Babyhood . t my little folkshard at work with happy faces. The boy who delighted in his liberty to runin the rain was sent to gather flowers and leavesof certain plants, while the little girl scamperedup-garret for a roll of remnant these I selected two large sheets sprinkledwith flowers and birds in light colors. Tears,peevishness, rain, all-out-doors were forgotten, BABYHOOD, 4° 5 as with happy faces my two little people busiedthemselves over their work of cutting prettyfigures from the wall-paper and staining thembright colors with the flowers Frankie had gath-ered. They
Babyhood . t my little folkshard at work with happy faces. The boy who delighted in his liberty to runin the rain was sent to gather flowers and leavesof certain plants, while the little girl scamperedup-garret for a roll of remnant these I selected two large sheets sprinkledwith flowers and birds in light colors. Tears,peevishness, rain, all-out-doors were forgotten, BABYHOOD, 4° 5 as with happy faces my two little people busiedthemselves over their work of cutting prettyfigures from the wall-paper and staining thembright colors with the flowers Frankie had gath-ered. They worked on duplicate figures at the same jtime, taxing their ingenuity trying to outdo each single houses, passenger-station, freight-depotrcoal-sheds, railroad-train, canal-boats, monitor,passenger-steamer, lighthouse, etc., and, in ad-dition to the plan designated on the map, maybe arranged in various other ways. With abox of sand, real hills and streets may beformed and the buildings, etc., set in other in producing gay results. Satiny, gray jstorks craned their necks high when made bril-liant with scarlet wings, yellow heads, sky-blue Itail-feathers, green legs, and black feet that acoal from the ash-pit had produced. What funit was to experiment with the leaves and blos-soms damp and fresh from the garden, and howwell did mamma know that tear-drop and sweet-flag blossoms would stain pretty shades of blueand purple ; dandelions and buttercups brightyellow ; nasturtiums every color their blossomsrepresented ; and that of all the green leavesgathered those of the 4 pig-weed stained thebrightest, clearest green ! Contented and happy, they worked away, andso did I over my cake-board, with no demandson my time and patience. The rain-drops pat-tered against the windows unnoticed; all wassunshine indoors for my small people, whowere intent on preparing colored pictures withwhich to cover boxes—a work which will keepthem busy more than one rainy day. Madison, Me. Clarissa
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