Produced by David Garcia, Bethanne M. Simms-Troester and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. [Illustration: TAWNEY RACHEL.] STORIES FOR THE YOUNG; OR, CHEAP REPOSITORY TRACTS: ENTERTAINING, MORAL, AND RELIGIOUS. BY HANNAH MORE AND OTHERS. A NEW REVISED EDITION. VOL. VI. PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY, 150 NASSAU-STREET, NEW YORK. CONTENTS VOL. VI. Black Giles the Poacher; containing some account of a family who had rather live by their wits than their work. History of Widow Brown's Apple-tree; being Part II. of Black Giles the Poacher. Tawney Rachel; or, the Fortune-teller: with some account of Dreams, Omens, and Conjurers. Being Part III. of Black Giles the Poacher. The Happy Waterman. The Gravestone. Parley the Porter. An Allegory. Showing how robbers without can never get into a house unless there are traitors within. A New Christmas Tract; or, the Right Way of Rejoicing at Christmas. Showing the reasons we have for joy at the event of our Saviour's birth. A New Christmas Hymn. Bear ye one another's Burdens; or, the Valley of Tears. A Vision. The Strait Gate and the Broad Way; being the Second Part of the Valley of Tears. The Parable of the Laborers in the Vineyard. BLACK GILES THE POACHER: CONTAINING SOME ACCOUNT OF A FAMILY WHO HAD RATHER LIVE BY THEIR WITS THAN THEIR WORK[A] BY HANNAH MORE. PART I [Footnote A: This story exhibits an accurate picture of that part of the country where the author then resided; and where, by her benevolent zeal, a great reformation was effected among the poor inhabitants of at least twenty parishes, within a circle of thirty miles.] Poaching Giles lives on the borders of one of those great moors in Somersetshire. Giles, to be sure, has been a sad fellow in his time; and it is none of his fault if his whole family do not end their career either at the gallows, or at Botany Bay. He lives at that mud cottage, with the broken windows stuffed with dirty rags, just beyond the gate which divides the upper from the lower moor. You may know the house at a good distance by the ragged tiles on the roof, and the loose stones which are ready to drop out from the chimney; though a short ladder, a hod of mortar, and half an hour's leisure time would have prevented all this, and made the little dwelling tight enough. But as Giles had never learned any thing that was good, so he did not know the value of such useful sayings as, that "a tile in time saves nine."