FOR CHILDREN. 



TWEKYBODY has eyes, but, as you know, some people 



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are blind ; and many of those who are not blind wear 

 glasses, and cannot see without them. But even those whose 

 eyes are good and strong do not all see alike. In a roomful 

 of people, you would be sure to see your father and mother; 

 and if all the rest were strangers to you, you would probably 

 not notice a good many of them. Or if you were just learn- 

 ing to read, and were shown a printed page, you would see 

 the words you know how to spell, and would pay very lit- 

 tle attention to most of the others. If we should go search- 

 ing for spring flowers, I, who know what anemones and 

 hepaticas are like, should find more than you who had never 

 seen them before. And if our walk was among woods, some 

 would come home remembering only that they had seen 

 trees; others, that they had seen pines and oaks; and I 

 alone, perhaps, that I had seen birches and ash -trees too. 

 And again, if our excursion was by roads you had never 

 travelled before, some of you could next time go the same 



