108 LOVE OF CHILDREN. 



the cold north, or the warm south wind, by taming upon 

 its perch. He was cured of his error only by being laughed 

 at for his simplicity. Parents should never deceive their 

 children by a careless or a wrong answer to the simple 

 questions put to them by these little searchers after know- 

 ledge." 



" I remember," said the doctor, " and it is one of the ear- 

 liest incidents which my recollection has treasured, that I 

 was out one evening in autumn, with a boy older than 

 myself, gathering hazel nuts. The sun had sunk behind the 

 hills, and the shadows of twilight were gathering in the 

 valley. It was a beautiful and calm evening, the solemn 

 stillness of which, was only broken by the ' tza ! tza !' of 

 thousands of katydids among the bushes. I asked my com- 

 panion what it was that made the noise I heard, and he, 

 supposing that I referred to sounds that came up occasion- 

 ally from the lake, after listening for a moment, answered 

 that it was made by the wild geese. In my simplicity I 

 believed it, and it was not until I caught, the next season, 

 a katydid while it was in the act of singing, that I dis- 

 covered that the music among the hazel bushes was not 

 made by the wild geese." 



" I never respect a man or woman," said Spalding, 

 " whose heart does not warm towards little children, who 

 takes no pleasure nor interest in their society, who has no 

 patience to listen to their simple thoughts expressed in their 

 ample way. ' Mother/ said a little child of four or five 

 years of age, one evening when the summer air was warm, 



