. The toy shop; a romantic story of Lincoln the man . THE THE TOY-SHOP HE Man was leaving his own frontdoon On the steps he paused andlooked sombrely back^ The whitepillars of the facade rose beforehim in stately fashion* They re-minded him of the care he was evading forthe momentt and he sighed* Though he shuthis eyes determinedly, he knew that anothergrim building just beyond, the usual end ofhis journeying, demanded him, and he sighedagain* This time there was something morethan weariness in the sound* From around the corner of the house,which almost hid from view the white tents3.
. The toy shop; a romantic story of Lincoln the man . THE THE TOY-SHOP HE Man was leaving his own frontdoon On the steps he paused andlooked sombrely back^ The whitepillars of the facade rose beforehim in stately fashion* They re-minded him of the care he was evading forthe momentt and he sighed* Though he shuthis eyes determinedly, he knew that anothergrim building just beyond, the usual end ofhis journeying, demanded him, and he sighedagain* This time there was something morethan weariness in the sound* From around the corner of the house,which almost hid from view the white tents3. THE TOY-SHOP of the Home Guards ran a child. He wasbright-facedt and magnificent in a minia-ture officer^s uniform. ** Oht papa-dayr^ he cried. ** Never mindthe curtains for my stage. You are alwaystoo busy now to see my plays, anyway—He interrupted himself to fling this in petu-lantly: But get lots of soldiers—and onecompany of cavalry. I cant get him sur-rounded without two more companies—andsix cannon The child lisped so in his eagerness thatno one but his father could have under-stood him, and his father was so lost inhis gloomy thought that he did not knowthe child had spoken. When the expectedreply did not come, the boy looked hiswonder. Papa-day—papa-day!^ he cried, givingthe man a little push. I want somesoldiers!^ 4 THE TOY-SHOP Startled oat of his sadness, the fatherlooked at the child^ Soldiers? All right, son; Fm off for awalk now* I saw a shop the other day/ He walked off* It was not a beatrtifulstreet down which he turned* Even thefine width of it suggested an in
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