Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1854-01-27

g The following from glorious genial CLARKE
is too tempting. We must copy it for the benefit
of our readers who are not fortunate enough to
read ~ Old Knick."
Here they are again, the LITTLE FoLK-and
hearty Christmas-welcome TO them all . "The
more, the mcrrierr ~ If we cannot provide for
them all az one time, we viii ondeavor to do it
at another. By the bye. it has been well said
by one who read the thoughts and open hearts of
children as reads book, that A." grown per-
sons are apt to put lower estimate than is just
on the understandings Of children. They rate
them by what they know, and children krow very
little. But their capacity OF comprehension is
great. Hence the continual wonder of those who
are unaccustoned to them, at q The old fashioned
ways " Of some lone little one who has no play
fellows, and at the odd mixture of folly and Wis
dom in its sayings. A continual battle goes on
III a childs mind, between what it knows and
what it comprehends Its answers are foolish
from partial ignorance, and wise from extreme
quici:ness of apprehension. The great art of cd
ucaon is SC to train this last faculty as neither
to depress nor oycrcxert it. But ''let the child
ren come il, now:
lady one day observed her little boy of some
six summers, who playing in the garden,
showing signs ofanger: size said nothing, but he
soon came in, and approaching her, said:
. Ma, do the preuologists say we have swear
ng-punp in oUr heads ?''
His mother told him she did not know Of any:
when the little fellow remarked that his head
felt very queer, and he came near swearing: and
he added:
q Grand pa has got large bump on his head,
and hc swcars awfally sometimes ~
4 little girl had beautiful head fhair, which
hung in . clustering curls" down in her neck
One hot summer day, she went up stairs, and
cut ell the curls off. Coming down, she me: her
mother, who exclaimed, with surprise:
why, Mary what have you been doing to
your hair ?''
To which she responded, that L" she had cut it
OF and laid it away in her box, but that she in
tended 10 put it on again tomorrow, Is Aunt
Nancy did"
What do you learn at school 2" said to my
little boy, foGr years Of age.
8 Reading and spelling, Papa, if you please"
.' And what do the other boys learn ?'
oh! 'Ti.hmetic, and geography, and VeIOci-
pede."
" What vclocpede g.
Yes, papa; but not about wooden horses,
bat about other things"
Now what do you suppose he meant Phil
osopayl
Papa said the same little urchin to me,
when he was but three years old, and had just
begun to catch the phrases of older children-it
was the pensiye hour of twilight, and drawing
near his bed-time-'Pspa, viii you make pray
er for me, before | go to led 2''
q Yes, my darling, if you wish it ; but why
not let your mamma say your prayers for you,
as she does on other nights 7'
80, papa, don't want you 10 say those pray
ers: Our Father Now lay me : bat pray
yourself: make prayer TO God for me''
So l put up, with all ,ny heart, 4 serious Pc
ution 10 his Heavenly Father. for ra. Etal- -->-
lie listened attcntively, and, as ii seemed,
most seriously; but, just as concluded, he ex-
claimed, with eyes sparkling with mirth:
& Good, papa good Now pray again-pray
again GoH!"