The Search for a Good Child

The Closing Door

The Minstrel's Song

Dust Under the Rug

The Story of Gretchen

The King's Birthday




_THE WIND'S WORK_

MOTTO FOR THE MOTHER

_Power invisible that God reveals,
The child within all nature feels,
Like the great wind that unseen goes,
Yet helps the world's work as it blows_.

One morning Jan waked up very early, and the first thing he saw when he
opened his eyes was his great kite in the corner. His big brother had
made it for him; and it had a smiling face, and a long tail that reached
from the bed to the fireplace. It did not smile at Jan that morning
though, but looked very sorrowful and seemed to say "Why was I made? Not
to stand in a corner, I hope!" for it had been finished for two whole