. Jackanapes. with illus. by Randolph Caldecott. t, for it was bound for the Pond, and there-fore obliged to come back into line. He failed again fromtop-heaviness, and his prey escaped sideways as before,and, as before, lost ground in getting back to the directroad to the Pond. And at the Pond the Postman found them both, oneyellow thing rocking safely on the ripples that lie beyondduck-weed, and the other washing his draggled frock withtears, because he too had tried to sit upon the Pond, andit wouldnt hold him. iS CHAPTER III. , . If studious, copie fair what time hath blurred,Redeem truth
. Jackanapes. with illus. by Randolph Caldecott. t, for it was bound for the Pond, and there-fore obliged to come back into line. He failed again fromtop-heaviness, and his prey escaped sideways as before,and, as before, lost ground in getting back to the directroad to the Pond. And at the Pond the Postman found them both, oneyellow thing rocking safely on the ripples that lie beyondduck-weed, and the other washing his draggled frock withtears, because he too had tried to sit upon the Pond, andit wouldnt hold him. iS CHAPTER III. , . If studious, copie fair what time hath blurred,Redeem truth from his jawes ; if souldier,Chase brave employments with a naked swordThroughout the world. Fool not ; for all may have,If they dare try, a glorious life, or grave. In brief, acquit thee bravely : play the not on pleasures as they come, but not the least vertue : lifes poore spanMake not an ell, by trifling in thy thou do ill, the joy fades, not the well : the pain doth fade, the joy remains. George Herbert,. OUNG Mrs. Johnson,who was a mother of?many, hardly knewwhich to pity more;Miss Jessamine forhaving her little waysand her antimacassarsrumpled by a young Jackanapes ; or the boy himself, forbeing brought up by an old maid. Oddly enough, she would probably have pitied neither,had Jackanapes been a girl. (One is so apt to think thatwhat works smoothest works to the highest ends, havingno patience for the results of friction.) That Father inGod, who bade the young men to be pure, and the maidensbrave, greatly disturbed a member of his congregation, WHAT ARE LITTLE BOYS MADE OF? 19 who thought that the great preacher had made a slip ofthe tongue. That the girls should have purity, and the boyscourage, is what you would say, good Father ? Nature has done that, was the reply; I meant whatI said. In good sooth, a young maid is all the better for learningsome robuster virtues than maidenliness and not to movethe antimacassars. And the robuster vi
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