| Show why she want afraid the fresh air children see aba country with their own eyes not with yours or mine they steadily refuse to gratify the taste of sentimental and exacting persons by becoming morbidly loat in marvel or rapt in poetic fancy occasionally sio nally one finds a child whose mind is sensitive and who develops rare appreciation of the beauty of living close to the heart of things but usually these charity children enjoy whatever cornea to them in just the same unreflecting prosaic wholesome way that we find most gratifying and healthful in our own children very strange and wonderful everything ia to them to be sure but in a land where everything is strange and wonderful one loses sight of special marvel A peculiar and di hailstorm once swept over a farm where a dozen children were staying the children of the household were terrified but the little visitors were perfectly calm 1 I thought maybe it always rained sharp glass in the country said one little girl when they asked her why ehe afraid harpers bazar |
