. The peacock and the wishing-fairy and other stories . ELL a child stories of legends and of fairies, so thathe can hear the music of the little creatures of thewoods, and can sense the throbbing of the flowershearts; and you will have given him some-thing that will tint his whole life withbeauty—a beauty which sordid details ofthe world can not smother. The young mind should early be im-pregnated with the poetry of nature; forwithout doubt the impressions of baby-hood remain the most poignant of is my conviction that only by constant repetition in thesimple and direct wording familia
. The peacock and the wishing-fairy and other stories . ELL a child stories of legends and of fairies, so thathe can hear the music of the little creatures of thewoods, and can sense the throbbing of the flowershearts; and you will have given him some-thing that will tint his whole life withbeauty—a beauty which sordid details ofthe world can not smother. The young mind should early be im-pregnated with the poetry of nature; forwithout doubt the impressions of baby-hood remain the most poignant of is my conviction that only by constant repetition in thesimple and direct wording familiar to a child can big under-lying truths be accentuated in his forming mind. With this in view I have tried in the following sketches toestablish a certain animal fellowship, including a moral sig-nificance which the little one will unconsciously accept. I should like to see in every nursery a song-bird,a bowl of fish and a pot of growing flowers,—andwithout, the wide, wild fields and woods. CORRINNE THE ELEPHANT AND THE WISHING-FAIRY
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