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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Laugh and Play, by Various This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Laugh and Play A Collection of Original stories Author: Various Illustrator: E. Stuart Hardy Release Date: February 11, 2006 [EBook #17750] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LAUGH AND PLAY *** Produced by Mark C. Orton, Sankar Viswanathan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Laugh and Play A Collection of Original Stories, with Illustrations by E. Stuart Hardy. London: New York: Ernest Nister E.P. Dutton & Co _Printed in Bavaria._ [Illustration:] Laugh and Play. _Laugh_ and play all the day: Don't you think with me When I say that's the way If you'd happy be? Maid and lad, if we had Never time for song, Always sad, never glad, Days would seem so long! Tear and sigh make the sky Dark and sad and grey; Never cry--only try Just to laugh and play. Faces bright make sunlight All the merry day; Frowns they fright out of sight-- So we'll laugh and play. _C.B._ [Illustration: A HAPPY DAY.] [Illustration:] Laugh and Play [Illustration:] "Come and have a game at soldiers, Dulcie." "I can't, Harold; don't you see I'm busy?" "Busy writing rubbish! How you can be so silly as to waste your time like that I can't think. It isn't as if you really _could_ write poetry, and I call it downright conceited for a girl to pretend she can. So, do leave off, there's a dear, and come and have a game. I want to try my new cannon, and you shall have first shot if you will come." But Dulcie was offended. A week ago she had written a verse about Harold's dog, and father had said it was very good and had given her sixpence for writing it. Since then she had spent most of her spare time trying to write other verses, but this afternoon she was beginning to get a lit
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