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Show LANGUAGE AND THE BOY With His Small Command of Idioms Child Mutt De Allowed Latitude. A child, with its meager store of lnngungc is somewhnt in tho position of the fabled woodchttck, which was simply obliged to climb n tree, whether it Could do bo in harmony with the facts of natural history or not. He must express himself with what language is immediately at his command, or fail in more or loss serious se-rious degree to express himolf at nil; and so his little storo must be I rented ns 'thoroughly plastic, just as (he language of his race, m its earlier stages, was plastic. The existence ex-istence of whiten, "to' make white," is nil tho justification ho needs for smnllcn, 'to make small," or lowcn, "to make low." "Jimmic Jones hasn't grown much since ho was here before," says someone. "Why, I really believe he's ungrowned some," answers my younger, expressing express-ing his thought clearly 'and fully, and delightfully unconscious of tho fact that linguistic authorities do not recognize tho right of this handy prefix to attach itself to this particular particu-lar verb. Ought L to have stopped him right there nnd loaded his unde- eloped memory with parallel columns col-umns of words which do nnd do not admit tho prolix ttn-? If I had done so his brother would probably not hnve ventured to ask," a 'little .later, how people make ttn-handpiinlod china, nnd his knowledge would Ipvo been loss to-dny by the small nnio'tnt of information which I was able to give him on that subject. Atlantic. |