Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-11-28
uoXs AND GIRLS.

Childhood days are often Very bright,
and childhood thoughts and savings are of
ten even brighter The remark Of little
fiye-year-old girl recently IS an example Her
younger brother had been plaguing her. and
she said, ' frankie, you re real naughty. If
ever get married and have anv children.
they sha mt call von uncle "
The pretty playgulne77 with which Little
children charm away the cares Of their pa
rentH Is illustrated by touching occurrence
in Indiana. boy Of six years, after watch
ing the aundry proceedings, and especially
the way in which the wrinkles in the linen
disappeared before the hat-iron. retired to
mediate in the room where his father was
taking his after-dinner nap. There gaz-
ing upon the furrows which years of strlg-
gle had made upon the marble brow of his
parent, he was seized by a beautiful idea
In less than a minute that devoted little boy
was smoothing out those marks of time and
sorrow with a very hot nat-iron Life does
not seem 50 happy to his Young heart now
as it used to.
\ Cairo school-boy refused, the other jav.
to multiply G3 by - Such stubbornness on
the part of the boy deserved reprimand, and
yet the people there complain because the
teacher thrashed him to death.-Lomsrilc
C0W.er-J01ru7l.
\ school girl, during her examination. re-
peatedly miscalled patriarchs, partridge.
hereupon one Of the arditcrs remarked
She Is making game Of patriarchs This
Sydney Smith -diJ was the most perfect pun
be knew
\ Detroit boy undertook to dry half
pound OF damp powder in an oyster can.
There was scarcely enough left Of him to
make third rate-conundrum.
Very few of the many who will take up
the -Chiid-Lile in Prose will get beyond
Mr.. Whittier charming preface and into
the content, Of the book without reading il;
every word If not the wiSest." " he writes.
''it appear to me that the happiest people
IN the world are those who still retain some
thing OF the chid'5 creative faculty Of ina
ginatiln, which mnkesatmos phere and color.
sun and sbaloW. and houndless horizon ont
of what seems To- Vrosaic wisdom most in
adequate material tutt Of grass, no>~y
rock, the rair-pool- Of passing shower,
glimrSe of sky and cloud watt Of west
wind, birds hatter and song. For the
child is always something OF n poet il he
cannot aualyze Ike Wordsworth and Tennv-
SON. the emotions which expand his being
even o. The iuinc-- uf life bursts upon the
petals ol q flower, he finds with them ali
nature plastic % bis eye and hand. The
soul of gcnius and the hear. Of childhood
are one .e' win 1o'en'Ty Ial-
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