Children -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile literature; Children's poetry; Children's stories; Conduct of life -- Juvenile literature
“It has its funny side,” said Mrs. Campbell, with a grave smile upon
her face, “but really, it has its sad side too. You are a very good
mimic, my son, and gave Celia’s voice and manner to perfection, in
doing which you have reminded me of her besetting sin. Have you never
noticed that the child, in her own estimation, is always led into
trouble through the fault of others? If she cannot blame Nora, or
Josie, or some of her playmates, why then poor Emeline Frances has to
bear it. I am really very much troubled by this habit of hers. To judge
from Celia’s statement of the case, she is forever led astray by the
evil propensities of other people. If it were true, it would be sad
enough, to have a child so easily led in the wrong way; but sometimes
there is as much foundation for her theory as there is in this case,
when the vanity of poor Emeline Frances is supposed to have caused all
the trouble. I have tried to reason the child out of such excuses, but
when she reaches the folly of actually blaming the doll for leading her
astray, I hardly know what to think of her.”
“It is a curious development,” said Celia’s father, “but I have known
older and wiser people than she to indulge in it; I knew a young man
once, who charged a moonlight night of unusual beauty with all the
folly of which he was guilty that evening.”
After this sentence Stuart Campbell finished his supper in silence,
with his eyes on his plate; but perhaps no one but his father knew that
his cheeks were redder than usual.
PANSY.
A VERITABLE POEM OF POEMS.
A LADY of San Francisco is said to have occupied a year in hunting up
and fitting together the following thirty-eight lines from thirty-eight
English-speaking poets. The names of the authors are given below:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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