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Subido el 22 de mayo de 2020 por Blanca R.

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In the reign of good Queen Bess, there was an honest, industrious countryman named Meanwell, 00:00:00
who, living under a hard landlord, was cruelly turned out of his little farm, 00:00:08
which had enabled him to support a wife and two children, called Tommy and Marjorie. 00:00:16
care and misfortune soon shortened his days and his wife not long after followed him to the grave 00:00:22
at her death the two poor children were left in a sad plight and had to make all sorts of shifts 00:00:31
to keep themselves from starving they were also without proper clothes to keep them warm 00:00:40
and as for shoes they had not even two pairs between them. Tommy who had to go about more 00:00:48
than his sister had a pair to himself but little Marjorie for a long time wore but one shoe 00:00:57
but heaven had heard their dying mother's prayers and had watched over and protected them. Relief 00:01:06
was at hand, and better things were in store for them. It happened that Mr. Goodall, the clergyman 00:01:13
of the parish, heard of their sad wandering sort of life, and so he sent for the two children, 00:01:21
and kindly offered to shelter them until they could get regular work to do. Soon after this, 00:01:30
a gentleman came from London on a visit and no sooner did he hear the story of the orphan 00:01:37
than he resolved to be their friend. The first thing he did was to order a pair of shoes to be 00:01:45
made for Marjorie and he offered to take Tommy to London promising to put him in a way to do well 00:01:54
by going abroad. As the two children loved each other very dearly, Marjorie was in great trouble 00:02:02
when the time came for her brother to start and wept bitterly. But Tommy, in order to comfort her, 00:02:12
promised he would not fail to come back to see her when he should return from foreign countries. 00:02:20
After he was gone, Marjorie began to recover her usual cheerfulness. 00:02:28
But what helped greatly to put her into good spirits was the pleasure she took in her new shoes. 00:02:33
As soon as the shoemaker brought them, she put them on and ran at once to the clergyman's wife, 00:02:42
crying out with glee as she pointed to them, 00:02:51
two shoes ma'am see two shoes these words she kept on repeating to everybody she met 00:02:53
and so came to be called goody two shoes now marjorie was a thoughtful little girl and was 00:03:02
most anxious to learn to read and write when mr goodall saw this he kindly taught her what she 00:03:11
most wished to know, and in a short time she became a better scholar than any of the children 00:03:19
who went to the village school. As soon as she found that this was the case, she taught she would 00:03:26
try to teach such poor children as she could not go to school. Now as very few books were then 00:03:34
printed, she thought she could get over the difficulty by cutting out of wood six sets of 00:03:44
capital letters and ten sets of these common letters. When after much pains and troubles 00:03:52
she had finished all these wooden letters, she managed to borrow an old spelling book, 00:04:02
and with the help of this, she made her playmates set up the words she wished to spell. 00:04:09
One day, as Marjorie was coming home from the next village, she met some wicked idle boys 00:04:17
who had tied a young raven to a staff and were just going to throw stones at it. 00:04:25
She offered at once to buy the raven for a penny, and this they agreed to. 00:04:32
She then brought him home to the parsonage and gave him the name of Ralph, a fine bird he was. 00:04:40
Madge soon taught him to speak several words and also to pick up letters and even to spell a word or two. 00:04:51
Some years before Marjorie began to teach the poor cottagers' children, Sir Walter Weldon, a wealthy knight, had set up an elderly widow lady in a small school in the village. 00:05:01
This gentlewoman was at length taken ill and was no longer able to attend to her duties. 00:05:16
When Sir Walter heard of this, he sent for Mr. Goodall and asked him to look out for someone who would be able and willing to take Mrs. Gray's place as mistress of the school. 00:05:24
The worthy clergyman could think of no one so well qualified for the task as Marjorie Meanwell, who, though but young, was grave beyond her years and was growing up to be a comely maiden. 00:05:39
and when he told his mind to the knight Marjorie was at once chosen Sir Walter built a larger 00:05:54
schoolhouse for Marjorie's use so that she could have all her old pupils about her that liked 00:06:04
to come as well as the regular scholars. From this time no one called her goody two-shoes but 00:06:11
generally, Miss Marjorie, and she was more and more liked and respected by her neighbors. 00:06:20
Soon, after Marjorie had become mistress of the school, she saved a dove from some cruel boys, 00:06:27
and she called him Tom, in remembrance of her brother, now far away, and from whom she had 00:06:35
heard no tidings. About this time a lamb had lost its dam and its owner was about to have it killed. 00:06:42
When Marjorie heard of this she bought the lamb and brought it home. Some neighbors finding how 00:06:51
fond of such pets Marjorie was presented her with a nice playful little dog called Jumper 00:06:58
and also with a skylark now master ralph was a shrewd bird and a bit of a wag too and when will 00:07:05
the lamb and carol the lark made their appearance the knowing fellow picked out the following verse 00:07:15
to the great amusement of everybody early to bed and early to rise is the way to be healthy 00:07:22
wealthy, and wise. Miss Marjorie was ever on the lookout to be useful to her neighbors. 00:07:31
Now a traveler from London had presented her with a new kind of instrument, a rough-looking 00:07:38
barometer, but by the help of which she could often guess correctly how the weather would be 00:07:45
a day or two beforehand. This caused a great talk about the country, and so provoked were the people 00:07:54
of the distant villages at the better luck of the Moldwell folks, and they accused Miss Marjorie 00:08:04
of being a witch, and sent old Nicky Noodle to go and tax her with it, and to scrape together 00:08:12
whatever evidence he could against her when this wiseacre saw her at her school door with her 00:08:20
raven on one shoulder and the dove on the other the lark on her head and the lamb and little dog 00:08:29
by her side the sight took his breath away for a time and he scampered off crying out a witch 00:08:36
a witch a witch she laughed at the simpleton's folly and called him jocosely a conjurer for his 00:08:44
pains but poor miss marjorie did not know how much folly and wickedness there was in the world 00:08:54
and she was greatly surprised to find that her half-witted nicky noodle had got a warrant against 00:09:01
her. At the meeting of the justices, before whom she was summoned to appear, many of her neighbors 00:09:09
were present, ready to speak up for her character if needful. But it turned out that the charge 00:09:17
made against her was nothing more than Nicky's idle tale that she was a witch. Nowadays, it seems 00:09:24
strange that such a thing could be, but in England, at that period, so fondly styled by some 00:09:32
the good old times, many silly and wicked things were constantly being done, especially by the rich 00:09:39
and powerful against the poor. Such things as would not now be born. It happened that among the 00:09:47
justices who met to hear this charge against Miss Marjorie, there was but one silly enough to think 00:09:56
there was any ground for it his name was shallow and it was he who had granted the warrant but she 00:10:03
soon silenced him when he kept repeating that she must be a witch to foretell the weather 00:10:10
besides harboring many strange creatures about her by explaining the use of her weather glass 00:10:16
fortunately her patron sir walter weldon was well acquainted with the use of the new instrument 00:10:25
When he had explained its nature to his foolish brother Justice, he turned the whole charge into ridicule and gave Miss Marjorie such a high character that the Justices not only released her at once, but gave her their public thanks for the good services she had done in their neighborhood. 00:10:33
one of these gentlemen Sir Edward Lovell who was a widower fell ill and requested Miss Marjorie to 00:10:54
take charge of his house and look after his dear children having taken counsel with her kind old 00:11:04
friend the clergyman she consented to this and quite won Sir Edward's respect and admiration 00:11:13
by her skill and tenderness in nursing home and by the great care she took of his children. 00:11:21
By the time that Sir Edward fully regained his health, he had become more and more attached to 00:11:28
Miss Marjorie. It was not then to be wondered at that when she talked of going back to her school, 00:11:35
he should offer her his hand in marriage. This proposal took her quite by surprise but she really 00:11:42
loved Sir Edward and her friends Sir Walter and Mr Goodall advised her to accept him telling her 00:11:51
she would then be able to do many more good works than she had ever done before. All things having 00:11:59
then settled and the day fixed the great folks and others in the neighborhood came in crowds to see 00:12:08
the wedding for glad they were that one who had ever since she was a child been so deserving was 00:12:16
to be thus rewarded just as the bride and bridegroom were about to enter the church 00:12:25
Their friends, assembled outside, were busily engaged in watching the progress of a horseman, 00:12:32
handsomely dressed and mounted. 00:12:40
He was galloping up a distant slope leading to the church, 00:12:43
as eagerly as if he wanted to get there before the marriage. 00:12:47
This gentleman, so elegantly dressed, proved to be no other than Margaret's brother, 00:12:52
our former acquaintance, Little Tommy. 00:12:58
just returned with great honor and profit from a distant foreign country when they had recovered 00:13:01
from this pleasant surprise the loving couple returned to the altar and were married to the 00:13:08
satisfaction of all present after her happy marriage lady lovell continued to practice 00:13:14
all kinds of good and took great pains in increasing and improving the school of which 00:13:22
she had been the mistress, and placed there a poor but worthy scholar and his wife to preside over it. 00:13:28
The End 00:13:37
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22 de mayo de 2020 - 17:39
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