Hear what the Moon told me:--

"I have seen a cadet promoted to be an officer, and dressing himself for
the first time in his gorgeous uniform; I have seen young girls in
bridal attire, and the prince's young bride in her wedding dress: but I
never saw such bliss as that of a little four-year-old girl whom I
watched this evening. She had got a new blue dress, and a new pink hat.
The finery was just put on, and all were calling for light, for the
moonbeams that came through the window were not bright enough. They
wanted very different lights from that. There stood the little girl,
stiff as a doll, keeping her arms anxiously off her dress, and her
fingers stretched wide apart. Oh! what happiness beamed from her eyes,
from her whole face. 'To-morrow you may go to walk in the dress,' said
the mother; and the little one looked up at her hat and down again at
her dress, and smiled blissfully. 'Mother,' she cried, 'what will the
little dogs think when they see me in all these fine clothes?'"




THE LOVERS

From 'Riverside Literature Series': 1891, by Houghton, Mifflin & Co.


The Top and the Ball lay in a drawer among some other toys; and so the
Top said to the Ball:--"Shall we not be lovers, since we live together
in the same drawer?"