AcreSoft Story Classic: 🌷 Kids Educational and Bedtime Stories for Children to Adults, in English

The next day the weather was delightful. We rose before daybreak. My eldest sons took their work tools, which we might want, and their guns also, but under the condition that they should not use them till I gave the word " Fire!" I carried the bag of provisions. Our flock of sheep... #story #kidsstories AcreSoft Story Classic

The next and following days were spent in removing our furniture and property, particularly our poultry, which had multiplied greatly. We also constructed a poultry-yard, at a sufficient distance from our house to... #story #audiobook #kidsstories AcreSoft Story Classic

The next and following days were spent in removing our furniture and property, particularly our poultry, which had multiplied greatly. We also constructed a poultry-yard, at a sufficient distance from our house to... #story #kidsstories AcreSoft Story Classic

Now when king David was old and well stricken in years, he caused Zadok the priests, and Nathan the prophet, to anoint Solomon, the son of Bath-sheba, as king of Israel. And they blew the trumpet; and all the people said, God save king Solomon! Now when the days of David drew nigh that he should die, he charged Solomon his son, saying, I go the way of all the earth: be thou strong therefore, and s...

In a few days we completed the Grotto Ernestine. It contained some stalactites ; but not so many as our former grotto. We found, however, a beautiful block of salt, which resembled... #story #kidsstories AcreSoft Story Classic

The next day was Sunday,—our happy Sabbath for repose and quiet conversation at home. After passing the day in our usual devotions and sober reading... #story #audiobook #kidsstories AcreSoft Story Classic

We rose early and, after our morning duties, we left our invalids for the whole day, taking with us for our dinner, a goose and some potatoes, made ready the evening before. We harnessed the bull and the buffalo to... #podcast #audiobook #story AcreSoft Story Classic

The storm continued to rage the whole of the following day, and even the day after, with the same violence. Happily our tree stood firm, though several branches were broken: amongst others, that to which Francis' wire was suspended... #stories #audiobook #story AcreSoft Story Classic

But in all Israel there was none so beautiful as Absalom: from the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him. And when he polled his head, the hair of his head weighed 200 shekels. And Absalom prepared him chariots and horses, and fifty men to run before him. And he rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate: and when any man that had a controversy came to...

Our animals were impatiently expecting us; they had been neglected during the storm, and were ill supplied with food, besides being half-sunk in water. The ducks and the flamingo liked it well enough... #story #audiobook #stories AcreSoft Story Classic

I see, my dear wife," said I, "that you, as well as the rest of my family, are contented to remain on this island, where it seems it is the will of God for us to dwell, as it is most improbable that in such a tempest Captain Johnson would risk... #story #audiobook AcreSoft Story Classic

On entering, I found Francis sitting on his mother's bed, telling her the story of the lightning, of... #story #audiobook AcreSoft Story Classic

We entered our apartment literally as if we had come out of the sea, and I found my poor Elizabeth much agitated. " Heaven be praised" said she; " but where is Jack, that rash little fellow? " #story #audiobook AcreSoft Story Classic

David sees a beautiful woman, but she is the wife of another man. What does he do? What does the prophet, Nathan say? You can read the actual account in the Bible, in 2 Samuel 11-12. on bible.com

I left the reader at the moment in which I had placed the first part of my journal in the hands of Lieutenant Bell to deliver to Captain Johnson, of the English vessel Adventurer, expecting him to return the next day with Lieutenant Bell. We separated in this hope, and I thought it necessary to inform my family of this expected visit, which might decide their future lot. My wife and elder sons mig...

The trees that I had chosen for the construction of my farm embellishments, were for the most part one foot in diameter in the trunk; they presented the form of a tolerably regular paralielogram, with its longest side to the sea, the length twenty-four feet, and the breadth sixteen. I cut little hollow places or mortices in the trunks, at the distance of ten feet, one above the other, to form two...

The enterprise of our dwelling went on, sometimes as a principal, sometimes as an intermediate occupation, according to the greater or less importance of other concerns; but though we advanced thus with moderate rapidity, the progress was such as fo afford the hope of our being settled within it by the time of the rainy season... #story #kidsstory #audiobook AcreSoft Story Classic

David is made king. The actual account is in the Bible, in 2 Samuel 1-9

The lucky discovery of a previously existing cavern in the rock had, as must be supposed, considerably lessened our labor: excavation was no longer requisite: I had more room than was wanted for the construction of our dwelling; to rendei it habitable was the present object, and to do this did not seem a difficult task. The upper bed of the rock, in front of the cavern, through which my little Jac...

I can hardly describe our joy, when, after many tedious and gloomy weeks of rain, the sky began to brighten, the sun to dart its benign rays on the humid earth, the winds to be lulled, and the state of the air became mild and serene. We issued from our dreary hovels with joyful shouts, and walked round our habitation breathing the enlivening balmy ether... #story #kidstories AcreSoft Story Classic

Francis for a short time was highly amused with his sword- leaves, and then, like all children, who are soon tired of their toys, he grew weary of them, and they were thrown aside. Fritz picked up some of them that were quite soft and withered ; holding up one which was pliable as a ribbon in his hand: " Francis," said he, " you can make whips of your sword-grass, and they will be of use in drivin...

Then came David to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest. And being hungry, the priest gave him the shewbread, for there was no other bread there... You can read the actual account of what happened in the Bible, in 1 Samuel 21-31. Note: http://bible.com has a great Bible app. #story #Biblestory AcreSoft Story Classic

We were scarcely up one morning, and had got to work in putting the last hand to our winding staircase, when we heard at a distance two strange kind of voices, that resembled the bowlings of wild beasts, mixed with hissings and sounds of some creature at its last gasp ; and I was not without uneasiness: our dogs too pricked up their ears, and seemed to whet their teeth for a sanguinary combat with...

Next morning, almost before dawn, all were up and in mo- tion ) the bees had returned to their cells, and I stopped the passages with clay, leaving only a sufficient aperture for the tube of my pipe. I then smoked as much as was requisite to stupefy, without killing the little warlike creatures. Not having a cap with a mask, such as bee-catchers usually wear, nor even gloves, this precaution was n...

My wife the next morning began the conversation. She told me that the boys had been good and diligent; that they had ascended Cape Disappointment with her, and had gathered wood, and made some torches for the night, and, what seemed almost incredible, ventured to fell and bring down an immense palm-tree. It lay prostrate on the ground, and covered a space of at least seventy feet in length. To eff...