# The Broken Window - Source: McGuffey's Second Reader (second-reader.gutenberg.org), Public domain, William Holmes McGuffey, 1879, via Project Gutenberg - Reading level: Grades 1 and 2 - Subjects: Stories - Topics: george, ellet, said, told, window, broken - Length: 269 words, about 2 min - Original: - Page: - Open in Sprouts: THE BROKEN WINDOW. (CONCLUDED.) - George started off, and felt much happier for having made up his mind to do what was right. - He rang the doorbell. When the man came out, George said, "Sir, I threw a snowball through your window. But I did not intend to do it. I am very sorry, and wish to pay you. Here is the dollar my father gave me as a New- year gift." - The gentleman took the dollar, and asked George if he had no more money. George said he had not. "Well," said he, "this will do." - So, after asking George his name, and where he lived, he called him an honest boy, and shut the door. - George went home at dinner time, with a face as rosy, and eyes as bright, as if nothing had gone wrong. At dinner, Mr. Ellet asked him what he had bought with his money. - George very honestly told him all about the broken window, and said he felt very well without any money to spend. - When dinner was over, Mr. Ellet told George to go and look in his cap. He did so, and found two silver dollars there. - The man, whose window had been broken, had been there, and told Mr. Ellet about it. He gave back George's dollar and another besides. - A short time after this, the man came and told Mr. Ellet that he wanted a good boy to stay in his store. - As soon as George left school, he went to live with this man, who was a rich merchant. In a few years he became the merchant's partner. ## Picture credits - illustrator not named in this edition, Public domain () - illustrator not named in this edition, Public domain ()