E-text prepared by Larry B. Harrison and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by the Digital Media Repository, Archives and Special Collections, Ball State University Libraries (http://libx.bsu.edu/index.php) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 36707-h.htm or 36707-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/36707/pg36707-images.html) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/36707/36707-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through the Digital Media Repository, Archives and Special Collections, Ball State University Libraries. See http://libx.bsu.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/chapbks&CISOPTR=268&CISOBOX=1&REC=2 UNCLE THOMAS' STORIES FOR GOOD CHILDREN. [Illustration: UNCLE THOMAS.] CHARLES' JOURNEY TO FRANCE, AND OTHER TALES. [Illustration] BY MRS. BARBAULD. Worcester: Edward Livermore. 1847. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1847, By Edward Livermore, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts. Greenfield: Merriam and Mirick, Printers. INTRODUCTION. Uncle Thomas' Stories for Good Children. The design of this Series of unpretending little books, is, to give to the Young, information, joined with amusement. They are prepared for young children, and if, from the reading of these stories, they acquire a love for good books, the compiler's object will be accomplished. Contents. CHARLES' JOURNEY TO FRANCE, 9 THE BALL PLAYERS, 32 THE LITTLE BOY WHO WAS A COWARD, 39 MY MOTHER, 44 STORIES OF DOGS, 49 A NAUGHTY BOY, 59 THE SILLY LAMB, 63 LUCY AND HER LAMB, 71 STORY OF A JOURNEY TO FRANCE. Well, Charles, we will take a journey. We will go to France. We will see some of the world besides home. Bring your hat. Good-bye, Papa. Farewell, Billy, and Harry, and every body. We are going a great way off. And we shall go down the lane, and through the church-yard and by the corner-house, and over the stile, till we have got quite into the fields. How pretty the fields will look! for it will be summer days again before we go. And there will be yellow flowers, and white flowers, and grass, and trees, and hedges; and the grasshoppers, will chirp, chirp, under our feet. Do not try to catch them; it will only hinder us, and we have a great way to go.