A.L.O.E. Short Stories

“The Olive Branch” written by Charlotte Maria Tucker (A.L.O.E.) is about peacemaking. ----------------------------------------- “If you are going for the fodder for our cow, Carlo, what say you to taking our little Rosina with you? It is long since she has been beyond our village, and a ride upon our trusty old Duchessa will do her good.”It was Bice, the wife of an Italian peasant, who spoke these words to her husband, as she stood at her cottage door, with her bright little girl at her side.“What say you, Rosina?” asked the smiling father; “have you a mind for a ride?”The...

“The Message of Hope” written by Charlotte Maria Tucker (A.L.O.E.) is about hope. ------------------------------------------- “How glad, oh, how very glad, the people shut up in the ark must have been when the dove came back with the leaf!” said little Mina, who was sitting at the feet of her mother, with a picture-book on her knee. The eyes of the child were resting on a picture of Noah’s dove fluttering back to a hand outstretched to receive it. “You know, mamma,” continued the child, “Noah and his family had been for so many months floating about on the top of...

“The Hymn My Mother Taught Me” written by Charlotte Maria Tucker (A.L.O.E.) is about temptation. ------------------------------------------ “Get away with ye, will ye, Ben Madden! I don’t want you asneaking about my stall to see what you can be laying your fingers on!” exclaimed Betty Wiggins, the cross old dame who sold biscuits and cakes at the corner of High Street.The poor orphan boy thus rudely addressed slunk back a pace or two from the tempting stall. His young heart was burning with anger, and indignant tears rose into his eyes. “I never in my life took what did not belong...

“Good for Evil” written by Charlotte Maria Tucker (A.L.O.E.) is about forgiveness. ------------------------------------ “Be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.”“He shall repent of it! if I die for it— he shall!” passionately exclaimed Philip, as he wiped the blood from his face, after a fight in which he had had the worst. “I’ll make him repent it!”“Why, what is the matter?” said his aged grandfather, who, attracted by the noise of the quarrel, had unperceived approached the angry boy.“Look what he has done!” cried Philip, pointing to a...

“A Friend in Need” written by Charlotte Maria Tucker (A.L.O.E.) is about friendship. --------------------------------------“Thine own friend, and thy father’s friend, forsake not.”—Proverbs 27:10.There was not a happier mother in the village than Mrs. Peters, nor a better son than her Robin. She had trained up her child in the way he should go, and it was now his delight to walk in it; she had not shrunk from correcting his faults, and he loved her the better for the correction; she had taught him from the Bible his duty towards his God, and from the same pages he had learned...