The same One holds us in His love:
Both you so great, and I so small,
Are safe,--He sees the sparrow's fall,--
The dear God watcheth over all!"




WHEN I WAS A LITTLE GIRL.

OUR FROGGERY.

"Turn back observantly into your own youth, and awaken, warm, and
vivify the eternal youth of your mind."--FROEBEL.


When I was a little girl my sister and I lived in the country. She was
younger than I, and the dearest, fattest little toddlekins of a sister
you ever knew. She always wanted to do exactly as I did, so that I had
to be very careful and do the right things; for if I had been naughty
she would surely have been naughty too, and that would have made me
very sad.

As we lived in the country we had none of the things to amuse us that
city children have. We couldn't walk in crowded streets and see people
and look in at beautiful shop-windows, or hear the street-organs play
and see the monkeys do tricks; we couldn't go to dancing school, nor
to children's parties, nor to the circus to see the animals.

But we had lovely plays, after all.