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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

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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