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LITTLE FOLKS 
A MODEL PAPA. 
Solomon sends us to the ant to learn, and I don't know why 
we can't take lessons from other little creatures in the world. 
Here's this modest little fellow who lives in the sea, and sets a most 
beautiful example of fatherly care and affection, yet I never heard 
that he was set up as a model. To be sure, he's only four inches 
high, but that is sixteen times as big as an ant, and virtue doesn't 
depend on size either. 
The name of this Model Papa is Hippocampus, but we know 
him better by his common name of Sea Horse. No doubt you 
have seen one in some museum. 
His wife — well we won't say much about his wife, for she isn't 
a model, by any means. In fact, she shirks all the usual duties 
belonging to mothers, hands the eggs over to her partner, and flirts 
off to have a good time in the world. 
Papa Hippo don't seem at all troubled or cast down by this 
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