Word: children
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...good qualities, but he has inherited from his mother an indiscreet zeal for chatting and propounding questions which, however becoming in the more mature and attractive, is out of place in the young and the uninformed. The humorous stories in Punch that relate the inopportune sayings of precocious children have often afforded me amusement, but the blunders that fell from the mouths of those "babes and sucklings" were nothing to the remarks of this prodigy. "Why, mamma," broke out the child in a lull of the conversation, "Mary has set the table with the best china...
...while before dinner, I was down at the Rink. The place was full of skaters, good and bad; round the circle, on the outside, swung happy couples; in the centre two or three stylish young men were solemnly going through the most wonderful evolutions, to the delight of the children peeping through the ventilators; and in one corner two bright-eyed, rosy-cheeked girls were practising a graceful figure which I had never seen. They knew I was watching them; for I heard the light-haired one ask the other if I were not a student. The dark one appeared...
...more steps past the lumber wharf, through a crowd of dirty children, half-starved dogs, and belligerent cats, brought me to the boat-house. For the benefit of the Freshmen and others who may never have visited the boat-houses, I will state that the large commodious building in the centre is the University House, that on the right the Club House, and the farthest one, on the left, the workshop of the ingenious boat-builder, John Blakey. The lower stories of the two houses contain the boats; the upper stories, lockers and dressing-rooms. The University House has also...
...lawn's fair slope, whereon at earliest hours Is heard the voice of children at their play...
...Naughty children we have been...