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

Things went pretty smoothly with the little orphans while their friend Mrs. McDougal stayed. She managed to keep the peace between them and their cousins by soothing and petting her young charges and interesting all the occupants of the nursery with her fairy tales, her stories of Wallace, the Bruce, and Robin Hood and his merry men. But all too soon came the day when she must leave Philadelphia a...

The Eldon brothers lived in adjoining houses, large, handsome, and with more extensive grounds than are usually connected with a city residence; a low hedge separated those of the one from the other, and a gate in that gave to... #story #kidsstory AcreSoft Story Classic acresoft.com acresoft.contactin.bio • Psalms 68:5 WEB A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his hol...

“Oh, papa is better, dear, dear papa!” cried Ethel, jumping and dancing in delight. “Oh, I’m so glad! I’m so glad!” cried Blanche and Harry in chorus. “I so blad! I so blad!” echoed Nannette. “But I don’t want to doe home, Ethel; I’se tired.” “Then we’ll go and sit down a while under the trees by the little brook over yonder,” returned Ethel in soothing tones. “You will like that, Blanche and Harr...

The clock on the mantel, striking six, woke Ethel and Blanche Eldon, two little sisters lying side by side in their pretty bed. “Ah, it is morning, Blanche, and time for you and me to be up,” said Ethel, smiling pleasantly into her younger sister’s eyes. “Yes; in a minute, Ethel,” replied Blanche, turning toward her sister and patting her cheek affectionately. At the same moment the door into the...

"What do you think of the new member of the family, Cousin Flora?" asked Dr. Landreth. It was the afternoon of the day succeeding the arrival of Don, and Rupert and his wife. Dr. Landreth had a call to the country, and had invited Flora to drive with him. They had left the town behind, and were bowling rapidly along a smooth, level road running through woods gorgeous in their autumn robes of crims...

Mrs. Baird made short work of clearing away the remains of the supper and setting everything to rights. Then taking two of her sons with her, she repaired to the garden. All three presently returned laden with flowers, with which they proceeded to ornament the parlor, after setting aside some of the fairest and most fragrant for the adornment of the bride... #story #kidsstory AcreSoft Story Classi...

It was late in the afternoon of a sultry August day that our poor travellers, footsore and weary, reached a great cattle ranch in Texas, owned and occupied by a family of the name of Baird, who had emigrated from Ohio years before. Their large, comfortable house, separated from the road by a wide, grassy yard and flower-garden, was the first civilized... #story #kidsstory AcreSoft Story Classic ac...

"You have talked too much, señor," Juanita said with concern, noting the look of utter exhaustion that came over his face with the last words; "I am but a poor nurse to have allowed it. Your lips are parched too," she added, dropping her work and gliding from the tent to return a moment later with a gourd full of the cold, sparkling water of the mountain stream. She raised his head and held the cu...

In their retreat after the attack upon the emigrant train to which Rupert and Don belonged, the Indians passed again over the ground where they had shot down the latter. He still lay motionless and insensible, just as he had fallen from his horse. Several of the savages dismounted and stooped over him, one drawing a scalping-knife from his belt, and with the other hand seizing Rupert by the hair....

On a pleasant October day the three families—including Miss Weston—were gathered at Mr. Keith's for a family tea-party; no very unusual occurrence. The railroad had recently reached Pleasant Plains, and a few minutes before the call to tea the whistle of the afternoon train from the West had been heard. They had but just seated themselves about the table, and Mr. Keith had asked a blessing on the...

Months and years glided swiftly by, bringing to the Keiths only such changes as they will bring: added gray hairs and wrinkles, and a decrease of strength, vigor, and energy to the old people; to the younger married ones, an added staidness and dignity of demeanor and more olive-branches about their tables; while Annis had grown from the merry, romping child into a tall, slender... #story #kidssto...

Many months had passed, bringing no news from their Westward-bound sons, and, in spite of their trust in God, Mr. and Mrs. Keith were often not a little anxious. Miss Stanhope had returned to her home in the fall after the boys' departure. Her pleasant, cheery companionship was much missed, and but for Mildred and Zillah being so near, the mother would have seen many a lonely hour, though she foun...

News was several times received from Rupert and Don during their slow and toilsome journey across the States of Illinois and Missouri, but when the last frontier town was left behind and with it such luxuries of civilization as mails and post-offices, the door of communication was closed: they could neither hear from home nor be heard from there till the trackless wilderness should be crossed and...

May had come again, waking the flowers with her sunny skies and balmy breath, and our friends at Pleasant Plains spent much of their time in their gardens. Delighting in each other's society they were often together, now in Mr. Keith's grounds, now in Dr. Landreth's, and anon in Wallace Ormsby's. Mrs. Keith missed her sons, who had always relieved her of the heavy part of the work of cultivating t...

Mildred was in her pretty sitting-room busily plying her needle, little Percy playing about the floor—rolling a ball hither and thither. Both mother and child were neatly attired—the little one in spotless white, his golden curls hanging about his neck, and half-shading a round rosy face with big blue eyes; the mother in a dark cashmere, which fell in soft folds around her graceful figure, and was...

"We have no need to weep for her, my darling," Mr. Dinsmore said, as she lay sobbing in his arms, an open letter in her hand. "No, papa, not for her, I know; but for the others. See, Annis's letter is all blistered with her tears, and she says it seems at times... #story #kidstory AcreSoft Story Classic ✝️❣️ acresoft.com acresoft.contactin.bio • Romans 8:38-39 For I am persuaded, that neither deat...

Dr. Landreth and Mildred gladly availed themselves of a pressing invitation to take up their old quarters at her father's until such time as their own house should be... #story #kidsstory AcreSoft Story Classic ✝️❣️🗺️ acresoft.com acresoft.contactin.bio

The sweetest of May mornings; the sun shines brightly in a sky of heavenly blue, wherein float soft, fleecy clouds of snowy whiteness, casting faint shadows now here, now there, over the landscape. The forest trees have donned their spring robes of tender green, and at their feet the earth is carpeted with grass spangled with myriads of lovely wild... #story #kidsstory ✝️❣️🗺️ AcreSoft Story Classi...

A beautiful spring day was drawing to a close as two persons—a young man and a maiden—seated themselves on a fallen tree on the western bank of the St. Joseph River. They had strolled a long distance from home, leaving the noise and bustle of the town far behind. They were a trifle weary with their walk, and it was pleasant to sit here and... #story #kidsstory AcreSoft Story Classic ✝️❣️🗺️ acresof...

Dr. Landreth and his party reached Philadelphia in due season, arriving in health and safety, having met with no accident or loss by the way. Mrs. Dinsmore found her father and the family carriage waiting for her and her baby boy at the depot. The others took a hack and drove to the Girard House, where Miss Stanhope, who had been visiting friends in the neighborhood of the city, had appointed to.....

Mr. Travilla had gone, and Mr. Dinsmore and his little daughter sat alone upon the veranda; she upon his knee, his arm about her waist. Some moments had passed without a word spoken by either. Elsie's eyes were downcast, her face full of solemn joy. "What is my little girl thinking of?" her father asked at length. "Oh, papa, I am so glad, so happy, so thankful!" she said; and as she looked up into...

"I'm to be dressed in white, mammy, with blue sash and ribbons, papa says, and to go back to him as soon as you are done with me." "Is you, honey? but... #story #kidsstory AcreSoft Story Classic ✝️❣️🗺️ acresoft.com acresoft.contactin.bio • John 1:29 The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. Romans 8:32 He that spared n...

Winter sped rapidly away to our friends at the Oaks, each day so full of agreeable, useful employment and quiet pleasures, that they found it all too short; time never hung heavy on their hands, ennui was unknown to them. No unusual or startling event marked the course of the weeks and months. Mildred and Annis kept up a steady... #story #kidsstory AcreSoft Story Classic ✝️❣️🗺️ acresoft.com acreso...

The Landreths and Annis returned to the Oaks on Monday of thenext week, and on Tuesday all went to Ion, where the rest of the week was spent most delightfully. There was a large dinner party the first day, but after that they were the only guests, and their host and hostess quite laid themselves out for their... #story #kidsstory AcreSoft Story Classic ✝️❣️🗺️ acresoft.com acresoft.contactin.bio

Mr. Travilla spent the evening at the Oaks, arriving shortly before tea and remaining until... #story #kidsstory AcreSoft Story Classic ✝️❣️🗺️ acresoft.com acresoft.contactin.bio • Psalms 91:15 He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I [will be] with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.