It was a world he got a glimpse of quite different from that sharp twofold world of the workers and the money-power, a world of infinite gradations, a world merely the child of the past, where high and low were pushed by the resistless pressure of environment, and lives were shaped by birth, chance, training, position, and a myriad, myriad indefinable forces.

It was only when the latter alighted in the Rue de Miromesnil that she began to lament, on seeing that it was already half-past five o'clock, for she felt certain that she would miss her train, particularly as she still had some accounts to settle and that other child upstairs to fetch.

Ogden Nash (A); 25Jan63; R309274. Ode to C. B. E., practically the only new male child I know of.

" Mr. GEORGE A. AVERY, an elder in the fourth Congregational Church, Rochester, N.Y., who spent four years in Virginia, says, "The slave children, very commonly of both sexes, up to the ages of eight and ten years, and I think in some instances beyond this age, go in a state of disgusting nudity.

At length one evening, after the three younger children bad gone to bed, and the eldest was industriously studying his lessons for the next day, she ventured.

Imagine the case of a husband who thinks the use of contraceptives right and wishes to use them; and a wife who thinks them absolutely wrong and, being warned by the doctor that she must not have more children, cheerfully, and with perfect conviction that she is acting nobly, invites her husband to run the risk of causing her death!

So when she hath saved my master despite himself, sweet saint, then do thou join them heart and body, give them joy abounding and happiness enduring, nor forget them in the matter of comely children.

I was tremblingexcitement, of courseonly children and women and foreigners ever feel afraid!

The poor child's dreadfully in love.

Brandon was surprised to see how earnestly the two elder children, while he talked, had been looking at him, and then at their father and Valentine.

Now it is doubtless true that we inhale more oxygen, or at least inhale it less drenched with damp, than the people of Europe, and are, therefore, more emphatically children of fire than they.

Do you not think, to see my children, as I do now around me, walking in that path which alone can lead to eternal life, and leading their offspring with them, bringing up so tenderly, so fondly their children as heirs of immortality, and yet lavishing on me, as on their father, the love and duty of former yearsis not this a precious recompense for all which for them I may have done or borne?

Then spake the first king, and he said: "O Child, most heavenly, bright, and fair!

The children hereabout, at any rate, will revere the Russians, for their pioneers had carried that winding stairway up to the very tip-top of the tree in a manner only seen in dreams or picture-books.

Angus M'Lachlan was a son of the Manse, and incidentally a child of Nature.

The negro woman said then that her master had just sold her to a man that was to take her far away from her present owner and incidently her children.

On the part of the Germans and Scandinavians, amalgamation has been so speedy, and in the end so complete, that most of those who have been here some time, and invariably the children of the first-comers, are Americans through and through.

O thou whose wound was deepest, Thou that my children keepest, Priam, Priam, O age-worn King, Gather me where thou sleepest.

" "No," said the poor child naively; "and we've been so goodso very goodsince we heard it.

" Kurt laughed out loud: "Oh, you naughty child to talk so wild!

Here, sitting round a table under a tree, we came upon a family group, consisting of a little plump, bald-headed bourgeois with his wife and two childrenthe wife stout and rosy; the children noisy and authoritative.

"Why, every child north of the Line knows that.

You used to laugh and say the whole thing was child's play and there was nothing to fear, and I believed you,I thought you were so wise, but it was easy to believe you then with your arms folded close about me and the sunlight streaming through the windows and the shouts of the children outside, but now you cannot go with me and I am afraid to go alone."

"I'll put the shutters up now, and leave the door ajar, and the gas lit for mother to see when she comes back; and if mother shouldn't come back to night, the little woman will sleep in my bed, won't she?" "Dolly's to be a good girl till mammy comes back," said the child, plaintively, and holding harder by Beppo's ear.

Presumably some Belgian child, fleeing with her parents before the German advance, dropped it there, and later a wagon or perhaps a cannon came along and ran over it.