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Or perhaps "big sister" is happy on her birthday. Again, the three-year-old is likely to show happiness also, and the wise mother will help the child by a timely word to take the step from reflex imitation of happiness to true sympathy. Nor must we overlook the occasions when some one in the nursery has been "naughty" and must be punished. "Poor Bobby!
Come, naughty little girl, get your father his hat." "And umbrella!" said Riccabocca, looking up at the cloudless, moonlit sky. "Umbrella against the stars?" asked the parson, laughing. "The stars are no friends of mine," said Riccabocca, "and one never knows what may happen!" The philosopher and the parson walked on amicably.
There was a flick of wings, and in, through the open window, flew the robin. First he perched on the marble hand of the Madonna. Then, with a joyful chirp, dropped straight to the couch on which lay Mary Antony. At sound of that chirp, Mary Antony opened her eyes, and saw her much loved little bird hopping gaily on the coverlet. "Hey, thou little vain man!" she said. "Ah, naughty Master Pieman!
And because, when the bridge was a building, a great storm wrecked it, he bade flog the naughty waves of the sea. Then, the bridge being finished, he passed over with his host, which took seven days to accomplish. And when they were come to Doriscus he numbered them, and found them to be 1,700,000 men, besides his fleets.
Friends and acquaintances alike in those days laughed at Keely's claims, and denounced his boasted discovery as pure imposture. "'Tisn't! 'Tisn't! 'Tisn't!" that persistent little voice kept whispering in my ear all the time, like a naughty, obstinate child who contradicts from sheer ignorance or was it a spiritual intuition?
Yet I was sure that I loved my father and mother, even when I was naughty, Was He harder to please than they? Then I heard of a dreadful dark Somewhere, the horror of which was that it was away from Him. What if I should wake some morning, and find myself there? Sometimes I did not dare to go to sleep for that dread. And the thought was too awful to speak of to anybody.
No matter how naughty I am, and spoil weddings, they don't say, 'You hateful thing!" "Would it make you a better child, do you think, Dotty, to be scolded when you do wrong?" "Why, no, indeed, mamma. It's all that makes me not be the wickedest girl in this city, is 'cause you are so good to me; I know it is." Mrs. Parlin kissed the little mouth that said these sweet words.
Well, I am sure papa is glad that his little sunbeam is to have a pretty plant to tend; and if she smiles as sweetly at it as she does at her papa, it will be a very naughty plant indeed if it does not soon have a great many beautiful flowers." "Do you know, papa," said Mrs.
No, nor even then," he added, drawing her closer to him, "for even should you grow very naughty and troublesome, you would still be my child a part of myself and of my lost Elsie, and therefore very dear to me." "Ah! papa, how could I ever bear to lose your love? I think I should die," she said, dropping her head on his breast, with almost a sob.
"Oh, naughty baby!" she said, with a voice of such admiration and ecstasy as the finest poetry, Jock reflected, would never have awoke in her; and when the thing "loved" her, at its nurse's bidding, clasping its fat arms round her neck, and applying a wide-open wet mouth to her cheek, the tears were in her eyes for very pleasure. "Baby, darling, that is your uncle; won't you go to your uncle?
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