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" Gentlemen , " said Mr . Lincoln , " I could not have slept to - night , if I had left those helpless little robins to perish in the wet grass . " Abraham Lincoln afterwards became very famous as a lawyer and statesman . He was elected president . Next to Washington he was the greatest American . ANOTHER BIRD STORY A great battle had begun . Cannon were booming , some far away , some near at hand . Soldiers were marching through the fields . Men on horseback were riding in haste toward the front . " Whiz ! " A cannon ball struck the ground quite near to a company of soldiers . But they marched straight onward . The drums were beating , the fifes were playing . " Whiz ! " Another cannon ball flew through the air and struck a tree near by . A brave general was riding across the field . One ball after another came whizzing near him . " General , you are in danger here , " said an officer who was riding with him . " You had better fall back to a place of safety . " But the general rode on . Suddenly he stopped at the foot of a tree . " Halt ! " he cried to the men who were with him . He leaped from his horse . He stooped and picked up a bird's nest that had fallen upon the ground . In the nest were some tiny , half - fledged birds . Their mouths were open for the food they were expecting their mother to give them . " I cannot think of leaving these little things here to be trampled upon , " said the general . He lifted the nest gently and put it in a safe place in the forks of the tree . " Whiz ! " Another cannon ball . He leaped into the saddle , and away he dashed with his officers close behind him . " Whiz ! whiz ! whiz ! " He had done one good deed . He would do many more before the war was over . " Boom ! boom ! boom ! " The cannon were roaring , the balls were flying , the battle was raging . But amid all the turmoil and danger , the little birds chirped happily in the safe shelter where the great general , Robert E . Lee , had placed them . " He prayeth best , who loveth best All things both great and small ; For the dear God who loveth us , He made and loveth all . " SPEAKING A PIECE Two children , brother and sister , were on their way to school . Both were very small . The boy was only four years old , and the girl was not yet six . " Come , Edward , we must hurry , " said the sister . " We must not be late . " With one hand the little boy clung to his sister's arm , and with the other he held his primer . This primer was his only book , and he loved it . It had a bright blue cover , which he was careful not to soil . And in it were some odd little pictures , which he never grew tired of looking at .
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