elders. Those elders, who care so little for rational enjoyment, and
are even the enemies of rational enjoyment for others, he had accepted
without understanding and without complaint, as the rest of us accept
the scheme of the universe." Miss Anna Buckland quotes in this
connection a story of a little boy to whom his mother showed a picture
of Daniel in the lions' den. The child sighed and looked much
distressed, whereupon his mother hastened to assure him that Daniel
was such a good man that God did not let the lions hurt him. "Oh,"
replied the little fellow, "I was not thinking of that; but I was
afraid that those big lions were going to eat all of him themselves,
and that they would not give the poor little lion down in the corner
any of him!"

It is well to remember the details with which you surrounded your
story when first you told it, and hold to them strictly on all other
occasions. The children allow you no latitude in this matter; they
draw the line absolutely upon all change. Woe unto you, scribes and
Pharisees, if you speak of Jimmy when "his name was Johnny;" or if,
when you are depicting the fearful results of disobedience, you lose
Jane in a cranberry bog instead of the heart of a forest! Personally
you do not care much for little Jane, and it is a matter of no moment
to you where you lost her; but an error such as this undermines the
very foundations of the universe in the children's minds. "Can Jane be
lost in two places?" they exclaim mentally," or are there two Janes,
and are they both lost? because if so, it must be a fatality to be
named Jane."

Perez relates the following incident: "A certain child was fond of a
story about a young bird, which, having left its nest, although its
mother had forbidden it to do so, flew to the top of a chimney, fell