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Show sa-"--"-""--------"-----"----- vm rwmrmm I j -CHILDREN'S DAV WITH ANT. Youngster's Pretty Idea of theQsthef-I theQsthef-I ing of the Small Creatures. I "Mamma, next Sunday Is to be Chll-I Chll-I drcu's day. Shall I have my new white 1 ilioss for that day? All the little glrle mo to be dressed In white." "Yes, Oeitrude, I will promise you your truss for that day." "And. shall 1 Have my dess, too?" asked two-year-jitd Roy, the little sunbeam ot the Isinlly. "Ob, you are only a little lilt ot a boy, Just the 'sunbeam' ot our !iome. You don't go to Sunday school, you know." "Can't I go Children's tiny, mamma? Can't I go, 'papa?" "Well, why not, little sunbeam, 1 uhould think you might on this great day for children." And so it was decided de-cided that little "Sunbeam" should go, It he would promise not to get tired, nnd also promise to be a "good boy," It was a very prouhd little boy who Joined with the infant class, and marched out into the main room, and tried to Join in with the singing. He watched the other classes march in two by two, and tt mad a very great Impression on him. On the following day he was playing In the grounds which surrounded his 'home, when he noticed what seemed to him to be an army of ants, all going In the same direction. He ran brenthless to his mother, calling: "Mamma, come quick, and seol It must bo children's day with tho ants." |