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    Father Thrift and His Animal Friends
    Father Thrift and His Animal Friends
    Father Thrift and His Animal Friends
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    Father Thrift and His Animal Friends

    By Joseph Charles Sindelar

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Father Thrift and His Animal Friends - Joseph Charles Sindelar

      The Project Gutenberg eBook, Father Thrift and His Animal Friends, by Joseph Charles Sindelar, Illustrated by Helen Geraldine Hodge

      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: Father Thrift and His Animal Friends

      Author: Joseph Charles Sindelar

      Release Date: July 23, 2013 [eBook #43287]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: UTF-8

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FATHER THRIFT AND HIS ANIMAL FRIENDS***

      E-text prepared by David Edwards, Matthew Wheaton,

      and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team

      (http://www.pgdp.net)

      from page images generously made available by

      Internet Archive

      (http://archive.org)

      FATHER THRIFT AND HIS ANIMAL FRIENDS

      JOSEPH C. SINDELAR

      Father Thrift and His Animal Friends

      Father Thrift and His Animal Friends

      By

      Joseph C. Sindelar

      Author of

      The Nixie Bunny Books

      With Pictures by

      Helen Geraldine Hodge

      Beckley-Cardy Company

      Chicago

      BOOKS BY JOSEPH C. SINDELAR

      Bow-Wow and Mew-Mew (Craik-Sindelar).

      Illustrated in colors.

      Nixie Bunny in Manners-Land.

      Illustrated in colors.

      Nixie Bunny in Workaday-Land.

      Illustrated in colors.

      Nixie Bunny in Holiday-Land.

      Illustrated in colors.

      Nixie Bunny in Faraway-Lands.

      Illustrated in colors.

      Father Thrift and His Animal Friends.

      Illustrated in black and color.

      Morning Exercises for All the Year.

      Best Memory Gems.

      Bright Entertainments for Christmas.

      The Best Thanksgiving Book.

      The Best Christmas Book.

      Merry Christmas Entertainments.

      Closing Day Entertainments.

      Copyright, 1918, by Joseph C. Sindelar

      ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

      Printed in the United States of America

      To

      Joseph C. Jr.

      and

      his friends

      Contents

      Introduction

      As from the days your father’s father knew,

      This little story book now comes to you.

      So when you turn its pages, heed them well:

      Though strange the stories, many truths they tell.

      They tell of animals and birds and trees,

      Of children, flowers, and honeybees;

      Of a queer old man, and a quaint old town

      With crooked streets that ran up and down.

      They tell of these and many, many more.

      Still, this I’d add to what has gone before:

      In the wood there grows a tree—the thrifty tree—

      As wonderful as anything can be!

      Its trunk is copper; silver are its leaves;

      Its blossoms from bright golden threads it weaves;

      Its fruit is health and wealth and honest joy—

      So seek this goodly tree, wise girl and boy.

      THE QUEER LITTLE OLD MAN

      Once upon a time, in a quaint old town, there lived a queer little old man. His name was Thrift—Father Thrift people called him, although he really was no father at all.

      As I said before, he was just a queer little old man. He had no wife, no children, no home of his own.

      But he had a kind heart within his queer little body. Also, he had willing hands and feet, and these brought him many friends.

      How old the queer little man was, or how long he had lived in the quaint old town, no one seemed to know.

      The present grandfathers and grandmothers remembered how the queer little man used to take them, as children, on his lap and tell them stories.

      He had told the same stories to their children and to their children’s children. Yet to none of them did he look any different to-day than he did when they first saw him.

      You must not think that telling stories was all the queer little old man had to do. He was a sort of all-round village helper. He helped everybody who needed help.

      But it was for his good advice that the queer little old man was most sought. He always thought well for everybody, and the people profited by following his teaching.

      In fact, the whole town grew prosperous, extremely prosperous, by heeding Father Thrift’s advice.

      You would suppose that the queer little old man would be well rewarded.

      Not so! For when these people became very, very prosperous, they felt that the queer little old man was only in their way.

      What further need had

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