girl whose feelings are hurt with the greatest facility, and who seems,
indeed, to have the susceptibilty of other ages as well as of her own--for
instance, she cannot endure without a flush of pain to hear herself
called fat. But she always brings her little wound to him who has
wounded her. The first confidant she seeks is the offender. If you have
laughed at her she will not hide her tears elsewhere than on your
shoulder. She confesses by her exquisite action at one her poor vanity
and her humility.

The worst of children in the country is their inveterate impulse to use
death as their toy. Immediately on their discovery of some pretty
insect, one tender child calls to the other "Dead it."

Children do not look at the sky unless it is suggested to them to do so.
When the sun dips to the narrow horizon of their stature, and comes to
the level of their eyes, even then they are not greatly interested.
Enormous clouds, erect, with the sun behind, do not gain their eyes. What
is of annual interest is the dark. Having fallen asleep all the summer
by daylight, and having awakened after sunrise, children find a stimulus
of fun and fear in the autumn darkness outside the windows. There is a
frolic with the unknown blackness, with the reflections, and with the
country night.




EXPRESSION


Strange to say, the eyes of children, whose minds are so small, express