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Updated: June 2, 2025
"Bows and arrows," cried the boys, performing a grotesque war dance about the weapons. "We'll be real Indians now, won't we?" chortled Chunky. "They are only playthings," sniffed Ned. "What good are they when we have real rifles?" "You'll find these bows and arrows real enough," answered the guide.
The more I reflected upon the matter the clearer it grew in my own mind that Krespel must be a villain, and in the same proportion did my intended reproach, which assumed of itself the form of a real rhetorical masterpiece, wax more fiery and more impressive. Thus equipped and mightily incensed, I hurried to his house. I found him with a calm smiling countenance making playthings.
The boys also learn by heart the wise sayings of great men. The boys in Korea have some very nice toys. But the best playthings they have are their kites. They make their kites fight battles in the air, just as the boys do in Japan. Every boy tries to tear down every other boy's kite. This is done by pulling the strings across one another.
Xanthe now took his hand and drew him away, saying: "Yes, you must come; the pole of my cart is broken." Phaon had been so accustomed to be always called upon whenever there were any of the little girl's playthings to mend that he obeyed, and the next day allowed her to persuade him to do many things for which he felt no inclination.
The woods were full of bears and panthers and wolves, and they felt sure that some time the wicked children would be eaten up by them. "They did everything they could think of to make it so pleasant for the children that they would stay at home. They made bows and arrows for the boys, and Indian dolls for the girls, and all sorts of playthings for all of them, but it did no good.
Breakfast was just over, and Captain Chubb had gone on deck, while the wind was howling furiously as if in a rage to find its playthings, some two or three hundred vessels of different tonnage, safely moored in the shelter of the harbour, and out of its power to toss here and there and pitch so many helpless ruins to be beaten to pieces upon the shore.
"He said the vessel had been armed with two twelve-pounders, and we have not even one. I suppose she has the other on the starboard side. If she had half a dozen of those playthings she might do something." "She may do a deal of mischief with two of them if they are well handled," suggested Louis.
Every element of an unexhausted soil, and all the achievements of a people let loose upon it to settle, build, sow, and reap, with no master but ambition and no dread but of poverty, and a long list of rights thrust suddenly into their hands, with liberty to exercise them, the right to vote, to speak, to print, to be tried by jury, all this margin for unfettered action, even the corresponding vastness of the country itself, whose ruggedest features and greatest distances were playthings of the popular energy, to love and extol these things were held by us equivalent to having a native land and feeding a patriotic flame.
The same thing is conspicuous, though less purely conspicuous, throughout his singing; it is the child's faculty of make-believe raised to the nth power. He is still at play, save only that his play is such as manhood stops to watch, and his playthings are those which the gods give their children. The universe is his box of toys. He dabbles his fingers in the day-fall.
It was thought that some boy must have run off with a penny, or some visitor changed a bad shilling; but no, there was no such good reason to give for it. The yearning of all ages, especially dotage, is for a relapse to the infantile state when all playthings were held in common.
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