The new way, now successfully initiated, is to form play groups of happy children under the leadership of capable young women trained for such work.

If we could find eggs and violets too, what happy children we were!

To tell the happy children That once again 'tis spring.

"How did two such cranky old things ever have such happy children!"

everybody glad to see everybody else ... happy children, happy teachers ...

If the world held more such women, there would be more happy children and contented husbands.

Ah, rather let us now in lovely June O'erlook these happy children at their play: Lo, where they gambol through the garden gay, Or round the hoary hawthorn dance and sing, Or, 'neath yon moss-grown cliff, grotesque and grey Sit plaiting flowery wreaths in social ring, And telling wondrous tales of the green Elfin King.

Who of all God's happy children that he had kept from sin would have gone to her and said, "My sister, his love holds room for you and me"; have touched her with her woman's hand, held out to her her woman's help, and blessed her with her woman's prayers and tears?

It is well, while enjoying Donatello's work, to remember that Prato is only half an hour from Florence, and that there may be seen the open-air pulpit, built on the corner of the cathedral, which Donatello, with Michelozzo, his friend and colleague, made at the same time that the cantoria was in progress, and which in its relief of happy children is very similar, although not, I think, quite so remarkable.

"Thou art more fortunate and great" (so [3660]Jovius writes to Cosmo de Medici, then Duke of Florence) "for thy virtues, than for thy lovely wife, and happy children, friends, fortunes, or great duchy of Tuscany."

" "Happy children!" said he, after a pause, and half to himself, "who have such a mother to bring them up.

They were barefooted; their scant clothing was little more than rags and tatters; they did not look much like her own happy children, whom she had cared for so well.

TREAT TO THE CHILDREN.The most interesting and truly exciting scene of all in Trelawny, was the spectacle of some hundreds of happy children dining.

They were not building a grotto, they were dancing, and jumping, and laughing, in the full merriment of good healthy happy children.

And, while Sally Migrundy remains a tiny little lady only two feet high, she has as much happiness inside as if she were as large as a great big mountain, for as you have probably also guessed, she is a fairy and can have as much room inside for happiness as the little magic cottage could have room inside for all the happy children.

" So Matilda's house was soon surrounded with beautiful flowers and her house echoed with the fun and laughter of happy children.

Such rows of happy children are seldom seen, and all because two cents worth of gingerbread was given to them all alike!

Then the fish lie glittering in the shallow pools, as good as caught, and happy children go home with strings of sunfish,"pumpkin-seeds" they call them,cat-fish, and the like picturesque unprofitable spoils, while graver fisher-folk take count of pickerel and bream.

With feast and song and dance and homely sport, And shout of happy children in the court, And tales of ghost and fay?

Unique old buildings, with half their centuries unrecorded and lost in oblivion, stand to this day in good repair, as the homes of happy children, who play at marbles and the last sports of the day just as if they were born in houses only a year older than themselves.

May the rustling harvest hedgerow Still the Traveller's Joy entwine, And as happy children gather Posies once mine.

Not one of the myriads of happy children listened more intently to the clock clanging off hour after hour than the silent, stern man who had no hope in that day that was coming.

For weeks the happy children of the many Grandissime branchesthe Mandarins, the St. Blancards, the Brahminshad been standing with their uplifted arms apart, awaiting the signal to clap hands and jump, and still, from week to week, the appointed day had been made to fall back, and fall back beforewhat think you?an inability to understand Honoré.

They are "a discipline of humanity," and may sometimes ameliorate even a coarse and vulgar nature, just as the cherub faces of innocent and happy children are sometimes found to soften and purify the corrupted heart.

And groups of happy children played Around the verge of each cascade; Or gambol'd o'er the flowery lea In wanton mirth and joyous glee; Pursuing, o'er the sparkling lawn, The insect in its airy flight, Which still eludes, but tempting on From flower to flower, with plumage bright, The hand that woos to stay its flight Till soaring high, on pinions wild It leaves the charm'd and tearful child.