The Green Bough

comprehensively be classified; yet the age of one at le

that household. With her it was not so much that she had given up the hope that every woman has, as that before she knew what life might be, that hope had passed her by. She was

ching the little children of friends in Bridnorth and the neighborhood, teaching them their lessons

of what those passengers were or what they meant reached the communicating functions of her mind. They were no more than mere performers in the circus ring. What their lives were behind that flapping canvas of the tent, which is the veil concealing the lives of all of us, she did not trouble to ask herself. Like the circus performers, they would be

ese advents and excursion