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They regarded their teacher’s strenuous efforts to furnish a key to the acquirement of the alphabet with the amused superiority of "grown-ups" watching infant antics with pencil and paper. Meanwhile her fear of the class increased in proportion as her ability to hold its attention diminished. The backbone of the school was plainly wilting.

So we put on the light again and looked it up in "The Reader's Handbook," because we didn't want to bother the grown-ups, and we found, of course, that she was the Roman lady who pointed at her sons and said, "These are my jewels!" when somebody asked her where her gold and ornaments were.

She soon got accustomed to her new estate; when they were invited out, she would take her knitting with her and sit herself with the grown-ups. "Won't you go with the young people?" Lars Peter would say. "They're playing on the green tonight." She went, but soon returned.

When our grown-ups returned almost the first words Aunt Janet said were, "And so you had the Governor's wife to tea?" We all stared at her. "I don't know what you mean," said Felicity. "We had nobody to tea except Great-aunt Eliza. She came this afternoon and " "Great-aunt Eliza? Nonsense," said Aunt Janet. "Aunt Eliza was in town today. She had tea with us at Aunt Louisa's. But wasn't Mrs.

The Kid wriggled uncomfortably in the saddle and glanced at the narrow-browed face of H. J. Owens, who was looking this way and that at the enfolding hills and scowling abstractedly. The Kid was only six, but he was fairly good at reading moods and glances, having lived all his life amongst grown-ups. "It's a pretty far ways to them baby bear cubs," he remarked. "I bet you're lost, old-timer.

"Undoubtedly." "When I think of how simple I used to think it all was! One grew up and got married, and and perhaps had children. And when one got very old, one died. Lately, I've been seeing that life really consists of exceptions children who don't grow up, and grown-ups who die before they are old.

They must wonder why "grown-ups" have such an infatuation for things that seem out of place and inappropriate in life as they consider it worth living. Probably it is on this account that so many artificial rewards and inducements have had to be brought in to sustain their efforts. Physical exercise is a joy to healthy children, but it leaves nothing behind as a result.

People are always fussing and telling one to save up for old age. I think it matters far more to have things nice in one's youth. I get a hundred and thirty a year, and have to keep myself all the year round and help to educate a young sister. We are orphans, and the grown-ups have to keep her between us. I couldn't save if I wanted to, so what's the use of worrying?

It was all very well so long as they held themselves still. But what if one of them should suddenly stretch forth a hand and seize somebody? There was no special danger for grown-ups and old people; but Jan had always heard that the trolls had a great fondness for small children the smaller the better. It seemed to him that Katrina was holding the little girl very carelessly.

Aunt Janet says that I'd have no bringing up at all, if it wasn't for her. Aunt Olivia says children should just be let COME up that everything else is settled for them long before they are born. I don't understand that. Do you?" No, we did not. But it was our experience that grown-ups had a habit of saying things hard to understand. "What is Uncle Roger like?" was our next question.