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Show Johnson and the Smart Children. Full of indignation against such parents par-ents as delight to produce their young ones early into the talking world, Samuel Sam-uel Johnson gave a good deal of pain, by refusing to hear the verses the children chil-dren could recite, or the songs they could sing. One friend told him that his two sons should repeat Gray's Elegy to him alternately, that he might judge who had the happiest cadence. ca-dence. "No, pray, sir," said he, "let the dears both speak at once." |