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Some lads and lasses were dancing on the green before the house, while others of the young men were buying ribands, gloves, and such toys, of a pedlar at the door.

Many of the toys provided were carelessly trampled upon and broken: requests to put away things at the end of the day were almost unavailing. When the time for sleeping came in the afternoon many of the children refused to lie down: some consented but only to sing and talk as they lay. Only one, a child of 2-1/2, slept, because he cried himself to sleep from sheer strangeness.

When he went to school, he was a general favorite with teachers and pupils. The former loved him for his sweetness of disposition, and his remarkable proficiency in all studies, while the latter based their affection chiefly upon the fact that he never refused to assist any of them at their tasks, while with the pocket-knife which he carried he constructed toys which were their delight.

The windows rattled with shrapnel bursting 600 yards away. The house was jarred through and through by the concussion of a heavy battery firing over our heads. The room was like a toy-shop with a lot of small children sounding all the musical toys. The vibrators and the buzzers were like hoarse toy trumpets.

So all the toys kept quiet, and the noise came nearer and nearer and nearer, and then, all of a sudden, there rolled along the floor a toy Elephant on roller skates. "Hello! Hello there, my toy friends!" cried the Elephant through his trunk. "How are you all? And where is the White Rocking Horse? I'll have a race with him.

Persuaded by them, the cacique came and placed himself in the hands of Balboa, who treated him with much kindness. He brought and distributed gold and received in exchange beads and toys, with which he was so diverted that he no longer thought of anything but contenting and conciliating the strangers.

Besides, she was so fond of Cecilia, she had looked forward with innocent delight to the day; and a week before had taken the carriage to the neighbouring town to return with a carefully concealed basket of toys, dolls, sashes, and picture-books.

"He was new a little while ago, but Pete put him on a trapeze and made him do the giant's swing and now he's done for he's got a broken leg." "What are you going to do with him?" asked Sidney. "He's going to make me give him one of my toys in place of the Clown," answered Pete. "Of course it was my fault he broke I guess I didn't tie him on tight enough.

It is almost impossible to estimate the value of the treasures these halls contain. That of the gold and jewels alone must be many millions of dollars, and the amount of labor expended on these toys of royalty is incredible.

"Tomorrow I will go to find Him," she said; "tomorrow, when it is light, and I will carry Him some toys." So when it was morning Babouscka put on her long cloak, and took her staff, and filled a basket with the pretty things a baby would like gold balls, and wooden toys, and strings of silver cobwebs and she set out to find the Christ Child. But, oh!