Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-03-10
Tho Child's Story.
BY CHARLES DICKENS.

Once upon time. a good many years ago,
there was traveller and he set out on journey.
1t was magic journey. and was to seem very
long when h' begun il, aud very short when he
g"t halt way through
He travelled along a rather dark path for some
little time without meeting anything, until at
las, he came to beautiful child. So he said to
the child, What dn you do hero ?"
And The child said, IL am always at play
Cnne and play with me-"
Su he played with that chill the whole day
long. and hey were very merry. The sky was
10 blue, the sun was SO bright, the water was So
sparkling. the leaves were so green, the flowers
were so lovely, and they heard such singing
birds and saw so many butterflies that every
thing was beautiful. THIS was in fine weather.
When it rained. they loved to watch the falling
drops and to inhale the fresh odor. When it
blew, it was delightful TO listen to the wind, and
f,ncy what it said, as it came rushing from its
hume where was that, they wondered whist
ling and howling and driving the clouds before
u, bending the trees, runhl,ng IN the chWneys.
shaking the house and making the sea roar with
fury. Bnt when it showed, that was the hest Of
all for they liked nothing so well as TO look up
at the white fakes falling fast and thick, like
down from the breasts of millions of white bears
and to see how smooth and deep the diff was
and to listen to the hush upon the path and
ronds.
They had plenty Of the finest toys in the world,
|and the most astonishing picture-bonks, all about
snitars and tlrbans, and dwatfs and giants, and
genies and fniries, and bue-beards and beam
stalks, and riches and cHverns and forests, and
Valentines and Ofsons and all new and all
irue.
But one day, of a sudden. the traveller lost the
child. lie called to him over and over again
bul got M answer. 50 he went upon his Rad
aud went on for little while without meeting
,ntthing, until at last he came to II handsome
buy. Sp he said to the boy, " What do you
here?"
And the boy said. -" I am always learning.
Cone and learn with me-"
81 he learned with that boy about Jupiter anf
Juno, and the Greeks and the Romans and dom
know what, aud learned IN ire than could tell
or he either, for he soon forgot a great deal o
It. But they were not always learning they
hid the merriest games that ever we're played
They rowed upon the river IN summer, aud ska
red on the ice IN winter ihev were active f,o
and active on horseback at cricket aud al
games at bal--at prisoners base, hare ant
hounds, follow my leader, and more sports thai
! can think of; nobody could beat them. The,
had holydays, too and welfih cakes. too, an,
parties where they danced all night till mid
night, and real theatres where they saw palace
Of real gold and silver rise ont Of the real earth
md saw all the wonders of the world at once
Az to f,iends, they had such dear friends, aud q
many ot them, that want the time 10 recko
them up. They we're all yonng. like the hand
some buy, and were never to be strange to on
another all their lives through
! Sill, one day, in the midst Of all these pleas
ures. the traveller lost t.e boy as hu had lost tn
, child, and after calling upon him in vain wer
upon bis journey. so he went on for i,tl
, while without seeing anything until ut last h