'Shanghai,' Apr. 4.
For the triumph of hope over many setbacks and discouragements we must look to extreme youth. There is a young lady of some two summers playing in the garden beneath my window, and in the last hour she has, all unaided, succeeded in playing humorous games which in the ordinary way require quite a large east. She has attempted several times to enlist the services of her: mah, but the Intter is a stolid individual, without imagination, and hot given to movement except under some strong incentive.
"Amah," piped the. small gid, "come play hey-ho' ~with me." "No can," replies amah, and that is that 'Then Tater, "Amah, come play' all fall down,' but amah again' gives. a firm refusal, Several other games fare suggested for the young lady Seems to have an extensive reper-firm front in and the stolid Celestial replies heatedly: "Amah belong ofd woman, no can. Farmer-lin-de-dell"
that seems to have settled the matter, Anyway, how two people were to playa game which required several the chorus to form a ring, and prinefpals to take the part of Farmer, Wife, Child, Nurse, Dog, plus sundry minor characters, only a two-yeat fold could explain to us. Youth,
ful tenderest stages is indeed wonder-
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