearts, and they understood it, whether +they quacked or gobbled or cooed. + +"It does seem that there's a deal of talking these days," said the +little brown hen, "and it's mighty hard to listen; but even if the old +gander does honk every now and then, nobody need pay any attention to +him, for, after all, it isn't always those with the loudest voices that +have the best things to say." + + + + +The Little Apple Tree Bears a Golden Harvest + +[Illustration] + + +IN A thriving apple orchard full of trees richly laden with fruit, stood +one hardy little tree whose apples remained small and green and hard. + +The little tree wondered why her fruit was so small, when that on the +other trees grew so large and fine. + +"But perhaps as these are my first apples they are slow in ripening," +she thought. "I must be patient and before long the beautiful color will +begin to appear." + +So day after day she watched for some signs of color on the cheeks of +the hard little apples, and time seemed to drag more and more slowly. + +But life in an apple orchard is not altogether uneventful, and the +little tree became interested in finding she could take part in what was +going on about her. + +One day there was a curious squawk in among her branches, and soon two +robins, each with a worm in his mouth, came flying in through the +thick-leaved boughs, to their nest in a crotch of the tree. + +"Our birdies are hatched!" they cried, filling the gaping mouths. "The +little tree sheltered our eggs from storm and sun, and hid them so +carefully that no one could find them. We are safer in this tree than in +any tree in the orchard." + +The little tree was filled with joy at finding that, after all, there +was something she could do to be of use. + +"I have watched the little blue eggs ever since you left them here," she +said; and she seemed to snuggle her branches more closely about the +nest. + +At last the little robins grew strong enough to fly, and the nest was +left empty, though the young birds stayed in the orchard and often came +to perch in the tree, and sing their song of gratitude. + +Indeed all the creatures about seemed to know that here was loving +shelter for them. A little chipmunk made its home under the rock at the +foot of the tree, and frisked up the trunk and among the boughs. Many +birds perched in the branches and told wonderful song stories of what +was going on in the world. + +A merry little flycatcher chose a small twig under one of the boughs of +the apple tree, where it perched for hours, darting out when a fly or +other insect buzzed by; but always returning to the little twig as if it +were home. In the shade of the thick-leaved boughs, the friendly cows +sought shelter, patiently chewing their cud, and switching their tails +to shoo off the flies. + +And so the earnest little tree did all she could to be of use, and was +more beloved, though she did not know it, than any tree in the orchard. +Yet she could not but think sadly of her little green apples, that +seemed to show no signs of ripening. + +Many long summer days passed. The early harvest apples in their full +prime were picked and barreled. + +Each day the golden pippins grew more juicy and golden; the big jolly +Ben Davis, wine-saps, northern spies, bellflowers and many others +ripening in their turn, filled the orchard with a delightful odor and +glow of color; but the fruit on the one tree seemed as hard and backward +as ever. + +The trees with the beautiful fruit laughed and whispered among +themselves, and the little tree was very unhappy, for she thought they +were laughing at her. + +"Surely my fruit _must_ begin to ripen soon," she thought. + +But at night when the rest of the orchard was asleep, she wept silently +to herself, for she wondered if it could be possible that her apples +would not ripen at all. + +At last summer seemed to hold her breath. Day after day the warm +sunshine beat down upon the orchard, drowsy with the richness and +fulness of its almost completed labor. The trees now and then stirred +their heavy branches, as if suggesting that it was time to be relieved +of their burden. + +One day a flock of merry children came to the orchard to play. The day +was cool, a gentle breeze stirred,--early fall had blown its first faint +breath. + +The children frolicked all day, ate their luncheon on the grass, shook +down ripe apples, and with the lengthening evening shadows, began to +gather up their baskets, happy and contented and ready to go home. + +A cool evening breeze sprang up with sudden briskness. + +"Look at that black cloud!" cried a little urchin. + +Suddenly the rain began to come down with a brisk patter; the children +scampered quickly under the nearest tree; the dark cloud overspread the +whole sky, rain pelted down, a great wind roared through the orchard, +bending the trees, and causing their branches to wave wildly and a +shower of apples to fall. + +"Oh, where shall we go?" cried the children. "The apples are pelting us, +and the rain drives in upon us." + +"Yonder under the little tree with green apples," cried one. "See how +thickly leaved it is, and how low the boughs bend; we shall be well +sheltered there." + +[Illustration: THE WARM SUNSHINE BEAT DOWN UPON THE DROWSY ORCHARD] + +Quickly they rushed to the tree, and how gladly she gathered them in, +and kept them dry under her loving arms; and not one of her apples fell +off. + +Soon the shower was over, and the children scampered home, saying: + +"It's a good thing we were near that tree, or we should have been +soaking wet. There isn't another one like it in the orchard." + +The little tree heard their words of gratitude, and wept for joy. + +The next day was bright and warm, and pleasant sunshiny weather +followed. At last the haze of Indian summer settled lovingly over the +country and the orchard rang with the voices of men and boys carrying +baskets and ladders. + +"Too bad that equinoctial storm was such a blusterer," said one of the +men. "These lazy trees have dropped much of their fruit, and it lies +bruised on the ground." + +But they picked barrel after barrel of the rich harvest, and soon the +little tree was left alone with her burden of useless fruit. + +Now the trees seemed prouder than ever, and talked boastfully about the +fine apple harvest _they_ had furnished for mankind. + +The little tree sighed softly to herself. + +"But I must not be unhappy," she said, "for if I cannot bear beautiful +red and golden apples, there is surely some work for me to do, and I +shall find out what it is." + +And now, though the little tree had not noticed that her apples had +grown, her branches were bending almost to the ground with their weight. +She tried to shake off some of the apples, for it seemed to add to her +disgrace to bear so much of this useless fruit. But she could no more +shake them off than could the wind and storm. + +The clear cool fall days were passing, growing shorter and shorter. The +little tree was very lonely now, for the chipmunk was snug in his winter +home, the birds had flown south and the cows now looked for sun instead +of shade. The other trees, having finished their work, were preparing +for their long winter nap. The little tree way down in the corner of the +orchard seldom saw any one, but she was stout of heart, and kept on +saying: + +"I know I shall find some way to be of use." + +She did not pay much attention to her apples, for she had long ago given +up hopes of their becoming red and ripe. + +Every night now white frost tripped daintily over the hardening ground, +and at sunup disappeared; the days were cool and bright; the frosts grew +heavier and the weather colder. + +One day there were voices in the orchard,--men and boys carrying baskets +and ladders were coming; and to the astonishment of the little tree, +they stopped under her boughs, placed the ladders in the branches and +climbed up. + +"Good old apples!" cried one of the boys, dropping them into his basket +with a plump. + +"A fine yield!" said one of the men. "Did you ever see anything more +beautiful than this rich golden brown?" + +"The sweetest apple that ever grew!" said another. "I don't feel that +I've had an apple till November brings these." + +"It's a wise Providence that saves this sweetest morsel for the last," +declared a third. + +The little tree listened, trembling with happiness. Could it be true? + +She gazed at the fruit on her heavy branches, and there, like drops of +gold, tinged with the sombre violet of November, hung ball after ball of +the luscious sweetness. + +"Oh!" she murmured, "how blest I am to have so much to give, when all +the rest of nature is silent and sleeping. How happy I shall be, and how +earnestly I will try to bear the sweetest apples ever grown!" + +At last the apples were all picked and carried to the great bins in the +cellar, there to lie mellowing and sweetening for the farmer's use +during the long winter months. + +And the little russet apple tree went to sleep, and took her long nap +with the rest. + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Little Brown Hen Hears the Song of +the Nightingale & The Golden Harvest, by Jasmine Stone Van Dresser + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LITTLE BROWN HEN *** + +***** This file should be named 29483.txt or 29483.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/2/9/4/8/29483/ + +Produced by David Edwards, Emmy and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was +produced from images generously made available by The +Internet Archive) + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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