Leo children are quick to observe any duplicity or inconsistency on the part of those around them, and will meet it with corresponding hypocrisy and a deep cunning.
Sang the Hebrew Children in Lieu of Our Parable from the Pages of Mother Goose.
Which of the two candidates is likely to be preferred by a workman who hears his children cry for bread?
With that love of children that always characterized him, the old hero took upon his knee a fair-haired boy.
None of these children should feel above the others because their parents happened to be richer and more distinguished than those of their humbler brethren and sisters, because before God's throne they were all equal.
It already began to grow dark when the childrenwere called back.
The youngest at her breast, the two other children crying near her, she stepped into the vehicle which was to lead her towards her new fate, which, alas!
And then the children were allowed to go to the bushes and pick gooseberries for themselves.
The troop of children hastened to throw themselves into the arms of their parents, and a kindly glance greeted him from Elsbeth's eyes.
Your father is a sort of vagabond, a ruined man, who has to roam about the streets with his wife and his three children till he has found a place where he can completely ruin himself and his family.
That's where lazy children are hanged," explained his father.
There were not many children there, and when he sat down opposite to her she made a half movement as if she meant to get up and come over to him; but she sat down again immediately and went on learning.
The two children often walked home together, but such an hour as the one beneath the juniper-bush never came to them again.
The farm Mussainen, which in fact he had bought that same day, was in so desolate a condition that it seemed dangerous for wife and children to stay there in the cold autumn days.
Not long ago I saw a troop of children go by quite laden with old flower-pots and rubbish.
Perhaps you might help me, if you were to do the sewing in some aristocratic houses; and the children might sell matches in the streets.
It was a cold, dull November day when Frau Elsbeth and her children had to say farewell to the dear house.
He had a slatternly wife who had already been in prison twice, and who sent herchildren out to beg.
Fremont expressed his surprise at the confidence and daring of the emigrants as he met in one place "a family of two men and women and several children travelling alone through such a country so remote from civilization.
At last there came a day when the whole family walked downstairs, and the Cat showed her three children to the farmyard people and spoke a few words about each.
Yet they understood, for they had children of their own, and knew that although mothers love all alike, there is always a time when the youngest seems the most promising.
If she had pushed the shell off before he had all of this fine red blood, he would not have been a strong Chicken, and she wanted her children to be strong.
But then, she had very little time left from sleeping, and it took her all of that for eating, so her children had no manners at all.
He did not believe in praising children to their faces, and he thought their mother spoiled them.
Of course, when they are babies, they drink warm milk from her body as thechildren of most four-legged people do.
When the Cat saw her children going toward these places, she called them back and scolded them.
This made the Swallow feel very uncomfortable, for he could see that the children had been badly brought up, and he did not want to tell a story just then.
When their children were married and had homes of their own, they still liked to come back to visit.
Then come to the brook," said the Drake, "and let the children have a bath.
Just then one of the spoiled Dove children flew down from the barn roof and sat beside the Peacock.
His mother had to speak to him many times about this, for he was one of those trying children who will not mind when first spoken to.
The oldest was not more than twelve, I think, And all the children cried, and at the train His congregation almost to a man Was there to see him off.
Then here's another matter: Parents may Have normal nervous systems, yet produce Children of abnormal nerves and minds, Caused by unsuitable sexual germs.
And all the children were raised After the strictest fashion in New England, And made to join the church, And attend its services.
People were walking the decks and talking, Children were singing.
But when we asked you where you'd been, Complained of loneliness and hunger, spoke of children Who lived in order, sat down thrice a day To cream and porridge, bread and meat.
If he shall toil to clear the field, Fate's children seize the prosperous year; Boldly he fashions some new shield, And naked feels the victor's spear.
Ridiculous systems wound over the earth like a snake Devouring the children of Fear!
Johnny Appleseed said, so my father told me: I go to a place forgotten, the orchards will thrive and be here For children to come, who will gather and eat hereafter.
And I remember how his poor wife cried, And how the children cried.
Wife and children too Are pretty hard to leave, since thought of them Stays with a fellow and cannot be left.
He laughs at you, we children drink the water, Though it tastes bitter, shows white particles: It may be shreds of rats drowned in the well.
Besides you yourself admit them to be exceptionally good children and good children never rob nests.
And they of Ephraim shall be like a mighty man, and their heart shall rejoice as through wine, yea their children shall see it and be glad, their heart shall rejoice in the Lord.
I would say, why may not "the children of the promise" be here included as well as "the children of the flesh?
As Jolly took a sample from the wagon the little children flocked about him on tiptoe of curiosity.
Jolly took a sample bird house under each arm and entered the first yard he came to, the interested childrenkeeping him close company.
What pleased Frank most was to notice that those who were waiting for the doors to open were mostly family people--children and residents.
Little children came running out of yards to gaze in wonder and admiration at this unusual warbler.
Pep, as they returned from carrying some crying children away from the menace of the flood.
Lawrence gave one of the children a soothing potion, and said he would wait to see the effect.
But the children got well by and by, and Stella went away.
But the children had now for some time been whimpering for supper and home, and at length Frau Stein rose, and, with an urgent request that Randall should call on her and see her husband, bade him a cordial adieu.
The few women and children in the train were collected about the wounded.
The band was playing, the carriages wending slowly up the drive, the children darting about the flower beds, where the fountain sparkled.
He did not disguise from himself that he went to see the Marlake children oftener than he would have gone to others; he knew he was glad to go there and knew the reason.
Would not the children have been sent away from Foundryville in any case?
He had a call to make at the Marlakes'; the children were all three sick.
The children in the courtyard talk of nothing else.
Now something big and unusual takes place in our courtyard and makes an extraordinary impression on the children and gives their small brains heaps to struggle with for many a long day.
VI Our courtyard is full of children and my little boy has picked a bosom-friend out of the band: his name is Einar and he can be as good as another.
XIV There is a battle royal and a great hullabaloo among the children in the courtyard.
For I am a man who knows how mean is the supply of pears to us poor wretchedchildren of men and how wonderful an extra pear tastes.
But though she was so poor, she used to dress two of her children in fine clothes; but the others, whom she did not like, she kept in the filthiest rags.
These children and their descendants they say were called Pellings [1], a word corrupted from their mother's name Penelope.
Suppose they thought if they had it any closer to the car the children might raise the dickens by playing with it.
He was soon seated on the sleeping platform of the large igloo, with the chief sitting solemnly before him and his half naked children romping in one corner.
Johnny's were mostly of Mazie and of the thousands of starving children they had hoped to aid.
He had run away basely from the invaders, and been brought back to promise amnesty, and to massacre men, women, and children by thousands.
The criminal laws had already been mitigated, and some protection given to children in factories; and the duties on wool and raw silk were now reduced, to the common benefit of consumer, manufacturer, and operative.
Her main theme was the necessity of establishing schools to teach children trades, and also halls of science with museums and public libraries.
If the children are to be educated promiscuously, as at present, let religion in every shape and form be excluded.
The Catholics had objected as early as 1840 to the Protestantism which was taught, in part at their expense, to their children in the public schools.
He says, for instance, that there would be no tyranny in forcing parents to let their children have education enough to become safe members of society.
Bread was sold in halfpenny slices; labourers robbed pigs of swill; children fought with dogs for bones in the streets; one person in every eleven was a pauper; and England seemed to Dickens like one vast poorhouse.
The colour prejudice at the North yielded slowly; but the leading Republicans saw not only the need of more soldiers, but the justice of setting free the wives and children of men who were risking death for the nation.
He believes fully "in the democracy of the family," and "in allowing the children to think for themselves.
She then went to a box, and got out some night garments, which were much too large; but the children did not mind that.
Elsie could make nothing of this strange conversation, but she supposed that the lady wished her and Duncan to be taken for some other children who were not there.
With what indescribable torments of dread the two children stood waiting it is difficult to express.
It may be mentioned that Children residing in Great Britain will all be eligible to compete for Prizes as usual.
At one word of explanation he would have taken the children in charge, and delivered them safely over to their proper guardian.
Margaret, as the two children stood by the kitchen table waiting for the next lesson.
The children had been in the habit of rising at an early hour all their lives.
Now, Mrs. Ferguson had been keeping a strict watch on these children, and not only herself, but her husband and two children had all been employed to watch.
These children may possibly be of great use to us.
Still this was puzzling, for where could the other children be?
Then she went away, and once more the children were alone together, and very much alone, for Elsie noticed that the girl locked the door before she went away.
In the north aisle of this chapel, beside two infant children of James I.
I think we shall enjoy frying fritters as well as making pancakes," said the two children together.
She walked quickly, the children doing their best to keep pace with her light, rapid footsteps, although Duncan was very tired, and both were desperately hungry.
Eskimos are children in their grief, as in their pleasure; they weep for a dead friend a few days, then they forget.
As a rule, however, they are more like children in their affections, faithful to their mates from a sort of domestic habit, but easily consoled for the loss of them by death or otherwise.
In many cases the marriages are arranged between the parents when the children are quite young; but the boy and girl are not bound, and when they are old enough they are permitted to decide for themselves.
In these cases of primitive divorce, the husband keeps one or all of the children if he wants them; if not, the woman takes them with her.
The methods which children characterize as "jollying" are best for such emergencies.
Several families began to gather their belongings, and in a few minutes women and children were going over the port rail onto the ice, and making for the box houses on the shore.
Children do not address their parents as father and mother, but call them by their names, though sometimes very small childrenuse a diminutive which corresponds to our "mamma.
As if to bear out the superstition I have mentioned, a few days subsequently a death, or rather two deaths, did actually take place; they were the twins and only children of a Scottish shepherd and his wife, both on board.
We soon settled down to our sea life, and the groans of sickness and the screaming of children from between decks ceased in time.
The father was a gigantic fellow, and I have pleasant recollections of him in after years, when time and other children had helped to assuage his and his wife's grief for the loss of their two darlings at sea by one stroke of illness.
Finally, wind up the whole affair, by wishing you were in bed, and announcing your opinion that the trip didn’t pay, and you are sure it will make you and the children ill.
The children had now left the table, so anecdotes of them were in order.
If I don’t marry him, some one else will, and those children will go out of my hands.
Fail to be ready at the appointed time, and keep him waiting until he is either raging or sullen; cudgel or dragoon the children until their tempers are well on edge.
Another point that claimed my attention was that the children were changed each Sunday—a fresh three succeeding the first bunch, and on the third Sunday, one of the first three being added to a fresh two, to make up the proper complement.
And all these we must remember have, as a rule, one aim in view; not the production of utilities, but the gaining of a position either for themselves or their children in which they will not have to work at all.
Also in most trades women and children are employed, to whom it is not even pretended that a subsistence wage is given.
She watched him wide eyed and still, as children watch the incomprehensible activities of grownups, or devoted but jealous dogs watch them.
A dejected-looking group of children hung about the door of the ice-cream parlour, and appeared to lack the initiative to enter in.
Neil, the children walked round with the Sullivan girl to take home the wash to the Randalls'.
Just what the children had called him in taunting screams, on that long-ago May night, and she would have liked to scream it now--a paddy.
Still other children came to her parties, so many that she could not remember their names.
But she had gone to school now for almost a year, a private school in the big billiard-room at the Larribees', but a real school, with other children in it.
The otherchildren did not know she was different, but Judith knew.
Happy both parents and children who are accustomed to take their needs to a loving and gracious God!
Happy parents they, whosechildren count them their truest friends and hold from them no secret reserves!
She had been brought to God in "the great revival," and found a congenial employment in teaching the little children their letters, and in pointing them to Jesus.
The children were dismissed, the elders remained, and were joined by Adam's sons and daughters, who gathered round to see a golden sunset such as was never equalled by any gorgeous glory of the western sky.
Philip had rightly said, "Old Adam's benediction on thechildren will prove a richer heritage than houses or land.
The hospital was near a barrack, at the entrance of which old men, women, and children were quarrelling for the remains of the coarse bread which the soldiers had given them in charity!
His mother was always thinking of getting him married, and having childrenagain to care for.
It was not a very small pony, and he had often seen children lose courage in making their first essay at riding.
NICK, it would do you good to come and see our Carnival here in March; many children are dominoed and masked in fearful and fantastic costumes.
There is no doubt that both the Romans and the Greeks had lists of words useful to remind children of their letters.
The children in the cottages would run to the door to look at the proud little brown pony with the gallant little figure sitting so straight in the saddle, and the young lord would snatch off his cap and swing it at them, and shout, "Hullo!
Often they have fever, and the children die; and it makes them wicked to live like that, and be so poor and miserable!
We children who were used to the free range of woods and fields were homesick for the country in our narrow city yard, and I associate with this longing the 'Farmer's Boy of Bloomfield,' which my father got for me.
The reading that does one good, and lasting good, is the reading that one does for pleasure, and simply and unselfishly, as children do.
But he kept his affection for certain poets of the graver, not to say gloomier sort, and he must have suffered his children to read them, pending that great question of their souls' salvation which was a lifelong trouble to him.
A law which deprived fathers of the care of their own children might just as well be a law which decreed that no children should be born.
