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"IT'S very hard to have nothing to eat but porridge, when others have every dainty," muttered Charlie, as he sat with his wooden bowl before him. "It's very hard to have to get up so early on these bitter cold mornings, and work hard all day, when others can enjoy themselves without an hour of labor! It's very hard to have to trudge along through the snow, while others roll about in their coaches!"
"It's a great blessing," said his grandmother, as she sat reading her Bible, "it's a great blessing to have food, when so many are hungry; to have a roof over one's head, when so many are homeless; it's a great blessing to have sight, and hearing, and strength, for daily labor, when so many are blind, deaf, or suffering."
"Why, grandmother, you seem to think that nothing is hard," said the boy, still in the grumbling tone.
"No, Charlie, there is one thing that I think very hard."
"What is that? " cried Charlie, who thought that at last his grandmother had found some cause for complaint.
"Well, Charlie, I think that heart is very hard that is not thankful for so many blessings. "