ABSTRACT
I think the further I go from my own childhood the more children's little natures are revealed to me, and a great pity and love for them grow on me, as though I saw how deeply all that came in youth would impress them for the years to come. To me, now, nothing that comes can alter in great degree what I am, but the old child-times have written certain lessons indelibly; the things one loved then have a certain indefinable charm, and I long to make children's lives noble and happy.
