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Title: Bits of talk, in verse and prose, for young folks
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Jackson, Helen Hunt, 1830-1885
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Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown, and Company

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rs as I keep mine,Youd always have one when you need. Why do you buzz so, busy bee? Why dont you make your honey still?You move about so boisterously,Im sure you must much honey spill/ I buzz and buzz, you silly boy,Because I can work better so;Just as you whistle for pure joyWhen on the road to school you go.13 178 BITS OF TALK. * O robin, wicked robin, why Did you my mammas cherries eat?You thought no mortal soul was nigh;But I saw you from bill to feet. *< And I saw you, my fine young lad,And waited till youd left the tree;I thought when you your fill had had,There would be little left for me I ^ O big bull-frogs, why do you makeSuch ugly noises every night INobody can a half-nap take;You make our baby cry with fright. O Willy, we suppose the noiseIs not a pleasant noise to hear;But weve one hundred little boys, —Frog-boys so cunning and so dear; *^ And it is not an easy task, You may believe, to put to bedsA hundred little frogs who askAll questions which pop in their heads.^
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THE EXPBESSION OF ROOMS. 179 THE EXPRESSION OF ROOMS. 73 OOMS have just as much expression asfaces. They produce just as strongan impression on us at first sight. Theinstant we cross the threshold of a room,we know certain things about the personwho lives in it. The walls and the floor,and the tables and chairs all speak out atonce, and betray some of their ownerssecrets. They tell us whether she is neator unneat, orderly or disorderly, and, morethan all, whether she is of a cheerful, sunnytemperament, and loves beauty in all things,or is dull and heavy, and does not knowpretty things from ugly ones. And just asthese traits in a person act on us, makingus happy and cheerful, or gloomy and sad,so does the room act upon us. We may l8o BITS OF TALK. not know, perhaps, what it is that is raisingor depressing our spirits; we may not sus-pect that we could be influenced by such athing; but it is true, nevertheless. I have been in many rooms in which itwas next to impossible to talk with any

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