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" Well , well ! " he said . " You've paid a dear price for this thing . It's only a penny whistle , and a poor one at that . " " You might have bought half a dozen such whistles with the money I gave you , " said his mother . The little boy saw what a mistake he had made . The whistle did not please him any more . He threw it upon the floor and began to cry . " Never mind , my child , " said his mother , very kindly . " You are only a very little boy , and you will learn a great deal as you grow bigger . The lesson you have learned to - day is never to pay too dear for a whistle . " Benjamin Franklin lived to be a very old man , but he never forgot that lesson . Every boy and girl should remember the name of Benjamin Franklin . He was a great thinker and a great doer , and with Washington he helped to make our country free . His life was such that no man could ever say , " Ben Franklin has wronged me . " THE ETTRICK SHEPHERD I In Scotland there once lived a poor shepherd whose name was James Hogg . His father and grandfather and great - grandfather had all been shepherds . It was his business to take care of the sheep which belonged to a rich landholder by the Ettrick Water . Sometimes he had several hundreds of lambs to look after . He drove these to the pastures on the hills and watched them day after day while they fed on the short green grass . He had a dog which he called Sirrah . This dog helped him watch the sheep . He would drive them from place to place as his master wished . Sometimes he would take care of the whole flock while the shepherd was resting or eating his dinner . One dark night James Hogg was on the hilltop with a flock of seven hundred lambs . Sirrah was with him . Suddenly a storm came up . There was thunder and lightning ; the wind blew hard ; the rain poured . The poor lambs were frightened . The shepherd and his dog could not keep them together . Some of them ran towards the east , some towards the west , and some towards the south . The shepherd soon lost sight of them in the darkness . With his lighted lantern in his hand , he went up and down the rough hills calling for his lambs . Two or three other shepherds joined him in the search . All night long they sought for the lambs . Morning came and still they sought . They looked , as they thought , in every place where the lambs might have taken shelter . At last James Hogg said , " It's of no use ; all we can do is to go home and tell the master that we have lost his whole flock . " They had walked a mile or two towards home , when they came to the edge of a narrow and deep ravine . They looked down , and at the bottom they saw some lambs huddled together among the rocks . And there was Sirrah standing guard over them and looking all around for help " These must be the lambs that rushed off towards the south , " said James Hogg .
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