All in a garden fair; the simple story of three boys ... - University Library

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ALL L\ A GARDEX FAIR.
would talk to the girls in Frencli, but he hated
the girls. Yes ; had ^liss BilHngsworth known
it ! He
hated the girls and he detested the
grammar of his own language, and he was alone
and could not express his sentiments. Fortu-
nately he began to talk to the boys who played
in the forest with his Claire, and before long he
made the discovery that two of them, at least,
were boys with heads upon their shoulders.
Then he began, partly because he had nothing
to think about, to watch them and to listen to
their talk while they played, because it is the
talk of a boy at play which reveals the character
of that boy, and he made an observation about
certain differences between them. This was
that one of the boys \vas always wanting to sit
by himself and read, and always ready to
borrow any book he could get and go away to
secluded spots in order to read his book ; fm'ther,
that another was always interested in hearing
the contents of that book without desiring to
read it for himself, and that the third neither
read nor listened, and was not athirst for infor-