food, the milk, and the clothes that had been given her in the palace. Lischen's heart glowed as she saw the ravenous way that the food was devoured, and heard Pauline tell of the gentle ladies who had been so kind to her. When she was passing the palace she saw many poor children going in, and the porter had told her to follow them. They had taken her into a lovely room, all crimson and gold, which indeed had looked like heaven to her. One of the ladies had seen her slip the cake that was given her into her frock, and had asked her why she did not eat it. "At first I did not dare to speak," said Pauline, "but her face was so sweet, and her eyes looked at me so kindly, that I took courage, and told her that I had two little brothers and a sister at home who were hungry. She gave me this food, and told me to come again to-morrow for more, and promised that she would get some work for us." "Ah, Pauline," said the little sister, "the Christ child has not forgotten us!" The fairy then told Lischen that she had whispered to the kind ladies to notice and help little Pauline, and that she had given Pauline unselfish and loving thoughts about the little family of whom she took such tender care. 66 Now," said the fairy, "I must say goodby; but I shall not be far away, for I am seldom driven from your home." "Driven away ! cried Lischen. "We should never drive you away." 66 "I cannot stay where cross looks are, or where there is quarreling and selfishness. These things would kill me in time. Sometimes I have seen, even in your house, tears and frowns; but soon followed sorrow and kisses, and I returned." "But I have never seen you," said the wondering Lischen. "No; I am only seen in the happiness of the homes where I dwell. I can make the poorest cottage richer than the king's palace, for my name is Love." She spread her golden wings and soared upwards. 66 Lischen awoke crying: "Love has gone! She has flown away." "No, my darling, you have been dreaming," said her mother, coming to her bed; Love cannot die." "But I cannot see her now," she said, weeping. "No, my little one; but safe in our hearts we can make a home for Love that she will never leave. But tell me, now, your dream." And Lischen told her all she had seen. The night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one; Yet the light of the whole world dies With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies WHAT THE BIRDS SAY Samuel Taylor Coleridge you ask what the birds say? The sparrow, the dove, The linnet and thrush say, "I love and I love!" In the winter they're silent, the wind is so strong; What it says I don't know; but it sings a loud song. But green leaves and blossoms and sunny warm weather, And singing and loving all come back together; But the lark is so brimful of gladness and love, The green fields below him, the blue sky above, That he sings, and he sings, and forever 66 sings he, I love my Love, and my Love loves me." THE LITTLE DAUPHIN (Adapted from Isabel McDougall) I ABOUT the time your great-grandfather He His was a boy, when George Washington was President of the United States, a beautiful little prince was born in France. was called the "Dauphin," which was the title given in France to that son of a king who would one day be king himself. name was Louis, and, because there had been a great many King Louises of France, people had taken to numbering them; so they called him Louis the Seventeenth. His father was King Louis the Sixteenth of France, and his mother was the beautiful, haughty Austrian princess, Marie Antoinette. The little Dauphin lived in a palace where there were most beautiful pictures and gilded furniture, and long, stately halls completely lined with mirrors, and superb |