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Show CHILDREN'S QUESTIONS.-No doubt children are tiresome questioners, sometimes; but explain their perplexities to them as much as possible. When I was a little fellow, (said a worthy divine,) I once visited the city with my father. The round iron gates inlaid in the sidewalks attracted my wondering attention. Not knowing for what they were designed, they were gridirons to me; and I was in constant fear least I should stop on one and fall through into some concealed ?, or, at least, into some deep place, and either be burnt to death, or killed, or utterly lost to view forever. So that I got no idea of the great city, and saw nothing but the gridirons. To this day, I never walk over one without a smile at how they puzzled my young brain. I asked a question or two, and uttered more than one exclamation of fear and surprise about the gridirons, but received no answer, certainly no explanation, as my father hurried on; so that, when I had absolutely traveled across the great city, I got no impression of it but that it was a place full of awful gridirons. A word or two from my father would have been of great advantage to me, and spared me the terrors of the memorable walk. |