cried all the babies at once . So the strange fairy sang : - I once had a sweet little doll , dears , The prettiest doll in the world ; Her cheeks were so red and so white , dears , And her hair was so charmingly curled . But I lost my poor little doll , dears , As I played in the heath one day ; And I cried for her more than a week , dears , But I never could find where she lay . I found my poor little doll , dears , As I played in the heath one day : Folks say she is terribly changed , dears , For her paint is all washed away , And her arm trodden off by the cows , dears , And her hair not the least bit curled : Yet , for old sakes ' sake she is still , dears , The prettiest doll in the world . What a silly song for a fairy to sing ! And what silly water-babies to be quite delighted at it ! Well , but you see they have not the advantage of Aunt Agitate 's Arguments in the sea-land down below . `` Now , '' said the fairy to Tom , `` will you be a good boy for my sake , and torment no more sea-beasts till I come back ? '' `` And you will cuddle me again ? '' said poor little Tom . `` Of course I will , you little duck . I should like to take you with me and cuddle you all the way , only I must not ; '' and away she went . So Tom really tried to be a good boy , and tormented no sea-beasts after that as long as he lived ; and he is quite alive , I assure you , still . Oh , how good little boys ought to be who have kind pussy mammas to cuddle them and tell them stories ; and how afraid they ought to be of growing naughty , and bringing tears into their mammas ' pretty eyes ! CHAPTER VI `` Thou little child , yet glorious in the night Of heaven-born freedom on thy Being 's height , Why with such earnest pains dost thou provoke The Years to bring the inevitable yoke - Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife ? Full soon thy soul shall have her earthly freight , And custom lie upon thee with a weight Heavy as frost , and deep almost as life . '' WORDSWORTH . I come to the very saddest part of all my story . I know some people will only laugh at it , and call it much ado about nothing . But I know one man who would not ; and he was an officer with a pair of gray moustaches as long as your arm , who said once in company that two of the most heart-rending sights in the world , which moved him most to tears , which he would do anything to prevent or remedy , were a child over a broken toy and a child stealing sweets .
The company did not laugh XXXXX him ; his moustaches were too long and too gray for that : but , after he was gone , they called him sentimental and so forth , all but one dear little old Quaker lady with a soul as white as her cap , who was not , of course , generally partial to soldiers ; and she said very quietly , like a Quaker : `` Friends , it is borne upon my mind that that is a truly brave man . ''
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