Item - The Sad Effects of Disobedience

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Series:	The Boys of New York — v. 1 no. 24 — page 4
Subject / Tag:	Sketch
Part of:	The Boys of New York, v. I, no. 24, January 31, 1876 (Issue)
Author:	W., J. F.
Date:	January 31, 1876
Edition Description:	After the Style of the Moral Writers of the Present Day
First Sentence:	The sun shone brightly, the birds sang joyfully in the shade of the forest trees ; the tinkling of the sheep-bells sounded pleasantly in the open fields ; the fish leaped from the waters into the fresh morning air, as if the depth and breadth of the water was insufficient to contain them.
Last Sentence:	The farmer and wife might have seen a large family born to them and reared to maturity in the house which was doomed to decay and ruin before its rafters had rang to the music made by merry childhood.