| Show punishment en t of of children ildren Cl 1 I 1 t in the march number of ith 6 I 1 ali All antic the country parson ha has is a chaining charning 0 little essay on the sorrows of childhood n the course of which he makes these remarks an extremely wicked tricked way nf punishing pun ishin hildren is ia bv br a butting utting them hem tip up in a dark place darkness is naturally fearful toli toll uman beings and the stupid ghost st atries rles ries of many nu nurses roes make it specially fearful to a child it is 13 a stupid and wicked thing to send a child on a an n errand in a dark night I 1 do not remember passin passing j through a greater trial in iny than once three miles alone it was not going on an errand in the dark along a road thickly shaded with trees I 1 was a little fellow but I 1 got pot over the distance in half in an hour part of the way was alond alone the wall of a churchyard one of thoe ghastly we weedy edv neglected 1 accursed looking spots w where here stupidity has done hat it can to arld circumstances of disgust and horror to the christian christians 3 long sleep nobody ever sipp suppo oed ed that this thib walk was a trial to a boy of twelve years old so r 0 o little littie are th I 1 thoughts of chil chii iren understood and children are reticent I 1 am ain tellina now about that dismal walk for the tha very first tim and in the illness of chi childhood I 1 children sometimes sometime 9 get very close irid nd real views of death I 1 remember when I 1 was nine years old how every evening when I 1 lay jay down to sleep blepp I 1 used fon for fora fona about out a year to picture myself lying dead till I 1 felt as though the coffin were cosing closing around me I 1 used aused to read at that period with a aurous feeling of aasc nation nallon blairs beairs Gl airs poem the grave 1 but never dreamed of telling anybody about these thoughts I 1 belleve believe be leve that thoughtful children keep most ot of their th tb gughis to thein them elves elres and in respect of the things of which they think most are areas as p alone as ag the ancient biarl Alari mariner nerin in the pacific I 1 have chave ot meni meui an Me beiber iwer iber ot 2 a very brait strait sect of the charise Ph arise whose cilla when dying begged to be buried ro PO in a certain foul old oid hideous church yai but in a certain cheerful cemetery this request the creature mace with all the energy of te teror geror and despair but th the e sara strait t pharisee refused they dying request and pointed out I 1 with polemical bitterness bit ternes to the cid CIA c old oid nid d that he must be very wicked indeed to care at such a i time here where he lie was to be buried or what might be done with his body after death ilo iio how W II 11 I 1 shoud enjoy the spectacle of that unnatural heartless stupid wretch tarred and feathe redl redi the dying child was caring for a thim thing about which shakespeare Shak speare cared and alid it wita wai riot not in mere human weakness but by faith falth 1 that Jo jospph joseph epli when lie he was a dying gave commandment man dment concerning con cernin his bones 5 I 1 |
